Thread: Civic vs. Charger

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Just asking, but what would happen if you took a 383 and bolted on a set of 360 heads combined with a EFI kit from a newer dodge? Seems to me that with the increase in compression and the EFI feeding it that would be a pretty hot setup. Personally, i know very little about Mopars, but I think it would kick some @ss.

hey car freak,
look you can probaly beat him i have a 74 dart with a 318 "bone stock" and i raced a dx civic mildly tuned and won as well as your friends car probaly is pushing around 180 to the crank if that car is like a 88-91 it came stock with 90hp=mexico, 110= canada and if its andything newer its probaly v-tec which gives a boost of power around 3800-4500 rpm which does help i mean you probaly can take care of him but i can promise your not gonna win every race in the world it all about fun man.

Couple things...

You don't have to change the K-frame when doing a small block to big block swap in a B-body.

360 = small block, 383 = big block.

Your Charger most likely does have 2.73 gears if the 318 was from the factory. You can pick up a center section with 3.23 or 3.55 gears for a Mopar 8.75" rear end pretty cheap at any swap meet.

If you swap in a big block, you will be swapping transmissions also. (two different bellhousing patterns)

If you stay with a smallblock, a 904 torqueflite will have a little less parasitic loss than a 727 torqueflite.

A well built ( and I mean correctly matched components) 318 Charger that hooks up on launch will spank the hell out of just about any mild to moderately build naturally aspirated FWD Honda.

im going to have to agree with Lord you shouldnt have anything to worry about .

Originally posted by Lord Antagonism
A well built ( and I mean correctly matched components) 318 Charger that hooks up on launch will spank the hell out of just about any mild to moderately build naturally aspirated FWD Honda.

I used to be a huge Honda follower (Still am but dont own one anymore..) and this statement is correct.

Originally posted by southerner
Awwww jeez ! I'll stick in my 2 cents worth.

Civic verses Charger, is that aquestion ?

thanks their southerner I agree with your 2 cents now my 2 cents charger vs jap crap hum hum realy cant think of anything nice to say about this

I'ld say get it running with the 318 and go race. In my ancient street-racing experience, it wasn't necessarily the biggest motor or the baddest car that won the race, it was the one that was tuned right. There are plenty of monster-machines that can't get out of their own way due to poor tuning. If your not careful, that guy will've sold his car by the time you get yours done. Get the 318 running and practice the fine points of carb and ignition tuning. Then if you can't beat him, put in a big-block and send him to another time-zone.

Originally posted by The F.N.G.
The DX is a lame duck. It only has 106HP and 103ft.lb of torque. The car weighs aprox 2,200lbs depending on equipment. The mods the guy listed won't do crap for the car-he is pushing MAYBE 120 and that's if he is really, really lucky.

To give you an idea of this cars performance, they run mid 17's in the 1/4 stock. If he is the stereotypical "tuner" he has added a huge steroe system that weighs the car down and will increase his times.

*IF* your 318 is in any kind of condition you should beat him pretty handily.

Fear not,
Abe

hopefully the chances that he has the stock SOHC motor in it are very very slim