Cam design limitations
I live by the K.I.S.S. rule myself. Turbos and blowers and such are cool but you can spend your whole life trying to figure it out when you couldda been cruisin.
Well, I started "cruisin' in a normally-aspirated car in 1954, and spent a lifetime with natuarally aspirated stuff... and when this "turbo revolution" came on the scene via, mainly, the black Buicks, I decided it might be interesting to see what it was all about.
Just like building a natuarally-aspirated car, a basic setup can be simple and stilll pay some pretty big dividends (witness Tom Wolfe's 12.95 second e.t's on an almost completely stock, junkyard turbo'd /6 Dart Swinger) but, the realy good running cars that impress take a little more R & D.
If you don't want to set the world on fire, you can give that asthmatic /6 cylinder head a LOT of help for very little efffort with a 10-pound boost turbo setup for the street and not bother with an intercooler, blowoff valve, MSD boostmaster "dial-your-own-retard" or a header. Mid 13's for a /6 car like that should be a piece of cake.
That beats the heck out of buying and prepping a small block V8, and all that goes with it to accomplish an engine swap, for that kind of performance.
How much horsepower you need to satisy the seat of your pants will determine how deeply you have to dig to accomplish the e.t.'s you're after.
It's
all good!!:cheers: