I just mocked up a SB and BB in my F body Aspen. SB is no problem since they came from the factory that way. I've got a bare block w/bare heads sitting there jacked up from the bottom. Looking at all the space issues. This car will be a street/strip car with emphasis on street. Bolted on the passenger side a reversed factory exhaust manifold and a trashed turbo housing to show much room I don't have. I know it can be done but I hate all the disassembly that would take place to service just about anything in the engine bay. Can I run the turbo just off the passenger side of the motor and the drivers side run off a header straight to the exhaust? If a 4 cylinder can make a lot of HP from 200 cubic inches, can that work the same with a one sided turbo'd 440? Putting out some low end torque N/A with the other bank spooling up.

I have to admit that I did try this. First time trying a turbo. I built one header that fed an old mack truck turbo. No wastegate. It would make about 1 lb of boost, and would overheat the intake like mad! I had an old CH4B intake with the exhaust cross over still opened up. That path through the intake was acting like a wastegate. After figuring this out, I put a valley pan with the heat cross over blocked. That got me to a max of 3psi boost. I finally plumbed the exhaust on the other side into the turbo. Ended up making 9 psi boost with no wastegate. Very poorly matched turbo for the application.

The area I'm most successful in is failure.