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Originally Posted by Buddy Revell
Yeah, given the tuning is solid, I wonder what the stock engine's limits are as far as how much boost it can take reliably on pump gas?
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This is the Holy Grail of questions posed in every revision of the VQ as well as every other platform that is modifiable on the planet. The simple answer is - no one knows. We thought we knew with the DE after 2-3 years of development on it, but there was always the guy who lost a motor on 6psi which was considered safe and the guy who had 30+ passes at a drag strip on 14psi before the stock block let loose.
The honest truth is, when you force induct a car that wasn't engineered for this application, there is no true "reliable." You take a huge risk no matter what. I have heard it said many times - "Fast, cheap and reliable; you can only have two." I don't really believe you can have cheap and reliable, though.