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Old 11-15-2011, 05:51 PM   #20 (permalink)
Red__Zed
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Originally Posted by awkwardturtle View Post
Honestly, I doubt that.. but if it's true, go over to 8thcivic.com and become a vendor, because you would be undercutting the next closest kit producer by almost 2 grand.

Built quite a few kits for friends, not interested in doing it full time. For it to financially make sense, I'm wanting 25%+ margins, looking at similar prices to the vendors....Then add on dealing with a Honda crew that brings way too much liability....no thanks.

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Yes, my car runs, I drive it every day. And no, I don't have a dyno graph as my tuner never gave me one, but I don't need one.. I already know what the kit is capable of, and I already know I'm running it near the fuel limits allowable. I'm not sure why you seem to find this so unbelievable - I run a pretty normal turbo setup. A turbo of this size running ~11 psi tends to put out around 450 whp. There is nothing magical or special about my build.
I've never know a tuner to not produce dynos.

Nothing special or magical about it, just weird to not have them.


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And as for your insinuation, the kit I bought has zero to do with me selling the car a few months after building it. It comes down to the sole fact that I built this car when my income was nill, and now I have a lot more coming in. Is it not the natural progression of a car enthusiast to move up to bigger and better things? I could sink $100,000 into my civic, but it'll never be a good platform. Hence the Z coming into play..
Your shop seems to think your car had/still has all sorts of problems.



Anyways, best of luck with the z. The switch to rwd should be fun. Make sure to invest in real tires though.
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