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 Project cars are inherently a compromise. For more performance, you ultimately give up something that the factory engineers spent countless dollars (or pounds, yen, marks, lira, francs, krona—whatever) developing. It takes a special kind of car-guy hubris to think that you can do something better than the factory. After all, to get the performance you want, you almost always need to give up something, be it reliability, durability, noise isolation, ride, comfort—something’s gotta’ give!
After all, the factory not only had those talented and experienced engineers and designers but typically a lot of resources to back them as well. What do most of us have? A small “shop” in a crowded garage that needs to also store a lawnmower, a handful of bicycles, some gardening tools and probably a few heavy, annoying bags of seed, soil, concrete or whatever. Those factory guys not only have a bigger pile of cash to spend, but a much nicer shop, too.
One engineer's quest to bring a 1950s Morris Minor into the 21st century.
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