School me on supercharging a 360

StrokerScamp said

For your application, I believe an 8-71 will be a waste. It's all about using a blower to its full potential, especially with a roots blower. The more power that comes from the blower itself, the more efficient the engine will be, as long of course other things are taken into consideration such as the addition of an intercooler. Keeping air temps down, a 6-71 should be enough to boost all but the most serious big block combination.....if done correctly.

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Yeah, the main reason I was concerned was I was looking at some BDS blower charts and their small bore 6-71 is just really low boost all around. They report only being able to make around maybe 15 pounds of boost at a max overdrive of 20-30% or something. There was just no way I wanted to run the blower that hard on a high winding small block, it would be screaming at the top end, lol. Their big bore 6-71 was not much different than the 8-71 though, and the Dyer's 6-71 kits I was looking pumped out good boost all the way around. I planned to run around maybe 10 pounds on the street and then pump it up to 15-20 when I took it to the races on race gas.