Adding horsepower with modified intake
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Usually the "BIG THREE" mods are a cat-back exhaust, CAI and a tuner. Mainly because of the ease of installation and cost. The gains can be as high as about 5 RWHP on the exhaust, 5 RWHP on the CAI and about 15 RWHP on the tuner. Basically you'd have about $1000'ish on the three combined (assuming name brand parts and paying for labor) and get aobut a 25 HP total gain. $1000 for 25 HP would be considered pretty economical in the performance world.
Obviously if you make your own CAI (roughly $60) and install the exhaust yourself (saving probably $300 in labor) you might could get all three for in the $500-$600 range...
Obviously if you make your own CAI (roughly $60) and install the exhaust yourself (saving probably $300 in labor) you might could get all three for in the $500-$600 range...
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Now you get a tune on it, ported TB, headers and free up the exhaust and the whole thing together makes a LOT more HP and Torque than the sum of each individually. Go even further and do heads and a cam and now you're really talkin'. Some cams and other engine internals SPEC they need some of these other mods for them to work...
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Usually the "BIG THREE" mods are a cat-back exhaust, CAI and a tuner. Mainly because of the ease of installation and cost. The gains can be as high as about 5 RWHP on the exhaust, 5 RWHP on the CAI and about 15 RWHP on the tuner. Basically you'd have about $1000'ish on the three combined (assuming name brand parts and paying for labor) and get aobut a 25 HP total gain. $1000 for 25 HP would be considered pretty economical in the performance world.
Obviously if you make your own CAI (roughly $60) and install the exhaust yourself (saving probably $300 in labor) you might could get all three for in the $500-$600 range...
Obviously if you make your own CAI (roughly $60) and install the exhaust yourself (saving probably $300 in labor) you might could get all three for in the $500-$600 range...
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Quite a few cat back models in that price range. Lots of threads on them in FAQ section with some reviews.
A quick Google search turned up one instantly:
http://3rdstrikeperformance.com/inde...oducts_id=9771
A Flowmaster kit too:
http://www.partstrain.com/store/deta...2496450907exsy
But again, this is just one piece of the puzzle. Adding a high flow intake system and a high flow exahust will help, but with a stock throttle body and stock exhaust manifolds you are not going to see huge gains.
A quick Google search turned up one instantly:
http://3rdstrikeperformance.com/inde...oducts_id=9771
A Flowmaster kit too:
http://www.partstrain.com/store/deta...2496450907exsy
But again, this is just one piece of the puzzle. Adding a high flow intake system and a high flow exahust will help, but with a stock throttle body and stock exhaust manifolds you are not going to see huge gains.
Last edited by NV290; 03-20-2012 at 05:26 PM.
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