need more hp PLEASE HELP
04-11-2008, 11:30 AM
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need more hp PLEASE HELP
Looking for some help from you guys I have about $4k to spend on performance and I don’t know what route is best to take. One involves a 4v cobra motor swap (99 cobra motor with @40k miles for about $3500 installed) and the other is opening the engine and working on it. I have a 98gt with about 55k miles on it and it runs well. I was talking with a guy on the phone today and he was saying he was currently building a 98gt motor that would be around 435hp NA and support about 1500hp for about $6500. I don’t want a supercharger yet, this is a toy car that doesn’t come out much, I like the bends and hit the ¼ mile track every once in a while. What are your opinions on what route I should take?
Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks for your thoughts.
04-11-2008, 11:54 AM
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RE: need more hp PLEASE HELP
i want more NA hp before i supercharge it, so when i do supergharge it i can put more boost to it safely and getBIGhp numbers. Im not going to sell the car, i want a lot of hp but dont want to take backward steps.
04-11-2008, 12:13 PM
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RE: need more hp PLEASE HELP
i still have a non pi motor, as far as upgrades i have pretty much full boltons, tubular kmember, aarms, coilovers, high flow cats on a custom exhaust, shift kit, 3.73's, big brake kit, steeda ultralite wheels w/nitto 555's, diablo tuner, and probaly some other little stuff a forgot about, i still need to do the rear end stuff. im kind of leaning toward boreing, stroking and forgeing the the engine soi dont have a engine laying around that i have to do something with, and id imagine a sc would love that worked motor!! as far as the nx, to impractical, im not at the strip that much (maybe later)
04-11-2008, 12:18 PM
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RE: need more hp PLEASE HELP
ORIGINAL: 35thAnni99GT
Oh and I forgot to mention, you can gain close to 70-80 rwhp doing a pi swap for less than half the price of a 4v swap.
Oh and I forgot to mention, you can gain close to 70-80 rwhp doing a pi swap for less than half the price of a 4v swap.
04-11-2008, 12:19 PM
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RE: need more hp PLEASE HELP
ORIGINAL: mattofiesh
i still have a non pi motor, as far as upgrades i have pretty much full boltons, tubular kmember, aarms, coilovers, high flow cats on a custom exhaust, shift kit, 3.73's, big brake kit, steeda ultralite wheels w/nitto 555's, diablo tuner, and probaly some other little stuff a forgot about, i still need to do the rear end stuff. im kind of leaning toward boreing, stroking and forgeing the the engine soi dont have a engine laying around that i have to do something with, and id imagine a sc would love that worked motor!! as far as the nx, to impractical, im not at the strip that much (maybe later)
i still have a non pi motor, as far as upgrades i have pretty much full boltons, tubular kmember, aarms, coilovers, high flow cats on a custom exhaust, shift kit, 3.73's, big brake kit, steeda ultralite wheels w/nitto 555's, diablo tuner, and probaly some other little stuff a forgot about, i still need to do the rear end stuff. im kind of leaning toward boreing, stroking and forgeing the the engine soi dont have a engine laying around that i have to do something with, and id imagine a sc would love that worked motor!! as far as the nx, to impractical, im not at the strip that much (maybe later)
04-11-2008, 12:20 PM
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RE: need more hp PLEASE HELP
ORIGINAL: mattofiesh
thats seams to be a little optimistic for a pi swap, isn't it?
ORIGINAL: 35thAnni99GT
Oh and I forgot to mention, you can gain close to 70-80 rwhp doing a pi swap for less than half the price of a 4v swap.
Oh and I forgot to mention, you can gain close to 70-80 rwhp doing a pi swap for less than half the price of a 4v swap.