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Old 05-10-2016, 11:48 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by Spacemane969 View Post
At what point is it enough though? If you had 50 or even 100 more horsepower can you honestly say you would never push that gain to its limit?
the point where it's 'enough' is an individual thing, and is different for different people. why don't we start reducing HP numbers from stock so we can ask: at what point is it not enough?

our cars come with 200 HP stock at the crank. let's say they came with 150. Would that be enough? for some, it may be. for those with unmodified stock engines, what's the lowest HP that you'd have been happy with, that came with these cars? if you say '200', then what about 190? 180? is that too little? why? because it 'feels' right with 200 HP? to some, it may feel right with 250.

how much is too much HP for this car? 500 HP? 400? 10,000? There's an upper and lower limit that most of us will all agree on. What makes someone happy is a number somewhere in between those limits, and it's going to be different for different people. I'm not sure why it's so hard to comprehend that not everyone has the same exact number in mind, and that this argument keeps going on.
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