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Originally Posted by charged86
im talking about how weak the internals are with boost. as well as the cooling issues when taking it to the track
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Every engineered object in your daily life is a compromise and the result of a number of different teams trying to hit multiple (sometimes conflicting) targets. The 86 is no different.
Did it hit it's design objective to live it's life NA in 95% of street use cases? Yep. Having the engine survive making 25% more power regularly was not an objective, thus you see the failures when you ask a system to do things it wasn't designed to from the get go. There just isn't the strtength margin in the design to do it. That's not a wrong choice of powerplant for the car, it just wasn't a design goal.
What was a design goal is the fantastic chassis balance and steering feedback. They hit that target for sure. I just want a smidge more power and a bit less weight. If that comes from the K24 swap with similar reliability, I'm interested.