Originally Posted by supaflytiger
Regardless of Travis's personal history, hes trying something new here. Even if the car never runs, the idea is still out there for someone else to run with.
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that's not the point. The point is, Travis does this with every major build he's done. He posts vids of it idling, pictures of the buildup, etc.
And then, when shit happens, and it blows, we don't hear anything. Hell, this little project has taken probably close to a year now. When in all reality, it shouldn't take a decent shop more than a couple months from idea inception to machine work, etc, including shipping out for parts, etc.
I like to think of a little saying. I like to connect it to people who think a blower on an SR20 is better than turbo. "If it was such a good idea, why hasn't it been done before now?"
Sure the SQR23DE idea is neat. Imo, it's not $10,000 neat, or $10,000 worth of an extra .3L displacement. Remember those big bore SR kits? Whoa, imagine that, a 2.2L SR that can still rev high and make big power. What do you think you could get more power out of? This 10k SQR23DE+T or 10k worth of money thrown into an SR.......big bore kit, head work, custom intake mani, big turbo, pulse converter turbo mani, etc?
My money would be on the SR. Ideas are great, Especially when shops are behind it. Big shops, with lots of money to throw around. Problem is, Trav doesn't have money to throw around, I could pull up dozens of threads where he bitches about being broke all the time, etc. So he basically plays with the customers money.
Time will tell if the thing either runs or proves to be a $10k "mistake" again.
I don't care how much power it makes, I hope to God for the owner's sake that the thing is at least semi-reliable.