bolt on hp... did you notice the difference?

[253CBgasser]

so this question goes out to everyone who has done a bolt on upgrade for more HP.. what have you done that gave you noticeable HP? if not one bolt on or two which one gave you the most noticeable horsepower? and what do you suggest for a former VW now Honda guy to do?

btw i have a healthy 93 lx accord bone stock

[MeganTunerF22A]

so this question goes out to everyone who has done a bolt on upgrade for more HP.. what have you done that gave you noticeable HP? if not one bolt on or two which one gave you the most noticeable horsepower? and what do you suggest for a former VW now Honda guy to do?

btw i have a healthy 93 lx accord bone stock

the famous Intake is the best first mod for our cb's.....

i currently have 138hp 118tq

with Megan Header, Megan Cat-Back+Test pipe, Spectre Cold Air Intake, A6 Intake manifold with butterlflies removed AEM cam gear, running a pt6 ECU, Ngk plugs and wires, i just ordered my camshaft, I'm just waiting on a good ECU tune!

[visualpoet]

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=88154

Start looking here.

[Shadow1]

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=88154

Start looking here.

perfect thread to start with


for the most noticeable mod ive done was the a6 intake manifold with my cat-back exhaust. i felt how easy the car accelerated with the exhaust. felt like the motor could breathe easier. then with the a6 intake manifold, once it hit around about 3500rpms and the IABs open up, you could feel the car start to pull harder. felt nice man.

[deevergote]

It depends what you bolt on.

A short ram intake with a cheap filter, cheap header, and $100 exhaust system may not feel all that much different, other than being obnoxiously loud.

A short ram with an AEM or K&N intake, a Bisimoto header, and a quality 2.25" or 2.5" exhaust will definitely be felt. The header alone makes 27whp with a stock intake and exhaust, so with upgrades in that area as well, you may very well get nearly 40whp. You WILL feel 40whp.

[bcjammerx]

I would imagine a cam (more aggressive than the a6 that is) would also give noticeable gains.

[deevergote]

Definitely. Especially after an ECU tune.

Some people don't consider a cam a "bolt on" though. It is... but it's more involved than the others.

[foamypirate]

the famous Intake is the best first mod for our cb's.....

i currently have 138hp 118tq

with Megan Header, Megan Cat-Back+Test pipe, Spectre Cold Air Intake, A6 Intake manifold with butterlflies removed AEM cam gear, running a pt6 ECU, Ngk plugs and wires, i just ordered my camshaft, I'm just waiting on a good ECU tune!

Those torque numbers are really low. I dyno'd my F22A4 at 123whp and 131wtq with an H23 IM, A6 cam, PT6, stock intake tube w/ cone and a 2.25" catback.

[BigDawg916]

like everyone else said, go intake first, then exhaust w/header. i have a short ram with pacesetter header and a 262 cam. waiting on ecu but a very noticable difference with the few mods i have. i have an automatic and it likes to scratch when it shifts to 2nd.

[TheFirstNutZo]

I noticed a lot more from an H23 plenum/68mm TB/SRI than I did from an 2.25" eBay no-name exhaust/header combo (not installed at the same time as the intake, different car). The 2.25" exhaust killed my low-end torque but opened things up a little bit at higher RPMs. The H23 Plenum/68mm/SRI makes the car seem noticably torquier through the whole curve. I have the A6 engine so already had the dual runners, and I still noticed an improvement.

[fatboy1185]

Putting on an intake, no.
Putting on a skunk2 intake manifold and TB, yes.
Putting on a header with a 2.5" collector, yes.
Putting on type s camshafts, yes.
Putting on exhaust to a stock header, no.
Putting on exhaust to a header with 2.5" collector, yes.
Getting a tune, yes.

[turboAccordHSF]

Those torque numbers are really low. I dyno'd my F22A4 at 123whp and 131wtq with an H23 IM, A6 cam, PT6, stock intake tube w/ cone and a 2.25" catback.

yup, my tq is a lil low I can't figure it out at all?.....

I have a spacer and AEM cam gear not installed...I'm looking for the right tune and Camshaft......

I'm going to go ahead and clean all my valves and my whole IM and polish it,.....thats want thing i hate my A6 is slower than i thought...

[xkjnboix]

Those torque numbers are really low. I dyno'd my F22A4 at 123whp and 131wtq with an H23 IM, A6 cam, PT6, stock intake tube w/ cone and a 2.25" catback.

his tq is low mostly because of the test pipe i gurantee.

[turboAccordHSF]

his tq is low mostly because of the test pipe i gurantee.

my test pipe is fine, too much back press?.......the test pipe is a Megan sraight through....

oh by the way MegantunerF22A is me(long story big mess).....lol.....so we're talking about TurboaccordHSF

[xkjnboix]

u loose tq w/o a cat but gain hp. its a fact. but u whooped ur bros nissan haha