how well will a carter afb cometition series carburator, 9605s 3045 work on my stock 318?

Question

i got a stock intake off of a 89-92 dodge van with a 360. How will this compare with my completely stock 318 with factory 2 barrel?

Answer 1

I think that over fueling would be a large to moderate problem. You would have to Jet the idles way down to get a good clean idle mixture and good acceleration off the line around a 0.107 or 0.110 jet should work great---now once going it would be fine. But i would gather that your intake valves won't handle the over fueling if you don't change the metering more than a year. Also you may be boarder line on the manifold vacuum for your power brakes.Going to a dual plane intake will help. This Carb. was made for a 350-400 cubic inches and is around 600 cfm. Your 318 in stock form and driven on the street is best using a 500-550 cfm for metering and decent manifold vacuum for power brakes. With changes that are simple any problem would be easily fixable. happy motoring

Answer 2

It will probably work just fine,,,the very worst that could happen is you may end up over carburated.
The old 318's where a nice power plant,,we use to call them lead sleds,,,,very dependable,,,but lousy on gas mileage.