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Old 05-23-2012, 10:12 AM   #3885
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Originally Posted by mcperson2k View Post
Not reading through 195 pages (lol), but is there some type of restrictions on these? How come I never see anyone ever throwing bigger turbo's on or like 400whp from the MS version that you have?
To make that kind of power, you need to build the motor. There's no sense paying the premium for a Mazdaspeed if you're going to tear the engine out to rebuild and toss all of the turbo stuff, you're better off just buying a Naturally Aspirated and using the money you saved for a build. The stock turbo isn't big enough to be efficient past 13psi or so (about 220-230whp).

Only difference between the Turbo and Non-Turbo engines is Turbo 9.5:1 compression, N/A is 10:1.
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