Turbos are perfectly streetable. The Auto manufacturers would not be putting them on new cars if they were headaches.

Every engine that has been in the simca would be a perfect street motor. No wild cams(MP cam), no high comp(8.5-1), stock rods(used both 198 and 225), off the shelf pistons(hypereutectic 2.2 turbo pistons). Heck the first motor had stock cast pistons and ran 6.50' on 13-14# of boost. Had over 250 runs on it and never gave us any problems. The only thing we do that would not translate to the street is methanol BUT converting any of these motors to gas would not be difficult and probably a little cheaper because of small injectors.

The biggest expense would be fabricating a plenum and exhaust manifold. Megasquirt like Lou madsen runs would be a good choice and work well. Even the Holley stuff would work well. The motor itself is a pussycat compared to the motors in some of the other fast cars...but put the boost to it and look out. I believe you could take any one of the two motors we have run and put a street car in the bottom of the 7's(1/8) without much effort. Heck we would even be willing to help someone with the tune-up if they show up at the races just to have another turbo car out there.

Turbos add an incredible amount of torque(what you want in a street car anyway) as well as increase the hp nicely.

The run at Bristol last year was 9.85 on 12# of boost and that is not a lot of boost. (I believe the STR-4 Neons have 15 from the factory) The RPMs never reached higher than 5800 in any gear. How much more of a street car could you ask for.

Turbo is not drag power thats interesting . Last year At Bristol Tenn Tom Drake went the fastest time down a drag strip any Slant door slamer car has ever done.