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Old 03-16-2010, 02:58 PM
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My headers are on the way and I'm curious about what kind of gains to expect. Yes I have already searched but mostly see hp numbers which help but also what kind of track gains or "car lengths" can I expect lol ? I already have a LM1 catback and will be putting on an ory made by a local exhaust shop. Yes I know it will probably be loud but we'll see. Let me know what you guys think I can expect .... ? Also what kind of gains with the LTs and a programmer ? I will be probably be borrowing one from a friend next week along with the LTs to run a pony on bottle that barely got me lol
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dont do the hand held i would go get a dyno tune or atleast a mail order
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I have no plans on keeping the handheld on my car .... I will be getting hp tuners soon I'm just borrowing the programmer for the weekend as a lil back up for hopefully a few extra hp ....
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I put on lt's,ory and a tune by Frost at the same time. It Really woke the car up. It's a bit loud at wot. But I'm ok with that. I think the LM1 cat back sounds good. Most hate it though.
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Originally Posted by 1gt2nv
I put on lt's,ory and a tune by Frost at the same time. It Really woke the car up. It's a bit loud at wot. But I'm ok with that. I think the LM1 cat back sounds good. Most hate it though.
I like it. yeah, the car will wake up quite a bit, OP. Don't expect it to be a night and day difference though...
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Yeah I like the sound of my loud mouth so far .... I don't expect it to be a whole different car my car already hangs with most full bolt on cars right now so I guess I'm lucky with it so far . I was just curious of what kind of gain I will make .... I see most people get close to 20 hp untuned and hope for close to that . What kind of gains have most of you seen at the track or side by side comparison in car lengths before n after ?
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well stock my car with a auto ran 13.4@104-105 in 2002 with cat back and hypertech powerprogrammer and lid 13.1@ 107-109s solid @and drag radials. With headers did about 111ish at soid 12.8s all day long.
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That's good to hear . I haven't got to run this car down the quarter mile yet but am hoping to get into the 12s when I do .
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Originally Posted by 02ws602wrx
well stock my car with a auto ran 13.4@104-105 in 2002 with cat back and hypertech powerprogrammer and lid 13.1@ 107-109s solid @and drag radials. With headers did about 111ish at soid 12.8s all day long.
thats a high trap speed for the mods. impressive.
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I ran my car at the 1/8th mile track again to see what I could do before I installed the headers I seem to have a pretty high trap speed as well .... 8.69 at 83.38 .... only mods for power are lid and cat back ....




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