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      11-12-2011, 05:14 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by gthal View Post
If the engineers designed it to only perform when pushed hard, IMO that is still a design flaw because it did NOT need to be designed that way. But, like I said, it isn't really "bad" per se just not great like the rest of the car.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you design something to take the abuse track driving will throw at it, there are going to be drawbacks somewhere. Parts running hotter will require looser clearances to accommodate thermal expansion, which contributes to less than ideal performance at lower temperatures. Not much the engineers can do about that.
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