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Originally Posted by ecoli
The problem is that most people who own DSMs aren't rich. We start with older cars and don't put the best parts on to begin with to make sure there isn't future failure and when something goes wrong, we don't always have the money to get it fixed soon. If you are rich, you buy a Supra or Z06 or whatever and send it to SP or Doug Rippie along with $50,000 or so and hopefully get a car back that won't break right away. And when it does you send it back to them with more money and don't have to worry about getting your hands dirty or taking up any of your time. If DSMs couldn't hang with the big boys, then we wouldn't even try to push them this far and we wouldn't think they are so unreliable. If someone came out with a 600whp Saturn and it broke something, everyone would think, "Of course something went, it's a Saturn making 600HP, that's crazy.", but with a DSM they are just unreliable.
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Oh I am well aware of all of this. You have to remember this thread happened back in winter when everyones car was going to smoke everyone elses car and be done by the shootout and blah blah blah. Well, what have I seen so far? Nothing. I'm well aware that making good power takes money and so are the people building. It also takes time and patience, and it seems like some people lost the patience and gave up, or its taking longer then they anticipated to get there shit done. Hopefully some of you people do get out there before the end of the year and bust out good times. I plan on some 10 second passe's in a DSM 2-3 years down the line. Until then I will be the idiot driving the neon and talking mad shit.
As I said on MN Racing, hopefully next year the DSM's will come out in full swing and the MN boys will be able to compete with the Chicago area DSM's.