Originally Posted by TheShodan

But that's the beauty of Honda in general. They ALWAYS push their parts "past specs". They overengineer EVERYTHING. You name one other manufacturer that can use their over-the-counter parts and create hp with the same internals over 150% over their normal use AND STILL RUN EFFECTIVELY..

ARP is another example. Do you honestly think we're going to do over 150% of the tensile strength these were originally made for with our silly daily driven boosted cars? What happened to overengineering? or getting it done in a way that you don't expect it to fail? I'm sorry Malcolm, i honestly think you keep your standards too low sometimes inside expectations. Perhaps its a domestic car thing, perhaps its just your experience over the years where you don't expect things to go past the "normal" parameters.

This is why Japanese models for decades have dominated and only because of their own greed have they lost their edge and the American counterpart has finally caught up.. I dunno.. perhaps I'm to inebriated right now.

Originally Posted by Spawne32

just sayin

Originally Posted by wantboost

The pics are somewhere, Toyota said it was one of the worst cases that they had seen


And every part, no matter what it is, is tested beyond its rated limit, its called the failure point.., that's why things have a usage limit, which is normally far enough below the failure point to insure reliable, long term usage.

Originally Posted by TheShodan

As it was designed to use a blower as it was engineered from FORD. The Honda engines were not, and yet they can STILL hold over 150% due to overengineering to work with a turbocharger.

Simply for clarity of our discussion. Not trying to cause any trouble here.

Originally Posted by Autoworks

Good work!...and I enjoy my Tundra

Originally Posted by MalcolmV8

Yup. I have wondered what happens if you turbo charge your average ford focus motor or standard dodge neon or cavalier etc. Wonder how much boost or power they can take before they blow up. I would assume not much of anything just based on how often I see them... never. Be interesting to look up some day as I'm sure it's been tried a bunch and results are probably on the net if you search hard enough.