Just think of the 318 as a Mopar SBC. 273, 318, 340, 360 are all of the same design and anything you would do to improve the performance of a SBC will work on a small block Mopar. Nothing cosmic about Mopar small blocks at all, although they are better in almost every respect than a small block Chevy.
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