/6 turbo info
Planing next winter project.Wanting to turbo my 225 slant
on the cheap.74 Scamp with OD manual tranny
clifford 4 barrel manifold want low rpm.Trying to save
from pecking here and there for info so hoping someone
has really good info on this
My advice? Get in touch with Tom Wolfe (Shaker223 here in FABO) and tell him what you want to do.
He put a $250.00 junkyard Buick Grand National turbo with NO INTERCOOLER on a bone-stock 225 in his 1970 Dart Swinger (3,300 pounds) and it ran 12.95 @ 102mph in the quarter, with a 2.76 rear end.
He knows what he's doing, obviously.
That engine had the stock head and cam, with a points-type ignition, but ran through a stock 904 T-Flite automatic. I am not sure you could duplicate his performance with a manual transmission, but, you might.
Turbo /6s seem to like low-numerical gears in the differential, which is a boon, because it means your 2.76 final drive will not only work great on the highway, but at the drag strip, as well.
I can't vouch for the longivity of a 7.25" rear in a turbocharged /6 car, but if you keep the boost under 15 pounds (which you'd want to do, anyway, with stock pistons) that little rear end might live a long time, with an automatic.
That's not to say you'd HAVE to change over to a 904, but it might be beneficial.
Good luck; you realize, that 15 pounds of boost could
double your engine's output, don't you? \\:D/
