"A supercharger can break the snout off of your crank shaft because the 5.0 was never designed to take that kind of load in the front"...
--(Have you ever honestly seen a supercharger break the "snout" off a crank shaft....no but Im sure youve heard ALL about it..)
"the stock block has weak main journals that don't like much more than 500 hp." ---(The stock block doesnt have "weak" journals, 90% of the time youll split the block right down the lifter valley....AS YOULL SEE OVER IN TURBOMUSTANGS.COM...BS FORUM.)
I would go for the turbo because it's cheaper"---(show me..)
Another thing to think about is that a turbo basically has three parts: the housing, the bearings and the impeller/compressor. A supercharger has many more parts. (ok a supercharger-a Housing, bearing, impeller, and what??? A PULLEY!! many many more parts....MY BAD ) More parts means more things that can fail. I'm sure that a properly set up turbo will last longer than a properly set up supercharger.( are you SURE about that? cuz it sounds like you have no idea what your talking about.
.) That's why you see so many turbo diesels and almost zero supercharged diesel engines.( LOL..you see many turbo diesel engines because the TRUCK that the turbo diesel engine is in NEEDS TORQUE to get itself and whatever else its pulling moving. NOT INSTANT HORSEPOWER...but then u have you rare occastion like VW TDI motors.)
"Of course, a race motor usually isn't what I would call properly set up( HUH??) and they are usually compromised for power rather than reliability, so you can probably find multiple examples supporting either arguement."..yes we can Capt obvious..
Get somone who knows what there talking about, if your interested in turbos, check out Turbomustangs.com Their tons of help, opposed to the random Turbo guru youll find polluting this board with their endless amounts of KNOWLEDGE.