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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrNiceGuy" data-source="post: 409167" data-attributes="member: 9231">man i got a headache from reading all of this 2v crying.. whats the fun in something easy? mod motors are challenging thats what brought me to buy my car.. i have seen a lot of 2v's hit consistent 13's with under 1,000 bucks.. i know a few of you read my post about a friend who was running consistent 11's for 1200 bucks.. if you don't like the 2v sell it and stick with the 302.. wheres the fun in making things easy.. he just wanted to know what would get him into 13's he didnt want to hear a bunch of people telling him hes wasting his time.. i'm sure he knows he can buy a fox for 800 bucks and buy a fast motor/tranny combo for 3k or less.. wheres the fun in that? to run 13s i would get the PI intake, long tubes with o/r H pipe no cats, 4.10's, and some d/r's and if you want spray it.. but have someone tune it.. and dont forget about suspension!!!!if you want a fast NPI they are right it will cost you.. get the heads ported i would definitely get at least the PI intake.. get some stg2 cams (whatever company you like) eaton posi with some good 31 spline axles, sticky tires and a 150 shot then get it tuned.. everything i mentioned can be had at a relatively good price.. just do some searchingand if you want to build a nasty street car get an aluminum explorer block, ported PI heads, ported typhoon intake, cams, longtubes, k-member with coilovers front and back, 90/10's up front 50/50's in the rear, eaton posi with 31 spline axles, 4.10's, slicks with skinnies up front, then get that tuned on a 150 shot.. lighten things up wherever you can.. along with the k-member get some lightweight a-arms some adjustable uca's and lca's a lot of people try and just get a shit ton of hp/tq without a good suspension set-up.. suspension is a big part of running low times.. this set up would not be cheap but you would have a nasty street/strip car if you do some research and wait for some good deals to come along it can be done within a nice budget.. i love nitrous if yall couldn't tell.. i just haven't ventured into turbo or s/c power adders yet.. i'm sure someone will say everything i listed is pointless if you just turbo a PI motor.. but again the fun part is being different and doing things yourself.. doing what everyone else does and whats easy is not fun IMO.. /2vispointlessrant(waits to get jumped on by all the pushrod dinosaurs)</blockquote>