Cheap Horsepower?

[Ferocious]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

having done all that, and seen a lot of feedback, don't waist your money on underdrives and the TB will do nothing for you with the PI setup, there's no restriction there. Flows are nice for the sound.

don't believe the advertising hype from parts companies

what parts would you recommend i get?

 

[RockstarMentality]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

thanks to anyone who helped. how does getting new gears (4:10 im leaning towards), a cold air intake, underdrive pulleys, a 70mm throttle body, and maybe an o/r h-pipe to really set of my flowmasters. im estimating thats at least 35hp+ and a much more fun/responsive car i'll have.

am i at least somewhat accurate with what i said? lol

You'd be lucky to see 20hp.
If you're looking to improve your acceleration, ill join the bandwagon here and say pick up some gears. If you're looking to add horsepower, the cheapest hp/dollar is, hands down, nitrous. but unless you're racing, youll probly never use it.
$300 is nothing at all to drop in the engine bay. It will buy you 7-8 hp with a CAI, maybe.

Subscribed, i guess

 

[mikey94gt]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Gears and a shifter! unless you have a shifter, then youre good..... 4:10 is a good choice, I think they will work good with the high winding 4.6

 

[Knuckles@Empire]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

nitrous

i believe this question was already answered.

 

[Dalamar]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

having done all that, and seen a lot of feedback, don't waist your money on underdrives and the TB will do nothing for you with the PI setup, there's no restriction there. Flows are nice for the sound.

don't believe the advertising hype from parts companies

what parts would you recommend i get?

I did post some info above, so what I would recommend is:
Gears = torque multiplication
CAI - removes some restriction, gains some HP
Mufflers - removes a little more restriction, main benefit = good sound

That's a good place to start
my above posts have more info for power recommendations beyond that.

 

[Smigjo]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Swap in a Cobra engine. Nah, but have you gotten Longtube Headers yet? Those help.

 

[Twista]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

no such thing

why bother posting if you're not going to help.

:dontknow: I posted from what i know. Cheap horsepower = nothing really for our cars. You can get a cheap Cold air intake, but the HP gain is nothing. :dontknow:

 

[Ferocious]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

:dontknow: I posted from what i know. Cheap horsepower = nothing really for our cars. You can get a cheap Cold air intake, but the HP gain is nothing. :dontknow:

i understand. but i know there has to be some sort of way to get better perforance out of my car for cheap. i just want to find the easiest and cheapest way to do so.

 

[95MustangGT]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

What do you consider cheap? Less than $1000, $500, $250, etc.? All of the recommendations so far have been good, but most "cheap" mods that I know of are still in the $250-$750 range unless you are buying used and doing the installs yourself.

 

[95opal]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Wet kit, cheap and easy..as for the comment about not using it if your not at the track...well then you my friend have wasted your money. Nothing wrong with spraying a 100 shot on the street trust me

 

[Ferocious]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

What do you consider cheap? Less than $1000, $500, $250, etc.? All of the recommendations so far have been good, but most "cheap" mods that I know of are still in the $250-$750 range unless you are buying used and doing the installs yourself.

around 500-750 is at most what id be willing to spend. any advise?

 

[95MustangGT]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

You could get a pretty good Nitrous kit for that price. Gears, installed, falls within that price as well, around here at least. I think the last time I priced a gear change for my truck it was $500, that did not include the cost of the gears. A shifter and CAI would fall in that price range also, I think. That's probably about it. If you look in the classifieds here and on other forums you may be able to find some of this stuff used for a little cheaper and get more for your money. It all depends on what your plans are and what you are looking for.

Shaun

 

[g36 monkey]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

I will say shifter. Faster shifts + more fun driving. Got in my buddys the other day with a stock setup and felt like I was driving a truck lol. Had gotten so used to the MGW ;p

Obviously the gears
I would say save up and get the PI h/c/i

$1000 under the hood really is not much. it takes a few grand to rake out about 100hp legitimately.
Tuning on a dyno will help you get the most out of these mods btw ;p

 

[RockstarMentality]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Wet kit, cheap and easy..as for the comment about not using it if your not at the track...well then you my friend have wasted your money. Nothing wrong with spraying a 100 shot on the street trust me

I never said he wont be spraying on the street, i said he wont be spraying unless he's racing lol

 

[Ferocious]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

it's $500 to change your gears? why so expensive :dontknow:

 

[g36 monkey]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Thats if you dont replace the diff or do a full rebuild. You need special tools, and you have to break open the rear end etc.

Some mechanics won't do it because it does require specialty tools.
The shop my parents take their cars to won't do it, they have someone come in.

 

[Knuckles@Empire]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

you want a NOS kit i have a single wet shot nozzle kit i may sell pm and youll have money left over.

 

[foofinator]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Don't spend money on dink bolt-ons. These (96-98) GT's are absolute dogs that in general do not respond to bolt ons. You will still be the slowest car at the stoplights with full bolt ons.

PI swap is an OK idea, I did it and it helped quite a bit, but it's not cheap.

Nitrous, yes, I think is a great option. http://www.dynotunenitrous.com Their generic dry kit is an inexpensive option, but remember, you'll need an expensive dyno tune. Even with a wet kit IMHO. Infact, paying for the chip now and the tuning is a good idea, you'll need it for any of this.

The best bet is to put that 750 bucks back and save for some forced induction. On 3 Performance makes a cheap turbo kit for our cars for I believe ~2000 that will whoop any other option.

http://www.on3performance.com/mustanggt2v.html
"Trapped 120.5mph on ~8-9psi, 12.13@ 119.50"

You could be the first in history to understand this and instead of doing it the hard way, do it right the first time and not do it twice! I know I regret my T/B, CAI, electric water pump, MSD ignition etc... I could have had the turbo kit! I only run high thirteens off the spray.

 

[Ferocious]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Don't spend money on dink bolt-ons. These (96-98) GT's are absolute dogs that in general do not respond to bolt ons. You will still be the slowest car at the stoplights with full bolt ons.

PI swap is an OK idea, I did it and it helped quite a bit, but it's not cheap.

Nitrous, yes, I think is a great option. http://www.dynotunenitrous.com Their generic dry kit is an inexpensive option, but remember, you'll need an expensive dyno tune. Even with a wet kit IMHO. Infact, paying for the chip now and the tuning is a good idea, you'll need it for any of this.

The best bet is to put that 750 bucks back and save for some forced induction. On 3 Performance makes a cheap turbo kit for our cars for I believe ~2000 that will whoop any other option.

http://www.on3performance.com/mustanggt2v.html
"Trapped 120.5mph on ~8-9psi, 12.13@ 119.50"

You could be the first in history to understand this and instead of doing it the hard way, do it right the first time and not do it twice! I know I regret my T/B, CAI, electric water pump, MSD ignition etc... I could have had the turbo kit! I only run high thirteens off the spray.

this actually doesnt sound like a bad idea. your saying instead of dumping small amounts of money into mods that practically wont do anything, i should wait til i get more money, and throw a turbo kit in my car?
if i were to do that, i would probably save most of my money, yet at the same time i want to change the exterior look of my car a bit (eg. new hood, lowering springs, new spoiler, rims&tires),

 

[foofinator]

Re: How to get cheap horsepower?

Don't spend money on dink bolt-ons. These (96-98) GT's are absolute dogs that in general do not respond to bolt ons. You will still be the slowest car at the stoplights with full bolt ons.

PI swap is an OK idea, I did it and it helped quite a bit, but it's not cheap.

Nitrous, yes, I think is a great option. http://www.dynotunenitrous.com Their generic dry kit is an inexpensive option, but remember, you'll need an expensive dyno tune. Even with a wet kit IMHO. Infact, paying for the chip now and the tuning is a good idea, you'll need it for any of this.

The best bet is to put that 750 bucks back and save for some forced induction. On 3 Performance makes a cheap turbo kit for our cars for I believe ~2000 that will whoop any other option.

http://www.on3performance.com/mustanggt2v.html
"Trapped 120.5mph on ~8-9psi, 12.13@ 119.50"

You could be the first in history to understand this and instead of doing it the hard way, do it right the first time and not do it twice! I know I regret my T/B, CAI, electric water pump, MSD ignition etc... I could have had the turbo kit! I only run high thirteens off the spray.

this actually doesnt sound like a bad idea. your saying instead of dumping small amounts of money into mods that practically wont do anything, i should wait til i get more money, and throw a turbo kit in my car?
if i were to do that, i would probably save most of my money, yet at the same time i want to change the exterior look of my car a bit (eg. new hood, lowering springs, new spoiler, rims&tires),

Haha. That's exactly what I'm doing right now.