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[Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A '70 Jav with a Factory 390 is pretty good
even when compared against a worked small / big block GM.

You didn't say what the car would see for usage -
street driver - weekend warrior - track only.

A pair of alum. Edelbrock would give you another
point on compression - you could Turbo the engine
with a great controller system, allowing you to
run the car on 9 to 1 compression around town,
take the car on vacations etc. - and still be
able to spin the controller for 'engagement' power.

Superchargers vs Turbo - the gap on 'right now'
power has narrowed - the right Turbo will spin up
'right now' and won't be pushing vibration into your
crank bearings via the belt, nor be stuffing heated
intake charge onto the pistons.

A Turbo 390 would put more power to most any street tires than
you can get to hook up and still street the car.

After 500HP - it's a track car - mileage will slaughter your
pocket moths.

The AMC V8 EFi can be had by having Bulltear.com
modify an Edelbrock intake manifold to accept injectors.

Use a GM ECm controller - plenty of stand alone harnesses
to be had.

Visit the www.bulltear.com Forum - you can read firsthand
AMC performance engine builds - pretty interesting stuff.

Beyond tackling a total reconstruction - get the car running
and plated for the street.  Drive it for a season as is & then
decide how much more your lookng to get out of it.

Too many 'Hyper Builds' end up sitting since they're too much
to be street driven for enjoyment - and wind up being sold.

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