($800 dollar budget for 99z28 with miniumal mods.)

Hey I am thinking about dropping a few bucks into the baby before i head off to school. I have about a 800 dollar budget. I have a lid/ported and polished TB/Headers/ORYP/Hooker Catback. I am debating what I want/need next. Let me know what your guys think would be a good investment.

Thanks for the help,
John Melamed

 

intake
cam kit
clutch
suspension

all depends on your goals

 

Maybe gears & tuning.

 

This is a no brainer.

150 shot of nitrous!

 

Exactly my thoughts! If you dont want spray, I suggest gears.

 

nitrous

 

Do you think my stock clutch will hold nitrous? I have thought about n2o before but unsure due to clutch and other little misc things. What kit do u suggest, id be hiding it BIG TIME... If anyone has anything for sale as well as n20 stuff, let me know.

Thanks,
John Melamed

 

Intake. Ls1 Edit tune.

 

Either a cam and a tune or an LS6 intake and a tune.

 

I'm sorry, but how can you do a cam and a tune for $800????????? Keeping in mind that you need to swap things such as the springs when you go to a larger cam...............



Can you do installs yourself??

 

I'd do the boring preventative mantenance/strengthening stuff first. I think I've decided to do that after I rework my exhaust. Anyways...SFCs, shifter/short stick, PCV catch-can. You could do those three with your budget and still have some leftover for whatever. How about a Ram-air/CAI kit?

Justin

 

Lots of folks have stuff for sale. You can check out what they're selling in the "Part For Sale" forum on this site


CHEERS!!!
Justin

 

$800

$400 LS1 hot cam/LS6 cam
$50 Gasket set
$00 self install
$350 plenty for a tune and some beer

done

 

I suppose if you have every tool needed for a cam install (there are several most people will have to buy/borrow/rent), someone who can dyno tune for $350 (that is a little low I think), you get a great deal on a new hotcam/spring kit (usually seems to go for a little over $400 I think), you don't count how shipping would go over, and you don't want a "real" cam then you could do that. I think it is more highly recommended that you get a bigger cam than that so you don't leave a lot of power on the table and change later. A full kit from a sponsor is usually a minimum of $600-$750. That is not far off though..........if you can scrape a little more together get a cam kit from TSP and the mail order tune they do for ~$250 with cam purchase is a great deal. That's my vote

 

Im thinking the n20 is what im going to choose. cheap and its going to make me some cash in the long run.

Thanks for the help,
John Melamed

 

Atta boy!

Check out our classified section. I thought I just saw a brand new NX kit for sale. A 100 shot will drop 1 second and add 10mph to a basically stock LS1.

 

That's not a bad choice at all. I myself was SOOOO close to getting a NOS 5177 dry kit this summer and got a converter instead. I am just partial to cams, I absolutely LOVE the sound of a V8 loping along on a big cam through a nice exhaust system
That's why i got the converter in part, cause now I can get a big cam next year. But hey the flip of a switch to make your car a full second quicker doesn't sound too shabby, now does it?