Plenty of people have made the 22R into a good, stump pulling drag motor.
A good free flow exhaust system will work wonders.
The cold air intake will also help.
Buy a mild cam from the usual cam suppliers.
http://cranecams.com/index.php?show=...lvl=4&prt=2041
Since your '83 has a tall deck 22R, you can put a 20R head on it to raise the compression ratio. With a retune, this will give more HP.
Details here:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stepho/eng20r.htm
Later on you might want to put an aftermarket computer on it with computer controlled separate coil packs instead of the distributor.
If you want to swap engines then read this.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...pho/celfaq.txt
- Stepho
