Gonna take a stock 250
4.10 gears
3 speed
Change to a Clifford intake
Holley 600 dp
Spa t4 exhaust manifold
Turbonetics based 60 series derivative
Small inter cooler
Water meth inject
Drop in hei distrib
Wide band a/f guage
Boost based fuel pump and rear mounted fuel cell
700 r4 automatic
Most of the big pieces are on the way or will be soon any help insight or comments are appreciated.
Great conversation with tlowe tonight......... This build inspired by the snowman
Yeah, snownmans builds are inspiring.
Just my opinions,
turbos like a tall gear, numerically lower numbers.(rear axle)
410's & a 3.06 first gear, turbo is not going to boost much @ all in first gear & by the time you see boost, it will be in 2nd gear.
I like the Offy intake for a 250 street engine, unless you are going w/a higher stall torque converter. Better low end response day to day driving.
The Clifford intake runners are huge & there goes your port velocity, which means, it will be sluggish down low.
I have used both intakes w/a multitude of carbs, 350 cfm, small & large dual jet carbs 2 bbls 400 cfm to the large thermalquads, bog city 4 bbls,
Overall day to day driving, the offy intake is hard to beat,
meaning, off idle, cruise, part throttle, wide open throttle, you know daily driving type of situations,, Now , unless you install 3 sidedraft Clifford intake & Webber's that would be the ultimate as far as carbs are concerned, but complicated when blowing through like I did with this Blower.
You have a truck, you have the room for a large intercooler.
Intercoolers & pipeing are cheap on Ebay, no reason not to get a larger intercooler.
A larger one is just going to cool the intake charge more, not so much w/a small one.
Once you get it up & running, tune it , tune it, tune it, then you can increase the boost.
Boost is addictive, you have to control the urges to boost it high.
I would recommend @ least a MSD BTM box.
I use the J&S safegaurd., it can detect detonation & pull timing.
http://www.jandssafeguard.com/NewUniversal/UniversalVersion.htmlThese are just my opinions, take it or leave it.
Good luck w/your build.
MBHD