If You Could Do Just One Thing?

[albi]

Hi,

I've a very limited budget and at the moment want to add something to improve performance and fuel economy.

A larger bore dump pipe and pod type filter are in my budget. Would these two mods make a noticable difference, or are they useless without the rest of the exhaust being replaced with a sports model.

Any suggestions about other mods that may be appropriate would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex

[Cubes]

If you want economy ignore the pod filter.

Cold air is where economy is at.

I would throw the car on the dyno to check out the afr's and how well the o2 sensor is working, if its lazy replace it.

Following that have the injectors cleaned.

Thats really the first stage of improving economy, following that you'd want to look at an aftermarket ecu.

The performance side of things...

For mild mods the stock airbox is perfectly fine, throwing on a pod won't see you pick up anypower, if anything it will lower your power slightly once the bonnet is closed off the dyno, it will no longer be sucking cool air via its stock cai but hot air thats just passed through the hot radiator.

If it were N/A.. By all means free up that intake as there's no turbo to do the sucking for the motor.

Doing the dump/front pipe before the cat back is useless.

Cat back first for biggest power gains then dump/front for mainly spool/response gains.

Head to the local jap wrecker, they will have some reasonable cat back exhausts.

[albi]

If you want economy ignore the pod filter.

Cold air is where economy is at.

I would throw the car on the dyno to check out the afr's and how well the o2 sensor is working, if its lazy replace it.

Following that have the injectors cleaned.

Thats really the first stage of improving economy, following that you'd want to look at an aftermarket ecu.

The performance side of things...

For mild mods the stock airbox is perfectly fine, throwing on a pod won't see you pick up anypower, if anything it will lower your power slightly once the bonnet is closed off the dyno, it will no longer be sucking cool air via its stock cai but hot air thats just passed through the hot radiator.

If it were N/A.. By all means free up that intake as there's no turbo to do the sucking for the motor.

Doing the dump/front pipe before the cat back is useless.

Cat back first for biggest power gains then dump/front for mainly spool/response gains.

Head to the local jap wrecker, they will have some reasonable cat back exhausts.

Thanks Cubes

Any suggestions for quality jap wreckers

[Cubes]

Ring them all. See them all.

[ctjet]

is there a $$ amount you can tell us so that we can give you better suggestions?

[albi]

is there a $$ amount you can tell us so that we can give you better suggestions?

$500-600

[Yo-Yo]

yeah, a quality cat back is a good start if it hasn't been done already.

Slightly better throttle response & a much nicer sound

I hope you've included the cost to get installation done in your budget, unless you're planning to go DIY