soontobefastfox said:
the stroker should be way less than the turbo because with a turbo you need to add alot of things that you dont think you need. Trust me I almost ventured down that route.
Negatives about a turbo (you have to spend alot of money, I dont know if you ever priced it out but these are items you will need to do it right, yes you can do half assed and have everything break, but if you want to do it right you need these parts.):
race block with forged rotating assembly
big heads like vic jrs
spyder intake or some short runner intake
a whole new fuel system (a 255 won't cut it you'll need an A1000 pump)
a custom ground cam would be best
an auto trans because with a turbo you're going after huge gains and most of the time you can't control that kind of power and you'll need an auto to get your best et. And also you dont want to have a violently shifting street car.
theres soo much more that people don't think about when going the route of a turbo. Some do it half assed and use their stock short block but that is a time bomb waiting to explode.
I agree with 94-302-vert on this one because you can always add the power adder in the future.
And I priced out everything that I was going to need to buy to do a correct 331 turbo mustang and it cost 21549. And I would imagine it would even cost more for a 351w.
just my opinion.
Actually, i have priced everything out using the help of Mike(oink) and turbomustangs.com. That stuff u list is what i would call "going all out". Yes it is probably the "best" way to do it, but a different way spending less money isnt NOT necessarily worst. Look at all the guys on turbomustangs.com that dont spend an 1/8th of what you listed and still run pretty respectable times. Like for instance, my tko-600 would do just fine for now. Its not a race car so im not going to have a "NEED" for consistant times...sticks are still more fun to me as a street car. Anyway.....
Thanks everyone for their input...lol its the same stuff i've been telling myself. For those that dont know, i have the 351 in the car now with ported twisted wedge heads, custom cam, and tfs-r intake, so its a pretty healthy setup....or was
From what i have setup in a excel worksheet, it would take about $2,000 give or take a couple depending on if i went single or twin, and what good deals i caught(good deal= even less $$$ spent, im not anticipating them) And for the stroker, i was planning on about $1,000 in machine work and about another $1100 in parts. BUT, i would rebuild the shortblock for the turbo, so that $1,000 could be taken away from both options. Leaving the 2k and 1.1k.
Keep the opinions comin if ya got em