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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 07:26 PM
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I have a 92 coupe with MagnaFlow exaust and SLP intake with air foil. Thinking of ordering a hypertech chip with low temp thermastat good move or no? What would you add not to radical?
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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 07:35 PM
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Hypertech=junk

Only chips that are worth the money are custom chips, and custom chips are not needed until you make significant changes to the engine (like a camshaft or head change). It is not needed when you change to a lower temperature thermostat, which you should run a specific search on (in the C4 Tech archives).

LT1 is pretty good to start with, so anything worth doing probably qualifies under your definition of "radical". Headers, cam, heads, RR, etc. Personally i'd do the 1.6RR and headers first.
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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by roxred
radical?
Does that include nitrous, heads/cam, blower? You need to give more info about your current setup. Auto / Manual? Rear gears? etc.. Inexpensive bolt-ons will only take you so far. Some of them will do nothing at all.



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Personally i'd do the 1.6RR and headers first.
That's a good place to start.
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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 07:42 PM
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I have a '90 which may or may not help, however try the search feature as I did for mods for a '92.

Happy Reading...............this is a good resource

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/sear...archid=5819800
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What Vadar86 said. Only I'm suprised that you didn't gain 12 HP with the airfoil HP costs money.
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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by roxred
I have a 92 coupe with MagnaFlow exaust and SLP intake with air foil. Thinking of ordering a hypertech chip with low temp thermastat good move or no? What would you add not to radical?
I say no on the chip and thermostat. Get a high-flow air filter and if you've got low miles on the valve springs slap on some 1.6 roller rockers.

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