MightyMats
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Good Evening,
Sorry if this is a little long winded.
I have been drooling over what to do with my free time (money) when I finally get back state-side. A little back-ground, I have a 1967 Chrysler 300 2 door w/440. I have owned the car for about 3 years and I would really like to re-do the drive train and have something that is really cool and street-able. Emphasis on the street-able part.
My question is, for those of you with 800+ hp do you really notice a difference on the street? After 600hp am I just going to spin the tires on anything that isn't a drag radial? Am I crazy for wanting to turbo a big block and daily drive it?
A little back-ground on myself. At my last duty station I got a job working at a custom shop building cars. It was everything I ever wanted, and I was hooked. I worked 40 hours a week at the shop, about 30 hours working for uncle-sam depending what was going on, and on the weekends I was building a Jeep for myself from scratch.
I'm going to be honest and say I don't have any experience driving a car with any exceptional amount of hp. I want to turn my C body into something really cool that can be daily driven and when I decide to show it off on a sunday a few times a year I want people to **** themselves when they look under the hood.
My original plan was to throw a twin turbo set-up at my 440 and make 1000+ hp. But after research I wouldn't want to put a stock blocks survivability to the test. I think a smaller twin turbo set-up would spool faster making more torque at lower RPM's putting more stress on the webbing. Plus it would honestly be more expensive than a single turbo set-up.
My idea now is to put a single Borg Warner S480 on my 440, run about 12ish pounds of boost with an air to air intercooler and a blow through carb for the extra cooling of the gas so i can run 91 octane and still daily drive my boat. The bigger turbo will take longer to spool so I think i'll be fine at lower rpm's (2-3k) putting around town. But it should provide all the power i want when i put my foot down.
I priced out everything generously I'd need just for the engine build and im estimating it will cost me about 13k minus all machine work. That is with a full forged rotating assembly, caps/girdle, turbo, headers, plumbing, carb, ignition, TFS heads, fuel pump, hydraulic roller cam, intake, intercooler etc. And I would do this all on a stock block.
I think @12 psi w/ good heads, cam, and a single plane intake on a turbo I should easily be able to make somewhere around 800hp+ @6500rpm.
Am i out of my mind?
Is this something that will make my car a nightmare to drive around on the street?
Am i throwing my money away putting 13k worth of parts on a block that was never meant for high 3 digit numbers?
Should I just rebuild it with 10:1 compression and forget about it?
Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thank you for stopping by.
Sorry if this is a little long winded.
I have been drooling over what to do with my free time (money) when I finally get back state-side. A little back-ground, I have a 1967 Chrysler 300 2 door w/440. I have owned the car for about 3 years and I would really like to re-do the drive train and have something that is really cool and street-able. Emphasis on the street-able part.
My question is, for those of you with 800+ hp do you really notice a difference on the street? After 600hp am I just going to spin the tires on anything that isn't a drag radial? Am I crazy for wanting to turbo a big block and daily drive it?
A little back-ground on myself. At my last duty station I got a job working at a custom shop building cars. It was everything I ever wanted, and I was hooked. I worked 40 hours a week at the shop, about 30 hours working for uncle-sam depending what was going on, and on the weekends I was building a Jeep for myself from scratch.
I'm going to be honest and say I don't have any experience driving a car with any exceptional amount of hp. I want to turn my C body into something really cool that can be daily driven and when I decide to show it off on a sunday a few times a year I want people to **** themselves when they look under the hood.
My original plan was to throw a twin turbo set-up at my 440 and make 1000+ hp. But after research I wouldn't want to put a stock blocks survivability to the test. I think a smaller twin turbo set-up would spool faster making more torque at lower RPM's putting more stress on the webbing. Plus it would honestly be more expensive than a single turbo set-up.
My idea now is to put a single Borg Warner S480 on my 440, run about 12ish pounds of boost with an air to air intercooler and a blow through carb for the extra cooling of the gas so i can run 91 octane and still daily drive my boat. The bigger turbo will take longer to spool so I think i'll be fine at lower rpm's (2-3k) putting around town. But it should provide all the power i want when i put my foot down.
I priced out everything generously I'd need just for the engine build and im estimating it will cost me about 13k minus all machine work. That is with a full forged rotating assembly, caps/girdle, turbo, headers, plumbing, carb, ignition, TFS heads, fuel pump, hydraulic roller cam, intake, intercooler etc. And I would do this all on a stock block.
I think @12 psi w/ good heads, cam, and a single plane intake on a turbo I should easily be able to make somewhere around 800hp+ @6500rpm.
Am i out of my mind?
Is this something that will make my car a nightmare to drive around on the street?
Am i throwing my money away putting 13k worth of parts on a block that was never meant for high 3 digit numbers?
Should I just rebuild it with 10:1 compression and forget about it?
Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thank you for stopping by.