Jucas97

Hey everyone, as you know ive made several posts on here about getting my 95 faster, its my DD so i cant go all out on it. Just say i have 1000$ whats the best thing i could do for the money to get good performance?

93M6Formula

Long tube headers and full exhaust. If you have left over cash, might be able to do 4.10s if you have a 6 speed. If you're an auto, save up for a quality stall.

bufmatmuslepants

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Long tubes, cutout, cold air intake, mail order tune, sticky tires.

Jucas97

just dont have the longtubes. they look more than hard to install. Maybe looks can be deceiving, any trouble getting the manifolds off or getting the longtubes to fit? and how bout non EGR/SMOG pacesetters?

Jucas97

how bout a 2500-3000 stall? Stock internals motor, would 2500 be to much for the street?

Jucas97

I forgot to mention, I have a plug wire that arks under load, there factor wires and plugs. I have the plugs, just haven't gotten around to change them yet. But I was wandering are MSD super conductors worth it? If not I'll just run whatever I can find... I've just heard so many people swear by them. But IMHO it's just wires, they all do the same thing.

bufmatmuslepants

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Get long tubes, not that hard to install, that's normally the first mod anyone does by themself, guys completely new to modding cars do it all the time. Get a buddy and a case of natty light and a pizza, turn on some music, and have fun. While your in there put in eurathane motor and trans mounts, (your stock rubber ones are 20 years old and sagging) and new plugs and wires, this will be the easiest time you'll ever get to do plugs and wires, and long tubes are SO MUCH EASIER to change plugs. I have had good luck with Taylor 8 and 8.2mm wires, much cheaper than 8.5 MSD and will fit in stock location. You can't really progress with mods until you do long tubes, the factory manifolds are like breathing through a straw. The Vette was rated at 300hp with the exact same engine, which goes to show the factory manifolds choke off 25hp from the Vette manifolds, and long tubes are better than those.

For a stall, I don't know much about autos except what fast bolton only guys run, and that's 3200-3600, but it has to be a good converter, I don't know what a good one is. It's kind of thought that anything less than 3000 isn't worth dropping the $800 on. A guy at my track runs a "cop car stall" in his light bolton only lt1 and runs low 12s NA. I don't know what size it is, but he said its higher than stock, and his super budget car runs very well with it.

93M6Formula

Personally, if you're spending money on a stall, don't go less than a 3000. The YankSS3600 is a popular choice and is very streetable. Only cheap crappy stalls have streetability issues.

smitty2919

Full exhaust and dyno tune.

93M6Formula

Do you have emissions checks? That will play a part in what you choose. Headers are not hard to install. If you can turn a wrench, you can install headers. You might invent some new words for your vocabulary but that's part of working on a car.

Jucas97

Fortunately I don't. And okay sounds simple enough.
Car is lowered 1.5" I won't run into any scrapping issues will i?

93M6Formula

Yeah you might, I maybe have 4" of clearance and i'm at stock height. I scrape on inclines sometimes. No way around it really.

1toofastlt1

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here ya go bud. You will also need to pull some timing but this will give you all the power that stock lt1 can handle. Guys run 100hp shot on stock lt1 all day with out any issues
http://www.nitrousoutlet.com/efi-wet...te-system.html

Mystery Bird

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Biggest bang for the buck in acceleration for me were drag radials and a quality high stall torque converter. Which could both be had for $1000.

smitty2919

For a DD and not going too nuts, nitrous is a dumb idea IMO. Sure it will kick you in the pants, but I won't want to mess with all those lines, mounting the bottle and dealing with filling it.

Plus for a DD how often would you realistically use nitrous? ....ok so some guys street race I get that but otherwise it is useless if you don't.

Again, dyno tune and full exhaust (long tube headers) with a CAI will get you around the 300-310 hp mark.

My 95 M6 with 67K mi running full exhaust, custom CAI and dyno tune is 311/346 just for comparison.

FlyinOn4Wheels

Nitrous with $ left over.

camar0corey

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Yeah if he wants to go to the track and knock down some time sure, nitrous.
I had a really nice nitrous setup all ready to go, FJO, Nitrous Outlet plate kit, switch panel, spare tire mount, remote opener, NANO. It was a really well thought out system.

I sold it all, never got further than installing the bottle mount. Why? You don't have the power all the time.

93M6Formula

Apparently noone is reading OPs signature or his original post. It's his DD and he just wants a few more ponies and/or making it quicker.

$1000 will get you a nice set of headers and gears which is what he doesn't have yet. If yhe has an auto, i'd get a stall instead of gears. A quality stall is daily driveable.

BALLSS

OP

3:73 gears and a higher stall TC will "wake up" the car. Think long on what stall RPM...many put high stall 3200-3600 and IMHO that is to much stall for a stock cam DD street car. You should try and get a ride in or drive a F-body with a higher stall so you know what the street feel is. Some feel they are a PIA on the street while others swear by them. If getting a higher stall consider (read get) a external tranny cooler

your car is lowered so "long tube" headers will be challenging for clearance over speed bumps & driveways..you will have to take those sloooow. Mid length headers would be another option

first fix your plug arc problem. if replacing plug wires route them EXACTLY as they are stock in the looms/brackets. Use dialectic grease on plug opti ends in boots

Shownomercy

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Sell LT1 car, buy an LS1 car.

Best performance.