4AGE engine tuning discussion

[Mux213]

Ehm guys,

Why do we care whether a 1983 designed car is still up to 2007 specs?

Offcourse the technology is dated by todays standards, offcourse the 4AG is old and there are better engines out there, offcourse it doesn't make any sense to spend 10 times the value of these cars into modifying them. It doesn't stop with adding power, to be exact, most of us guys first poor ample amounts of money into fixing rust, then ample amounts into upgrading the suspension, then ample amounts into welding all sorts of safeties in, then ample amounts into lightening the chassis with fiberglass or carbon, and finally we upgrade the engine...

In the end, when we look at the amount of money we've spend, and the car we'd end up with, we'd probably would have been much better off buying a more modern car.

So why do we do it? Because we LOVE THIS LITTLE CAR and that has nothing to do with sense nor with logic.

So again I ask you, why are we debating this? Can we please get back to the topic of how we can get as much power for as little money as possible from these crappy obsolete 4AGs?

Thanks

(ps. how do you guys feel about splitting this topic into one about the N/A tuning and one about the turbo tuning, I'm getting very interested in this low budget turbo tuning thing, even if I hate turbos... )