New Combo for friend
 

Hey guys, building a new combo for a friend. Need some input specially from you turbo guys. This car already has a Ford nine inch from Currie w/ 31spline axles and Detriot Locker and so on. Also has Wildwood brakes at all four corners. The big question is what to do for a power plant!!!!!
I already plan on and not changing the following:
393-427 CI small block Windsor.
(Scat rotating assembly---4340 forged steel crank, H-beam rods, Ross, or JE Pistons)
TFS-R heads. (with some work :D )
Super Victor intake

Now the question is what would you put
on a:
1) Tremic Transmission TKO II
or
Dyanmic Racing Transmission w/ TCT Converter

2) Power Adder NOS Bis Shot Plate
or
Turbo (Plus what kind of set-up)
Goal is to complete the entire build for aprox. 20,000 dollars excluding the interior and wheels.
Heres a pic of the beast now.
P.S If we do a turbo, plan on a Dart Block. If NOS, then a Production block will be used but with only a small shot of spray.

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side car pic

and another

With that kind of power I'd go with an auto, possibly a Glide. I dont know much about turbos but I'd say you would need to be in the 70mm range. I'd also recommend Precision Turbo.

Andy

and one more

He plans on driving it to the race track and around town. Track is 15 miles away (country roads). And with the power adder, wants to run no slower then a mid nine second 1/4 mile.

:)

A Dart block and turbo setup will be CONSIDERABLY more expensive than a nitrous setup on a factory block. What about nitrous on a Dart setup?
The turbo could take him into the 8's with something 76mm sized...
Depends on the cash I guess. A turbo setup like that is probably around 5 grand alone just for the setup, let alone fuel system and tuning, on top of the expensive Dart shortblock of course.

Yea, I know I have been telling him about how this is going to run him an arm and a leg. His ultimate goal is to have a turbo set-up but if its not in his budget then he will just do the factory block with spray. His budget is $20,000. I told him that I could easily do that with the production block with spray and have money left over for later surprises and dyno time money! But we were wondering if 20 grand would get us there with out cutting any corners.

I think 20 grand would be cutting it close, to do it right. Who's your engine builder up there?

Andy

My engine builder and long time friend is Mark Biddle and Adam day of Panhandle Performance.