flat_black
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Yeah, I hear about the AEM from time to time... I'm still not sure about it. I'll have to get in touch with him, for sure. Even if the AEM is out, I'm sure he can offer SOME ideas.
Excluding EMS, mine (note, this makes a difference =)) is going to cost me around 300-400 dollars. I'm getting the throttle bodies from a friend who owes me a favor or two, though, so I'm getting them pretty cheap. Presumably, you could use the throttle bodies from a '00 - '01 Suzuki GSXR 750 for cheaper, too, so then it would end up costing me, or you, about $200 - 500, depending on what you have laying around, and what you can do on your own.
You don't need high compression to run these, but my compression will probably be sitting around 9.7-10:1, after my head work. (Read a little further down for details) Wagner can make the block using high compression pistons, if I remember properly, too.
2.25" header-back exhaust is what I'm running presently, though some changes will be made to it, the principle is the same. I'm building this car up for all-around power more than peak power, though, so your milage may vary; You might want to go as high as 2.5" on an extreme N/A setup, like Install has in the works.
Tuned, I expect probably 12 - 20 hp... But the 20 would be awfully surprising to me!
In reference to the head work... I need to do this sooner than later. My valves are starting to sound pretty rattly (Not a big surprise; 70k on the engine!), and last night they sounded pretty pissed on the way home. I'm thinking new valve springs, guides, valves and retainers are in order, too, which is going to be freakishly expensive, unfortunatly. This is what's going to be done, by me, as well as a light port job on the intake/exhaust outlets. Then the head is going to a good head welder (If I can find one!), and the quench area is going to be enlarged in a clover leaf design; This should reduce the chance of detonation, while increasing the compression ratio, still.
This is going to turn really expensive, really quickly, but I hopefully won't end up going over 1k for everything before the EMS, since I'm doing all the work myself, but I have a feeling I will be, by a good margin.
Excluding EMS, mine (note, this makes a difference =)) is going to cost me around 300-400 dollars. I'm getting the throttle bodies from a friend who owes me a favor or two, though, so I'm getting them pretty cheap. Presumably, you could use the throttle bodies from a '00 - '01 Suzuki GSXR 750 for cheaper, too, so then it would end up costing me, or you, about $200 - 500, depending on what you have laying around, and what you can do on your own.
You don't need high compression to run these, but my compression will probably be sitting around 9.7-10:1, after my head work. (Read a little further down for details) Wagner can make the block using high compression pistons, if I remember properly, too.
2.25" header-back exhaust is what I'm running presently, though some changes will be made to it, the principle is the same. I'm building this car up for all-around power more than peak power, though, so your milage may vary; You might want to go as high as 2.5" on an extreme N/A setup, like Install has in the works.
Tuned, I expect probably 12 - 20 hp... But the 20 would be awfully surprising to me!
In reference to the head work... I need to do this sooner than later. My valves are starting to sound pretty rattly (Not a big surprise; 70k on the engine!), and last night they sounded pretty pissed on the way home. I'm thinking new valve springs, guides, valves and retainers are in order, too, which is going to be freakishly expensive, unfortunatly. This is what's going to be done, by me, as well as a light port job on the intake/exhaust outlets. Then the head is going to a good head welder (If I can find one!), and the quench area is going to be enlarged in a clover leaf design; This should reduce the chance of detonation, while increasing the compression ratio, still.
This is going to turn really expensive, really quickly, but I hopefully won't end up going over 1k for everything before the EMS, since I'm doing all the work myself, but I have a feeling I will be, by a good margin.
