You can get your throttle body ported for about $100 and an electric cutout from www.quicktimeperformance.com

It'll probably run you a little over $250, but nothing drastic. Those 2 will give you about 15+rwhp

 

see the thing is where i live in New Jersey Englishtown is the closest track at 20 mins and if u have a cut out u have to run in thr unmuffled class and can't use it in the muffled class on friday and saturday night when i would be goin the most. Any other ideas besides the ported throttle body? I go to school and work a part time job making about 120 a week

 

the thing that kills me is makin my monthly payments of 355 a month for the next five years I love the camaro so much it doesn't bother me to pay it kills when it comes to mods though it usually takes about two-three months to save up for a 250-300 dollar mod

 

Thats exactly why you need an electric cutout. You roll into the box with it closed, to meet their decibal levels. As you take off, flip the switch and it opens up so you are uncapped for the rest of the 1/4 mile.

Thats supposed to give you the best performance anyhow, closed for launch, open the rest of the way.

Also the QTEC comes with the option of having a quick switch where you click it and it opens really fast, as opposed to the normal QTEC that takes about 5 seconds to open.

Also around town its pretty fun to have an electric cutout, ricer pulls up, open it up.....Cop pulls up, close it up

 

BTW $120 a week isn't that bad, I only get about $180 on a good week, $75 on a bad week Lately its been all bad weeks

I feel your pain with taking forever to buy mods, because of monthly payments.....I have been saving up for a little while for those QTP headers, and with my income tax return I should just about have enough to get them.

 

Hey guys I was wondering wut your opinion is on this set up and which do you think I should go for. Hooker Long tube headers for 409 with a hooker y-pipe for 169. Or shorty headers by hooker for 269, with a electric cut out, or random technology high flow cats with bolt in y pipe. which of these do u think wud b best


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80 series flowmaster muffler
black rear inserts avs tailshades
Cowl Induction hood

 

Ricekiller...

As the others here have said, don't bother spending the money & time on shortys. If you can't spend the extra $$ now, for full long tubes, then just wait until you can. It's just not worth it to do the shortys.

The choices on cut-outs or cats is up to you. If you need to have cats, or just preffer to run them, the RT 810000 Ceramics or the 700000 Metallics will work quite well. The 700000 series Metallics are the newest , smallest & highest flowing cats you can use.

Gordon

 

Don't forget your gonna need coating for those hooker headers, you don't want your investment to rust away on you.

Like I said before I would get your TB ported and go with the electric cutout, save up for a few months and get yourself a set of LTs

 

What if I'm cheap and don't want to get them coated would they rust and rot fast? Do you think that a muffler shop would coat them for me before they put them on. A ported throttle body? thats a possibilty I am jus gunna start savin everything i have now for the hooker long tubes so if i did get it ported I woould get it after headers. Now with long tube headers I would need a y pipe so I wud have catalytic converter? is there anyway to keep the stock converter and jus put the headers and y pipe on? I know its a lotta questions but this is a major investment for me and I jus wanna know all the facts before i spend the money.

 

Will they rust and fall apart? Probably not, but they will look ugly, and possibly hinder some performance, I doubt anything noticiable. I've seen a set of uncoated macs once, man they were gross.

Muffler shops don't do coating, you would have to send them away to someone like Jet Hot. Or find someone locally that coats headers, I've heard of a place a while back in Jersey that does them, but I forgot where they are and who they are. Maybe someone in an Eastern Forum can help you find a local place. Or if your good under the car, you can go without the coating for a while, but when they start to rust, take them off yourself and send them in to get coated, then re-install them.....Basically you don't want to be paying a shop at $50+ an hour to take headers off and put back on

Hookers are pains in the asses with cats, they don't offer them with their Y for some reason. Other headers do offer them with cats. The ones I am looking at (QTP headers) are going to be offering a cat style Y pipe in the very near future, I am getting those.

What you need to do with the Hookers though is, get their LTs, get their Y pipe, install everything, buy aftermarket cats (Carsound are good cheap ones, Random Techs are the best, but most expensive) with your LTs and Y installed, you then need to take it to a shop and have the cats welded in.

You should be ok with that setup, both with emissions and the police.

 

Nobody has said anything about SLP Longtubes? What's the deal with those? NO good? To expensive? Does anyone even have them? What gives?

 

They are probably the lowest hanging headers made. Who wants that? I know I don't, I already scratched the front of my car, I definetly don't want my headers hitting the ground.

 

Thanks for letting me know about the hooker headers so when i get the lt's and y pipe should i try to buy the hi flow cat at the same time? This way I can get it all put on at one time? Do u know if the hooker y pipe will mate up with my stock convertor. Thanks for all your help you don't know how much I appreciate this!

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98 z28 a4 artic white
lid + filter 80 series flowmaster muffler
avs tailshades, black rear inserts
cowl induction hood.

 

I do know how you feel, I was in your shoes a few months ago and every person that responded to my questions, I was thankful. I think its my duty now to pass their knowledge on from me to you.

You can buy all 3 at once (actually all 5, 2 cats, left header, right header, and Y pipe), and if the shop you take it to does welding, then your good to go with the cats being put in at the sametime. If not, I think it cost around $75-$100 for weldind cats. But thats just a guess.

When you say convertor, do you mean cat convertor, if so, then no your stock cats will not mate up to the hooker Y, your going to have to buy aftermarket cats and have them welded in, good choices are Random Techs or Carsound. RTs go for about $300, they are almost indestructable and flow the best, Carsound go for about $100, they flow very well.

Give this guy a call. He is in Jersey with you, maybe he can help you out with that Y pipe, I know he is going to make his QTP Y pipe with RT cats, he also makes a hooker Y, but I am not sure if he is making them with the RT cats, you may want to call him or e-mail him to find out. www.quicktimeperformance.com

 

FLP all the way