What to purchase next?
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What to purchase next? Mods so far on my 99 T/A:
3200 Stall TC, 3.42 gears (on my A4), air lid, 160 t-stat, ngk plugs, tranny cooler, Magnaflow catback, Diablosport Predator
Will be installing soon:
Hooker LT's and Y-pipe
Leaves me with about $3000 to spend. Any recommendations on what it would be best to spend on? Car is a daily driver in summer.
3200 Stall TC, 3.42 gears (on my A4), air lid, 160 t-stat, ngk plugs, tranny cooler, Magnaflow catback, Diablosport Predator
Will be installing soon:
Hooker LT's and Y-pipe
Leaves me with about $3000 to spend. Any recommendations on what it would be best to spend on? Car is a daily driver in summer.
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Originally Posted by foff667
yah heads, cam, 4.10's, tires 
you should be knocking on 10's door at that point
you should be knocking on 10's door at that point id say put some money into the suspension. they say you can pretty much count on putting $1 into the suspension for every $1 you put into the power. frame ties for sure, maybe some BMR's(~$200). then id suggest some some lower control arms(`$100-200) and a nice adjustable panhard rod($100-150). if you want to make power, youve got to control it and get it to the ground. shocks and springs make a big difference too. the stock shocks suck ***. but you couls also do heads and a cam. im getting my stage 2's done for 900 bucks with the valves and seals included(i already have springs, ret., etc.). a cam for maybe 400 and a dyno tune for 450 and you should still have money left over. this is assuming you do all the work yourself of course...
AS, AP & patriot all could sell you a heads/cam kit for under 2 grand...depending on if you install it yourself or not that would be about the end...if you do it yourself and just get tuning done youll have $500 left over for the new gears or suspension work as mentioned.
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Underdrive pulley, FTRA , ported throttle body, Ls6 intake , and a nice cam ,Thats around 1000bucks if you shop around and look (Used)Or you can get a set of Pat Per heads and cam for under 1800.00 and still have money for the ls6 intake and ls1 edit tune.
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I would leave the 3.42 gears in there.
ET streets on stock rims for the track would be a good idea if you dont already have them.
Set of skinnies if you drag race a lot
Are you talking 3K Canadian or US?
ET streets on stock rims for the track would be a good idea if you dont already have them.
Set of skinnies if you drag race a lot
Are you talking 3K Canadian or US?
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Originally Posted by Chris ARE 360
I would leave the 3.42 gears in there.
ET streets on stock rims for the track would be a good idea if you dont already have them.
Set of skinnies if you drag race a lot
Are you talking 3K Canadian or US?
ET streets on stock rims for the track would be a good idea if you dont already have them.
Set of skinnies if you drag race a lot
Are you talking 3K Canadian or US?
suspension mods and more boltons (LS6 intake, underdrive crank/overdrive alt pulley). I have alway felt that head/cam swaps should be done AFTER everything else is done. Otherwise you won't get everything out of your head/cam setup and when you finally do put all the "other stuff" on, you might find that you wish you had a different cam (larger).