Originally Posted by 302flareside1992

So I'm looking at building a street truck at some point and I want to run something different than everyone else's v8.

I have been reading around on turbo builds for the 300 and its got my creative juices flowing.

So my thought for a turbo 300 6 is pretty simple. Kinda pricey but simple in my mind at least. Everything I have read its straight forward to get a turbo mounted to the engine, I was looking at either the 6.5l Chevy diesel or maybe a t3/t4 hy35 turbo running into an intercooler. And air flow ratio, boost, and egt gauge to monitor it all.

It's seems the tuning and getting everything to run in perfect unison that's the pig of it. After reading all these really cool builds that people have done with efi and ended up fighting the electronics the whole way because of the limitations of the stock system and the megasquirt (most common one I have read people using). All eventually getting it to work but after a lot of time tuning.

So my original idea to get around that was go away from efi with a blow-thru carb easy and simple correction. But, now I'm stuck tuning a carb to try and match the boost correctly and I'm not a carb wiz so tuning would be fairly time consuming and difficult for me.

This is where my mind branched into something even more different. Run a turbo into a Holley Avenger EFI 550-400 conversion kit (That's the pricey part lol)

The Holley system is designed to support 200-400hp, it's self tuning (even for boost and NOS). It will optimize air fuel ratios on the fly in real time all the time come with all the necessary upgraded parts to convert and is designed to operate in the exact power ranges that a turbo 300 would.

Here's my quandary though, it can't be that simple. I'm looking for someone to shoot holes in my idea and sound board with me so that I can perfect it or scrap it if it's not possible.

Originally Posted by 302flareside1992

well the truck I'm looking at getting doesn't have a stock efi system. It's a 1983 f100 with a carbed v6 (Dont think that's the motor that came in the truck but the guy who has it says he is the original owner and didn't swap it, so I'm gonna take his word on it). I will be getting a motor from the junkyard or Craigslits or something and building from there. I like simplicity and uniqueness, I don't want to drive anything that's like someone else's. I might spend a little more to achieve this in this build but I think it can all come together really nicely.

Diesel, that offy intake was the one I was looking at getting to run the setup.