My car performed very well with a h/c/i. Car has 3.73 gears and mods in sig also. I drove it alot before the oil pump failure, and the only time I didn't like to drive it was when it was first started and I was hitting the road. Once it had a little bit of heat in it, it was just like stock, just sounded a hell of a lot different. I had ed curtis grind me a pretty nasty cam that would still clear the stocker pistons, and the car never bucked at all in high gear at 1500rpm. No tune either, just timing, and fuel pressure. Didn't get the gas mileage it used to though, but a tune would take care of it.