How much power do engine mods yield?
Keep up the turbo 'boosting', Bill - love reading it - and will get around to following your lead some day... :-)
Thanks for the support and encouragment. The facts surrounding turbocharged slant sixes are not very much in evidence within the Mopar community... it's just a too-well-kept secret.
To me, it seems that there are two avenues of approach to this exercise: Depending on how much money you have to spend on this upgrade, you can either, use stock internals (cast pistons, stock rods and no O-Rings) and build a low cost, low boost engine that will push a typical A-Body to low-14's/high 13's (quarter-mile times) and be a pump-gas motor, or, if you have more money to spend, opt for the forged-internals motor (Wiseco Pistons/K-1 rods and O-Rings,) and shoot for horsepower in the 400+ range. That motor will probably get your A-Body a low 11-second, or high-10 second timeslip. But, it stops being a pump-gas motor somewhere north of 250 horsepower, I think; an important consideration.
You pays your money and you takes your choice! :cheers:
At any rate, either combination is a viable alternative to swapping in a V-8, I think.:coffee2: