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Old 06-25-2008, 02:49 PM
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Ever since my pacesetters, the car feels like it climbs rpms slower and its not a "back to your seat" kinda flooring, like a loss of torque? Everything is solid im not sure what to think
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generally you will lose a little bit of low end torque, but gain HP up top. you should have only lost about 5 ft/lb below about 3k rpm, a worth while trade IMHO
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Oh, alright. Im just making sure im not like feeling random **** cause yea below like 2k i can feel there seems to be less torque. When I pickup a ls6 intake and get it tuned im curious to see what it puts down though
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Oh, alright. Im just making sure im not like feeling random **** cause yea below like 2k i can feel there seems to be less torque. When I pickup a ls6 intake and get it tuned im curious to see what it puts down though
haha nah your not just feelin things. yea when you get a ls6 intake you should really wake it up. i need one damn my car for bein a '00 LOL
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Usually adding longtubes will move your torque peak up a little higher in the powerband.
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I have an LS6 intake available. If your interested, PM me with an offer. Sorry for the hijack
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a good tune will help bring back that low end power, very necessary after LT's
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A tune will definitely help with that.
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well..seems like my number #8 plug wire wasnt there.. its missing idk what happened to it but that MIGHT cause the torque loss I've been feeling LOL
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well..seems like my number #8 plug wire wasnt there.. its missing idk what happened to it but that MIGHT cause the torque loss I've been feeling LOL
pffft, you don't need all eight cylinders. haha
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well I wasstill able to do burnouts fine and spin 2nd so im curious to see what the extra like.. 40hp will feel like. aha
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