when i joined here about 4 years ago, my first 62-65 was a 1963 belvedere four door. It had a freshly rebuilt 318 poly in it, with all paper work, built by a local machine shop, and i would say they did it right. Every body remarked on how nice that motor sounded and ran. It had a factory four barrel on it. I had resevations about the 318 poly as i had never seen one, and hadnt really even heard of them, but i grew to love that engine. One copless sunday morning at the bottom of a long , fairly steep uphill grade( about3/4 mile long) I decided to see what she had. I got on it ,pedal only three-quarters to the floor and that big old boat climbed and climbed, the needle nevr stopped, it kept rising and she crested the hill at about 110 mph and i could tell she had much more in her. and that was all uphill. pretty impressive in my book. at that point the poly 318 earned my respect neal zimmerman, eugene oregon