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If you want easy power that you can actually do with out your car sitting on jack stands for 2 years, spend your money to convert it to EFI. Then buy a used (or new) vortech kit splap it on and go.

turbo's are great, but dealing with heat, figuring out the routing of the pipes and just every little issue that you will have will drive you nuts. The blower kits are easy they last a long time and you will learn a lot about your car and your motor. How is your clutch, trans, rear end ? all things that will show weakness when you up the power.

If you have a stock nice clean car, don't do anything you will just be disappointed in 5-10 years that you devalued your beautiful stock example of the 5.0L.
 

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MikeH686 said:
Well at least rebuild the bottom end if anything when you reach the capabilities of the stock block you can swap everything over to a dart block. That's my plan with my car swap everything over to a dart shp block
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Not really sound advice IMO. Why would you spend all that money on good internals and skimp out on the block? If you put anything but a internal balance crank the block will walk the main caps sooner that the stock crank and you run the risk of destroying way more $$$ in parts versus stock bottom end parts that owe you no money.

The stock rotating assembly will normally hang on way past the block, so replace the weak link first, not last.

I still say go turbo if thats what you want, everything is a lot of work, the turbo kit is the most work but if you plan accordingly and buy the right parts the first time it will be reliable as any other power adder.
 

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Mine is only two inches though.
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I mean that's what I'm doing with my block right now I plan on swapping everything over to the new block here shortly
 

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Just keep reading and you will find out the stuff you need to know.

If the car is now efi, keep it and turbo it that way. Much easier than a blow through carb.
 

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Apparently my ex-husband made that mistake.
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When the stock block goes, there is a good chance it will take the internals with it.

Kurt
 

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Mine is only two inches though.
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Which is why I'm not going boost right now silly people
 
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