New performance Slant article in Hot Rod

Well, one could argue that dropping a stroked SB w/quality pieces and adding a snail to it
would produce waaay more hp/$. So whats the point? Again, you'll find no bigger proponent
of turbos above all else for output combined w/efficiency, than myself. But,I am strictly in the
do it with EFI or don't bother w/it camp, and that road ain't cheap. Just sayin'...
A friend/customer of mine purchased an AAR that had a Rotomaster turbo kit installed on
it, orig. T/A eng. & all. In the early '90's, it had been set up to run alky, which didn't suit him
so we switched it to gas w/water/alky inj.. We made mods to the kit, and had it running well,
but it was primarily designed to "wake-up" dead *** smog engines. Eventually we ran against
the systems limits,the shaft speeds were getting too high, then the inj. system crapped out
on a pass that looked like a hi 11 sec pass. It broke a ring land out of one of the blower pis-
tons, and that was the end of that,as he vowed to put it back to 6bbl form if he had to buy
said pistons ever.
It became a 9.7:1 6bbl 340 w/a 292 purple shaft,9.5" converter, that ran bests in the 12.3s
and no drama. Clever kit that Rotomaster tho', w/the right cam there was ZERO lag.