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The 318 is a great little motor, I built a couple back in the day.
The thing to remember with dodge's or mopar/chrysler is some of the small blocks
came with steel cranks. So if it's a steel crank used a hard bearing. If it's a soft crank
use something like clevite bearings they are a tri metal and softer.
I made the mistake of puting a soft bearing on a steel crank and spun the rods.
I was only doing what my machine shop told me too. When I lived in Florida I
met a nephew of Big Daddy's and asked him to ask Don what I did wrong and he said that was it.
Kurt

cool that was what i was planning on starting with, we got the engine really cheap and they said it was running fine before but u cant always trust the sellers. Its got that normal engine crud all over it so hopefully i can find somewhere to clean it and check for cracks.