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Hmmmm, Thanks for the responses, and you all make excellent points.


Let me clarify a bit on what I was thinking.


I was not including Intake/Header/Exhaust in that $10k price, because you would have to buy that on top of the charger too anyways (well, not the intake).


I was thinking about the $10k strictly towards the motor, and I don't think Comptech is who I would have do it, they are a rip off IMHO.


You can run a lot higher compression than stock, so you could pick up some power there.  I have a friend who just got his car back up and running (civic si, B16A) and he is running a little over 12:1 compression on pump gas with no problem.  Get a J&S Safeguard, and I don't know why you couldn't do 12.5:1 or even 13:1 with good tuning.


In fact, a friend of ours who builds motors has an old civic (88-91 body style), that has a 1.5 liter in it (he destroked the 1.6 that was in it), non vtec, that is running 13:1, and on pump gas he dynoed 231 at the wheels on his break in runs!  He was only running it to like 6500 too, because he was breaking it in.  Granted he is probably the smartest guy I have ever talked too.


He did over 400 at the wheels with a bolt on Supercharger kit for an Integra Type-R, and it was completely stock motor!


I really just think that NSX parts in general are too expensive for what they are, and what they do (not much from what I have seen).  But like you guys said, that is the price of exclusivity.


If I could do 400 RWHP N/A in my NSX could I be the coolest NSX owner in America?


-Ethan


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