Damn straight, he's like an encyclopedia of knowledge and can work on nearly anything.

Yep, one of those guys whose always owned something you have, back in the day. Never shocked at the rarity of something and assumes everybody knows how to put an engine in.

Not really... All those unregistered cars would draw too much constabulary attention towards my own collection if we were neighbors - now neighbors by way of half a mile, sure.

ledzeppelin27 no we don’t we are the type of neighbor dulcich wishes he had

I am Dulcich to my neighbors lol

Peter Johnson so many cringy stutters though.

haha...he's clearly reading cue cards...just watch his eyes dart back and forth. He does a good job though.

Peter you're so very right! That's very tough to do. At least for me & my videos.

@@Seth-de9pd if you think steve is reading cue cards you are terribly mistaken. That man is an encyclopedia, that's just the way his eyes are.

@@FanelliRestorations Nope

He is still awkward around the cameras. Though I agree I have a lot of respect for the knowledge that this man has.

Dulcich is my favorite. He seems like the guy who never lost the enthusiasm we all once had for motor stuff when we were teenagers. He seems like a nice guy, too. We had a 318 in our 61 Pioneer wagon...it was SLOOWWW!

I remember reading his articles in Mopar Muscle back in the 1990's when I was in high school. I've had an appreciation for his input for a long time. He'd do complex head porting articles on month and an article about replacing a floor pan the next month. He was and is really knowledgeable about a variety of car repair.

Moe Par I think your cheap.

probably isn't because read the first and last name

but then they couldn't show all the nudity that the do on MTOD

nothing wrong with being cheap. im a student and cant afford to pay for motor trend on demand to watch dirt every day and roadkill id be happy to watch ads and sponsored content but i cant really afford to pay for it

i agree im not subbing to motor trend on demand for one show

To the haters: post your videos. And wring respectable horsepower out of production based garbage. I dare ya. Now, mom says you need to take the trash out and clean your room in the basement. It stinks.

That's the problem with anonymity. Kids & idiots being idiots. It's very easy to yell crap, but giving real insight & commit to common good is pretty hard. There really should be some sort of Internet Yello Dildo of Slapping (tm) that would drive some sense to idiots.

Idk why so many hater police that don't know the definition of hate vs. criticism.

Nobody is saying there shouldn't be criticism. Opinions and error corrections are fine additions. However just mocking the presenter is not criticism. It's idiotic.

Eric Scheffler right😂 this man is a walking mechanic encyclopedia

Ehm, OK, don't really get your comment chief, but I guess your just having a bad day. Though you were a troll but you have DIY videos, which is strange.

Agree 100% I lucked into one of these engines and surprised a ton of people at the local circle track. They are WORTHLESS at the junkyards so you could even splurge and get even better heads for it and make it sing!

Talk

Talk, just talk

Wasn't the 265 the Aussie-special inline 6 with the hemi head? That's explain the power benefit

340's are relatively rare here too. There were never really standard engines. They came in special editions like a T/A or AAR or you special ordered one.

Yeah the 340 is one that really doesn't come into play when talking about any kind of budget build. They weren't as plentiful as either the 318 or 360, and them being sought after by restorers combined with that rarity makes em spendy to get ahold of

We had the 265 six with triple Webers and the special head. Unfortunately, they put either a 3-sp manual behind it or the 727 Torque-Flite.

Chrysler had a fully loaded thing call 'Chrysler by Chrysler'. The rest were just Valiants. They were advertised with a 360 but someone at Chrysler ordered a bunch of 340's by mistake. Some owners felt ripped off and demanded a 360. The 340's ended up in police pursuit vehicles.

Morte Parla easy 340 hp out of an original 150 hp engine? Get what you’re saying but don’t believe what you read about bolt on power dude.

I'm wondering about this Compression Ratio change. Doesn't increasing it cause more pressure / stress on the connecting rods and crankshaft since they were only supposed to operate at a lower one? So then.. you'd actually have to replace more components and maybe end up with the just the block itself as the original piece.

aj2674 The 318 was down on power because it had a few restrictive design components: bad head flow, remedied by porting & polishing. A tiny camshaft, remedied by a bigger cam. Tiny carburetors and intake manifold, remedied with bigger carburetor and freer flowing intake manifold. Bad exhaust flow due to restrictive exhaust manifold, remedied by headers. I know for a fact the mods I listed originally will net 320-340hp. I built and dynod my own 318 with the _same things that I listed._

vtr0104 Not with the mods I listed. Still using stock pistons, and not shaving the heads down or decking the block, so compression will remain virtually the same. That said, the stock 318's rods and crank can handle up to 10.2:1 compression ratio quite well.

I see. Thank you for the clarification, good Sir. And have an excellent week-end ahead!

The Y block 318's through 67 were a lot better than the LA 318s that followed. They looked like big blocks.

It was big and sloppy, I remember pouring gobs of STP in it and I had a cherry bomb exhaust on it that would pop off when I floored it...lol. I bought it for $175.

@@SophiaAphrodite, you mean a 318 Poly

yea but can he tie his shoes?

Around 1985 318's got roller lifters too.

yeaa.....no.

BS

go to a junkyard and find yourself an LQ9 and fill it with cheap boost. Oh and make sure to shoehorn it into a Mazda RX-7 shell you can buy for like $500. You'll have a 700-800hp car for less than what it costs to build your Honda's for boost :D

legit :D have you seen the boostedboiz first gen odyssey van? It has a double wishbone suspension. its a pretty cool build

He told you how. Identify the engine's deficiencies and put your $$ there. He doesn't need to do the thinking for the owner of every engine in existence.

camcleat hey man I've built quite a few engines I know how to do the thinking I'd just like to see what he would do. I'm a Chevy man I know what to get for those dodge is a little different.

EQ heads cause the end cylinder have cracks between the valve seats most of the time and the eqs flow more, cam, springs, headers, Hughes intake, big gulp throttle body, tuner, and a stroker kit.

Fair enough, man. I get it, now. Dulcich is certainly the one to listen to on suggestions for the Mopars. We are currently building a '72 360 LA (5.9 L). Having only rebuilt Fords before, I'm having a blast with this platform. They are fun engines, imo.

stroker? lol hell no. when you stroke it, you will have to buy crank, rods, pistons, new cam, new bigger heads, bigger intake. if you want serious power, just turbo it. there is a guy with a turbo 200k mile 5.2 dakota on youtube that made 650 rwhp.

Fadzil che man seriously, that’s who I thought this was until I saw it was roadkill haha.

I always found the gloves to be a bit strange. I don't know of any auto techs that wear those types of gloves when working on a vehicle.

well, ls engines dont belong in mopars, so there is that.

mopars don't always come with mopar engines when new. Example mini vans with mitsubishi engines. I owned an 85 with the 4cylinder mitsubishi and it gave great service, good power and mileage. Now that Fix It Again Tony owns them they are not worth considering. anyone remember the simca

Engine quest heads are oil thru push rod for an LA you can do it but, shaft rockers are way better. pressure fed and more rigid with no chance of a stud backing out or even ripping out.

@Justin DeHetre I've often thought the about the same thing but with a roots blower, the low compression and mild cam on most 2 barrel V8's (particularly from the smog era) should theoretically leave room for a lot of boost.

Centrifugal superchargers and forged pistons are expensive. Well, more expensive than cast flat-topped pistons anyways. It just depends on whether you want to spend $1200 for a 300-ish hp 318 or $2500 for 375-ish hp 318. There isn't a wrong answer. It's just a matter of how much money you want to throw at a 318. Most folks, I imagine, would just go with the low-buck option. Because it's a 318, who cares.

Randall, LA motors that came in trucks are abundant, and can be had with factory forged internals. And whether you're running the low buck 318 or a super hopped up 440, putting a blower on it is putting a blower on it. Either way, you'll have the cost of the blower. But if you can build a supercharged 318 for half the cost of an insanely powerful crate engine that makes comparable power, why wouldn't you? Especially if it keeps your car on the road while you save up for that boost ready crate engine that you just happen to already have a blower for.

That sounds suspiciously like an explanation to the wife of why you had to buy a Paxton Novi even though you didn't need it right now. I approve.

@@rwaitt14153 lol

If you want dirt cheap, snag a 5.0 out of an Explorer. Stick in a cam, slap on some old Mustang headers, and you've got at least 300 at the crank for under a grand. With some finesse, 400 isn't out of the question. Just do what you can to reduce stress to the block. I got the whole freakin car for 450 bucks.

or just turbo a 318/360 magnum....

@Frigglebiscuit The thought of a turbo on my cammed 400HP 4 barrel 5.9 Magnum makes me cringe. A blower intake for a 5.2/5.9 Magnum is only $700 and a blower sticking through your hood is way cooler than some dinky little pipe.

ImpactJunky blowers dont make power for the money. Its a huuuge waste imo.

@Frigglebiscuit I know turbos are cheaper but the nostalgia and brute throttle response of a roots supercharger is undeniable. You generally have to have twin turbos to be capable of flowing as much cfm as a 6 or 8-71 blower and a lot of guys with small pulleys are running insane amounts of boost, often north of 60 psi.

Brandon G intake, 4 barrel, headers for starting out.. check out finnegans utube channel finnegans garage/FSM.. find the green hornet vids cuz everything they did ther is what u can/should do on urs

turbo

@Brandon G Mike and Frigglebiscuit are both right. Start with a 4 barrel aluminum intake by Offenhauser and go with a bone stock Holley 600 CFM vacuum secondary carb. DO NOT go any bigger than 600 CFM and make ABSOLUTELY SURE it is a vacuum secondary because you can't run a 600CFM mechanical secondary carb on a stock engine that small. You may have to purchase a secondary spring tuning kit to get the throttle response just right. After you have blown all your hard earned cash on the insanely over priced Offenhauser intake and surprisingly affordable Holley carb start saving your money for a header, most people like to run the split header for a nice dual exhaust sound but they are expensive just like the intake. After the header you may want to find out what your rear gear is and swap it to a lower one, especially if it starts with the number 2. I'd recommend a 3.55 or 3.73 because a rear gear in the 4's is a bit too low for a 3 speed six cylinder. After you've done intake, exhaust and rear gear start looking in junkyards for a low mileage factory turbo vehicle with an engine that has the same or more displacement than your slant. You should be able to spin the turbo's hot side by adpating the turbos factory mounting hardware to your header collector and then look up and learn how to set your Holley 4 barrel up for a blow through forced induction setup. In fact I think Frieburger did a video on that.

Don’t listen to these guys. I’ve build slants for years. You don’t need to just slap a 4 barrel on it and some headers. Doesn’t do a damn thing When Chrysler first designed the slant it was in aluminum and 170 ci When the aluminum failed (coolant at the time was too corrosive) the cast the head and block in iron but they didn’t change the dimensions! The slant suffers from the three thing the 318 suffered from Lowwwwww ass compression, 8:1 if you’re lucky Tiny camshaft And they didn’t redesign the head for more flow when they increased the compression to 198 then 225 No one makes an aftermarket head Major porting really wakes the flow up, there is a TON of meat in it because like I said they didn’t redesign the casting when they went to iron You can lop off over .100 off the head when decking it to get compression up Also you can bore the cylinders over .120!!!!!!!! Once again because of the extra meat Camshaft selection is small but comcams makes some. Until you fix the compression, cam, and port a head, even the “supersix” two barrel setup it too much. And yes, they responded very well to forced induction. Ps. If you bore the cylinders .045 the Mopar 2.2 forged pistons drop right in. Use the rods from a 198ci in a 225/ crank and you get a stoker Motor. Australia is big on slants. Lots of videos on KZfaq on slants. In my opinion, one of the best engines ever made

@Kristopher Klassen I never told the guy not to port and mill the head so I have no idea why you would tell him not to listen to me. I was talking to him as if he was working on a budget like most other slant guys and can't afford head and bottom end work. I love Australia mate, big fan of your muscle cars but here in America nobody spends big time and money like that on a slant. The most expensive thing I suggested was an intake manifold. Like many other slant owners he might also be new to hot rodding and not ready to tackle more complicated things involved with head and rotating assembly upgrades like head gaskets, head bolt torque and valve train adjustment. And I don't know how long you've driven a single barrel slant six but I've had one for years and one of the best things I've ever done for it was put a bigger carb on it from a Chevy 292 straight six. The factory single barrel just flat out isn't enough for a stock 225 with a clutch and a 3.23 rear gear. A small 4 barrel vacuum secondary carb significantly improves the throttle response and acceleration over the stock single barrel although it doesn't add that much actual power. Plus that 4 barrel intake and carb are practically necessary for running a turbo, you can blow through stock carb after setting it up properly but its a bottleneck restriction compared to the 4 barrel carb and intake.

ACE Driving Chevys don’t die

stock big block chevies are low compression, low hp smogger garbage. i hope you will be dealing with that issue.

Frigglebiscuit of course not. We’re talking about a cheap engine, not a good engine.

ACE Driving a smoggy big block chevy would probably be slower than what came out of it, considering how much a bbc weighs...

Frigglebiscuit that’s a good point, but it also depends on what engine was initially in the vehicle too. If you’re swapping it in place of something that initially had a inline 6, then you’re definitely going to have to do some math to see if the additional power will compensate for the far heavier weight. Regardless, I wouldn’t actually suggest just dropping a big block in something. Was sorta making a joke out of it, but I kind of forgot that a joking tone doesn’t really translate via text.

They had an episode where they did Nitrous cheater on a 305 that was stock save for the intake and carb and made 557 horse. Of course when they tried to go over 600 it let loose.

never.