absolutly a damper is a must,will reuse my old thrusted fluiddamper that is from the stoneage it has never given me any trouble and i hope it wont start acting up now:) but will try to put the blower belt as close to the damper as possboble if i can make it work like that and have the powerstearing and alternatorbelt outside the blower belt,we will se if that works or not..
i have thought alot about putting an extra keyway in the crank but shortblock is toghether now and in absolutely worst case i have a spare crank if something bad happens to the one i have now and im only planing on running about 8pounds of boost for a start since i know my poor stockblock is the biggest limitation and better to learn how to tune a blown engine before starting to push some bigger boost# but i would not be surpised if i end up at 15lbs of boost sometime late in the summer,the important part is to be faster than my friends nova for a while before doing something stupid and blow the engine,this is also a streetcar:) but with alot more compression on E85
