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Gearbanger, good point about the automatic, I wasn't considering that. I had a '95 GT vert auto and it was a freakin dog. My '97 Maxima was quicker. Sure, my buddy's '91 GT Vert ran CONSISTENT 14.8s/14.9s with an AOD trans. STOCK. When he converted it to a 5spd, it ran consistent 14.5s. This...

This sentiment is something I hear often repeated, but I've found it to be the opposite of the truth. My '98 4.6L performed best when shifted between 5300-5500 rpms, based on the old 10% over peak horsepower rule. In non-PI form, shifts at 4900-5000rpms were optimal. Those last 500rpms are...

On what planet are the Fox Body GTs low-mid 15 second cars? They are EASILY mid-low 14 second cars, stock, in proper tune, in good weather. I'm not talking about as driven by the grandma staffers at Motor Trend. I'd say that a well driven 99+ GT is about on par with the Fox Body 5.0s. The...

I'm a little rusty, but I'll do my best... The PI Swap is an upgrade for the SOHC 2V as an OEM alternative to the NPI factory components that were long ago determined to be teh ghey in stock form. Fortunately as the parts are OEM not FRPP and the stock MAF, EGR, and TB are retained, there is...

I think I paid $150 to have my subframe connectors installed. The installation was done very professionally. I'm wary of random muffler shops- alot of their "welders" are hacks. This is certainly not the case with all of them, but most of the time you don't know what you're getting until the...

Nice! Nothing wrong with a 4x4 for a grand!

It's not harmful, but the car will lose some guts in the low end torque department. My Bronco has 8.0:1 compression, talk about Smog Era crap! 13 degrees of base timing took care of the lack of guts, but 400 cubic inches doesn't hurt either. 9.0:1 is not "low" compression. It's the same...

I doubt it's a valve issue. My MAC h-pipe used to tick too. Did you try replacing the gasket before you sealed it up? If you sneeze on them, they break. The MAC H-pipe is a thinner gauge steel than the stocker, so you'll hear more noise than you did before. I remember being worried about...

You're running 89 octane after the headswap? Is it pinging? Mine would ping like an MF if I didn't feed it 93 after the headswap. I'm sure you'd be hearing the detonation if this were the case, though.

I think you've got your answer right there. If I made 620rwhp, I'd have the dyno sheet tattooed on my ass.

That's funnier than the guy who told me he pulled the turbo off his 4G63 Eclipse so it would get "better gas mileage."

Good plan. Just put the 240sx shell on Craigslist and VOILA! You'll have 1000 emails in the 1st 5 minutes from people trying to build a "mad tyte 240sx silvia for drift competitions" If its rust free, you should fetch a few bucks for it.

From a budget standpoint, the cheapest way to get the most gains/$$$ would be to replace the ridiculously restrictive 6-cat H-Pipe with an Off-Road H/X Pipe. You can leave the stock mufflers (which don't flow badly for stock applications) and dump the midpipe and recognize the most gains...

Before I sold mine, I put 35k miles on my '01 heads after the headswap. Roughly 10:1 compression (no bowl work) and never a hint of blowout.

Pros: Greater Stopping Ability, More Rotor Surface Area = Great Heat Dissipation (no more GT warped rotor wobble), Longer service intervals, Easy upgrade, Looks cool. Cons: Must run 17s up front, thats about it. The parts cost more but my service intervals doubled with the brake upgrade so...

If you like heights, check out the observation deck of the Empire State Building. It seemed alot more historic and definitely more intense than the glass enclosed top level of the WTC. Central Park is pretty cool too, though you can't really sit around outside in January in NYC without...

I'm not saying that this was the first time it's been done, I'm simply stoked that "normal" people are realizing these gains and doing so with "normal people" budgets. People were running 14's with stock Non-PI GTs for years, but they were so few and far between that the general concensus...

I remember reading one of those "How to Buy an LT1" articles in GM High Tech Perf like 7 or 8 years ago. Evan J Smith (or one of those other Ford/GM staffer double agents) bought a higher mileage LT1 A4 and ran 13.8 or 13.9 bone stock in good East Coast weather. As everyone else has said...

Wow, history in the making, great numbers. I remember when people said NPI GTs couldn't get out of the low 15s stock (even when they were.) Then they'd never run bolt-on 13's. Then they said they'd never make 300rwhp N/A. Thanks for proving them all wrong. Now go out and get us a solid E/T!!

WOW. Beautifully clean install. That is one big hairdryer.:D