i have a 1995 z28 with 85k miles on it.. its running stock everything. im running on a cheap budget and looking to boost the horsepower as much as possible.. most i can prolly spend is 2000 wanna try to stay around 1500... if someone please could help me.. and maybe some websites or places where i can buy this stuff at.. just now getting into the mods part of cars.

 

For 2Kish, I'd start with these:

Cold Air Intake
Long Tube Headers
Cat Back Exhaust

If you are fortunate enough to be in an area has no emissions testing, then you can scrap the AIR and EGR crap when you do the headers.

Get a custom tune when you are done and you should see a nice difference.

The above parts can be had at any number of places online and locally.

Try Summit, Jegs, etc.

Google will help you a lot here.

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Good luck with the mods!

 

sorry still trying to move around on this forum.. but im from nashville tn live in jacksonville nc. i have a 1995 auto z28....

still learning how do you do the signature thing...

also i did some reseach and found ican go with le2 heads and cam and push around 400+ rwhp. is this true and where can i get them from for the cheapest... and also the cold air intake and exhust is the first things ill prolly get once back from my deployment.. is their a type of headers or exhust system i should get over anther one ???

remember looking for good quailty but trying to go cheap as well.. so maybe buying used ?



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Look on this site for used parts . you can save some money on headers , c.a.i , exhaust
you can also check out craigs list for used LT1 parts
next you will want springs , 1.6 roller rockers and a real tune don't cheap out on these buy new parts!!

 

The heads (porting your stock heads) and cam will net you 400+HP at the rear wheels, but you just used up your preferred $1,500 budget. To support the heads and cam, you would need the cold air intake, a 52mm throttle body, the exhaust upgrades mentioned above, larger fuel injectors and a tune. That's about double your budget, assuming you can do all the work yourself.

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Then you need to upgrade the trans, get a high stall converter, a set of 3.73 gears. Then you need the suspension upgrades, subframe connectors, etc. to allow the chassis to handle the HP.

 

What Fred said above and the stock rear end will also be something to consider with any upgrade as they are one of the weakpoints even with no mods.

 

You could go with a nitrous kit but still some supporting mods would be good. I ran a 125 shot on my stock car but had the rear end aready swapped to the dana 60 as I knew I would be having power.I also have ram air(so didnt need cai) and im pretty sure had so.e exhaust work too.Im not sure what you can do to the rear end cheaply but it would be worth asking about as would probably be worth the money unless you have future plans on a better choice and can preserve what you got til that time.

 

He has an automatic. Stock rear shouldn't be as big an issue as it would be with a manual trans and very sticky tires.

 

i love the help everyone.. i have found a CAI for 100 bucks. and trying to find a good exhust system. makeing the car sound good and have a crips sound.. wats some good mufflers and headers that yall would perfer thats not killing the wallet.



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