I read in a post that a guy said that the factory intentionally makes some cars faster than others with the same equipment. This is not true. This is just a by product of mass production. Im an engineer at Liebert Corp. so I know how this works. Some of our units are just better that others because of tolerences. That is why some cars are faster than others is becasue all the tolerences in one engine will be close to perfect whil in another they could be as big as allowable. Now we all know that a better built engine will be faster than a sloppy one that didn't get all the bearings sized properly and other stuff. THis also plays ino longevity of the engine as well.
I knew a guy who worked for a parts suplier of Honda and let me tell you they had tight tolerences that was almost to the point of where some parts supliers didn't want to deal with them. That is why a Honda usually runs so long, but that doesn't mean that you wont find one that will die at 80,000miles
Just thought would share tis info with everyone.

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Kyle thanks for the heads up information, but I am going to lock this post before it ends up in a big debate over who builds the best engines.

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