My brothers and I have fidled around with the import thing in the past and still work on some high horsepower imports from time to time, BUT I must say we can make way more power with less money using a V8 then a turbo charged import motor.
take for instance the parts cost on an import engine. just the pistons (forged) $1000 V8 $500 rods forged $1000 V8 $500 and so on and so forth. I have seen about a doven V8s with turbos making far more power then imports with turbos.
we built a Supra with all the right stuff and a big snail powering it and it laid down about 780whp but cost about $6000 in parts for the engine alone.
My opinion V8s any way you like will be hands down faster and more reliable.
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