Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Good to see you got a run in Bill. You guys keep at it. Get it all sorted out.
Make it easy for the rest of us to put all those slanties to a good use before they all rust away.
Oh ya, figure out how to do it on the cheap too. :D
Thanks for your kind comments! This has not been cheap, but, probably for the performance potential involved, is likely cheaper than swapping in a V8, after all the necessary swap parts are paid for.
I say that because, according to the Wallace online automotive calculator, a no b.s. service that seems to give some fairly accurate results, this motor, yesterday, with only 10 pounds of boost (some of which was leaking,) made 233 horsepower on that particular run. Now, my engine s a closely-cloned copy of Ryan Peterson's and Tom Wolfe's engines, both of which make in excesss of 500 horseepower, but at a strastopheric. 28 pounds of boost. Just starting out, as it were, I limited my boost to 10 pounds with a Turbonetics waste gate, for practical reasons.
You can build a stock-piston/rod, non O-ringed (CHEAP,) slant 6 for the street without spending much money at all, and get similar performance that I got, which was over one hp per cubic inch, and at a perfornance-level that is hard to come-by, naturaly aspirated.
The difference is, my motor has some forged internals ($$$) and is slated for a (LOT) more boost, down the road, but that is not something that a lot of folks would necessarily be interested in.
The "extra" money I spent is all about resistance to detonation, and if you're willing to not require boost (and, horsepower) levels
over 10 pounds and 250 horsepower, I think you can have a turbocharged a body that will run 13's with stock pistons, rods, cam, and head gasket. You could probably, add the turbo and wastegate, having never taken the head off the motor.
That will probably be a whole lot cheaper than swapping in a 360, with all the necessary add-ons that procedure requires.
Just my 2-cents...