Nissan 370Z Forum - Normally aspirated horsepower champ

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Originally Posted by RCZ (Post 269098)

Umm, Im going to flag this as absolute heresy.

Ferrari engines are amazing, they rev to 8-9k smoothly all day without any hint of breaking down. I don't know what Ferrari's you know, but the problem is never blowing up..its almost always electrical because their owners leave them sitting. Also you make a very general statement, I know a lot of people with Ferraris, Lambos and Porsches and they ALL care about their car and reliability. Nobody likes to pay to fix a motor. None of them would take it lightly. They may have the means to buy another 30 Ferraris, but they still would bitch like we would if we blew up.

That is NOT why they aren't driven often. I wouldnt be surprised at ALL if an F430 or the new 458 Italia can handle twice the punishment my engine can for twice the time. They arent driven often because their owners care about resale value and because they aren't always the most practical cars. The price of these things goes down SO much with a few thousand miles on them...

Don't get confused here...

Yep.

There is also a distinction between an engine built and designed for 600+hp versus an engine MODIFIED to make 600+hp later. Ferraris, Lambos, etc have engines that were designed to make high horsepower from the drawing board stages. All the components were engineered to handle the final specs and these are robust engines. Conversely, some garage junky who mods a 250hp motor into a 600hp TT beast has retasked an engine that was designed with different intentions. Perhaps one can change all the potential parts that could fail with the additional power, but in the end that motor didn't have the forethought and design conceptions to make that kind of power.

Just because the guy who TT's his Dodge Neon may blow his motor doesn't mean that Ferraris that make the same or more power must have poor engine reliability as well.