First Mods That You Must Do(newbie)
07-18-2007, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by fastvert
If mods were like drugs:
lid = caffeine - just getting you started in the downward spiral, not even a really fun drug
catback = cigarette - like when you stole that single cigarette from your dad and caught a buzz for the first time when you were 13 - the logical next step, better sound and power, now you know what a real buzz feels like and you want more
headers= beer - now you are really feeling a buzz maybe even getting drunk with modding a little. You can buy expensive beer guinness/kooks or cheap beer Pabst blue ribbon/pacesetters its up to you to choose your poison.
intake/throttle body= marijuana - Time to spend more money and congrats now your buzz is illegal, just like when you deleted EGR and AIR and threw away your cats. Uh-oh youve reached the gateway mod...
tune = Ecstasy -you can spend money and get the good **** /good tune or you can skimp out and take your chances on some tune/E that was cooked up in a basement in Mexico
stall/clutch/gears = LSD - you'll be really happy after you do this one, the road will become a blur. unless again you cheap out and then youll be sick when your tranny or rear explodes faster then your heart
heads/cam = mushrooms - youll see and hear new things with your new lopey idle and power
Turbo/supercharger = Cocaine - you gotta be making some cash to afford this drug/mod, but you are really gonna have some fun and be hooked once you try it. youll be up all night working on your car too...
Nitrous = Crack - Cheap, addictive, fun to use and best of all dangerous and addictive. You might end up like bobby and Whitney...
drag radials = detox - this is the most logical mod/drug you ever did! what good is 1000hp or even 5hp unless you can get it to the ground!
lid = caffeine - just getting you started in the downward spiral, not even a really fun drug
catback = cigarette - like when you stole that single cigarette from your dad and caught a buzz for the first time when you were 13 - the logical next step, better sound and power, now you know what a real buzz feels like and you want more
headers= beer - now you are really feeling a buzz maybe even getting drunk with modding a little. You can buy expensive beer guinness/kooks or cheap beer Pabst blue ribbon/pacesetters its up to you to choose your poison.
intake/throttle body= marijuana - Time to spend more money and congrats now your buzz is illegal, just like when you deleted EGR and AIR and threw away your cats. Uh-oh youve reached the gateway mod...
tune = Ecstasy -you can spend money and get the good **** /good tune or you can skimp out and take your chances on some tune/E that was cooked up in a basement in Mexico
stall/clutch/gears = LSD - you'll be really happy after you do this one, the road will become a blur. unless again you cheap out and then youll be sick when your tranny or rear explodes faster then your heart
heads/cam = mushrooms - youll see and hear new things with your new lopey idle and power
Turbo/supercharger = Cocaine - you gotta be making some cash to afford this drug/mod, but you are really gonna have some fun and be hooked once you try it. youll be up all night working on your car too...
Nitrous = Crack - Cheap, addictive, fun to use and best of all dangerous and addictive. You might end up like bobby and Whitney...
drag radials = detox - this is the most logical mod/drug you ever did! what good is 1000hp or even 5hp unless you can get it to the ground!
I was just passing through and thought this was a great post.
and lol @ dudes knowing off hand crack is more expensive than coke.
07-18-2007, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by CAMAROonROIDS
mixed up headers with the intake one ur new headers are more likely to be illegal then a new intake and sry but crack is more exspensive then coke so it deff isnt cheap.
haha I have no idea how much crack costs, but i think its kinda funny that you do...
how bout i wikipedia it?
"Crack is unique because unlike other forms of cocaine, which tend to be extremely expensive, it comes in small and low-priced packages."In the United States, crack cocaine is often sold in small, inexpensive dosage units frequently known as a “blast“ (equivalent to one hit or a dollar's worth), “nickels”, “nickel rocks”, or “bumps“ (referring to the price of $5.00), and also “dimes”, “dime rocks”, or “boulders“ and sometimes as “twenties”, “dubs“, “doves“, “solids", “slabs“ and “forties.”
haha i think you smoked too many "nickel rocks" and have your costs all messed up.. way to try and **** up my joke numb-nuts
07-18-2007, 04:15 PM
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lol very funny
I'd say just include suspension w/ drag radials/tires/slicks and you've got a winner.
somthing simple like changing out shocks could be a key first mod to some. Cause damn these stockers are/were/always just not good.
I'd say just include suspension w/ drag radials/tires/slicks and you've got a winner.
somthing simple like changing out shocks could be a key first mod to some. Cause damn these stockers are/were/always just not good.
07-19-2007, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bama mike
Yep Ya Gotta Get A Lid..i Put An Slp Lid With A Smooth Bellow On My Camaro And...how Does Homer Say It? Woooo Hoooo. Man What A Difference. I Also Did A Strut Tower Brace. Wow...my Baby Gits It And S*&ts It. Its Like It Opened Up Its Guts And Its Handling Is Awsome. Gonna Jus Do Some Bolt Ons Now And See How That Goes. Just Wanted To Share That With Ya All...
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07-19-2007, 04:15 PM
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Just spoke w/ the local LS1 specialist speed shop today at lunch (Simple Quick Racing, Fort Worth TX) and they have me drooling over adding a cam and a set of coated Pacesetter LT's to the SS.
But I failed to ask them...what do you w/ the rest of the exhaust after installing LT's? Do you leave the factory cats and rest of the system?
Or do you go w/ a custom true dual setup?
I would think the 2 into 1 into 2 would be a real bottleneck to big headers.
Please enlighten me, LS1 wizards...
But I failed to ask them...what do you w/ the rest of the exhaust after installing LT's? Do you leave the factory cats and rest of the system?
Or do you go w/ a custom true dual setup?
I would think the 2 into 1 into 2 would be a real bottleneck to big headers.
Please enlighten me, LS1 wizards...
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07-20-2007, 01:53 PM
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Well im glad all of ya'll felt a difference from the LT's, because I sure as hell didn't. I might have only picked up 10hp at the most. My car isn't noticeably faster at all. I dont even like my car anymore. I just wasted a lot of money...
07-20-2007, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TLUZLS1
Well im glad all of ya'll felt a difference from the LT's, because I sure as hell didn't. I might have only picked up 10hp at the most. My car isn't noticeably faster at all. I dont even like my car anymore. I just wasted a lot of money...
i've heard the slp are the worst
buddy of mine has got jet hot's on his ls1 formy and they made a big diff for him i think thats what i'm gonna get
07-20-2007, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 99HorseSlayer
what lt's?
i've heard the slp are the worst
buddy of mine has got jet hot's on his ls1 formy and they made a big diff for him i think thats what i'm gonna get
i've heard the slp are the worst
buddy of mine has got jet hot's on his ls1 formy and they made a big diff for him i think thats what i'm gonna get
To TLUZLS1:Tuning makes all the difference on a headers install.Headers are one piece of the full exhaust system.So small gains will be had from just headers.But a H/C/FI/Nitrous or any combo of those with reap the rewards.Im not mad cause my car only picked up 12rwhp from a lid/catback and no tune(Guesstimation).Thats what I paid for.
07-21-2007, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by 99HorseSlayer
what lt's?
i've heard the slp are the worst
buddy of mine has got jet hot's on his ls1 formy and they made a big diff for him i think thats what i'm gonna get
i've heard the slp are the worst
buddy of mine has got jet hot's on his ls1 formy and they made a big diff for him i think thats what i'm gonna get
Originally Posted by six_string_wiz
I think the only issues with SLP LTs is the clearance,which hurts lowered cars.Power gains are on par.
To TLUZLS1:Tuning makes all the difference on a headers install.Headers are one piece of the full exhaust system.So small gains will be had from just headers.But a H/C/FI/Nitrous or any combo of those with reap the rewards.Im not mad cause my car only picked up 12rwhp from a lid/catback and no tune(Guesstimation).Thats what I paid for.
To TLUZLS1:Tuning makes all the difference on a headers install.Headers are one piece of the full exhaust system.So small gains will be had from just headers.But a H/C/FI/Nitrous or any combo of those with reap the rewards.Im not mad cause my car only picked up 12rwhp from a lid/catback and no tune(Guesstimation).Thats what I paid for.
07-21-2007, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by TLUZLS1
I have coated pacesetter long tubes.
Well I put one the pacesetters and tsp y-pipe and im also tuned. I only put down 332/351 SAE (326/338 baseline) with all the mods in my sig. Im losing/beating cars the same as before the LT's and tune.
Well I put one the pacesetters and tsp y-pipe and im also tuned. I only put down 332/351 SAE (326/338 baseline) with all the mods in my sig. Im losing/beating cars the same as before the LT's and tune.
07-22-2007, 10:07 AM
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does your exhaust preform as well as your headers and y?have you tried changing it?a bud went from full exhaust with a magnaflow cat back to same setup but lm1 and got almost 8 more hp next time he dyno's
07-22-2007, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by fastvert
If mods were like drugs:
lid = caffeine - just getting you started in the downward spiral, not even a really fun drug
catback = cigarette - like when you stole that single cigarette from your dad and caught a buzz for the first time when you were 13 - the logical next step, better sound and power, now you know what a real buzz feels like and you want more
headers= beer - now you are really feeling a buzz maybe even getting drunk with modding a little. You can buy expensive beer guinness/kooks or cheap beer Pabst blue ribbon/pacesetters its up to you to choose your poison.
intake/throttle body= marijuana - Time to spend more money and congrats now your buzz is illegal, just like when you deleted EGR and AIR and threw away your cats. Uh-oh youve reached the gateway mod...
tune = Ecstasy -you can spend money and get the good **** /good tune or you can skimp out and take your chances on some tune/E that was cooked up in a basement in Mexico
stall/clutch/gears = LSD - you'll be really happy after you do this one, the road will become a blur. unless again you cheap out and then youll be sick when your tranny or rear explodes faster then your heart
heads/cam = mushrooms - youll see and hear new things with your new lopey idle and power
Turbo/supercharger = Cocaine - you gotta be making some cash to afford this drug/mod, but you are really gonna have some fun and be hooked once you try it. youll be up all night working on your car too...
Nitrous = Crack - Cheap, addictive, fun to use and best of all dangerous and addictive. You might end up like bobby and Whitney...
drag radials = detox - this is the most logical mod/drug you ever did! what good is 1000hp or even 5hp unless you can get it to the ground!
lid = caffeine - just getting you started in the downward spiral, not even a really fun drug
catback = cigarette - like when you stole that single cigarette from your dad and caught a buzz for the first time when you were 13 - the logical next step, better sound and power, now you know what a real buzz feels like and you want more
headers= beer - now you are really feeling a buzz maybe even getting drunk with modding a little. You can buy expensive beer guinness/kooks or cheap beer Pabst blue ribbon/pacesetters its up to you to choose your poison.
intake/throttle body= marijuana - Time to spend more money and congrats now your buzz is illegal, just like when you deleted EGR and AIR and threw away your cats. Uh-oh youve reached the gateway mod...
tune = Ecstasy -you can spend money and get the good **** /good tune or you can skimp out and take your chances on some tune/E that was cooked up in a basement in Mexico
stall/clutch/gears = LSD - you'll be really happy after you do this one, the road will become a blur. unless again you cheap out and then youll be sick when your tranny or rear explodes faster then your heart
heads/cam = mushrooms - youll see and hear new things with your new lopey idle and power
Turbo/supercharger = Cocaine - you gotta be making some cash to afford this drug/mod, but you are really gonna have some fun and be hooked once you try it. youll be up all night working on your car too...
Nitrous = Crack - Cheap, addictive, fun to use and best of all dangerous and addictive. You might end up like bobby and Whitney...
drag radials = detox - this is the most logical mod/drug you ever did! what good is 1000hp or even 5hp unless you can get it to the ground!
Been hooked for 4 years... i need help!
07-22-2007, 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by TLUZLS1
I have coated pacesetter long tubes.
Well I put one the pacesetters and tsp y-pipe and im also tuned. I only put down 332/351 SAE (326/338 baseline) with all the mods in my sig. Im losing/beating cars the same as before the LT's and tune.
Well I put one the pacesetters and tsp y-pipe and im also tuned. I only put down 332/351 SAE (326/338 baseline) with all the mods in my sig. Im losing/beating cars the same as before the LT's and tune.
07-22-2007, 02:42 PM
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Man.. i'm buying a trans am with a lid and exhaust already on it... so i not gonna feel a difference... oh well atleast i'm didn't have to buy and put the **** on! We are all just so damn lucky they made the LS1.
07-22-2007, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 78novacaine
not to get too far off topic but were you at the kemah meet last night? i saw a car that looked just like yours pulling in. we were in the pewter formy. car looked/sounded pretty good
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Originally Posted by fastvert
If mods were like drugs:
lid = caffeine - just getting you started in the downward spiral, not even a really fun drug
catback = cigarette - like when you stole that single cigarette from your dad and caught a buzz for the first time when you were 13 - the logical next step, better sound and power, now you know what a real buzz feels like and you want more
headers= beer - now you are really feeling a buzz maybe even getting drunk with modding a little. You can buy expensive beer guinness/kooks or cheap beer Pabst blue ribbon/pacesetters its up to you to choose your poison.
intake/throttle body= marijuana - Time to spend more money and congrats now your buzz is illegal, just like when you deleted EGR and AIR and threw away your cats. Uh-oh youve reached the gateway mod...
tune = Ecstasy -you can spend money and get the good **** /good tune or you can skimp out and take your chances on some tune/E that was cooked up in a basement in Mexico
stall/clutch/gears = LSD - you'll be really happy after you do this one, the road will become a blur. unless again you cheap out and then youll be sick when your tranny or rear explodes faster then your heart
heads/cam = mushrooms - youll see and hear new things with your new lopey idle and power
Turbo/supercharger = Cocaine - you gotta be making some cash to afford this drug/mod, but you are really gonna have some fun and be hooked once you try it. youll be up all night working on your car too...
Nitrous = Crack - Cheap, addictive, fun to use and best of all dangerous and addictive. You might end up like bobby and Whitney...
drag radials = detox - this is the most logical mod/drug you ever did! what good is 1000hp or even 5hp unless you can get it to the ground!
lid = caffeine - just getting you started in the downward spiral, not even a really fun drug
catback = cigarette - like when you stole that single cigarette from your dad and caught a buzz for the first time when you were 13 - the logical next step, better sound and power, now you know what a real buzz feels like and you want more
headers= beer - now you are really feeling a buzz maybe even getting drunk with modding a little. You can buy expensive beer guinness/kooks or cheap beer Pabst blue ribbon/pacesetters its up to you to choose your poison.
intake/throttle body= marijuana - Time to spend more money and congrats now your buzz is illegal, just like when you deleted EGR and AIR and threw away your cats. Uh-oh youve reached the gateway mod...
tune = Ecstasy -you can spend money and get the good **** /good tune or you can skimp out and take your chances on some tune/E that was cooked up in a basement in Mexico
stall/clutch/gears = LSD - you'll be really happy after you do this one, the road will become a blur. unless again you cheap out and then youll be sick when your tranny or rear explodes faster then your heart
heads/cam = mushrooms - youll see and hear new things with your new lopey idle and power
Turbo/supercharger = Cocaine - you gotta be making some cash to afford this drug/mod, but you are really gonna have some fun and be hooked once you try it. youll be up all night working on your car too...
Nitrous = Crack - Cheap, addictive, fun to use and best of all dangerous and addictive. You might end up like bobby and Whitney...
drag radials = detox - this is the most logical mod/drug you ever did! what good is 1000hp or even 5hp unless you can get it to the ground!