Need advise on a turbo set up...

a lot of what bites people in the ass with the turbo is the tuning with the stock ECM if you are unexperienced. with the mass air system and no tuning it will go very, very rich in the midrange if the a/f on top is right.

we made 493rwhp from an s trim on a friends stock 93 cobra engine. with a little procharger p600 we made 372 with a stock longblock in a 95 gt with a TFS track heat intake. with a bigger compressor i bet it would have easily made more power.

so 400rwhp with the blower isnt too big of a deal. on my stock longblock back in 1998 my turbo technology street kit made 361 at 8lbs. with gt40 irons and a downs upper/gt40 combo it made 488 at 12lbs.

much like everything else, a turbo is no free lunch. if its tuned correctly the headers are going to get hot, so you might wanna keep things away from the exhaust housing and downpipe.