Results 1 to 3 of 3
Threaded View
-
03-24-2007 #1
Registered User
- Join Date
- Mar 2007
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Posts
- 614
Low Compression Smog Big Block Turbo Question
Another question.
I'm looking for a budget-tourer, and every so often I'll notice an early seventies GM big block land yacht for sale. I think they're pretty cool, but as part of the emissions control in the early '70s, they took the compression ratios on a lot of these engines down to about 8:1, which doesn't make for a lot of horsepower.
That said, would this low compression make it that much easier to get a lot of power out of one of these engines without a ton of work if you could add fuel injection and a turbo? My thinking is that if the engine was sound, you could more or less leave the engine alone except for the intake and exhaust and fuel, bolt on / have fabricated a turbo kit and EFI, and have a pretty wicked motor for a lot less than building a turbo engine from scratch.
Am I completely off base here, or is this reasonably feasible?
Let me know.
-
Reply With Quote
