Thinking about turbo on my/6 again...

MadScientistMat said

I hope by "daily driver" this is one you want to drive daily, not one you have to drive daily. This will be enough of a fabrication and tuning challenge that you should plan on significant down time before it's completed

My first turbo setup used a K car turbo, and I would not recommend it. These can easily exceed your target boost well below your torque converter stall speed, and run out of breath below 3000 rpm.

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I haven't driven it since the new motor went in
And I thought the waste gate "throttled" the boost to spread it out as rpm went up .. I'm thinking I'll hit 3k rpm sorta regular, but doubt I'll hit 4k very often given the application. What turbo would be better that will spread out it's usefulness "that" high? And please don't say "cheap Chinese wannabe"...I've gone to pretty good lengths to buy new old parts to avoid Chinese content to this point
Being as how this is a truck and not a light sporty rocket of a car how would that play into what id want? I know I don't want something that doesn't come in til 4000+, I can't see that doing me much good.
Currently I have a fresh rebuilder grade low stall converter... still in the box. Leaning towards the a500, vs the 727 or 833od... Have all 3 on hand.
Whichever trans goes behind it will get gone thru.abs yes I have the adapter plate to put that 500 behind a /6.