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      01-02-2013, 12:53 PM   #117
Carl Morris
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Originally Posted by Vargasturbotech View Post
+1 getting a car into the 10's is not a sub 5K turbo kit away. I will say, I do think the prices on N54 stuff will come down as they are right now. But never to Honda levels, these care are much more complicated which is why the progress has been so slow to begin with. The old saying still holds true. Cheap, Fast, Reliable. Pick two.
Not at the moment. But what's preventing it? Basically just a cheap way to get 65+lb/min into the motor and the software to control it. Both will be relatively cheap in 5 years when the cars are cheap. And people will buy an AWD model or a pair of slicks and it will happen. Right now while the cars are expensive everybody is trying to do everything perfect...just wait until the cheap junkyard guys get ahold of these. They won't have a problem with driving one around on a hacked up drag suspension that none of us would touch. If the ECU is just too complicated somebody will make a $500 one that gets the job done, etc.. Yeah, people will blow them up and make them undriveable and nobody will care.
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