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Originally Posted by Mblock66
To me the 350Z owner doesn't have a choice. That is the top model they have to work with so they need to tune the crap out of that V6. In our case the V6 owners could have bought a fully warrentied V8 with way more power and never had to touch the car. You usually tune the top models not the base.
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I would agree with you there.
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Originally Posted by Mblock66
For example the civic. 99% of the newly tuned civics will be the Si model. There is no point to modding out the base when it will not even get to the original Si specs.
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Umm not actually. Most of the B18 equipped civics (we're talking mid-late 90's civics) are in fact not all modded Si's... Hardly actually... Even the EX, & DX,'s are modded, and some very heavily I might add. Just depends on which V-TEC the car came with.
But if we're talking current gen Civic Si.. then yeah...
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Originally Posted by Mblock66
There are cases of this across the board and across all price ranges. Even the sky.solstic or the cobalt. You would never in your right mind buy the base and try to juice it up to its SS or Redline partner, it wouldn't make sense.
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There's a 5k+ difference in price between the Solstice, and Solstice GXP. For 4k you can buy a Hahn Stage III turbo kit, and you're making pretty much 400hp... In order to do that for the Solstice GXP the car starts @28k, plus the cheapest turbo swap kit is like 2k. Which is going to cost more to get more power out of? It's not the top model...
Again just some exceptions. As far as the Cobalt goes... Well if a SS/NA dumps a couple grand into a turbo kit, they are making more power then a stock SS/SC that was about 2-3k more. Now with the SS/TC... Yeah a 2.4 Cobalt, or a 2.2L is going to have to do quite a bit more to match them...