Hello John V, outside agitator.
Was wondering, but
So, in light of this, I'm probably not too interested in anything beyond stock in this particular area for the time being. Could be on the table for later, if necessary.
Indeed:
OK then. Now I don't know you and you don't know me so please don't get butt-hurt but (goddam I don't even know where to start)
"core reliability" whaddevar de fuq that is?
Nothing I might suggest will impinge on reliability..That goes without saying.. (And logically the same motors when turbocharged --making more heat, and stress (pressure) are as reliable as fawk----200-300k miles type reliability) and you won't be making near the heat, or pressure.
Non-issue
Computers ECU whatever: they're called collectively "engine management" for a good reason.. They "manage' what the sensors tell it the engine wants...They don't CHANGE what the engine wants...So if nothing in the engine is changed, like no different compression and camshaft, then the stock ECU and sensors and "stuff" does an amazingly wonderful job of managing what the engine "wants".
So if you're unwilling to take off 20-25 bolts and increase a basic fundemental factor in the equation---upping compression ratio and add a cam designed to make torque---ALL talk of computer and WM-einspritzung (wasser-metanol weisst du!) is just pissing in the sand.
Motors are motors: I think it was that brilliant Ruskie writer , yes Льва Толстого who said
"Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему."
I forget who it was who said "All happy motors are all alike, all unhappy motors are unhappy in their own ways"
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sopro tutto for a given fuel torque is largely engine volume x dynamic compression..
(somewhere somebody was fapping --as always about "blah blah flow blah blah flow flow" Don't be distracted, BS talk about flow is one thing: about max powerz, and nobody is talksing about MAX anything..Yours is a street/road car.. Also the guys blathering about flow ALWAYS neglect to imagine what happens AFTER the flow into the cylinder has flowed it:
You ignite it.
ALWAYS neglected by flow-fan-boys..
Its whataboutism and more fapping..)
So you can do whatever you want with your car...F88king around on external fluffery is fapping unless something mechanical has been changed to creat a different need that the original management cannot accommodate..
So. Good luck...