stock gt horsepower help

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Mar 19, 2009 | 11:15 AM

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945LSTANG

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Originally Posted by Rinchesta

yeah heads,cam and intake. look around you can find some cheap gt40 heads and cobra intake. some people keep stock cam and just get 1.7 rockers, i would go with the trickflow stg 1 cam its pretty cheap. h/c/i will put a stock car to maybe 250-260 rwhp. then you can go from there to s/c or nitrous your car with all the goodies of course. that hci and some stickies and you will have a nice street car

it is possible to make more with an h/c/i. it all depends on the combo and the tune.

IMO if you are going to do an h/c/i, avoid the cheap route of gt40 heads and intake. there are so many better combos out there.

a cam is a very important choice. dont just shrug it off.

Mar 19, 2009 | 11:34 AM

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Fobra

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yeah a wet plate is complete as is... just depends on how much your trust it

Mar 19, 2009 | 01:03 PM

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Rinchesta

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Originally Posted by 945LSTANG

well he did say cheap lol cheapest hci set up i can think of is gt40 or gt40p, but if the money allows it then by all means get some twisted wedge heads and track heat intake with a stg 1 cam or another better cam. quick noob question though is it really possible to make 300 rwhp with hci?

Mar 19, 2009 | 02:10 PM

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NoGo95GT

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Originally Posted by Rinchesta

It's been done numerous times. Usually automatics will not reach that number. However, a set of AFR heads, custom ground cam and Holley Systemax or Trickflow Track Heat intake will normally hit that number or right under/over it. A good porting/polishing to the heads(even gt-40's) can help get you there.