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Originally Posted by tachi1247
+1. This car will need to put out more power to really be popular in this country. I understand that most of the people here want a lightweight affordable car, but outside of this forum people won't be interested in a car with 200hp or less. I don't care how well it handles or good it looks, I won't be buying one if it gets smoked off the line by my 50 yr old neighbor in his Sonata 2.0T
There is no such thing as a financially viable way to get a 200hp 4 cylinder to make 500hp. You're going to spend $25k in aftermarket parts on a $25k car to get that kind of power. Plus it's going to break down on you every other week. Even getting another 100hp will involve serious modifications, completely void the warranty, and still cost you $5k.
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I heartily dissagree.
I could see you splashing 25 K down if you had a shop do all the work. Otherwise, its rediculous to think you'd need 25K for that.
If the engine is capable of handling that kind of power (and we've seen plenty of stock engines that can handle it) then you could easily do it for around 10.
I have seen some insane times at the track for that kind of money, but you dont typically see it from cars that don't have a large aftermarket following.
Hell, the easiest car out there to get significant power has got to be the NSRT-4, and I personally worked on one that makes 500+ hp on 6 grand. And thats WITH a built motor. Its also a 215 HP car out of the factory.
All this is assuming the FT86 comes with a turbo, which I was under the impression that it likely will.