Reliability does not go down as performance goes up. That is a popular misconception. All the failures on my car have been the result of my own incompetance or routine part failures. I have not lost a part due to excessive HP or torque. To prove that, I drove the car to St. Louis and ran a personal best there flogging the car for all it was worth. And drove it home. I have since driven the car to Canada and put down no less than 8 balls-to-the-wall passes and drove home. I lost 3rd gear coming out of a toll booth in NY on the way up, and still ran it anyway. The tranny had well over 100K miles on it prior, and HP doesn't kill syncros' anyway, it's just abuse, plain and simple.