I guess I should have explained the car a little more to give you guys a little better idea of what I'm doing.
This car was bought new by my great grampa and now my grampa has it. It's a very low mileage car. My grampa and I spent a lot of time together making this car driveable, and getting it cleaned up. My grampa drove this car from IL to New Hampshire to go to a Pharmacy, which used to be the dealership that this car was old originally. Took a picture. Then he drove it all the way back home.
My grampa is not in any real condition to work on the car or really even drive it any longer. When he was more mobile, all he wanted was a trophy from a car show. He never got it. This car is a 225ci v6, glide, granny gear rear. My grampa also told me stories of when he was younger. Him and his buddies used to have straight sixes and they would split the manifold and run "true duals" because it sounded cool. Well when he was too old for his motorcycle, he shipped it down to Florida to my Uncle, who then trashed it. This bike was my grampas baby. My grampa drove all the way to Florida because he was pissed and brought the bike up here and gave it to me. It was too far gone though. I talked with my gramma and sold he bike so I could take his Buick in to have dual exhaust and turbo mufflers put on it. I parked it back in his garage and he never knew it was gone. Then one day I got a phone call from him and he was SOOOOOOOOOO PUMMMPPPPED!!!!!!! He said it brought him back to his high school days. The next year, I bought a set of 14" Buick ralleys from another board member here. My grampas car had white walls and some crappy looking center caps on it. So I put new tires on the ralleys and put them on his car without him knowing it. Well this didn't make him happy when he saw it. "How can I run in an Original Restored class with these rims on the car?" "Put the other wheels back on the damn thing!!!" Well I assured him that these are period correct and he'll like them once he goes to the show, which was a Buick only event. Well, when him and my gramma got there, he noticed that all the 64-65's had these same ralleys and he thought it was cool!
So, back to the motor. I'm not looking to make 300HP. I'm not looking to make 200HP. I'm looking to keep the engine bay as close to original as possible by looking at it with a naked eye. I don't want a V8 and wont ever be putting a V8 into this car, once it's handed down to me. I just want to put a 4.1 in it to help a little and while I'm in there, do as much possible to the 4.1 as I can as far as pistons, heads, and cam. I'll more than likely save the turbo crank out of the block for a turbo build and use an NA crank. If I need to get custom pistons, I'll do that but I'd like to know my options there. I do need it to be pump gas friendly. I'd like the OD so I can drive it across the country to the same pharmacy he did. I just want to do this simply. I don't care about making a bunch of HP. I know it would be easier to put a Chebby V8 in it. That's not the goal. I just want to know what pistons will net me a 9.5:1 ratio? What rods will I need or do they make a set of pistons for a stock rod? What cam and what specs would work? Things like that.
I'd like to win him that trophy he never got.