[Because the 300+ post "turbo thread" (a/k/a "We're not rich but we're not stupid") probably won't load with a dial-up connection (and apparently we can't hyperlink to specific posts anymore), here's a repeat of a comment about the November 2007 issue of Car Craft . . . .]

Okay, so it's not a B-I-G block, but Marty Stromberger's stock-block SBC, twin-turbo 1988 Pontiac Firebird GTA is a good start!  See "Hard Core, in the  November 2007 Car Craft at pp. 76-80.

9.75 at 141 with an ancient, used, 150,000-mile two-bolt/cast crank short-block and crappy 487X heads ought to show some open-minded Car Crafters  the "turbo way."

Of course, it's just a 350 . . . if it had 100+ extra cubes, homebuilt/JY turboCar Crafters would really have something to talk about. )

How about it CCMAG?

BTW, those trick sprint car headers aren't really necessary (and if you're going to the trouble of building a set of headers, why not use divided entry turbines and "split the exhaust pulses" (sort of Tri-Y style) to pump up the spool up?  

And it would have been nice if he could have kept the A/C and the ***  On the other hand, how many streetable nine-second cars have you seen lately with full interior, power windows and power door locks? (A lot of guys in the 10s and 11s with strip-only whips have to use those horrible, uncomfortable plastic drag seats, a brutal gutted interior, and scratch-prone Lexan windows to run SLOWER than Stromburger's small-block street car).

At least CC ran a homebuilt turbo story (even if it was an SBC).  That alone is worth a celebration!  

the "***" in the original message was an abbreviation for POWER STEERING.  (apparently CC's automated post editor mistook it for something that wasn't family friendly.  What a censorious field day it would have with a copy of AUTO TRADER . . . .)  

No kidding about the censorship. I think it's stuck on Kindergarten.  

please tell me more about this build e-mail me or something because i am about to start the same process and do not want to spend 10k on building an engine  

To start learning about low-budget and home turbo builds, here's where you need to start looking:

1. Mike Sitar's legendary twin turbo 351W (the prototype for most JY V8 builds)

2. What used to be known as the turbomustangs forum (now open to all brands).

3. The massive "So we[']re not rich but we aren[']t stupid" thread on the CC forum;

4. Local Bookstore/Amazon:  Here are some of the books you're looking for:

a. Old school blow-through/draw-through turbo systems and timeless theory:  MacInnes, Turbochargers (1978, 1984, 1987)

b. Modern EFI-based systems:

--Hartman, Turbocharging Performance Handbook  (2007);

--Warner, Street Turbocharging: Design, Fabrication, Installation, and Tuning of High-Performance Street Turbocharger Systems (2006);

--Bell, A., Forced Induction Performance Tuning A Practical Guide to Supercharging and Turbocharging  (2003);

--Bell, C., Maximum Boost: Designing, Testing, and Installing Turbocharger Systems (1997);

c. Eccentric musings, anecdotes and mostly untested theories about "no-budget" JY turbocharging, centrifugal superchargers, and antique supercharged/turbocharged Studebakers:  Datson, 21st Century Turbo

That will get you started better than any e-mail . . . .