[RamonGTP]

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Originally Posted by The Real Bingo

Absolutely, but the GT-R is not for the enthusiast. It's like people who buy ARF (almost ready to fly) model airplanes. They don't know how - or don't want - to use their own hands to build the plane. That's fine and dandy, but you can do better if you know what you're doing. Same thing with cars. If you care about numbers, but don't know what to do to a Mustang or a Camaro, then you buy a GT-R, or you pay someone to put your mods on. The GT-R is for the yuppie who wants to go fast, but doesn't want to be bothered with grease and dirt and wrenches.

I've found that you CANNOT do better on your own. Not if you want to combine both performance AND reliability. Fact of the matter is that the R&D that goes into aftermarket parts is nowhere near as good as what you find on the car from the factory. Granted there are exceptions to every rule and there are people out there with enough knowledge, time, and resources to properly mod a car themselves and still retain reliability and have an edge in performance, but by in large, that is not the case.