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The dune buggies that guy makes are typically supercharged I believe, so I'd assume that he rocks a standalone engine management system (you could make a 1400$ AEM EMS work) Depending on whether the siamesed sleeves are done in house or not would effect the rest of the pricing. Obviously the OP said turbo, but he's banned now so...

With a supercharger, he could use the stock intake, stock exhaust (obviously there would be gains from a set of headers).

I mean, 7K into the long block, 1500 for an ECU, and another 1500 for the supercharger and fab required to install it... I think all together it would be possible. That's not including the supporting mods like fuel injectors, fuel pump, exhaust, etc. Obviously he's not going to install it for you, but he might have an engine dyno to tune it on, or willing to tune it after you bring it back installed on a chassis dyno.

Heck the other possibility is he's thinking that he could get 400hp out of a n/A build. Those sleeves significantly increase bore size, and with a taller rod, shorter piston, and some ridiculous cams you should be able to get 400 out at about 7K+ rpm. It'd be harder on 91 octane kali gas, but still possible.


I don't think most SVX owners know how expensive it is to really do things like this. I mean, Tom, I bet you've spent way more than you want to think about, and you still aren't "finished".

Frankly I'm waiting for the first LSx swap...