That's fine. You have valid points for wanting to stay with the KA.
One more thing though. Don't base your decision on that ride you took with me in springfield. That was about a week after I installed the motor and it was having major issues.
1, tps sensor was broken causing it to run WAY to rich
2, Huge exhaust leak at the turbo, causing super turbo lag and causing it to run WAY rich.
3, My SR isn't the fastest of the bunch. Even at 14psi.
Even at that point. (it was really slow) KA's with bolt ons were no problem. However I remember racing one and he got the jump on me because of my excess turbo lag at the time. Needless to say once it spooled it was over.
My SR ran a 14.1 at 10psi with sidemount, exhaust leak at the turbo and a 2.4-2.8 60ft (maybe not that bad, but bad) time.
This leads me to believe that a stock sr can run 14.1.
Don't compare your KA to a stock sr. Solely for the reason that 50 bucks can get you a manual boost controller. 1 bar right there.
Jed
PS. How many people have you seen that have an SR? Everyone's got one? C'mon, please. "I don't want that M3 Cause everyone's got it" <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':laugh:'>