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Old 08-12-2004 | 04:25 PM
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Hello Guys & Gals,

Just put these mods and and was wondering what else I needed...

1 JLP CHIP
2 #4 PULLEY
3 JLP CAI UNDER BUMPER
4 THUNDER PIPE
5 OIL BREATHER CAP
6 TRACTION BARS
7 OTHER STUFF I CAN'T REMEMBER, LOL
8 SHIFT KIT
9 TQ CONVERTER
10 HEAT EXCHANGER

11 E-FAN AND COBRA PUMP

12 PROGRESSIVE NOS SYSTEM, 75 SHOT

13 GAUGES,BOOST,A/F, TRANS, EXHAUST, AND NOS PRESSURE

14 CHIP TUNED BY JLP

15 FULL BETA VERSION 3" BASSANI ON ORDER

16 REAL-TIME MONITORING SOFTWARE,


Sorry about the caps, came directly from the excel sheet.

Thanks,
Tony
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 04:32 PM
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Tires and a timeslip.

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Old 08-12-2004 | 05:35 PM
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Whoops, forgot I had the hoosiers, LOL.

Any idea what tires I could use for street racing?

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Tires and a timeslip.

Rich
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 05:38 PM
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Put your stock pump back on, your truck will run hotter with the cobra pump and you will loose a little horse power with it. if your truck is an 03 or newer it has a high flow pump on it already. if its not then you should use a pump from an 03 or newer Lightning, DON`T USE THE COBRA PUMP.


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Old 08-12-2004 | 05:38 PM
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Old 08-12-2004 | 05:42 PM
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heads, cam, built bottom end, KB blower!!
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 06:01 PM
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Originally posted by birdy111
heads, cam, built bottom end, KB blower!!
Yah,

I've gotta drop a shortblock and KB in this X-mas, it's gonna hurt tho, LOL
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 08:24 PM
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Port the eaton,Christmass is still a while away!
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 08:37 PM
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Dynojet Wideband Commander
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 10:54 PM
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Re: Next Mods, Please Advise

Originally posted by svtguy12
15 FULL BETA VERSION 3" BASSANI ON ORDER
Does FULL mean headers also? If not some nice long tubes would help out

...after all that and the mentioned portjob there's not much left to do without tearing into the engine...atleast not that I know of.
 
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Old 08-12-2004 | 11:53 PM
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6 lb

New Engine
 
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Old 08-13-2004 | 02:17 AM
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accufab TB, apten port, upper pully or switch the lower to a 6#.
 
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Old 08-16-2004 | 01:17 AM
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Brisk Performance Spark Plugs
 
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Old 08-16-2004 | 02:14 AM
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From what you have on the beast now, I assume you've had it on the dyno. If so, what kind of numbers were you making? And, just as importantly, what kind of numbers do you want to make?

My vote is for the Apten and the Accufab single blade. I watched a very interesting dyno run a week ago at Swanson's in Torrance, CA. They ran a baseline and then quickly installed the Accufab with no other changes. The Accufab was worth 13 hp. What was really suprising is how it just seemed to move the entire horsepowr curve upward. Yeah, it made 13 up high, but it added 11 at 3500. I was impressed with the change.

They are not inexpensive at about $425.00, so you're looking at about about $30 per hp. The Apten is about $600 or so and if I recall correctly from various posts, seems to be worth about 30 hp. If so, that's about $ 20.00 per hp. So, for about a grand, you should get about 40 hp.

If you can run the 6# pulley, which I can't because Hawaii gets California gasoline (which is posted as 91 octane and is probably closer to 90), that should be worth 10 -15 hp and is probably the cheapest horsepower you can get.

Once you build a trick shortblock, you still have to do things like cams and porting to make it put out more power. You can very easily start spending $ 75 to $ 250 per hp. The more you have, the more it costs to buy more........
 



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