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Originally Posted by SixSick6
Bottom line is that people ahve used much larger turbo with not much more than hacks and pretty much stock setup to achieve 275-300+ hp which is more than enough to destroy one of these junky engines and transmissions to begin with.
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Sorry for the delay here, I didn't see your post for some reason (or compnuts) but, you may say that about the gearboxs, and that is fine, but about the engine, it is ALL in the tune with regards how long a given engine lasts at high power. If it doesn't have inherent weaknesses (f series do not) in the bottom end, then tune is it. The poor maintenance will have killed it similarly anyway without mods.
A good tune (from ms/xyz/abc) can make 300hp on a 2.2 last forever.
they may be fairly crappy engines, but once the air is in there, the stresses are the same as on a much better engine making the same power.