[curtis73]

Agreed, but it would not be responsible of us to march him into a dangerous situation.

Opinions are like... well you know; everybody has one, but if you take a look at hard facts, many of the "tuner" cars out there today are designed as tinfoil econo-commuters at best, and some even fail at that. Its just best that he know his car's roots so he knows what to modify first. Trust me, I'll be the first to modify a car into something that I want and the first to encourage someone else to do the same, but I start with realistic foundations. I wouldn't build a rock-crawler out of a lamborghini, I wouldn't build a top-fuel dragster with front wheel drive, and I wouldn't start with a stamped-steel econobox as a top-speed blaster. In fact, given the (again, my opinion) completely misdirected foolishness of turning any civic, saturn, camry, or any other econobox into a "performance" car, I think I was pretty nice in my reply.

But, if someone wants to make a performance car out of an econobox unibody piece of geometric tin foil and he/she expects it to blast down the interstate at 100 mph with the same stability and safety of a corvette, I will never sit back and give them the answer without a full dose of truthful fact.