Has anyone successfully turbo charged a carbureted 360? I am swapping a magnum 360 with an intake and carb into my old truck and just for ***** and giggles I was considering adding turbo's just to get some more juice... If any one has done it can you suggest turbo's, piping, carburetor etc...?

 

My cousin has twins on a heavily built/stroked, E85, 340 (LA) in a 71 duster....does that count? Lol
His biggest issues were getting headers and routing the the piping and turbo placement, he ended up having to weld all his own header/pipping, VERY, VERY tight fit.
Other than that, he said everything else "was a breeze" And off-the-shelf parts
BUT since you're using a magnum, I'm not aware of any "off-the-shelf" turbo headers specifically for the magnums????
Maybe someone else can chime in with info (?)
If there are none, you'll need to make your own headers and tubing.
On the plus side, being a truck, you'll have plenty of room.

 

I know LA 360 headers would work...

 

I don't think LA headers would work on a magnum (?) but not positive
My cuz ended up buying chevy 350 turbo headers and cutting the flanges off and welding them to LA header flanges etc.
I don't recall, but I THINK he said he's using t56's??? But I'll have to ask him about his set up again because I don't want to misquote it.

 

Thanks! All that is quite helpful. I very well could do the same and cut up a set of chevy headers... Kinda more than I really want to go through though.

 

Turn the headers / manifolds around backwards

 

Ok here's the info I got from my cuz, hope it helps(?) I'm passing it on;
"T4 precision turbos. There mid level. There rated at 650 HP a piece at 10 psi. My external waste gates are 40mm synapse. My blow offs are 34mm greddys. My piping is 3inch. My exhaust is 2.5 stainless 321. My carb is a quick fuel blow thru 750 double pumper e 85 conversion. I have a timing retard controller MSD. My distributor is a MSD two wire. With a Msd hot spark coil 65 thousand volts. Hope this helps."