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Old May 1, 2010 | 06:17 PM
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well for gxp rachies birthday, i decided to go ahead and pay to get her car dynotuned at a friends local shop. he will be tuning the car with hp tuner software, one of my main questions is, upon increasing the line pressure of the transmission will a shift kit still be neccessary.? also we will be doing a electric cutout on the car a month or so afterwards and am also curious if we will have to re dyno tune?....also what numbers can be expected, car currently has a custom pvc 3inch fwi intake with a monster cone filter on it and a 3inch downpipe back to the stock y and stock mufflers.
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See how you like the feel of the increased line pressure and go from there. If it feels good to you, you don't need a shift kit. If you want more "chirp", then a shift-kit is less than $50 to buy, maybe x2 to get it installed.

For the cutout, yes, you'd need a retune to maximize performance, as you would with any mod that increases what's going in or out of an engine.

Whether or not you'd feel a difference between tuned w/o cutout versus tuned with cutout is another story, however.
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Old May 3, 2010 | 08:31 AM
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It depends on the placement of your cutout. If you place it too close to the cutout then you'll have tuning issues.
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Old May 18, 2010 | 10:43 AM
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ok i just got the 3 inch cutout. where would be the best place to weld it in at...getting tuned this saturday
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Old May 18, 2010 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by geight8you
ok i just got the 3 inch cutout. where would be the best place to weld it in at...getting tuned this saturday
I had mine right by the rear control arms. It's up to you though.
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Is there any downside to putting it before the cat?
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Is there any downside to putting it before the cat?
The only downside is still having a cat. Get rid of that thing lol
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Old May 18, 2010 | 07:17 PM
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^agreed lol. the downpipe on the gxp goes all the way back to the gas tank where the pipe starts to bend around into the y. i think im going to put it there....
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The only downside is still having a cat. Get rid of that thing lol
lol already done
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If you put it before the O2 or too close it will murder your tuning, unless you run open loop like I do.
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