[Z06] If you had it to do over again
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If you had it to do over again
Hi guys, I recently purchased an 01 ZED 06 as my wife(canada) likes to call it.
Bone stock down to the CAGS still being enabled. I will go down the road to modding, and I do have a good idea of the parts combo I want to use, but the only thing I can be sure of is I want a bump in power/performance. I'll grab a CAI whenever, and it will facilitate the upcoming "larger mods"
I have narrowed it down to one of three mods to possibly do within the next six months:
Long Tubes+Full Exhaust
3.73 or 3.90 gears
Cam+supporting valvetrain only(will select cam based on future plans, not trying to get max power from just cam)
Will do a tune with either LT/Exh or Cam+supporting.
If you had it to do over again, which would you start with?
EDIT: And why?
Bone stock down to the CAGS still being enabled. I will go down the road to modding, and I do have a good idea of the parts combo I want to use, but the only thing I can be sure of is I want a bump in power/performance. I'll grab a CAI whenever, and it will facilitate the upcoming "larger mods"
I have narrowed it down to one of three mods to possibly do within the next six months:
Long Tubes+Full Exhaust
3.73 or 3.90 gears
Cam+supporting valvetrain only(will select cam based on future plans, not trying to get max power from just cam)
Will do a tune with either LT/Exh or Cam+supporting.
If you had it to do over again, which would you start with?
EDIT: And why?
Last edited by Glenndingo; Aug 25, 2017 at 11:14 PM.
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Congrats on the Z from a fellow Canadian (Kelowna BC). Only performance mods I've done are; TSP headers with Magnaflow cats and X into Ti's, K&N intake, shortened the factory shifter. The exhaust really woke the car up, best mod IMO.
Re sound, I think the factory mufflers are a tiny bit quiet lower down, but sound great with the headers above 2500-3000.
Have fun!
Re sound, I think the factory mufflers are a tiny bit quiet lower down, but sound great with the headers above 2500-3000.
Have fun!
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I'd go straight for a supercharger.
A&A has a great kit right around $5k which is what all the other stuff will cost if not much more. The power bump from the blower can't be topped by any combination you could possibly put together at double the price.
A&A has a great kit right around $5k which is what all the other stuff will cost if not much more. The power bump from the blower can't be topped by any combination you could possibly put together at double the price.
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I'd do LT's as well. The 01's were mostly choked from the factory. The 405hp of the 02+ has little to do with the cam like most people on this forum would have you believe.
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Best bet is to decide what your end goal is with your car before you start modding.
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Yeah, this is about what I expected, a good set of headers and maybe an exhaust to go with it...so I talked to some guys about getting said headers and the shipping is just outrageous here (I'm in Hawaii for another year or so).
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
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Yeah, this is about what I expected, a good set of headers and maybe an exhaust to go with it...so I talked to some guys about getting said headers and the shipping is just outrageous here (I'm in Hawaii for another year or so).
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
The only thing is the Texas Speed headers are not American made if that is important to you.
One thing to remember also is that the Z is about 600 lbs lighter than your GTO.
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I just put on the Texas Speed headers and catted x-pipe on my Z and they are great. Just as good quality as any of the other name brand headers. Looks like shipping to Hawaii is about $200 for them plus $1000 for the system. The Texas speed headers don't have rear O2 sensor bungs or provisions for the AIR system but these really aren't necessary as it looks like Hawaii doesn't do smog testing.
The only thing is the Texas Speed headers are not American made if that is important to you.
One thing to remember also is that the Z is about 600 lbs lighter than your GTO.
The only thing is the Texas Speed headers are not American made if that is important to you.
One thing to remember also is that the Z is about 600 lbs lighter than your GTO.
I also will more than likely be in California next so... :/
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Yeah, this is about what I expected, a good set of headers and maybe an exhaust to go with it...so I talked to some guys about getting said headers and the shipping is just outrageous here (I'm in Hawaii for another year or so).
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
Forrest, Jenny??
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CA. doesn't allow LTs, just so you know. There, it's a game of where you live, and finding a friendly inspection station. It's also where A&A is. (Oxnard) Unless you are doing the work yourself, a LT/full exhaust, cam, supporting valvetrain mods + eventual clutch is more than the cost of a SC kit. Of course, you'll still need the clutch, and I would recommend a trans brace as well. I've never raced my car, but the clutch became useless the first time I tried to shift at redline after my heads/cam/exhaust, and my diff twisted into scrap on a hard shift from 2-3 gear the first time I got into my SC.
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That's a different guy with a red Z lol...I had a 69 Camaro SS for a time but it's gone now. Definitely keeping the olds, and the specific scene I'm referring to is Forrest finished way too early.
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I never had my LS2 GTO dyno'd but I had headers, ported intake, tune, CAI and a full exhaust. I expect it was somewhere around 400rwhp.
The Z06 is so much faster.
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Yeah, this is about what I expected, a good set of headers and maybe an exhaust to go with it...so I talked to some guys about getting said headers and the shipping is just outrageous here (I'm in Hawaii for another year or so).
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
I'll probably have to wait to get back to the mainland to do big stuff to the car D:
On the other hand, I thought about the super/turbo charger route...aaaand I just want a really nice N/A build...
My GTO laid down 425 @ the wheels with cam/intake/headers and I would like to see similar results out of the LS6 in a 3000# car. Definitely would feel like Forrest did the first time with Jenny.
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