Is it smart???
Oh yes,very good idea.This helps eliminate turbo lag or "spooling",both of whci are associated with running large turbo"s.
Im glad chrysler was so crazy overengineered in it's day!! Now we can use that to great effect with turbo's. The slant is a natural candidate for a turbo,being so strong.
A slant six is
THE natural candidate for a turbo!
It's an accident that it is so over-built, and harkens back to the fact that as an aluminum engine, Chrysler HAD to make it strong because aluminum ISN'T (compared to cast iron,)
When their grandiose plans for making it out of aluminum fell through, the CHEAPEST thing was to simply cast what they could, of the original aluminum design, out of iron... so, that's what they did.
Can you say, "RIGID"????
Now, 50 years later, with cheap turbos and reasonably-priced forged pistons and rods available from several vendors, WE are the beneficiaries of Ma Mopar's bad luck with aluminum castings, back then.
Oh well.... I can dig it!!!! :)
This would seem to be the payoff for having to put up with that 170 cylinder head (they're all the same) on our normally-aspirated 225's, for all those years!!! LOTS of boost will overcome some pretty bad breathing problems, and these /6 babies would seem to be second only to a Diesel, when it comes to be having been "Made for a turbo!!!"
I'm lovin' it....:thumbup:
