It responded better than we thought it would. Of course we can't drive it now since we are in the midst of blizzard season, so on the road driving impressions will have to wait till spring. But we wanted to find out how a split port swap and turbo would compare to spending money on an M90 to get to the same power levels. It's pretty easy to get to 300rwhp with an M90, but we all know how hard it is to get from 300 to 350. With this setup it should be as easy as adding a boost controller.
This turbo setup is designed to be very user and service friendly, it can be used with AC and cruise, exhaust is relatively quiet, and it uses as much of the stock SC hardware as possible. I'll post pictures soon as well.
The tune is not aggressive because the motor is stock and we are understandably a bit nervous about the powder metal rods. If it were just a split port top end swap on a stock SC shortblock we'd have no worries about 15-16psi. We do plan to run E85 in spring but still won't be turning it up a whole lot because we just don't have the time/budget for a bottom end right now.