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Turbo smallblocks are nice, I'd like to have one in my slant 6 convertible, but it's just not the same viseral experience when that turbo's not spooled up, now is it?



You haven't driven the correct turbo car. The hot rod never failed to turn heads with it's aggressive idle. It had smooth power and the torque was the same as yours at 25OO RPM. The smaller turbos I have spool quickly and still make good power.
Power delivery was easily managed. It could hook and pull hard or blow the tires off depending upon what you wanted to do.

I knocked down 17 mpg driving from DFW to Green Bay, WI on the Power Tour without the use of an OD transmission.

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