Turbo or not to turbo (Page 1 of 2)

Turbo!    Turbo!   Turbo!   (In my best Animal House voice.)   :-)

The 245 is awesome stock. If you hate winning, but love finishing.

Turbo!  Just adjust the wastegate to run only 4-5 psi since a non turbo motor will have too high of compression.  The volvo B23 is probably one of the most durable engines on the planet, don't over boost it and it'll be fine.  What's your plan for the added fuel needed?

this is why you need to be careful when asking for advice from your competitors:  you will often get bad advice from people who want to be slow so they can beat you.

turbo the hell out of that thing, and don't look back.

Hopefully with low boost it won't be a problem

Thanks I am definitely going to check out that Hobbs switch

The turbo without fuel management designed to give extra fuel during the boost period is going to FAIL!
  Period!
Now you can hook the cold start injector into a boost gauge and Kludge it..    It might stay unmelted.
  However you will find a whole new definition of turbo lag..  as boost builds the engine goes lean. You might be able to increase fuel pressure to offset that but that will mean much of the time the engine is running real rich.. when the boost guage hits the trip numbera fuel will squirt in making things overly rich untill at some point there won't be enough fuel and detonation starts..
   You might also use larger Injectors.. to adjust fuel mixtures..  Have you planned on running an intercooler?   Turbos lead to preignition simply because boosted air is hotter..  Intercoolers solve that issue..
  Do  you begin to see the problems involved with Turbo chargers? If you can't answer each one of those please don't turbo an engine..

Right. Spool-up shouldn't be a problem, though it may feel a little dull on the top end where it would otherwise make more power (or go boom).

Back in the day, HKS and some others made Additional Injector Controllers to work them. I would model your setup after something they did similar.

Eh. Carb it, put your carb in a box fed by the turbo, and run a rising-rate FPR.

See, there's the problem. You started reading and researching your decision.

You totally know how cool a turbo sticking through the hood would sound.

There's a contradiction there. A turbo motor, even in a K-car, is cool.

What?
Running rich is lousy! It fouls plugs, won't make as much horsepower, and requires more frequent fuel stops..
  You shouldn't limit boost according to the track.. you need to limit boost according the the engine..
  Boost will eventually destroy an engine if over boosted..   Over boosted engines fail with a bang Whereas engines underfueled (because of boost) melt down..
  Really no differance in the end.. However usually a melted engine can be repaired. While a over boosted engine is merely suitable for scrap..

If you are tuning fuel pressure to be stoich at whatever boost you are going to run, then the car will be rich when you are out of boost, but fine when you are WOT.  My point was that if you are on a racetrack you should be either braking, or at WOT 98% of the time, so the small amopunt of time spent at partial throttle is almost meaningless.