Hi everyone,
Nice to be on your site. I just got my L a couple of months ago and I love it to pieces. I'm an old chevy guy (97 SS and a 79 Corvette in the garage), but the blue oval is bad! I'm down here in Charlotte, NC and being that it is NASCAR territory there are quite a few of those pesky SRT-10, C-6 vettes, a few AMG mercedes, and lots of little ricers with turbos. The L has plenty of grunt for most challengers, but suprise suprise, I want to up the go-power a bit. I do drive it EVERYDAY and it is the daily driver so I don't want tweak it so much that I can't drive on 93 pump gas, etc. What do you all recommend?

Exhaust upgrades (headers, mufflers, cats)

Intake upgrades (filter, airlow path to the SC, SC porting or SC change)

Computer tweaking

I know everthing is interrelated, so do you guys have a good solid performance upgrade package recommendation. Who makes the parts, pricing, and a good tuner would would be a BIG help. I'm new the Ford side and don't know all the ins and outs yet.

 

go with a FTVB and CAI .. after that get a lower pulley and tuner and get it tuned at dyno.. then exhaust and then after that whatever u want..

go here and this site will tell u more about it..

http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...splay.php?f=11

 

welcome to the site. tuner, filter , pulley is usual starter mods and ftvb or line valve mod after that. welcome

 

Another good spot to look at is http:/www.nloc.net/home.php.That's where I learned how to upgrade the truck.What year is your truck?

 

If I were in your shoes and had to do it all over again, I would start with a Kenne Bell or Whipple S/C over the stock "Heaton", 255 lph fuel pumps, 60# injectors, long tube headers, fluidyne heat exchanger

I nickle and dimed it and have spent more on the truck than if I were to spent the money on these first, and get the others later, Whipple makes a pretty complete kit going from filter to blower, Kenne Bell has alot of data on the Internet with people running them on stock block daily drivers for years

I currently have 12" open filter, SCT 2400 MAF, ported blower, ported upper plenium, ported elbow, single blade throttle body, dual electric fans, 6# lower pulley, 2.8 upper pulley, long tube headers, cat less mid pipes, x pipe, built tranny w/ 2400 stall, line loc, JLP intercooler resouivor, fluidyne heat exchanger w/ 2 Spal electric fansRoush suspension........and it is my daily driver!!!

A buddy of mine just installed a Kenne Bell, 60# injectors, 255 pumps, fluidyne heat exchanger, long tubes and it is his daily driver

Moral of the story buy the big things first and all the smaller costing things later, and dont let others scare you saying its too much for a daily driver, with a good tune you will be safe, but thats the key a good dyno tune

 

+1 on everything. The only thing I'd say different is to make DAMN sure if you go the route he's talking about, get all the supporting mods FIRST. There's a lot of stock block trucks running a setup like he's talking about.

Welcome to the site!

 

do a pulley and tuner......you will be very happy with the results....i gained 60hp with a 6lb swap!!!

 

Right, but alot of people do some mods expecting to see gains out of say a single blade throttle body, expecting to see more hp. It does increas the airflow, but it maily works in conjuction with other mods that help make the more power.

I remember going to a dyno day where a guy put all these mods on his trucks saying "I added it up, so I should see 75 more hp" and only seeing a gain of 5 hp. All mods work but if you get the bigger mods first you will see more gains out of the other helper mods. just my .02

 

I got you, big mods first with smaller mods later. How about a whippel/ford racing 2.3L SC? They, http://www.rpmoutlet.com/lightwip.htm claim 175 HP gain with 13 lbs of boost (upper pulley change, large mouth inlet, and a cold air kit). Kinda pricey at 3700.00 but you gotta pay to play right. In your opinion would this be tunable with a diablo flash tuner, or am I too optimistic. I really can't afford to grenade the bottom end if I'm dropping that much in the SC. Will the stock heat exchnger be able to keep up? The L in question is a 2002, sorry if I didn't state that earlier.

 

Whipple sells the kit complete with a tuner and intake now. With a proper tune, it will be more than safe. You'd really wanna strap it down and get dyno tuned. Just a custom tune for your predator. And yes, the stock HE will keep up.