Sav63comet
Active member
"...My desires for this car are for it to be a really fun and quick street car.
I'm not out street racing or anything but at the same time don't want to get left at the green light by every ricer.
I do want to be able to cruise at 70mph or more on the interstate. An smoke the tires leaving the parkig lot if I'm feeling stupid.
What would be a good direction to go...?"
How bout some more detail on your end goal?
That's about it? Lol...
I've had this car for over a decade now. Pretty amazing as I usually only keep cars for a year or so. The goal has always been fun daily driver. I don't want to go for any race type mods that reduce reliability or drivability.
Five speed is definitely a desirable swap to me. I had never fully absorbed how much difference it could make, but I do prefer a manual shift car. I'm guessing the old 250 has enough torque that stop and go isn't all that rough? I used to love the fact that in my TR6 I could start out on a level road without touching the throttle. Made it way easier to teach my ex to drive a stick.
Wheels vs. rear end is something I'll have to think about.
Turbos are interesting. If'n building an engine to leave a turbo as an option later would you do everything like any performance build but leave compression stock?
I've screwed up and started reading about fuel injection. Some of y'all have made converting the log to multi port injection look so damn easy. I've for years, back to my triumphs, wanted to build an efi system.