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Ebay CAI - $50 installed
Hiflow muffler drop-in - $150 installed

Total spent - no more than $200
Gains 10-15 HP

-Andy

A CAI is a nice upgrade. BBK has one for about $180 i believe. www.americanmuscle.com
Also a dual exhaust kit is not that expensive and if you have the parts and room you can do it yourself.

Save for some gears, 4.10's if possible and a tuner.

The gains on CAI aren't much at all, no matter the brand. Can't say if it was worth it or not versus a simple K&N drop in with removed silencer. The stock intake tube isn't excessively bad really, most the issue comes in the two 90-degree turns in the upper intake manifold. But if you do get a CAI, the nice thing about K&N and other plastic ones, they don't get spots on them.

The exhaust wont bring too much into the car either, but sure sounds a hell of a lot better. Especially when Flow 40's have fully broken in, so much better than stock. The only thing that makes my car feel small is a good V8. Stick with a 2.25" dual exhaust, don't get a 2.5", I suggest finding someone with a GT, Bullitt or Mach I who is dumping their exhaust for better and have an exhaust shop cut the mufflers out and weld in something like Flowmasters or Magnaflows, as far as the midpipe, either get a V6 H or X, or just have the shop weld in straight pipes with no crossover. Mach I take-offs will have chrome rolled tips, they look much better than GTs so if you want good tips, try to get those. Only problem is, if you do short-trip driving like I do, you have to clean them every so often. Headers for a lightly modded, no power-adder, V6 is pointless. Unless they get cracked and you need new ones, don't bother. I would say I spent about $400 in this catagory including installation with them welding up straight pipes, buy the mufflers online though, the shop I went to had a high mark-up.

Under-drive pulleys probably net more than CAI, and for about $250, depending on the belt you use, it's not that much more. http://www.vmptuning.com has them for $210, then you just need a 26.6" 6-rib belt. Just make sure what type of pulley you need. There is a 99-00 and a 00-04 version, because half way through 2000, Ford changed the harmonic balancer.

Another good mod is a good tune. VMP Tuning has the Xcal-2 for $395 and it comes with 3 custom tunes. You can get economy and performance tunes for 87, 89, 91, and 93 octanes. Just the tuner alone will bring a good deal of power into the car and firm up the shifts for automatics.

Gears and t-lok is most definitely the biggest increase I've felt. 4.10 gears and TruTrac woke my auto up. Go with 3.73 if you have a manual. Definitely expensive, about $680 for parts, my father and I installed them so labor was nothing. Getting a Ford T-lock is going to be much cheaper than a TruTrak, it doesn't hold up to a lot of horsepower, but for bolt ons it will hold. Probably $300-400 for parts in that case, then from what I've seen, about $300 in labor. But with gears, you will need that tuner, so technically $1000-1100 for the gears, t-lok, tuner, and install.

What is a "CAI"

Cold Air Intake, all the parts from the filter to the throttle body.