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For DIY efforts, sure. Blatantly untrue for commercial modification though. There is no shortage of performance shops that will take a car that makes a couple
by anonym29 3y ago
For DIY efforts, sure.
Blatantly untrue for commercial modification though. There is no shortage of performance shops that will take a car that makes a couple hundred HP from the factory, replace a bunch of internals, completely void the warranty, and bump it up to the 4-digit range of horsepower, albeit mostly with a small handful of the overall number of makes and models, as not all cars are good platforms for high performance.
I suspect the reason that we don't see much of a commercial privacy modding scene for cars is that there simply isn't sufficient demand.
The manufacturers may be educated, listening, and watching us, but most people would simply prefer to bury their heads in the sand and choose to act ignorant, deaf, and blind in the face of this problem.
It's almost like non-technical folks have developed a "learned hopelessness" over their privacy, which is really sad in some ways. That's the same thing people living under many brutal, murderous, totalitarian dictatorships developed too after their privacy was obliterated, like in the former Soviet Union.
- jncfhnb 3y agoCompletely voiding the warranty is the problem, not the cost of the mods.
- sidewndr46 3y agoYou're living in a fantasy world if you think a 200 HP car is going to make 1000+ HP with a few modifications. The people doing this have a factory engine block and that is it.
- Tanoc 3y agoThey can, very easily. Nissan's L28, Toyota's 1JZ and 2JZ, and Ford's own modular 4.6 are all well known for such raucous stupidity. If you really want to you can even make GM's Quad 4 push 900HP, as evidenced in the Oldsmobile Aerotech. Boost pressure can make a ton of difference.
- anonym29 3y agoHow did you translate "replace a bunch of internals" to "with a few modifications"? The guys doing "a few mods" are not the same guys "replacing a bunch of internals". Besides, I wasn't really talking about a typical family car, but rather a handful of platforms like stuff with LS-family, Coyote blocks, R35's, Mk4 Supras, etc. There's variability even between those, but a gen 2 coyote motor will easily take 900+ crank on the stock internals, just need to swap oil pump gear and crank sprocket gear and something to make that power (turbos/supercharger/nitrous/etc). Swap some lower rotating assembly stuff and you're well into the 1XXX range with sufficient boost. Also, some of the people I'm thinking of are most certainly NOT usng factory engine blocks, but rather aftermarket blocks. Factory blocks are mostly cast aluminum trash, with a few exceptions.
- pluc 3y agoI think you need to give it a bit more time - that whole thing is really just from this year. I know I'd be a client
- anonym29 3y agoWe're the exception, not the norm, unfortunately. A vast supermajority of people in the West seem to have absolutely no qualms about having an always-on, always-recording device next to them 24/7 that reports pretty much everything they're thinking to multiple companies that have a lengthy history of voluntarily cooperating with their own shady government, other shady foreign governments, etc. Which sounds completely insane to me, and maybe you too. Remember the words of former head of the NSA, Michael Hayden, "The U.S. government kills people based on metadata".