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Guess I misread about the sound levels.
Anyway, look at the currently available 6-speed transmissions in the segment. SVT Focus, RSX-S, Celica GT-S. Sure there's the potential to just keep one overdrive gear and space the first five ratios closer together but that's generally not what happens. For example, 4th gear in an RSX-S gives the same RPM as 5th gear in my '92 GSR. Who's got the closer spaced gears?
High revving, whatever. Useful power is useful power and a car that you don't have to wring out to 8000 RPM is easier to drive fast and won't spin its main bearings. It's like the old saying, RPM ruins people's motors.
You don't think that Chrysler just bolted a turbo onto the 2.4-liter motor they already make do you? Even if it is an American company, they're still an OEM and have sufficiently beefed up the internals, otherwise they would see a lot of claims on that 7-year/70,000 mile powertrain warranty. Have you ever taken apart a Mitsubishi 4G63? It doesn't have any sort of exotic materials or spiffy engineering tricks, just thick-ass rods and beefy bearings, crank, pistons, etc. I find it very hard to believe that Chrysler wouldn't take measures to at the very least throw some thicker parts into the block to make it ready for boost. As fastball was so quick to point out there's a lot of iron in the bottom end of the motor, and that's not a bad thing.
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