Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Glad to hear you got a run Bill. Sorry that you couldn't make it to MoKan, I was hoping to see the car make its maiden voyage in person. That's too bad you had transmission problems on top of leak problems as well.
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 "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...
I wish I could find someone that did a v8 swap on a budget like Serj did his turbo build. I can't though, but this is the best I have:
-Small block (say, 360) and transmission (904 or 727) running and in decent condition $3-400? Possibly less depending case from case
-v8 wiring harness, new from Year One $125-145
-v8 conversion mounts $140-180
-Small block trans crossmember
-v8 Kickdown linkage (good chance it will come with the engine/trans)
-v8 steering link (drop center)
The prices I do know come in from $565-$725. If we set a budget of $1500 like serj did, I am going to guess we could make it without too much trouble. Not to mention it'd be much easier to tune (no witchcraft here)
If I add my $.02 to yours, does it make $.04 or cancel out and make 0 cents?
P.S. I understand that you still have TONS of tuning and issues to figure out, but
I wouldn't be satisfied till it pushed 300 ponies at the crank on 10lbs. I don't think it's anything out of reach for a built motor like yours. I know of 2 blown slants that make (IMO) decent hp-per-psi. The one makes 250hp/330tq with 7psi, the other makes
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