Remember my Corvette? The sad, 1985 grand tourer that I just couldn’t stop myself from buying last fall? If you’ve forgotten, I forgive you. For most of the winter, I forgot about this poor car, too.

Building an engine for turbocharged duty is, for many, uncharted territory. Boost is a familiar cornucopia of manifold-topping superchargers, but the notion of having its source plumbed inline with ...