IMO, once I spent the cash to effectively swap the VR6 in, some internals and a bigger snail would almost be mandatory. You would just end up doing it later and wasting money changing components to run the new setup. And it would be more than 12-15k for a proper setup...

 

For some, that may be feasible, but it's not required for the swap. Sounds as if he'd rather get the car on the road with some basic upgrading, without an all-out power build. Get a bolt-on low-stage turbo system and opening the block isn't necessary, thus saving lots of effort, money, and time (on top of the considerable effort, money, and time already required just to do the swap).

I agree, better to do it big and get the most out of it, but that's not everyone and not necessary in order to have a VR6T in the car. And a 325-375hp A4 would be a formidable road car in its own right, able to take down quite a few machines that would otherwise gut it and leave it for dead. It doesn't HAVE to have 500-600hp, although I agree with you that it'd be best that way. Nothing says he would do that later on either - many of us would, but not all of us.

 

i think most people's reasoning is this- if your going to spend 85% of the money to just do the basic swap and get it all running, you may as well spend the extra 15% and drasticly up the horsepower output, not have to retune and upgrade and re-buy parts in the future if you decide to do this later.

this is a big delema for many people.

 

pretty much what i was getting at...

 

just restating it for the lazys who dont like to read more then 2 sentences