His buddy racinganddrumming has an interesting build too. He has taken a stock intake and split it, mounted the turbo in front passenger side of engine, with studs etc. He has maintained a stock compression ratio and does not plan too much boost. Should be interesting to see the videos of both of them running.
Nice outside the box thinking on both. Let me say this to the naysayers;
1. It is not your truck or expenditure so why do you care if they try to do something and fail. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
2. If they succeed, its free tech for you all to view and use as you please.
3. It humors me to look at many diesel forums and see all the negative comments about certain engines, then you dig around and some guy has a modified "junky" Olds 5.7 diesel he has been driving for 15 years with no problems. Or the 6.5 GM diesel that has a lowered CR and some other mods that has been as reliable as a Duramax.
4. It easy to follow he crowd and believe in conventional wisdom, but people successfully do things frequently that are out side the norm.
I had a question that myself and another member here brought up. He is using a GM Stanadyne DB4 pump and says it runs in reverse of the Stanadyne IP for the Ford.
Couldn't you change the injector lines on a reverse rotation pump to deliver fuel in the same order as the Ford IP. A IP is just like a distributor on a gas engine correct? The fuel is delivered and timed through the IP so why could you not just change the injector lines to match the firing/fuel delivery order regardless of the way the pump turned.