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Originally posted by tstm04
1.2L wow, and all my friends tell me my 2.7L engine is small.
Okay well my 2.7L is small but I can smoke my friends 5.7L Camero. Here's what I've done. First of course the basics (Intake, header, exhaust, intake manifold, agressive cams) let the engine breathe better. Then you need it to be able to "eat" better, get more fuel. Bigger injectors and higher capacity fuel pump. At this point I've got all this potential but still not enough muscle. This is where forced induction comes it, I bought a supercharger kit from Hyundai and installed this but then I had too much power for the drivetrain to handle at the drag strip. Bought me some wider tires, upgraded the clutch/flywheel, suspension and now I have a Hyundai Tuscani that runs high twelve second quarter miles, can beat a Silvia at the autoX and still drives me to work and back every day. My friend who's engine is twice the size of mine can't keep up even though he's done some tuning himself.
I did all of this on stock internals and drive the car every day safely still getting 27 miles per gallon.
You don't need a new car or a bigger engine. Just some money, time and tools. Besides, imagine the looks of Audi owners when your "measly" Clio shoots past them.. priceless. Don't listen to everyone and get a new car, no one said I could tune a Hyundai into a sports car eating machine but they always congratulate me when my Korean car leaves their Cameros, Boxters and S4s behind at the drag strip.
Keep your 1200, have some fun with it, you'll appriciate it more in the end.
yeah all that work and money spent on little engine to make go faster and you probably could have bought another car with better engine that will go just as fast. and if your friend wanted to he could turn that camaro of his into import sucking shit in your pants ride that you could never catch even with dumping moremoney and work into that little engine
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