Just remember. That front bench seat folded all the way down, like a sleeper sofa.
Mine had reclining buckets ( I think it was the 770, a step below the Ambassador)........ but Dad's 64 wagon, yeah. I even have a couple of the seat supports in a tub of NOS AMC parts so the seat backs laid down and the whole interior of that wagon was like one big bed inside.
In the mid 90s when your motor options in a Grand Cherokee were 4.0 I6 or 5.2 V8, the 5.2 was a nice option. Almost 300 ft/lbs with the 5.2 vs around 220-230 with the 4.0.
The HO engines were around 240 at the flywheel. Still a good 60 under the V8..
A performance outfit called ACCEL made spark plugs for the 340 and other MOPAR engines in the early 1970's. They called them performance spark plugs. They also made an electronic distributor that you could replace the OEM points and condensor distributor with. They also had a coil to go with it, and of course they also made ACCEL spark plug wires. I think they (ACCEL) may have also made the radiator flex fan I installed. Anyway I put all that stuff in my 340 Duster 4 on the floor. I also threw an Edelbrock high rise aluminum manifold on it and replaced the Carter Thermoquad 4V with a Holley 650 4V.
OH, THOSE performance plugs. Yeah, I have some Accel stuff in a cabinet - a box of plug wires and so on. The performance bit was marketing....... the plug wires were typically just thicker insulation, sometimes silicone, that sort of thing. The coils - well, they were indeed often capable of "higher output voltage" but unless you have a really off-the-normal build, you waste the output above about 25Kv
Go out to the AMC fakebook areas where people talk about mods to their Eagle engines - how much HP they gained going with HEI, and so on - "hey, how much did you gain?" Well, my butt Dyno.......That cracked me up !!!
Yeah, their stuff was yellow, and it looked good with the chrome air filter cover. Yeah, I did a ton of top end stuff on those engines, they were so easy to work on. Replace a water pump, or thermostat, no problem. Change plugs, half an hour. Realizing today that ACCEL was mostly marketing hype, although I did like the electronic igniition distributors. Didn't need the dwell meter on them, still needed the timing light though. I still have my timing light, have not used it probably in 40 or more years. I kept it with this misguided thought that in retirement I would pick up a classic MOPAR. Never happened and instead I ended up with a few Corvettes, stopping with my 2019 Z06 Convertible 7 speed manual with a 6.2L Supercharged LT4. Nice, but now a Tesla Plaid blows it away. Even new stuff quickly becomes obsolete but at least the vette sounds good.
Yeah, no worry about dwell migration as the rubbing block wore down. I put after-market electronic on my Javelin back in about 75 or so. Nice to not have to deal with points and "it was cool".
The power specs you quoted are for the 5.2L magnum motors for 92 and up. Basically a 318 LA motor with better heads and higher compression. Being the OP specifically stated 318 that typically refers to the non-magnum carbureted versions from the 60s thru early 90s. They were in fact as low as 150hp low compression junk. The magnum was much better but still weak compared to the modern hemis that replaced it. Definitely not worth the effort to swap in to a modern vehicle.
