If you've been following "Project Rust Bucket" throughout the past year or longer, you've seen its horsepower steadily rise, all the while trying to keep things (somewhat) budget and real world.

Right now, we're in the final stages of the build with our good buddies from J&H Performance, which will include a new wastegated turbocharger, downpipe, intake, fuel system, and porting, o-ringing, and studding the head.  The throttle linkage will be modified for more travel (more fuel) and we're going to run a larger nitrous line.  Our best numbers so far are 312 on fuel and 449 on nitrous, and we're looking to break 350 on fuel, and 500 on nitrous.  We're still up in the air on whether or not to install a 14mm pump head, and we're also up in the air about getting it painted.  Look for dyno numbers on the new setup in a few months.