[mikeinatlanta]

IMO, guys are advising without adequately taking into consideration your altitude issue. Reno is fun, fun and high, but the best roads are even higher. Boosting you motor to take back what the altitude cost you isn't going to stress it anymore than running at sea level. Boosting it a bit more isn't really a bid deal. Next is the carb. Getting a carb to work with a blower is also not a big deal, right up until you start making big altitude changes. A carb simply cannot adequately adjust for that.

You can easily convert to a throttle body injection and centrifugal blower for 10K. This option would allow a good tune at varying altitudes and allow you to increase HP incrementally as desired.

A NA carb motor will still lose big power at 5300' and even more as you hit the fun roads.