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Help me make up my mind
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Help me make up my mind so i got this lt1 that i wanted to bulid into a street and strip 355 stock bottom end i beam rods and forged speed pro pistons and try to get 400wrhp with joe overton cam and his head work... but now that i have been reading alot on 
Turbos i want to really make some real power 
i know it takes a **** load of money but i cant make up my mind 
Turbos i want to really make some real power i know it takes a **** load of money but i cant make up my mind 
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Just look at it realistically budget wise, if you can afford a badass turbo setup then there is no reason not to do it, but if the funds are going to be hard to get for it I'd go with a solid 355 street/strip motor with maybe a touch of juice to keep thing interesting
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well i was thinking of making my own kit at the moment i am moving up to houston to go to school (UTI) i hope to learn loads ....i guess i need to look at both side by side could i build a strong fun 355 to run 11.50's on motor under 7k i know any FI steup will go over 10k
I agree that it all depends on the dollars. But personally I would build a nice 355 than worry about FI once you get out of college, then you always have the motor around fully built.
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i'd go with the built 355, but hey im from houston and a lot of friends of mine went to uti and wished they hadn't. If it is what you want to do awesome! but make sure you really want to, i know a guy from arkansas that moved here to go to uti and now he is wishing he didnt, although he doesnt know what else he would have done. just a little .02
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A nasty heads cam setup with a 150 shot of juice would own that turbo all day and not be living on borrowed time. The turbo would cost an *** load to buy (or build..ie fabricate) a kit, need many more parts to run efficiently (low cr pistons, heads with huge cfm flow numbers, cam with turbo specs, intercooler, tune etc. So basically, a heads cam kit + turbo. Think about it.
got money go turbo 
got more money go 396 turbo 
Originally Posted by imnotplutonium
i'd go with the built 355, but hey im from houston and a lot of friends of mine went to uti and wished they hadn't. If it is what you want to do awesome! but make sure you really want to, i know a guy from arkansas that moved here to go to uti and now he is wishing he didnt, although he doesnt know what else he would have done. just a little .02
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well i am not going to uti to bulid engines i am going becuse of there collision program
with mercedes Benz but i have never heard of sam ........i think am going to go with the 355 for now becuse of funds and time i know that i can get a 355 up and going quicker mabey with some spray
with mercedes Benz but i have never heard of sam ........i think am going to go with the 355 for now becuse of funds and time i know that i can get a 355 up and going quicker mabey with some spray