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Old 06-09-2008, 12:16 AM
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I already have....
SLP lid, Fast toys ram air, Smooth bellows, Magnaflow cat-back and a heatspeed TB spacer (it came with the car)

anyways, what else should I have done with the 2,000?
I was thinkn a Ported TB, but i cant find a Shaner one... anyways any suggestions are good.
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What do you wanna do with your car. I would say longtube headers and an ory pipe to start. I don't know what year your car is, but an ls6 intake upgrade is one of the best bang for the buck mods. That would leave you with around 1500, if you already have an ls6 intake. You could go a lot of places from there, nice suspension set up. Cam/install/tune, might need some extra money in there. Need more info.
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my car is an 01 so it already has the LS6 intake mani. But how much would it be to have LTs,and ORY installed?
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If you have 2 grand, just do the rear end while you can. Then you will have a solid foundation to work on.
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Originally Posted by SpeederSS
my car is an 01 so it already has the LS6 intake mani. But how much would it be to have LTs,and ORY installed?
Figure around 500 or so for the lt's with ory and install depends on who you have do it but it ranges from 150-300...Its really not that hard to install them yourself which is what I did
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I dont have the tools or space to work on my car. Or i would do it myself lol. anyone know any good shops in FL?
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Originally Posted by krazy4
If you have 2 grand, just do the rear end while you can. Then you will have a solid foundation to work on.
Agree 100%
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I say get some Pacesetter LT's w/ ORY and a cam like the 224R or bigger. You might be a little over the 2K if you get it tuned though.
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most people mentioned this but this is my advice: gears, LT's, Y pipe, Tune and maybe a nice camshaft, and later heads
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+1 for rear end...sucks to have all that power and not be able to use it
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I wouldn't do the rear axle first. If you do break it a used one can be found at the junkyard for $150-300 usually. That would get you back on the road pretty easily. If anything set that aside for a rainy day and do some power mods with the rest like others are saying (exhaust, etc).
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id say exhaust b/c i cant stand the stock exhaust. literally with in 30 minutes of owning my car the exhaust was switched out to my borla. id say headers, ypipe, catback.
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I'd say koni shocks, best mod I ever did to my car. Got rid of all that bobbing and floating, made me a lot more confident in the car.
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^^^^ What kind of konis? i hate the bobbing?? oh yeah. if i had 2g's to blow on the car i guess i would just save up for something i really wanted. i have been contimplating putting an sts kit on may car. with 2k i would be halfway there!
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Originally Posted by ZHAWK154
^^^^ What kind of konis? i hate the bobbing?? oh yeah. if i had 2g's to blow on the car i guess i would just save up for something i really wanted. i have been contimplating putting an sts kit on may car. with 2k i would be halfway there!
You can get a used kit
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for 2200 hundred bucks i was able to buy everything in my sig minus the suspension stuff, but i installed everything myself, nothing is too hard to do and worth spending money for someone else to do.
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don't listen to any of these newbs, except the koni guy...

the biggest mistake i made with my car was going power first...

...get some konis and suspension mods, and longtubes/ory, then you'll have a little left over and power/power to the ground which is more important

but for god's sake DONT DO A FREAKING CAM
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+1 with the suspension, whts the point in makeing all tht power if u cant get it to the ground
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Originally Posted by ZHAWK154
^^^^ What kind of konis? i hate the bobbing?? oh yeah. if i had 2g's to blow on the car i guess i would just save up for something i really wanted. i have been contimplating putting an sts kit on may car. with 2k i would be halfway there!
Koni Single adjustables. You can buy them from here: http://www.stranoparts.com/partdetai...ID=0&ModelID=7
Sam Strano can explain everything you need to know and then some, give him a call.

I also vote for Konis. Hands down the single best mod you can do to these cars.
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I vote rearend. Seems to be the weakest link so thats where I would start. Breaking rearends sucks when your anywhere but in your driveway. The tow bill and finding a replacement and going through the crap of putting it in and then still having a stock one.. or just having a nice one that will never break. You can steepen up your gear ratio which will feel like a 100hp gain (depending on what you had). I went from 3:36 open to 4:10 posi and the difference is amazing. Better then most any bolt on mod I can think of for the price..



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