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by war1025 2590 days ago
Based on the way the comment was worded, it wasn't a power upgrade that was turned on/off based on a resistor being present or not. Adding the resistor changed how the engine thought it was running, which caused it to run in a way that produced more power, but not in a configuration that had been tested or approved for production use.

There are lots of things that you can run outside of spec, but they introduce premature wear, which is why they don't run that way by default.