I'm 18 and I recognize the limitations of my car, being basically stock with only trickflow mufflers on original exhaust, a
K&N filter in stock intake housing. no gains over stock, my engine runs well, but I'm sure it's short of it's original 215 hp levels at the flywheel, more like 190-200 I would guess. Making it even slower are the worn street tires, and beat
suspension.
I've met 'car enthuiast' that blew crap out all the time. One kid I use to work with I saw drove a 1994 Mustang v6. I asked him about it and he says "Yeah it's bored to the same size as a v8, it's turbocharged," that makes no since, but okay cool that it's turbocharged, then later he says, "yeah it's sweet that we both have v8s." Then come to, I look under his hood for said turbo (which by the way he claimed was hidden underneath), there was no turbocharger anywhere on that stock intake housing. There also was no v8 5.0, however there was what I assume to be a rebuilt v6 that might've been bored out.
He runs 93 octane, says it costs him 100 dollars to fill up his car. more blasphemy. I have the same gas tank as him, I know how much it would cost, and there's no reason to run 93 octane. The worse part is he thinks it makes like 700 horsepower because he just down shifts really low.
I've never raced him to show him how much his car sucks, but I so badly want to.