Some cars appear more frequently on YouTube and social media as modified rockets than others. But with skill, can’t you put any engine or any other part into any car?
Actually, if trying to maximize performance, why not build from scratch? Why is “1,800hp GTR” more interesting or common than “1,800hp car built in garage”?
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Some cars just aren’t worth the effort of trying to improve mechanically. The ‘tuner cars’ you see commonly modified were built to be performance cars from the ground up, and have the basics required for performance driving and engines capable of producing a lot of power which can then be expanded with a plethora of aftermarket parts that have usually accompanied the potentially decades of models of those cars.
More budget utilitarian cars don’t have the basis for performance, tend to have uninspiring transmissions and steering, engines turned entirely for economy, and usually lack the aftermarket support to do much about any of that. They just weren’t built to accomodate performance, and you can easily make a car worse by trying to bolt crap on it just because. With a lot of time, effort, money, and skill you can do almost anything to almost anything, but it quickly reaches a point of why not just start with a car that’s already good and easy to make better.
Building a whole car from scratch is a huge amount of work and is far outside the capability of almost everyone. Bolting on purpose built parts is something anyone can learn. Even if you’re going to build an extreme race car, you’re still going to start with a performance oriented chassis that a manufacturer has spent billions engineering.
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