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Old 07-19-2013, 06:23 AM
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Have fun beating up on the 5th gens and 5.0s lol. A tune really wakes up these cars with the A6 tranny.
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Old 07-20-2013, 12:29 AM
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Have fun beating up on the 5th gens and 5.0s lol. A tune really wakes up these cars with the A6 tranny.
Where do you find a lot or aftermarket stuff for these cara and who tunes them.
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Old 07-20-2013, 01:57 AM
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Summit, thunder racing, plus the advertisements on the right ========>
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Old 07-20-2013, 06:53 PM
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You got Diablo sport, superchips and a bunch of others for tuning. Livernois motorsports has a website they sell alot of parts for your car.
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Maryland Speed has a lot of mods for the G8 and good prices too.
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Old 07-21-2013, 02:19 AM
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What's the cai everybody is running on these cars
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Old 07-21-2013, 03:10 PM
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Rotofab or Vararam.
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Not sure about budget, but headers/exhaust, intake & dyno tune will make a real difference. Best headers for these cars are American Racing Headers or Kooks. Roto-Fab & Vararam are the popular CAIs. Nice GXP by the way. Sounds like you got a nice deal.
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Originally Posted by LSnights09
Not sure about budget, but headers/exhaust, intake & dyno tune will make a real difference. Best headers for these cars are American Racing Headers or Kooks. Roto-Fab & Vararam are the popular CAIs. Nice GXP by the way. Sounds like you got a nice deal.
I had a new 5.0 with a whipple and full exhaust. But I don't want to go that far with this car. I think I just want cai and axle back but I don't want one with drone but there are no g8s around here so i have nothing to go off of.
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Old 07-22-2013, 08:16 AM
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congrats on the new ride... these are hard to find...
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Old 07-22-2013, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by BR02SS
Where do you find a lot or aftermarket stuff for these cara and who tunes them.
First let me start by saying congrats on the new purchase! Gorgeous looking car. As far as modifications go, we can do anything and everything you'd ever want done! Are there any specific power goals? ET goals? I attached a link to a few of our G8 packages that we offer. You can custom tailor these to your specific wants or needs as well. Feel free to PM me with any questions of concerns. Enjoy the new car! -Chris

http://www.livernoismotorsports.com/...lly-Aspirated/
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Old 07-22-2013, 10:20 AM
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When i bought my car with 49k miles on it, about 1000 miles after i got it the lifters collapsed and it took two months for the dealership to finish the car.

If i bought another one i would remove all the DOD stuff as fast as possible.
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Originally Posted by BR02SS
I had a new 5.0 with a whipple and full exhaust. But I don't want to go that far with this car. I think I just want cai and axle back but I don't want one with drone but there are no g8s around here so i have nothing to go off of.
Solo Axlebacks, hands down. Built nicely and they have J-pipes to eliminate droning. I had these before I went to headers.
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Only complaint about my girls G8 is the shifting in sport/manual mode is a bit slow and dim witted at times.
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Most of the big vendors offer stuff for our cars. Most of the l99 or ls3 stuff works too for internal and intake manifold stuff. Headers and intake will need to. Obviously headers and intake will be vehicle specific. Between intakes Vararam and Rotofab are the most popular, and Headers best are American Racing and Kooks.
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He has the Gxp ls3 so he don't have dod.
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Old 07-22-2013, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by OneSlowV
He has the Gxp ls3 so he don't have dod.
I just asked this ? In the other thread. I was noticing everybody talking about the dod were gt guys.
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Must have missed that its a GXP. No DOD to worry about.
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Old 07-23-2013, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 09MGMG8
Must have missed that its a GXP. No DOD to worry about.
Is there any issues with the gxp
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Not really as far the engine goes. The DOD lifters were the main issue, but only in GTs.
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