BTW, the numbers we slap down with the turbo (as soon as it's complete) will be using the MTC-5 camshaft, on a stock 3.1. So yeah, that's the same numbers you can expect, with the MTC-5 cam, and the VP kit.

 

so the mtc-5 is the bone stock cam, or a common choice for a rebuild?

 

Mild upgrade -

278/288 SAE
204/214 @ .050"
.422/.444" lift

 

No, Gumby.. I trashed the bearings in my 168k mile 2.8 with the equivalent of 2 days of daily driving. High milage motors do not respond well to drastic increases in power output. Some rebuild work is going to be required for this no matter how you go about it. Main and rod bearings at absolute minimum. Valve seals and rings highly reccomended.
On that I agree with you.

Oh.. btw.. stock injectors managed to feed 7psi ... sad to say, my first kill with the turbo... '87 2.8l Camaro LT.. with a driver that seemed absolutely convinced his car was the fastest thing ever produced. It wasn't.

 

You've got a problem there... there's no way stock 13pph injectors are feeding 7psi, unless you're building boost, but the engine just isn't feeding off of it...

Could have the same problem I did - inaccurate boost gauge

 

I'm not exactly at sea level.. it's entirely possible. And the boost gauge is dead accurate.. it's an actual vac/pressure tester, remember?

 

So what's the latest?

 

techsmurf , you'll have a nice setup....like our planes, they actually don't provide "boost" (if they really were, they'd break stuff" but the turbochargers provide that extra force at altitude to allow the engine to breath as if it was at a lower altitude....so in denver, they can act like they're on the ground at neworleans, aka, you'll still outperform the other n/a cars in ur area, even on barely any boost.