[Lee]

In the early/mid-80's there was a local guy who put a Doug Nash 5-spd manual in his Turbo T/A. It ran 15.0's at the track, which was a good improvement over stock. I was a teenager in the 80's, and we raced everything! Off the line, the Turbos were rather pathetic. I raced one from a 60mph roll once (I was in a 403 powered T/A) and we were pretty evenly matched.

I always suspected that just installing a torque converter that would stall in the 2400-2800rpm range would make a HUGE improvement in how those performed. The old style catalytic converters were notorious for strangling horsepower, so replacing that with a modern larger diameter high flow should make it "cleaner" and give the power a boost, I suspect.

In one of the old magazine articles, I read that the turbo was rather undersized on those motors. I think the SVO turbo 4-cylinder Mustangs used a similar sized turbo.