Yeah I know I would need a wastegate and im thinking forged just for the fact that its a daily drive car. Plus later down the road I want to get a big turbo. Building the motor isnt that hard for me to accomplish on my own the main thing im looking at being a painful experiance is making that Megasquirt work.
If I remember right the 83 n/a car has a 3.96 non Lsd. After looking around for some time I believe its going to be much easier to just weld my diff. The other option being buy the conversion kit that locks the gears. I've recently opened my diff to inspect it and it looked great that was a week ago. Also last week I got a new drive shaft made so I now have greasable replacable u-joints. I pulled the trans off my car put input shaft bearing and seal a new turbo flywheel from Sachs and the turbo 9.5 clutch on my car. I went with a Zoom clutch.
When you built your turbo Dexter did you mess with your internals at all? What turbo did you go with how much boost and did you use the Megasquirt or go a different route.
Im guessing you used the 440's on yours
Also was the car decent to drive daily or was it just a track car