F-Body Europe

It seems other than major mods, there isnt much more I can do. I have most bolt ons that I can think of. Can you guys help me pick the next mods? I want my car to be a stoplight warrior so autocross mods are out. I was tinking maybe BAer brake kit. I think they are like $600.

Jeff

I am in the same boat as you! Have you completed your suspension yet? Torque arm, lower control arm brackets, all that good stuff? I think my next move is to port my heads. Can't wait, got to get the tuning straight first though. Anyway, Baer brakes are great. Here are the options again:

Here is a quick rundown on the Baer systems for 93-97 F-body.

Front kits:

Enhance - no calipers, 10.80" x 1.35" rotors - $255
Serious Street - PBR 2 piston calipers, 12.00" x 0.81" rotors, and all hardware - $675
Sport - PBR 2 piston calipers, 12.00" x 1.10" rotors, and all hardware - $685
Track - PBR 2 piston calipers, 13.00" x 1.10" rotors, and all hardware - $695
GT+ - PBR-PD 2 piston calipers, 13.15" x 1.25" rotors, and all hardware - $1165
Pro - Alcon 4 piston calipers, 13.00" x 1.10" rotors, and all hardware - $2435
Pro+ - Alcon 4 piston calipers, 13.50" x 1.25" rotors, and all hardware - $2875
Extreme+ - Alcon 6 piston calipers, 13.50" x 1.25" rotors, and all hardware - $3745

Rear kits:

Enhance - no calipers, 11.54" x 0.81" rotors - $245
Drag lite - no calipers, 11.35" x 0.81" 2 pc rotors - $695
Touring+ - no calipers, 13.25" x 0.81" 2 pc rotors - $795

A few options:

Slot, drill, and zinc wash 1 pair rotors - $120
Polish PBR calipers - $145
Color coat PBR calipers - $175

Here are some more pic's of the brakes...
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Take it easy man, Mike

What all do you have done already.. I can't remember.

Well heres a run down right off the top of my head:

Hotcam kit, 4.10's, Lakewood LCA's & PHR, BMR re-location brackets, V-6 springs in rear, MSD 6A, 99' WS6 catback, !cats, Pace Setter headers, K&N CAI, Hypertech Power pulley, Ed Wright tune, SLP LW clutch & PP.

Only thing it seems I could get suspension wise is a aftermarket torque arm. But I want more HP!! A brake kit is a real good thing to have, and I probably should have done it awhile ago but I need to go faster!


If you think of anything, let me know. I guess I just have to get the heads/intake ported bit I dont have the cash for that yet. How good is Tony? How much he charge?

Well I have most of the same mods that you do but I have a few others as well.... my cold air intake really livened up after I put a new throttle body after it (I'd go with a 52 or 54mm for your car) do you have power pulleyes done yet... I just added an alt and crank pulley to mine but I don't know what it has done yet since I can't drive the car, I also ported out my MAF and got GREAT results from that... and it's free..... I also swapped out my plugs and wires (upgraded to NGK TR55's and TAYLOR 8mm wires) I don't know if it improved to much... but it's always nice to have a really good spark. I was also going to get my intake ported by Tony but I don't have to much time to do it...(take the intake off wait for it to ge done and reinstall it) I'm going to take it to a good machine shop in NC and let them do all of the work. Ummm otherwise than that I can't think of to much in the way of bolt ons..... I hope that this helped some! Later!

Got a TNT kit for ya if your interested Jeff...HEH that should get it boiling, and if you cook a piston thats all the more reason to do the 383.

Look at a electric water pump, maybe it doesnt make 10 more hp, but your motor will run so much cooler. I also like that tubular K member idea. Shed some serious weight off the nose. Something else is a good set of real shocks. I dropped 2/10 on my 60 with the Hals, and probably could've shave some more but it was getting late at the track. Power wise dude, you are bolt on done.

I'll end this with my last words...........12 psi of VORTECH

He ported my heads and flow matched them with the intake and the 58mm throttle body. My car is still not together yet so I couldn't say how it runs. My upgrade is more than just heads/intake though. So it wouldn't really help you much anyway, but the port job was $350.

$350 for a port job? Thats a great price. Does he have a flow bench? I am curious as to what numbers he can get out of a set of heads.

I have Accel plug wires, and a MSD6a so my ignition should be set for anything. I have been debating on a TB. I have heard a virgin headed LT1 is fine with the stocker and I have heard the opposite. I may just wait on that for a bit unless a screaming deal comes up that I cant pass. I have the hypertech crank pulley on mine. I have also been thinking of a new exhaust like a Mufflex 3.5" with a flowmaster and a resonator if its too loud. I am tired of mine banging around underneath. (Rob you were right I should have stuck with the flowmaster, there is no better sounding muffler out there.) I DO need a aluminum drive shaft thought mine is utter garbage.

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...

Thanks for the help guys if you think of anything else, keep em coming!!

Jeff

Jeff- I don't think he has a flow bench but I maybe wrong. If you want to save yourself some $$$ there's a website that I found that got into the porting of cylinder heads. I did one of the intake chambers on my junk heads and it really opened it up compared to what it was. I you want I can shoot you the link and a place to buy the porting kit it costs about $40.00 I also have a junk head for you to practice on if you want it. It's really not all that hard all your doing is opening it up to the sizes of the Intake, exhaust and Chamber gaskets. If you pull off your intake and put the gastket on the head you'll see about 1/4 inch all the way around that needs to be removed same goes for the exhaust and chamber. The increase is supposed to be around 40+ Hp depends on how good you do. They say the average man doing a quick job increases 20-30hp. When you do this method there is no flow bench but as long as you stick to the scribe lines you made from the gasket you should be pretty good all the way around. They estimate you'll spend more than 12 Hrs on the heads. I'm doing mine on force protection next week. Let me know man and I'll shoot you the link.

Sure, shoot me the links. I will look into it. You are going to do that on Force protection? Thats hilarious. lol Are you going to put some hi-flow valves in them then? I was looking into getting some manleys but they have so many damn sizes...

My96Z I heard that new Venom Computerized Nitrous VCN system rocks. Nitrous could be the ticket for ya.

The more I think about nitrous, the more I lean towards it. I am looking into all the saftey goodies now, and there are people that say they are running a 175 shot regularly on a hi-mile stock bottom end. But its not the masses doing this. I definatley wouldnt go near that high. But I think a 100-125 shot with all the saftey goodies would suffice.

I already have my licence plate frame picked out...



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Jeff

You can But it is addicting Check out the VENOM system. However you will need the 02 sims with your setup But still works off the the front sensors. I got the price and # if your interested? less than ya think

I looked at thier site, and it looked like pretty exspensive stuff. And they show no price? Please shoot me the info Hawk.