$1000. What to do? Susp., Exhaust, Nitrous, etc...

[baller760]

Ok, well I have about $1000 to spend. Now if I had a steady job like most of you and could afford mods in the future I wouldn't be asking this question. However, since I don't usually get money like this because I'm a poor little high school teenager with no job, I would like to know your guys' opinions on what to buy with the money. Ok, so, there are a lot of choices with $1000. I could go full exhaust (SLP Loudmouth, prochamber, and BBK Equal shorties), I could go with suspension (LCAs, UCAs, umm...braces, shocks, struts, springs), I could do plenum/tb/intake which I won't do b/c not enough power is made, I could get rims but I prefer performance, I could buy a torque converter, some gears and a chip, or some nitrous. There are so many things that I could possibly do but I want to know what will give me the most power and quickest ET possible with that little money. Skip the Drag radials b/c I can get those from a friend. Anyway, someone give me some ideas. I was going to go full exhaust but that might only be 15rwhp worth and I know suspension is the way to go with lower ET's. But I also know that with an automatic a torque converter could drop ET's down considerably. Just remember I want it to be streetable b/c I do drive it a lot. Thanks.

 

[baller760]

Oh yeah, I know nitrous would give the quickest et's but also consider that I have to tune my car for the nitrous and refill.

 

[97GTSTANG]

get gears 4.10($300), subframes($100), springs ($250) and Torque converter. Honestly i dont think headers will do very much for performance unless they are longtubes, and neither will intake. Good luck

 

[baller760]

well if I get gears I need a Diablo or Hypertech programmer to correct my speedo and stuff and that's like $700 or so. A torque converter is like $700 plus install which would be right around $1000 so I can't do all of that.

 

[xseler8]

gears (with a speed cal)..pulleys(steeda's)..cat back

 

[spikeGT_99]

if u got a decent set of lt's and a gear itd probably come out to about 1k, as far as speedo correction i dont think a speedcal is that much, but thats what id try to do

 

[97GTSTANG]

definately the gears wtih speedcal and subframes. You will love the way the car handles after the subframes are installed.

 

[3.8L_of_Pain]

For your $1000 budget:

1. 4.10 gears (about $500 installed).
2. Diablo Predator Programmer (about $350).

The owner of the local Mustang Performance shop said 4.10 gears and some timing advance does a lot of good to a GT.

This leaves about $150. If you can find another $100, you could get a MAC 2.5" Flowpath cat-back. Otherwise, save for the PI torque converter.