View Poll Results: Did you purchase your LS1 or LS2 vehicle with an intent to modify the engine?
Yes
159
89.33%
No
19
10.67%
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School Project Poll: Modify your car?
11-29-2007, 12:14 PM
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I got my first T/A (02' a4) when i was 16 with plans of keeping it stock. And it was stock until i found out about LS1tech haha. The WS6 i have now i definatley had plans to mod it, but i wanted to make sure i had a bone stock car so i could start from scratch and thankfully i found one 
11-29-2007, 01:45 PM
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My original intent was to keep the car stock except for minor things like intake and exhaust. I remember telling a friend there was no way I would do headers.
Well I found LS1Tech and all of a sudden the car absolutely needed headers, a torque converter, and so on...
Now my car absolutely needs a forged LS2 with twin turbos and a 4L80E
at least that is my ultimate and final goal....hopefully
Well I found LS1Tech and all of a sudden the car absolutely needed headers, a torque converter, and so on...
Now my car absolutely needs a forged LS2 with twin turbos and a 4L80E
at least that is my ultimate and final goal....hopefully
11-29-2007, 03:29 PM
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I fully intended to keep my LS1 stock (and that's how I answered the poll), but when you're into cars and gatherings, it's hard to look at all the goodies and hear the grumbling without wanting to join in...so far, she's pretty close to stock, but when I'm done spending money on the third gen it will be the LS1's turn.
11-30-2007, 05:58 PM
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12-01-2007, 05:12 AM
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I voted no, but, now I'm still about $22,000 in the red on my credit card. I'd have that much cash in the bank ... had I not gotten 'the fever'. Put about $40,000.00 in it sonce I had it ... changed the exhaust 3 times and in two weeks, the American Racing headers are going on for the LAST header swap I'm EVER doin'! Can't EVEN count all the tires I've been through.
12-01-2007, 07:48 AM
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I have never had any intentions of leaving any f-body I owned stock. That would be crazy to me, I buy them to enjoy not keep the miles off and try to turn a dollar.
12-01-2007, 08:56 AM
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I didn't know what I got when I purchased my LS1. I knew what I wanted. When I bought the car, I had NO intentions of modifying it. Then, I found this site....
I have seen the light! Check sig out for what I've done to my beast!
I have seen the light! Check sig out for what I've done to my beast!
12-01-2007, 03:27 PM
#38
I actually bought my car as a winter car...yeah, no joke. I had an '88 TA at the time and had just decided I was leaving MSOE and had a little over $6k left over, and I found my car for $6400. Couldn't pass up on a 100k mile LS1/6spd car for that kind of money back in '05 (brand new GM clutch and rear gears)!
Bought it to drive in the winter (6spd/TCS + snow tires = ROCKS in snow) because the '88 couldn't go ANYWHERE in snow.Installed a Magnaflow exhaust a few weeks after purchase, and a few weeks after that I picked up my MTI lid/K&N filter for $30. I was very happy with the car as it was then. First car I got to beat up on was an '05 GT
Ended up being forced to do motor work when I slammed some pistons into some valves on a 3-2 shift at the top of third racing a Supra and an Evo. Couldn't put a stock motor back in, so I went ahead and did heads/cam/intake/headers/pulley/fuel/clutch/trans/clutch (yeah ended up with two different clutch setups when my slave went out 3 days after I got it all back together).
Ever since, the project keeps snowballing. Now its getting yet another shortblock and a D1SC
