Denny:
Before I got too far into anything I would take a serious gut check on what you want to do. The faster cars tear stuff up, and constantly have to be maintained and tweaked to keep them running right and to keep them together. I know you’re not a grease monkey like Mike, Prasad, Surej, and myself. I think if you tried to set up something too radical you would wind up getting disgusted with it in no time, and the car would be sold at a huge loss.
With your BMW and your Vette it appeared to me that you are more into clean, smooth, and slick looking cars that are both fast and reliable. A bottom line time slip is not the most important thing to you. I think if you broke away from this and tried to build a time slip car you would not be very happy with it at all.
With that stuff said I think you could come up with a good idea of what exactly you would want out of your car. This would include every thing from time slips, to idle quality, drive ability, responsiveness, reliability, ect ect. Once you got these nailed down and prioritized then we could come up with a combo targeted to score as highly as possible from an over all stand point.
I’m currently finishing up a motor project for another friend. I would have some time to help you figure out a combo. I actually have a combo I was starting to put together for myself before I decided to put a stage motor in my T-Type. It’s a pretty interesting set up that I think you may be interested in. I already sold most of the set up but I still have two of the main pieces left. One of the left over pieces is a brand new PTE dual ball bearing 61 turbo with a p-trim turbine wheel. This turbo also has the bigger TSO4 4” inlet 2.5” outlet compressor housing. This turbo should have very similar spool up as your 44 but hit real similar to a 63. This turbo was picked to go with a set of ported irons, and a custom ground austemper roller cam. This roller was spec’d out to be smooth idling, easy on valve train components, make good midrange hp (similar to a 212 non roller), and it should also promote good spool up.
What I was shooting for was a high quality, smooth, reliable, and responsive mid to lower 11 second pump gas and alky setup. With the wick turned up it would still be enough hardware to go high 10 hunting, but I really wasn’t worried about that much. That mid 11’ish range seams to be the sweat spot for built 200’s, simple fuel systems, simple fuel management systems, simple alky kits ect ect. A lot of supporting pieces can stay pretty simple and economical in this range. The money you save can be used to buy higher quality pieces like ball bearing turbos and roller cams ect. This mid 11 range is also the NHRA cut off for not having a cage …..
If you want give me a call and we could chat about some scenarios and options for you to consider.
Jason
(309)253-6124
