Turbo Teen

T56MaxTorq said
Thanks, the military aircraft world instills cleanliness. I did my own fab work. I couldn’t weld, either. So I took some classes with the GI Bill and got an associates in welding and multiple certificates as well. The radiator reservoir, the fan shroud, the alternator bracket, and the windshield washer tank were graded projects. Welded the exhaust all up with an old scratch-start tig at home - gave me hell but it worked out well. Wasted a lot of argon with the pipe purging and all. All stainless. Would have went mild steel but the weight was a concern with iron heads and all. I would have inconel headers but didn’t have enough scrap in the right size, plus there is no such thing as an inconel header flange.

Sounds like the proper way to learn how to weld...lol I'm going to purchase a welder and have at it I suppose. Where I work there is a lot of welding building cabs for Caterpillar bulldozer, mini hydraulic excavator, and small wheel loaders. I install the glass in the cabs so no welding for me. Might talk to some of my buds on teaching me.
Ryan Hogan (tuner guy at Flying Ryan Performance) had a turbo system fabbed up using headers on a 408. The cost was right at 5K.... he is buds with the shop owner as well. Kind of blew him back when he got the bill...lol
So there is a lot of fab work using headers. Ryan said it was done right but was expensive.

MopaR&D said
I'd probably do a turbo 318 for the gas mileage, I want a nice bigger cruiser Mopar with some power but driving a big block regularly would kill me on fuel costs. Kind of ironic though the BBM has more head bolts and can handle more boost.

A boosted 361 BB would be interesting I wonder what kind of gas mileage those get...

It's hard to believe but I get better gas mileage out of my SC'd 408 than I did with the stock 5.9 mag. It's all in the tune. If I could keep my foot out of it then the gas mileage would go up even more.
The 5.9 was really bad on gas.