'73 Swinger - turbo SB, EFI, Overdrive...on the cheap! :)

daveakre said

It was on 10 psi when it died. I don't think it was the boost that killed it though. When I had the issue, it broke up real hard under power and popped out the exhaust pretty bad. Pretty sure it was a tuneup problem though. When I got home it was pissing coolant out the side of the motor between the head and the block.

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Yeah, i'd agree that the tuning didn't help, especially if the piston was that chewed up. It was more of a curiosity question of how much boost the teener handled for a "period of time" lol i followed another thread on here where someone was eyeing an ebay turbo setup and was thinking it'd live through 8-10 psi with good tuning on an efi setup. apparently there's some validity to that. cool thanks!