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Old 10-09-2008, 07:49 PM
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what r some good but not expensive power adders for a 89 lx?
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Old 10-09-2008, 08:09 PM
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nitrous, other than that it all ends up adding up and costing alot in the end, just depends on what your idea of cheap mods is????
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Old 10-09-2008, 08:26 PM
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exactally, my idea of cheap is a a few hundred your idea of cheap may be a few thousand....
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Old 10-09-2008, 08:50 PM
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From what others have been telling me, getting an Explorer 5.0 will net you GT40P heads, the Cobra-style intake and a 65mm throttle body. I'm looking at getting those as a nice first step to non-suck-ness my self...
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what year explorer?
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Old 10-10-2008, 08:06 PM
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well its not exactly gutless, all it has is a shift kit but when im rollin about 30 and punch it it will smoke the tires and get sideways.my idea is a couple hundred not a cpouple thousand
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Dont mean to steal the thread but you said nitrous first.. can i just throw a 1oo dry shot of nitrous on my carbed 302 or do i have to change timing and all that?
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Old 10-11-2008, 01:49 AM
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yea you'll have to change your timing, but thats cake work

btw, you should make your sig a little smaller, its huge lol
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how do i do that
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Old 10-14-2008, 12:03 PM
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upload it to a photobucket or something similar and scale the picture down and then repost it into your sig.
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