Budget Limitations, what do I cheap out on?

CTX-SLPR

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Feb 4, 2004
OK guys (and ladies),

Here's the deal. I don't have the budget to do what I would want to idealy on 4.1 swapped '64 Riviera which is an FMIC, custom radiator, BB turbo, and big injectors. The car is a street car and while I have intensions of making ~500hp down the line; really all I want to do right now is minimize what I have to buy twice.

Injectors and a turbo much beyond stock are a pair so there is one place to put the money but it means stock, and I do mean bone stock other than DIY, intercooler.
Second is to get a stock turbo and put the FMIC and custom radiator on the car since those are a pair since the existing rad doesn't leave clearance for IC piping.

Think a high zoot turbo running through a stock IC is better idea than spending $150 on a stock turbo only to need to put another $500-600 down the line?
 
I'd do the bigger turbo and decent injectors before I went to a bigger / fmic. If it needs a decent radiator there are places to get an aluminum radiator pretty cheap.
 
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