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Originally Posted by alex87f

Well a 3-pot is short enough and the engine bay is wide enough they can slant it to get the required hood clearance. You can mount the turbo low as well.

With that said, why oh why would go through the reengineering and put a more expensive engine in a car, when its supply already doesn't meet demand ?

Plus the usual things: adding a turbo, 50% of torque and 30% of power means upscaling the brakes, tires and chassis, plus reengineering the 3-pot to work in a longitudinal slanted layout.
-> Boom, your 86 is now a $45 000 car. And it's competing against Zs, Supras, V8 mustangs, Alpines, Emiras, Caymans, etc.

Clearly you dont know what you're talking about. According to the Internet University of Mobile Engineering Solutions, all of those things you mentioned should have no bearing on the price of the vehicle and should have and could have done from the factory EASILY. The main culprit is that the manufacturer didnt try hard enough, or they keep getting their engineering pros from some schmuck school in a city rather than the TRUE experts online.