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Jun 8, 2005 | 06:09 PM

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Deannostang

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RE: best power maker for a broke person

All well and good, but if this person is really "broke", $500 is alot of money. He may be looking for other cheaper ways to increase his performance a little here and a little there. Kinda like advancing the timing, using a K&N filter, etc., etc. You guys out there should know a whole host of tricks to get good easy HP out of a carbed engine. Larger carb jets? Give it some thought.

Jun 8, 2005 | 06:14 PM

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Deannostang

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I forgot to mention one other thing. It was always my experience with carbed engines that I could pick up good HP gains by putting on long tube headers. There are many brands out there that won't break the bank and I think his year Mustang isn't as hard to make the swop as the later year Stangs.

Jun 8, 2005 | 06:16 PM

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Derf00

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All well and good, but if this person is really "broke", $500 is alot of money. He may be looking for other cheaper ways to increase his performance a little here and a little there. Kinda like advancing the timing, using a K&N filter, etc., etc. You guys out there should know a whole host of tricks to get good easy HP out of a carbed engine. Larger carb jets? Give it some thought.

Good point but I think they are considering the Dollar cost per HP. Larger jets would cost what?? (Not a clue here so I dunno) For maybe 10-15HP plus you can't go too big on the jets without changing the cam/heads otherwise it's a waste. K&N by itself runs $35-50 for maybe 3 or 4 HP that's almost the same price per HP for the NOS.

Jun 8, 2005 | 06:17 PM

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IF YOU GOT STOCK PISTONS I WOULDNT ,,I DONE THAT i had a cheapo short block..1300 miles than added nos ..5 seconds later my pistons crummled..looked like gravel in my cylinders 351w got bigger rod bolts.. ,,only the crank and couple of rods were still good...got some 4.30 gears....you got an 8.8 rear dont you ...7.5 dont last that long..i know 65,000 miles boom,