decided i would give my ss to my little brother so i could buy a gto. thank god he bought a bike and didnt want it. i almost lost her, never again im keepin this car till i die

 

+1 to this

 

And another! I sold the idea of getting my SS to my wife by saying how it already has good power and handling stock so there is no reason to jump into mods, HA! I knew better and so did she!

Not too many real mistakes thanks to researching this site first but I ported my stock MAF then had to get another one when I got a tune since it doesnt keep a constant A/F ratio with a ported MAF. And trying to knife edge the throttle body and causing a high idle but I just put a piece of tape over the hole and it is back to normal.

 

my biggest mistake was buying the slp package with my car!! it came with the car when I bought it, I was so excited about getting my car I didnt care...now that I see how much I would of saved. pisses me off! I paid 37 grand for mine brand new with that stupid package

 

trying to fix up my v6 instead of swapping in my ls/lq

 

Ha I almost did that when my dad was going to give me his old 95 V6. Good thing I waited and just bought a V8, still cost less and nets more in the long run.

 

By far not putting konis on years ago Whole new car now

Painting my calipers before sorting out my warped rotors

Not molding in my GFX first time around, and settling for a small 'bead' in the join instead....

Mecham tips, the quality sucks

 

biggest regret was selling my camaro.....

also waisting money on my truck, althought i am in the process of some internal goodies...

 

A POS HyperTech that toasted my PCM, since it took for ever to over write, then my battery died.

Spray painting my calipers with silver VHT.

Still having stock shocks, my car rides like a chariot.

 

Buying Pacesetter headers when I should have saved up for some Stainless Kooks or something else. I have the pacesetters and don't even drive my car in the winter and they are still all rusted.

 

Im a fairly new to having my 02' Camaro z28, about to start bolting up a few things, and after reading up i have to ask, is there anything comparable to GMMG, as in more cost efficient?

 

buy a used catback system; check the classfieds on the board. GMMG and Corsa are the best systems you can get, but it will cost you $1000+ new or $350+ used. other popular systems are borla, hooker, and tsp true duals. check out http://ls1sounds.com/

 

thanks, this will be a while for me though, financially, as im only 19 fresh out of highschool and have been paying for everything since before i was out of school, right now i have a cat clogging up, i think im just gonna go to advanced buy 2 $8 dollar piping and get a bud that has a lift just cut and weld em up just cutting the cats off.

 

im taking a flowmaster catback off on monday if you want it.. just pay for shipping... ill send you pics if interested

 

Haha! My worst would definitely have to be dumping $15,000 into a 2000 v6 Firebird and ending up getting an ls6 camaro and it still being faster. Seriously?
I've had a couple ups and downs so far with the ls6 partly because of the cost of things and the fact that a few of the things I've fixed keep going wrong but other than that I'm definitely glad i found this site!

 

Really? I can deal with rust! I bought pacesetter over Kooks, QTP and the like because I can deff find better places to spend the $600+ that I saved.

DM

 

wow this post started on 01-18-2004, 09:33 PM .....hahahah 6 years later and still going...12-20-2009

 

not finishing my car before getting married.... dang.

 

when buying my rims goin with 17x9 zr1's all way around so i would save money on tires instead of gettin a wider rear.

 

got a quick question: when people are talking about porting the stock MAF, are they referring to the actual MAF or the two metal pieces that bolt to it? i started to port the metal pieces a long time ago, but never finished .

biggest mistake i made was starting off with stock exhaust and 80 series flowmaster, then installing headers only to run them open for a few weeks. got the tsp ory that came with the headers (both used) finally fitted again with said muffler. right before i came home from deployment, i found a set of dynomax bullets F/S really cheap. got home, shop in okc totally fucked up what you'd call an h-pipe. had to get that redone up here in CA and it is finally setup how i want.

so all the changes i have made to my exhaust, i could have bought like 2 sets of TSP duals by now.