# How Reliable is your SR? **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [December 16, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-reliable-is-your-sr/102528 "2006-12-16T22:32:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![TM1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tm1/32/5517_2.png) [@TM1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TM1)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-reliable-is-your-sr/102528/27 "2006-12-19T16:37:29Z")
> [@TT:TW:93 HondaCivic w/b18b swap](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tt-tw-93-hondacivic-w-b18b-swap/10571/19): > > 200hp is a performance engine? > > Fine. Not an econo box … an inexpensive, mass-produced, low-cost, low tolerance motor with a turbo slapped on it sound better? > > By performance motor, they’re generally referring to something more exotic. Like 12-cylinder 3.0s that spin to 10,000 RPM and make 500 hp. > > Won’t find any magnets there. > > Oil is oil. You can give up a bit of shock protection in the name of less drag. Performance is relative… Saying a motor is inexpensive and low cost is a little redundant, and now that I think about it, anything mass produces is relatively inexpensive… Like I said we talking about motors we were talking about oil, and regardless of the type of motor, the purpose of oil is the same from a “econobox” to a Indy motor… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-reliable-is-your-sr/102528)._