4AGE engine tuning discussion

[Mux213]

Red Wrote:"how we can get as much power for as little money as possible" Hmmm...two contradictory goals?

Very true, I didn't say that tuning was cheap. Whatever way you look at it, tuning is expensive.

However, how expensive is determined by three factors:
a) how much (reliable) power do you want
b) how skilled are you
c) how stupid are you

Let me elaborate.
A), the more power you want, the more it will cost you, its that simple, the more power you want the more you ask from your engine, the more parts need to be upgraded. Especially if you want to keep it reliable.
B) how skilled you are, or maybe even who you are. For 99% of the people on this board that want to tune their engine, they do not have the skill and thus have to bring their car to a tuning shop. Only a select few have the skills to fabricate their own parts and do the work themselves. The difference can be thousands of dollars
C) how stupid you are, and the reason for my remark. So many people out there just buy the most expensive tuning parts because they are the most expensive tuning parts. Often the most expensive, aren't the best. And even if you buy the most expensive parts, if they don't match up and don't work well together, you can have a crappy engine as a result.

So thats why I say, the most power for the least amount of money. But that least amount of money can still be a SHITLOAD of money

And you are very right, for most people, they should just enjoy the hachi roku as is, at not ruin it by bad, not thought through tuning, because they think they can improve the power with 200 dollars worth of parts...