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i've seen lots of aftermarket turbo cars - everything from Civics to Integras to Preludes. All mean.. very very mean. It's not hard (per se) to take an NA car with a good VE, strap a turbocharger on it, and make a beast. Most NA motors these days are very well built and designed, enough that there is some leeway in their tuning and power production - a NA 420A motor can make (IDEALLY!!) about 300wHP before it overcomes the ability of the stock motor. A stock Integra LS motor, as far as i understand, can only take 6-7psi off a small turbo before it starts to bend rods. Correct me if i'm wrong. However, that stock LS motor at 6-7psi will probably be running mid 13's, where we run mid 14's. We have the advantage of a cast iron block that requires no sleeves, no aftermarket reinforcement, nothing other than pistons and rods to make 600+HP. Our cylinder head is nothing to laugh at either - cars have gone 9's at 140+ MPH on the stock Neon casting with no porting, and our head is not much different and if anything, is perfectly reversed.
Anyway, i ramble, and my opinions spew forth like carbon and fuel vapor from my exhaust. The simple fact is we do it because we can, our block can take it with no aftermarket reinforcement, and to prove that it can be done easily, cheaply (relatively), and at any time on any 420A. HRC proves it - Add the right pistons, the right rods, the right fuel, and little else and your 420A will go. Period. ______________________________ If a sentence found online has 35% misspellings or greater and includes at least two racially charged expletives, chances are it is a YouTube comment.
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