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Old 10-28-2010, 11:19 AM   #132 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ImportConvert View Post
They can be...but that takes SERIOUS money. My friend dumped over $40K into his Civic to have a car that made over 800whp on 116* and was as daily driveable as it was when it was stock.

He still broke things every now and then, though. When you do that, you have to re-engineer the ENTIRE car to handle the stress. When you buy a car from the factory, they have (hopefully...) already done that in the beginning.
I'm aware of how to build a car right. It's still not the same as a factory car. No one can afford to do the sort of testing a factory does.

I've had a 600ish HP civic. I'm curious as to how the car was DDable as stock. There are tons of compromises that are made on a build like that, even done "right".

I'm curious what he did as far as the trans that kept it as DDable as stock.
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