Is it smart???

Well...I agree to a point that a /6 with a turbo is a good idea. This comes from a guy who has won quite a bit of $$ racing the /6.

The reality is this though..it is not as simple as bolting on the turbo and going fast with it. It takes lots of tuning and patience to acheive what you want. That goes for quite a few things anyways.

If you have the patience to do it and the $$$, I say go for it. I don't believe it it is as easy or cheap as people say it is. If that were the case, more people would do it.

Oh yeah..the 7.25 rear holding up behind a turbo /6? Not for long. A 7.25 will hold up to it for a while if it is a Sure Grip because that is what my old slant bracket car had in it. My 7.25 Sure Grip even with slicks was pretty stout. An 8.25 or 8.75 is $$$ better spent in the long run. A 7.25 peg leg is running off of borrowed time.

Good points, all. I didn't mean to make it sound easy, but we have two guys on here who are both making a litte over 500 flywheel HP, with more to come, and they are both cost-conscious racers. Maybe they're just both really smart, but from what I have read of their projects, they go really fast in spite of buying "frugal" in a lot of areas. As they acquire the means to get more sophisticated parts (for example, neither of them even has a ball-bearing turbo,) I think you're going to see them both pick up a bunch of power.

Maybe Ryan or Tom could post on here, some ways their cars, although being lightning-fast, have been budget projects so far.

I'll be very interested!:yawinkle: