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Old Jun 7, 2011 | 02:34 AM
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I bought my first camaro a little over a mouth ago, it is a 2000 z28. All that I have done to it is put magnaflow exhaust on, and I had to pull the heads so while I had them out I had a valve job done on the heads plus I put all new springs in and I had them do a triple angle valve job. I am look at trying to find small relatively cheap upgrades (I am a college student). I had been looking at a K&N CAI but I have been seeing that a lot of you do not use them instead you go with the lids+airbox systems (I have been looking around the forums for a couple of hours ) is there much of a difference between the two or is it just personal preferences? I was also seeing that some people had trouble with the lid hitting the hood, I am looking at replacing the stock hood with something like this (see attachment below) though I am not set about that hood. For the lid+airbox I was looking at something like this http://www.lmperformance.com/3224/1.html? Any input would be much appreciated, or if you have any other good upgrades for under 500.

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Old Jun 7, 2011 | 11:30 PM
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Man this site is cool. I could spend a mouth just looking through this place!
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 02:50 AM
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from what i have seen there are better ram air systems out there than the slp package. SSRA and FTRA seam to be pretty good. For some cheap hp i would get a lid, pptb, and maybe an e-cutout for a nice aggressive bark for your bite. All said and done for about 350-400. You can always pick up the ssra or ftra for another 200 down the line or at the same time. Check out the free mods to free up a few ponies as well. Oh yea congrats on the car.
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 02:06 PM
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from what i have seen there are better ram air systems out there than the slp package. SSRA and FTRA seam to be pretty good. For some cheap hp i would get a lid, pptb, and maybe an e-cutout for a nice aggressive bark for your bite. All said and done for about 350-400. You can always pick up the ssra or ftra for another 200 down the line or at the same time. Check out the free mods to free up a few ponies as well. Oh yea congrats on the car.
Thanks. Yeah i had not seen the SSRA man that looks nice. as far as the lid I am seeing some with the breather hose and some with out it? My stock one has the hose idk if that matters. For PPTB is that something I can do or does it have to be done by a machine shop?
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Old Jun 8, 2011 | 11:26 PM
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what i really want to do is find a ls6 intake
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Old Jun 9, 2011 | 06:02 PM
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what size lid will I need to fit over my stock MAF?
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Old Jun 9, 2011 | 11:01 PM
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get u some longtube headers and a offroad ypipe if u can run without the cats where u live and maybe a torque convetor and a tune and u will b really happy
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