Previous quote: " [/quote] All I am trying to do is get my head around this - I'd like to get 300 HP on the street and not sure the best way to do it. My preference is still the 235/261 but its looking like a lump in a 292 may where I am headed. A guy cant break the bank to do it. I'm thinking 40 hp for $4 grand might not be the best buy. I seriously thought it would be more like 100 hp for a x-flow head.... [/quote]
It would be so simple to install a turbo & if you source parts carefully ,it can be done very cheaply.
Just a little part needed of fabbing up some parts.
Mainly the pipe to attach the exhaust manifold to the turbo & the downpipe/exit pipe from the turbo into your exhaust system.
You do need need a great flowing cylinder head to produce a lot of torque when using a turbo.
Unless you have no room for a turbo?
Just a thought.
Remember what the dyno tests of that makeshift turbo install that Tlowe did on the 250,& that was by no means a great timely mannered/great install,just some pipes hooked up to see what a blow through turbo set-up could do .
It did pretty good considering what he was working with.
MBHD
