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I always love seeing a keeper build thread update. Nice work

I have a couple old Ventures albums, they had a cool sound. I also had a Beach Boy's compilation 2 album set with all those car songs which I may very rarely hear at a car show. I have noticed that they play old stuff but not much in the way of car or driving songs when your there to look at cars. I'm trying to make a collection of such songs, any suggestions?    

Quite the project you have done.     Car is looking good.

I have. There are small superchargers on Junkyard Thunderbirds which are tempting. An electric turbo and an electric supercharger have some differences, but are basically the same. The same battery/regen/motor concept could be used. Blazing trail on that sort of project is more time, money and energy than I have. 

My Audi mindwalk is fun, but I am curious about the questions I posed to start this thread. I am running Aeromotive components (aside from injectors) and asked them similar questions last week, without response. According to the internets a well tuned turbo on a high compression engine should be able to increase engine Torque 20% and increase mpg 3 to 4. I believe this is in addition to any power bump achieved by raising the compression. From the engine specs, raising the compression of a KA24E 1-1.5 points and adding a turbo (max boost 5-7psi) will yield the increase in torque and the increase in mpg.   But, what to do about injectors? Higher pressure through stock injectors to create more flow? The pump will do it without problem, will subjecting the stock injector to higher pressure/higher flow ruin reliability, efficiency and/or performance?   Or regular pressure through stock injectors, the low boost turbo leans it out and run more efficient i.e. better mpg   Or regular pressure to bigger injectors, no worry of overtaxing injector, extra fuel is on tap if you want to put the right foot down. Is this a recipe for low mpg or will the turbo burn the extra fuel more efficiently and a little more power could be realized, with better mpg. BUT you must be disciplined with the heavy foot.    Thank you