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I can make you a good offer on a used tuner, intake and o/r h-pipe if you're interested. That's one of the most noticable mod combos you can get on our cars.
i dont have much experience with tuning or seen a tune done how much does it really help?
It will help a lot. For 400 to 600 bucks, an intake+tune will get you in the neighborhood of 30 HP. Brenspeed (or whoever else you want to go with) will write a software tune for you based on the mods you have (in this case an intake). You install the intake yourself (very easy install), and then you plug in the tuner that you bought from them into your cars computer (it plugs in right under your steering column). You follow a few onscreen instructions, and the tuner flashes your computer with a more aggressive tune to unlock more horse power, better throttle response, and usually better gas mileage too. The trade off is you have to spend more at the pump for premium if you want the most power gains.
tunes are great, and literally as easy as plugging a switch into a wall, exhaust is another thing i would look into. i heard a stock one the other day and i have forgotten how quiet they are in comparison. after the tune gears are probably "the best bang for the buck," but get the tune first as you would need one for the gears anyway