I need some help guys

I've been wanting to get some healthy mods for my car, but I keep changing my mind. I'm leaning towards three choices. I've got a lot of questions too so if you don't mind answering those, I'd appreciate it.

1. NA motor, maybe some AFR 165-185 heads, mild cam, 3.73 gears, and a nice healthy exhaust. This seems fine for the street but I have a feeling I'd be wanting more power...

2. NA motor, 331 stroker with beefier heads, intake, cam, and eventually turbo it now that I don't have to worry about the block splitting at 500.

3. Slap a turbo on my stocker motor and take it from there. Get some heads, probably keep my stock gears, intake and keep my stock cam because turbo like that cam.

I like step 1 because I don't have all the money in the world, but is it stupid of me to think if I end up getting the HCI combo, and 3.73, I'll have to revert to other stuff if I turbo it? Re-use my stock cam and run a numerically smaller gear?

Also, if I go with choice one, and have a healthy stock block motor, what cars can beat me stock for stock? I'll be what, in the 13 range?

Regarding choice 2, how hard is to replace the block? I know it's at the very bottom but is it a major task?

Thanks for reading guys, I've been torn on which path I want to take and would really, really appreciate any opinions.

eades5.0 said:

if u have a good healthy motor now, stick with that bottom end and go from there. Your limited to the afr165s unless you wanna notch the pistons.
You can have a mean lil combo on your hands their if put together correctly..but then again if you plan to go stroked/boosted later you will likely end up running diff h/c/i (bigger, more suited for boost)

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Your referring to choice 1, correct?

Yeah, I think you're right. It's not like the combo I chose will be final forever. I can have many more Mustangs with different combos. The next one wilder then the last one.

And since I have limited know-how, I'll probably go with the first choice and work my way up from there.

Thanks man.

After thought, I have just one more question.

If I stayed NA and with the stock block and did everything I could with the stock 302, would it have some respectable power? I know it won't be the fastest thing out there but I'd like it have a car with some very nice power that only a few cars could pull away from me.

Thanks!