Hello,
My name is Jake. I am 16 and am currently the owner of a '71 Plymouth Duster. It is a 225 beast. My dad and I found it here in Arizona. We bought it for $1200. So far we've redone the front suspension, converting the front to disc brakes adding some mean sway bars , a 2bbl, and the interior. We also added some muscle car features of double hood scoops and a '72 Challenger's spoiler. The body condition is great. There are a few chips in the grille and in the back tail lights. The back looks like someone hit it with a hammer but we've tried our best to hide it and some jerk's key marks with some wet sanding and new paint. The engine has 54,000 miles on it. Since it is so young(in miles) I've been talked into (by my shop teacher) to go for a turbo into it instead of getting a 360. I've considered it but can't find anything to start on to build a turbo, or buy. If anyone could give me information on some of your masterpieces it would be greatly appriciated. Or opinions about choices in the future. I know very little about turbos so any help and advice is would be great. Also just wondering how much hp and torque it would add.

Jake
Dusterkid

http://www.slantsix.org/articles/turbo- ... rticle.htm

This seems helpful for turboing, I've wanted to do it so bad but I can't affod the machining and don't have the rescources to do the machining myself. I'm hoping that when I get into my autobody refinishing class they'll have the welders capable of it. If you got the maching abilities and the money you might check out the EFI in the tech section too, another thing I'm still trying to figure out how to do with a tiny budget and no ability to do my own maching(God I hope they have the stuff at the college).

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My car may be slow to sixty, but at least it's been reliably slow to sixty for more than thirty years.

Thanks for the 411. This is sure to tickle my teacher's fancy.

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My turbo 225 project is currently running and driving, but the carb on it is in bad shape. So I can't give you much worthwhile advice on fine tuning or any quarter mile times - yet. But here are some points I can give you:

1. I'm currently using the cut and welded manifold from Wayne's article. If I were to do the conversion from scratch I would locate the turbo higher in the engine compartment. Welding the turbo flange onto the stock manifold makes for very little room in working with the dipstick and turbo oil drain line, and you have to pull the exhaust housing to remove the starter.

2. A simple way to adapt the turbo is to weld an adapter to connect it to the stock manifold. Build a J-shaped pipe out of cast steel pipe elbows and steel plate flanges would be ideal. I could use a laser plate cutter where I work to make the flanges, but realistically all you need is a jigsaw and a drill. A band saw and a drill press would be better but you can get by with a hand drill and $20 Wal-Mart jigsaw.

3. I would recommend a draw through setup for a first effort - attach the carb to the inlet of the turbo. Tuning a carb to work under a blow through setup is not always easy.

4. Buy a copy of Turbochargers by Hugh MacInness. Books have a lot of info that's hard to get on the Internet.

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"Mad Scientist" Matt Cramer
'66 Dart - turbocharged 225
My blog - Mad Scientist Matt's Lair