Got an 04 GT picked up some mods!
09-01-2011, 10:42 PM
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Wow what a huge waste of money. No offense but if you have/had the money to buy all those parts at once, you would have been better off building a supercharger setup. You would have spent less and made way more rwhp. With all those mods you are looking at probably 260rwhp. Just adding a supercharger alone would have put you in the 350rwhp range.
09-02-2011, 06:10 PM
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You can piece one together. Look at the pipes/boost/juice section. In there there is a thread on how to build a vortech setup for $1500. Realistically it costs around 2k for a fully intercooled setup but its very easy to do.
09-02-2011, 06:17 PM
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OP, it's not that every bolt on is a waste of money, but rather as a whole you won't get the same bang for the buck as you would with a blower or nitrous. Things like exhaust, gears, and tune are great mods regardless of weather you did a blower.
09-02-2011, 06:50 PM
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Wow what a huge waste of money. No offense but if you have/had the money to buy all those parts at once, you would have been better off building a supercharger setup. You would have spent less and made way more rwhp. With all those mods you are looking at probably 260rwhp. Just adding a supercharger alone would have put you in the 350rwhp range.
Kerns pretty much sums it up.....
09-03-2011, 04:13 PM
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I looked at that thread closely. It still looks like you need injectors, fuel pump and a tune. Still definitely cheaper than a regular kit. I had looked at the price for intercoolers and just for the inter cooler itself is like 2K unless I am looking at something totally different.
09-03-2011, 04:20 PM
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You can get an intercooler for 200$. Plus, with the intercooler you don't need the discharge pipe so that is minus 150$. Fuel Injectors are 200$, Fuel pump is 100$. Tune is around 300-400$ depending on your area. In the thread it costs the guy around 1300-1400$ so add on another 350$ in parts and you are looking at 1650-1750$ then the cost of the tune.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CXRac...item5189d856c5
This is the intercooler setup a lot of guys on here including myself run. The piping/couplers you get you can switch out so in this particular case you would want 3 straight pipes, 3 90* bend pipes 1 45* angle coupler, 1 90* angle coupler, and like 4 straight couplers.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CXRac...item5189d856c5
This is the intercooler setup a lot of guys on here including myself run. The piping/couplers you get you can switch out so in this particular case you would want 3 straight pipes, 3 90* bend pipes 1 45* angle coupler, 1 90* angle coupler, and like 4 straight couplers.
Last edited by Kerns; 09-03-2011 at 04:29 PM.