70 340 HP handling ability.

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I wanted to do a turbo on my duster until I realized how huge of a fabrication project it would be; headers, hot-side plumbing, mounting the turbo itself, intercooler and cold side plumbing, plus engine management to control boost. A centrifugal blower is basically a bolt-on and the controls are more straightforward. For a turbo setup I'd need to blast apart the entire front end of my car and probably relocate a bunch of things like the battery then proceed to fabbing everything. I'd love to be wrong but nobody makes turbo kits of any sort for A-body Mopars and I don't have the fabbing experience to go into it gung-ho.
Damn fine points and I cannot argue with them. I will say this after you build one it seems like it was easy. You look back and say “that wasn’t too bad”. I built a set of under chassis headers from scratch once and that was way worse than any turbo parts I’ve ever built. FYI the engine management will be the same for turbo/supercharger.
 
Damn fine points and I cannot argue with them. I will say this after you build one it seems like it was easy. You look back and say “that wasn’t too bad”. I built a set of under chassis headers from scratch once and that was way worse than any turbo parts I’ve ever built. FYI the engine management will be the same for turbo/supercharger.

For sure I could see that, don't get me wrong I really want to build a turbo V8 Mopar and plan to do it some day. But right now I don't have a good indoor spot to park my Duster and still have room to work around it (garage is tight), and I don't even have a damn welder lol... My 360 has Cometic head gaskets and head studs with only 9:1 compression so it's just waiting for boost and the fact that I could basically bolt on a Procharger kit in a weekend or two is extremely appealing. And regardless whether I go turbo or blower I first need to seriously upgrade my fuel system and convert to EFI (prefer that over blow-through carb).

Sorry if I'm hijacking but hopefully this talk is of some use to the OP...?
 
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