The road to hell is paved with

Well intentioned morons with access to fueling, welders and engine management.

I'm thinking E85, water to air for intercooling and possibly meth may be needed to fight IATs. 

I know there are ITB's there, but I'm distracted by that awesome chair. 

In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :

The chair has a rocking awesome ottoman as well. I went full 70s this spring and it's absolutely glorious. People come into my home and either think it's amazing or that I'm possibly a serial killer. 

In reply to captdownshift :

Little do they know...the answer is both.

i have the blue leather recliner in the second photo as well, the green futon may be my favorite piece of the bunch though. 

Do I spy a turbocharger AND a supercharger to go with your ITB's?!?

In reply to Javelin :

And even a bypass valve for the supercharger. I like my engines like I like my women, overly complicated with questionable gains based upon the added complicity.

captdownshift said:

In reply to Javelin :

And even a bypass valve for the supercharger. I like my engines like I like my women, overly complicated with questionable gains based on the added complicity.

Well, history has sure proven this to be fact.

I could have sworn the road to hell was paved with vehicles I thought were a good idea at the time 

Patrick said:

I could have sworn the road to hell was paved with vehicles I thought were a good idea at the time 

So say we all.

captdownshift said:

In reply to Javelin :

And even a bypass valve for the supercharger. I like my engines like I like my women, overly complicated with questionable gains based upon the added complicity.

Annoyingly, I have enough parts to do a similar build.  No time to do it right now though, I look forward to living vicariously through you.

For a real rabbit hole; look up Dual Plenum intakes when you get to the part of the build where you need a plenum for those ITBs.  Audi used them quite successfully on many of their race cars.

That dual-charged Capri had me thinking nasty thoughts already (plus who doesn’t love the Capri?)  I might be biased, Dad had a Capri when I was an impressionable young lad and he drove it rather “assertively”, heh.  So now I lust after yellow coupes and Capri, the combination of the two is enough to make me come to a full stop, like a cat tracking its favorite toy.

Anyway, the only real drawback to water to air is the weight of the cooling fluid, complexity of all the plumbing and the joys of chasing leaks.  Depends on the desired use, etc.  If you’re thinking corn subsidies for fuel, then air to air might be sufficient since the meth will cool the intake charge quite nicely.  All that said, don’t let me get in the way of another man’s over the top build :)

captdownshift said:

In reply to Javelin :

And even a bypass valve for the supercharger. I like my engines like I like my women, overly complicated with questionable gains based upon the added complicity.

So you’ve named it “Amy”?

a lovely collection of trophies from the wrecker...