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Jeffery Privott wrote: > Can someone tell me what should be the first few steps taken towards adding > power to a 94 gt convertable. I have a very few goodies already and looking > at dropping around $3000.00 in the next 2 weeks on the car. I currently have > a cold air intake, 40 series flowmaster's, mac headers, and this week > looking at 373's installed. All advice is greatly appreciated. > > Ninja, > > Is your car an auto or a 5 speed? If it's an auto you need to spend some money on the transmission. Get yourself a good converter and a good shiftkit. If it's a 5 speed you should look into getting a shifter. As far as power, I think the mileage is fairly low, but you still should do a compression test and leakdown test. After that, if everything checks out I would go with an intercooled procharger P1-SC setup. If your compression test yields bad results then you need to look into a rebuild. The problem with a high performance rebuild is that it will cost more then 3000 to get a major power increase. You can build the baddest shortblock in the world but its not gonna get you anywhere without heads/cam/intake. Erik D. '94 white lightning '01 white GT |
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> > Not that I disagree at all with the above comments, but here locally, > which I guess is not a good gauge for everywhere, you can get some > pretty good head work done fairly cheaply. Cams aren't all that > expensive and neither are intakes. Exactly what kind of head-work are > you talking about? Well, you're not gonna get too much out of a stock '94 mustang head. They are really not worth putting money into anyway. I was kind of leaning towards aftermarket heads or maybe some GT40's. Erik D. '94 white lightning '01 white GT |
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Michael Johnson, PE wrote:
> I put a blower on my '89 LX at around 130k miles and it now has 154k on > it. I've run the hell out of it for the last 25k miles with it seeing > up to 16 psi of boost. Do a compression check on the cylinders and if > they are even then go for it. IMO, nothing but nitrous beats a blower > for making big horsepower gains for the money spent. > Why not turbo? > Jeffery Privott wrote: > >> Sorry, I got 112,000 miles on the car. As for the drivetrain, I don't >> know. All that I can say is I haven't had any problems out of the car. >> >> Ninja, >> > wrote in message >> ... >> >>> How many miles are on the car? What condition is the drivetrain in? If >>> you've got $3,000 to blow.. I'd look into supercharging the car... maybe >>> 6-9psi intercooled. It's a 302 & I know that blowers for 302's are >>> generally >>> less expensive than those for 281's.. check http://www.jegs.com/ >>> http://www.summitracing.com/ http://www.ebay.com/ (DO NOT GET ELECTRIC >>> SUPERCHARGER LOL!). I'd look into a Vortech or Paxton supercharger >>> for that >>> price range. Avoid Powerdyne!! If you can fork over more, I'd say >>> Kenne-Bell >>> supercharger hands down. >>> >>> If supercharging isn't the route you want to go... there are several >>> engine >>> options you have (others will chime in). You could also build the >>> suspension >>> quite a bit. Or, my favorite option, send me the money =). >>> >>> -Mike >>> >>> -- >>> A happy kid behind the wheel of a 98 Mustang GT >>> Cold air intake >>> FRPP 3.73 gears >>> Steeda Tri-Ax Shifter >>> Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers (self-installed woohoo) >>> Hi-speed fan switch >>> 255/60R-15 rear tires >>> Subframe connectors >>> Aluminum adjustable clutch quadrant >>> >>> >>> "Jeffery Privott" > wrote in message >>> ... >>> >>>> Can someone tell me what should be the first few steps taken towards >>> >>> >>> adding >>> >>>> power to a 94 gt convertable. I have a very few goodies already and >>> >>> >>> looking >>> >>>> at dropping around $3000.00 in the next 2 weeks on the car. I currently >>> >>> >>> have >>> >>>> a cold air intake, 40 series flowmaster's, mac headers, and this week >>>> looking at 373's installed. All advice is greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Ninja, >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- Mauricio raub-kudria-com (if you need to email me, use this address =) |
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Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> Michael Johnson, PE wrote: > >> I put a blower on my '89 LX at around 130k miles and it now has 154k >> on it. I've run the hell out of it for the last 25k miles with it >> seeing up to 16 psi of boost. Do a compression check on the cylinders >> and if they are even then go for it. IMO, nothing but nitrous beats a >> blower for making big horsepower gains for the money spent. >> > Why not turbo? They typically cost more and the installation is harder. They do work great though. > >> Jeffery Privott wrote: >> >>> Sorry, I got 112,000 miles on the car. As for the drivetrain, I don't >>> know. All that I can say is I haven't had any problems out of the car. >>> >>> Ninja, >>> > wrote in message >>> ... >>> >>>> How many miles are on the car? What condition is the drivetrain in? If >>>> you've got $3,000 to blow.. I'd look into supercharging the car... >>>> maybe >>>> 6-9psi intercooled. It's a 302 & I know that blowers for 302's are >>>> generally >>>> less expensive than those for 281's.. check http://www.jegs.com/ >>>> http://www.summitracing.com/ http://www.ebay.com/ (DO NOT GET ELECTRIC >>>> SUPERCHARGER LOL!). I'd look into a Vortech or Paxton supercharger >>>> for that >>>> price range. Avoid Powerdyne!! If you can fork over more, I'd say >>>> Kenne-Bell >>>> supercharger hands down. >>>> >>>> If supercharging isn't the route you want to go... there are several >>>> engine >>>> options you have (others will chime in). You could also build the >>>> suspension >>>> quite a bit. Or, my favorite option, send me the money =). >>>> >>>> -Mike >>>> >>>> -- >>>> A happy kid behind the wheel of a 98 Mustang GT >>>> Cold air intake >>>> FRPP 3.73 gears >>>> Steeda Tri-Ax Shifter >>>> Flowmaster 40 Series mufflers (self-installed woohoo) >>>> Hi-speed fan switch >>>> 255/60R-15 rear tires >>>> Subframe connectors >>>> Aluminum adjustable clutch quadrant >>>> >>>> >>>> "Jeffery Privott" > wrote in message >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> Can someone tell me what should be the first few steps taken towards >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> adding >>>> >>>>> power to a 94 gt convertable. I have a very few goodies already and >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> looking >>>> >>>>> at dropping around $3000.00 in the next 2 weeks on the car. I >>>>> currently >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> have >>>> >>>>> a cold air intake, 40 series flowmaster's, mac headers, and this week >>>>> looking at 373's installed. All advice is greatly appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Ninja, >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > > |
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