PurpleIcedGT

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

cliffyk

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...

s94658

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

s94658

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.

PurpleIcedGT

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.

Harryman2002

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.

PurpleIcedGT

thank you captain obvious

Harryman2002

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

PurpleIcedGT

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

Tommy079

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