Quote; you don't cling to factory CR and all original parts just to say you did it when the sacrafice is not enjoying the car because you can't take it out of range of good fuel
No sacrifice here. That's my only point. I sacrifice nothing by using the original engine configuration. You don't need to accent a negitive viewpoint to bolster the zero deck idea. One thing that you can't do is make an argument that you can't enjoy driving your first gen with the original engine configuration. Not around here anyway. I can drive as far as I want to. It runs great. Perfect. Not a ping. Plugs are clean.