Thanks, yeah the tires are weather dried so they are dead... I already ordered some yokohama's avs es100 127 dollars a piece... The reviews were better than the 240 dollar goodyears..

 

i'd look at a shift kit, maybe a 52mm throttle body, underdrive pulley, and/or n2o. Each of these can be had for less than $500.00 and will wake the car up. if you're willing to do your own work, a cam and torque converter will fit right in your budget, as well as gears and custom computer tuning.

 

I'll probably go with headers & cam first.. but the labor $$ will kick my ***..

 

It's actually pretty easy to do a cam swap in our cars. Why not do it yourself and save on the labor?

 

Well.. the only thing im experience with is oil changes.. intake systems, maf, stuff like that i havent ever done internal work.. will the engine need to be pulled?

 

No, you can change the cam with the engine in the car. Check out Shoebox's site for a walkthrough.

http://shbox.com/1/4th_gen_tech1.html

If you do the cam, you will need new valve springs. Shoebox's site covers changing those with the heads on the engine as well.

 

I thought you had to have some kind of machine or computer to put the cam in right?

 

Nope. There are timing marks that have to be lined up once the new cam is in. That's all, really. You basically diassemble everything, and then put it back together with the new stuff. If you get a large cam, however, a computer tune will be needed and you can go mail-order for that. To get the most out of the cam/head/headers package you should get a full dynotune.

 

whats a dynotune?

 

Normal method for a dynotune consists of putting the car on a chassis dyno(such as a Dynojet 248C) and making changes to the computer's calibration and running the car on the dyno, then repeating this process until you optimize torque throughout the RPM range, or run out of dyno time.

 

Yeah, dynotuning is expensive, but worth it. But still, at $100 bucks for 3 pulls, it does add up quick.

 

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