Opinion on Clifford mods for Slant 6 motors

Charrlie_S said
OK, my 2 cents worth, and worth every penny.
You mentioned about an opertunity to learn about doing it yourself. The slant is ideal for this. I have done several slants, both for racing, and for mileage. Building is different for these desires, but there are some mods that work for either/both. So, decide what you want to do. Raising compression is the main mod. How much, is determined by the end goal, as is the cam. As for clifford, the only things I would get, would be headers (for a race car) and/or intake manifold. Everything else is available elsewhere, at a better deal.

Thanks Charlie, and I definitely want to tear down and rebuild way more than 1 motor in my lifetime, but this would seem like a solid first one to start with, provided that I can get enough good information on what I'll need to use to get there. If I'm budgeting between 4 and 5 thousand for an engine build, I'd like to get it to the point where it's at least a snappy little engine, I mentioned 300 hp because I've been watching a good bit of YouTube on these and that seems to be the mantle that everyone wants to hit. If it's 250, or more but not 300, I'm fine with that. To that point if I'm nowhere close to 250 that becomes a decision that I have to make. If I wanted to spend crazy money, I know there's a turbo scene for these motors and it could make a good bit more hp than 300 but I don't think that's the direction I want to go with this.

SO, if I was lowering my aim to say 250HP for a fun regular driver, and putting a nice converter and new build in the transmission and a rear that will support the additional HP, what would be your suggestion for this build? I've got someone that would love to do the head work on this so if I can get the rest of the parts in mind, I can start to price it out.

I think in either case, I'd convert everything over to newer on the front end, tubular upper and lower control arms, discs, probably just rebuild the whole thing soup to nuts, kind of like what I did with the 71 that's my daily.