Cliff your voice is like a mixture of Fergie and Jesus. Its soothing yet incredibly informative.

 

I've been at this for nearly 50 years, and have never stopped tuning any one of the vehicles I've owned.

I had a 440 with the "6-pack" way back when and carried a piece of heater hose with me so I could pull over and tweak the carb synchronisation when things just didn't sound right--irritated the crap out of wife #1...

 

Thanks guys for all the responses. While looking on summit racing I also saw the trickflow CAI, T/B, and plenum combo for like 450 which isnt bad for all three things. I may go that route

 

And I know that bolt-ons wont gain you a ton of power, thats not what Im going for. I just bought the car with no performance mods like 3 weeks ago. It came with H&R lowering springs, Bullitt DD rims and a short shifter. I have since put on mac prochamber, flowmaster american thunder, frpp 4.10's, and I have the sct handheld tuner. My realistic goal is 300-350 rwhp when I am done. I dont need a car with 500 whp it will get me even more tickets than I already have.

 

Take that 450 that you would be spending on three "peformance" mods and buy a nitrous kit. This "performance trio" will net you MAYBE 4-5rwhp. In a 3400 pound car thats like the weight difference of running before a fart vs. after a fart. For that 450 you can safely throw a 100shot on your car and you'd fly when you feel like getting friskay and will be quick when you are driving normally.

 

Nitrous isnt as cheap as just $450, you have to keep refilling it to use and and not everyone has a place local to them that can do nitrous refills.

 

thank you captain obvious

 

Just saying, don't tell someone that nitrous only costs $450 if you know it really doesnt.

 

I was referring to the price of the actual kit itself.

 

What do you guys think of this new deal by BBK? http://www.americanmuscle.com/bbk-78...le-intake.html


They call it a Throttle Intake. It's basically a throttle body and a plenum...the way I understand it.

Regardless, Cliff what are you saying that with a tune you can receive noticeable gains from a plenum/TB combo? I asked Mike Briggs at BBK about that throttle intake and he basically said the same thing purp is saying. So if I were to get it I think I'd wait till I go supercharged.

Mind you I have an automatic:

"Well, the throttle body isn’t going to do hardly anything with the rest of the motor stock. For the best bang for the buck and power increases you will feel, buy a cold air intake and long tube headers and matching X pipe. Those are the only bolt ons you are going to notice. The auto trans is a killer for eating up horsepower."

Mike Briggs
BBK Performance R&D