you have a 6v53 detroit diesel blower.
it CAN be made to work.. parts are hard to find... which means you're gonna spend more money. who knows if you can even find an intake manifold that will fit it. save your money and just get a 6-71 kit and be done with it before you go down the road of frankensteining the 6v53 to work. hell you can find procharger m3 kits for like $1500 these days that will give you more than enough boost to shake your fist at and break the rest of your internal motor parts. 


you can read a guy making a lot of custom one off parts on his mill here
http://www.ozrodders.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=34526&start=30
It's already been changed over for gas but from what your saying it's better off I sale it and get something easer to find parts and service
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