Reader Questions; Engine Parts Combo

June 20, 2008 – 11:57 am

For a little change of pace, today we are going to take a look at a question from Bryce Duchcherer of Alberta wrote us;

I am planning on rebuilding the engine in my 1982 Chrysler Cordoba this summer. I was thinking that i would like to put a different intake manifold and camshaft in it, as well as lifters, pushrods, valve springs… everything that goes along with doing a cam. It is a 318HP engine that has the 360 4 barrel intake manifold as well as the 360hp heads with 1.88″ intake valves and 1.60″ exhaust valves. I have an Edelbrock 1403 500CFM carburetor that I installed on it in January. The ignition system that is on it is the Mopar Performance “Orange Box” with a Mopar distributor and MSD Blaser 2 Coil as well as MSD Streetfire wires and NGK V-power spark plugs. I was planning on running Hooker 1 3/4″ full length headers as well as a new exhaust system with Dynomax Bullet race mufflers. The exhaust would be 2.5″ true dual exiting out the sides in front of the tires.

The cam that I am looking at getting is the Edelbrock Performer RPM 7177 with 308/318 degrees duration with .488″/.510″ lift. The RPM range for the camshaft is 1500-6500RPM. The intake manifold that I am looking at is the Offenhauser 5700 single plane with divider square bore high rise manifold. The RPM range for the manifold is 1800-8800RPM. The valve springs that I will install are the Edelbrock 5777 and the timing set is the Edelbrock 7803. I will re-use the stock rocker arms and stock configuration push rods.

This car is my daily driver so it will need to be able to run well on the street, but I want something that performs well and sounds nasty. I will probably not drive it in the winter, but it would be nice to have something able to run in cold weather since I live in Alberta and you never know what the weather is going to be like. It will hopefully be a nice sleeper. I am hoping for about 320+hp at the flexplate. The transmission that is in the car is a newly re-built A904 Torqueflight. I am not sure what the differential gear ratio is, if anyone knows what the stock gear ratio in 82 Cordoba with the V8, please let me know.

I wasn’t able to find much information on this car other than on a few websites, so I wanted to post this question to the community. Does anyone have any experience with this engine setup or parts involved? Share your knowledge with us.

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