Does a belt-driven turbo count?
You're looking at a 435" big block build with ported blue thunder B heads, billet/forged internals and a custom Vortech centrifugal blower setup. EFI is OEM Ford; tuned with the old Autologic system. No, it's not a turbo. I like exhaust noise.
In response to your question about body modification, very little in my case. One of the nice parts about my centrifugal/injected design is that you'll notice it all fits under the hood, and the plumbing is kept to a minimum. By the way, that's a dominator (4500) victor intake. The elbow is a billet part of my own design. The throttle body is a 1600cfm accufab unit. If you don't like the naca duct in the nose, no issue...put a cone filter on the end of the supercharger and call it done. If you don't like the fender exit/enter discharge tube, don't use a mass-air meter (it's in my fender), use a speed density EFI system like Speedpro/FAST/Bigstuff/ETC and go directly from the blower discharge to the intake. Turn the elbow around, shorten the distributor. Then you're talking about literally zero body modification.
There's no reason you couldn't copy all or part of this design on your FE without disturbing the body.
Now, the exhaust routing on a turbo setup would probably pose some real challenges. I thought about doing twins on my build back when I started...and putting them outside on the ends of the side pipes with cone filters on them (all exposed). Done right, I think that could be real sinister looking...but if you don't want to modify the body, you probably don't want a couple of hairdryers hanging on your side pipes with intake tubes exposed as well. I didn't like the idea of relying on an electric pump to return the
oil to the motor with the turbos mounted that low. And, the plumbing was still more complicated. Turbos are a hell of a lot more efficient than blowers though...more power to you if you want to make that happen. As for me, I can't imagine ever wanting more power than what I have...it already is capable of pro-stock style burnouts starting at freeway speeds...and I could care less about efficiency. This isn't a prius, and I'm not upset that it costs 100hp to drive this blower at the 1000hp level.
Anyway, some ideas to ponder...
Byron
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