The engine and tranny I now have in my possession is in my sig. I will be putting approximately $5,000.00 more into the engine. I forget how much the True Trac and all of that is (not much I don't think so I'll call that an anniversary present in March - so disregard that as an expense).

Talking to some of the experienced folks, I've been given some pretty good routes to go. I would like to find a good used turbo setup (undecided front or rear). I'm undecided on forged rods, pistons, and rings. I thought I was definitely going to go with them but Donny at Prostreet Motorsports thinks I'd be fine keeping the stock internals which also means keeping the stock bore and not balancing anything. Thoughts on that?

Another option is do send it HKE and have it bored, balanced, and have forged internals put in. Since that would cost some dough, I was thinking if I went that route I could throw a nitrous system on until I could swing a turbo down the road.

One of my main lines of thinking is that once the engine is in, I don't want it out again (if possible). So that makes me think do the stuff in the last paragraph to ensure (as much as possible) that it can take the nitrous or turbo or whatever I decide to throw at it.

Anyway, throw me your ideas...and for those of you who I've been hounding about this, don't think I'm not listening to you...like I said I'm just bored and want to see what everyone else has to say!

As a P.S. the guy I bought the combo from said in his regular cab 2wd truck he was running 12.8's on motor and 11.8's on a 150 shot. That being said I'd like to be in the 11's (or better obviously) with my remaining budget.

Let 'em fly...