Show your slant 6 a body!
yeah. you got the barracuda and the Signet 2-door / convertables. we got the ute. who's the winner here?
note that the ute doors are sedan-length, not the longer ones you folks have . . .
I know one block who mated a T4 adaptor to a stock /6 exhaust manifold. it would'a worked, but he never completed the turbo install.
i personally grew up in a world where superchargers rule and turbos simply didn't exist (seen Mad Max / the Road Warrior? i'll tell you it ain't a turbo wastegate thats peeping through the bonnet of his black interceptor!!!!)
i've seen kits to jam an SC14 supercharger onto a Ford straight six or GM V6.
for a /6 far as i can see, it's all about a bracket to get the pulley lined up, and getting the right pulley ratio's to get the blower spinning to the right PSI. After that, it's just making sure the air/fuel mixture is right and is being directed smoothly into the intake manifold . . .
i know it's a small blower designed to go on a 2litre four-pot. but from what i've even 6 > 8 pounds would light up a stock /6, huh?
Well, I think Ma Mopar would have been money ahead if she'd allowed the stateside dealers to sell utes, and sent some 2-door sedans and 2-door hardtops to Oz, but what do I know???
Insofar as turbos go, I was way ignorant of what a turbo could do for an engine until I started paying some attention to the Buick Grand Nationals a few yers ago. I stumbled onto this site, which has two members with two really fast slant six turbo cars, both of which piqued my interest. I had built a Vortech-supercharged '72 Valiant using a 360 Magnum, and mid 11's was about as fast as it would run, because the engine was stock except for the blower. Oh, it did have a mild cam, but I'm not sure that helped much.
The bottom line was, both of these turbocharged slant six cars were a LOT faster than my 360 Magnum Valiant. A LOT faster!!!
Made me think, "I gotta get me some of that!!!"
So, my racing partner and I decided we'd build a copycat turbo /6 engine and rake in some of this free horsepower!!!:tonqe:
Well, 2and 1/2 years later, we still are not finished with this thing, but we're makin' progress. A couple more months, and we're liable to fire this Frankensix up on a drag strip and see what we have wrought.
That's gonna be interesting.
Let's see... NO experience with turbos and NO experience with slant 6's.... equals a steep learning curve, I'm afraid.
We'll see... :prayer::prayer::prayer::prayer:
