Author Topic: WOOOOT!!! My first LS1 mod!! (Read 1245 times)

DiabloTX · « **on:** September 25, 2006, 07:17:37 PM »

Not really. After inspecting the car in a shop today I found there is nothing about this car that has been modded or customized in any way. I mean, even the windows are untinted.

So, I bought a K&N air filter for it today. It's first official mod. I'm keeping it simple because it's a well known fact that modding is more addictive than crack cocaine.

Cougar68 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 25, 2006, 07:30:04 PM »

Good luck with your new build!

You say you aren't building a full out customized ride?? Yeah right!! The snowball has started....

I started to replace my stock gauges in my '68 Cougar a few months ago. I'm just now reassembling it after a brand new paint scheme. The new interior bits should come in next week. But honey, it's only a few hundred bucks to put these cool gauges in it!

DiabloTX · « **Reply #2 on:** September 25, 2006, 07:41:07 PM »

Like I said...crack cocaine.

eddiek · « **Reply #3 on:** September 25, 2006, 08:43:32 PM »

Pardon me for sounding ignorant, Diablo, but I gotta ask.......do the K&N setups honestly give you any more power? I ask cause I was looking at two K&N cold air kits for my truck and with what they cost, they better give me some performance improvement.
I've never added a cold air kit before, cause til this truck my stuff was mostly old school carbureted engines, and while I love the new EFI setups and the reliability, I am admittedly way behind on what add ons work and what doesn't.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2006, 08:59:21 PM »

I got an air filter, not an FIPKm that added more power, not alot, only a small percentage. It does allow the engine to breath better though. I am going to take the air box lid to a bodyshop that I am close with and have them paint it the same color as the car, just to customize under the hood a little.

The problem with modding, as I see it, as not everyone does it because they want to, sort of a "keeping up with the Jones's" attitude. If that's what they want to do, ok, fine by me. I had a highly modified '77 Trans am and '65 GTO so I had that "mod fever" excized quite a while ago. But, that being said, with todays technology, I've seen some amazing modded cars that just blow my mind. The down side to all this modding is once you heavily mod one part of the car, it effects other parts of the car and it just snowballs from there.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 25, 2006, 11:41:52 PM »

Plus modding can kill the resale value of the car. "Man, I put 20K in my car, why no one wants to buy my 440HP purple Trans Am for more than 7k?!"

DiabloTX · « **Reply #6 on:** September 25, 2006, 11:56:21 PM »

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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Plus modding can kill the resale value of the car. "Man, I put 20K in my car, why no one wants to buy my 440HP purple Trans Am for more than 7k?!"

That too.

As soon as I saw an ad with a Camaro with "20k in drive train alone, must sacrafice, only asking $19,900!!" I moved on.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #7 on:** September 25, 2006, 11:59:33 PM »

My nightmare is my car gets picked for "Overhauled" and it comes back looking like....

Saintaw · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2006, 09:05:17 AM »

I missread the title and thought it was going to be about LSD, am kinda dissapointed.

But to make up for it, i offer you a perk for your car.

bkbandit · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2006, 09:13:35 AM »

20k for a old z28, thats alot.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2006, 01:59:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
I missread the title and thought it was going to be about LSD, am kinda dissapointed.

But to make up for it, i offer you a perk for your car.

Those funny, funny little Euro's.

Grayeagle · « **Reply #11 on:** September 26, 2006, 04:58:01 PM »

If you seek a cost effective mod for an LS-1 .. the lil' belt driven superchargers work well.. bolt on, 450 or so HP when yer done, all under the hood, still smog legal and runs on pump gas.

Later, mayhap some Dart heads an a better cam profile, perhaps a chip.
Shift kit for the trans. A bit stiffer rear gear, and stronger ring and pinion.
Sticky back tars.
Next thing yanno you got shoe polish numbers on yer window

(Kinda wonder about Scott Shaffiroff's motors ..they a chunk of change but *man* .. what FUN!!.. 650hp 472 cubic inch small block chebby on a single carb gotta be fun to drive

If you want it to sound like a V-8 .. Flowmaster, Borla, and others make some very nice sounding exhaust bits. Even just a muffler will give you that V-8 growl

General consensus is Flowmaster is a bit louder than Borla, I have Flowmaster on my Durango (have had since it was bran-new) ..and I really like the sound quality.. it's not so loud it drowns the Bose sound, but I can hear that deep growl when I get on it.. when I fire the 360 up it turns heads

-GE

DiabloTX · « **Reply #12 on:** September 26, 2006, 06:24:18 PM »

I am definitely keeping it stock. The more I think about mods the more I like the idea of keeping it stock. Like I said mod one thing and you usually have to mod something else. Coming from a 3.8 Series II V6 to an LS1 is quite the leap and I think 310 ponies will keep my happy as far as I can tell. As for the exhaust it already does sound pretty throaty, like I said coming from that 3.8 it sounds like a demon flying out of hell. I just can't begin to describe the smile that etches itself on my face when I turn the key and here that engine fire up. Makes everyday seem like Christmas!

Rocket · « **Reply #13 on:** September 26, 2006, 07:22:25 PM »

eddiek,

My dad has a Ford F350 to pull his 5th wheel camper. He bought the truck cause diesel was cheaper at the time and for better fuel mileage than his gas truck. When he bought it was bone stock. Got about 14mpg +/- just by adding the CAI (cold air intake) he gained up to 6mpg. He pulled the camper on a trip this summer and with the camper in tow he was up to 14mpg. Empty it is more like 19-21. He is planning on adding bigger exhaust and a computer addon(can't think of what they are called now where you can reprogram the computer with 1 button on the fly). All just to gain him some MPG and a little HP pulling the trailer. He doesn't want a hotrod but a well tuned work horse and he is in his 60s

If you can get the CAI then go for it and enjoy the benefits of a couple of extra HP and some more mileage.

S!
Rocket

Maverick · « **Reply #14 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:07:52 PM »

It's a vehicle. It's not a social life, life ambition, penile extension, penile substitute, vaginal substitute or boost in intelligence. Just drive the darn thing and try to live a life based on what you do, not what you own. Ten years from now the world, country, state, county, city or neighbor hood won't give a crap about what car you drove. Just try to make the world a better place for having lived in it.