best bolt ons
Melting Slicks
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Best bolt ons for C5 would be Long Tube headers with hi-flow cats amd a true cold air intake such as Callaway Honker, Vararam, Vortex Rammer and a tune. If you have an automatic, gears are a great mod, especially if your car came with 2.73 gearing. I believe your 2000 has an LS1 intake manifild so an LS6 intake mainifold is also a popular upgrade.
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From: Enfield CT
Best bolt ons for C5 would be Long Tube headers with hi-flow cats amd a true cold air intake such as Callaway Honker, Vararam, Vortex Rammer and a tune. If you have an automatic, gears are a great mod, especially if your car came with 2.73 gearing. I believe your 2000 has an LS1 intake manifild so an LS6 intake mainifold is also a popular upgrade.
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Headers and Gears, headers and gears, headers and gears.
On a stock or stock-ish setup, they are the only thing you should spend money on for performance. Cold Air intake is good too, but you can rig that up for free.
IF you have an automatic, then add a converter with the gears.
IF you have a 2000 or earlier, and LS6 intake manifold is a good mod too, and can be had very cheap.
Cat-backs are primarily for sound. Don't buy one expecting performance gains.
MAF sensors, airbridges, x-pipes outside of a header kit, throttle body bypasses or spacer or inserts, etc. are paperweights and the advertised hp increases are pure b.s.
On a stock or stock-ish setup, they are the only thing you should spend money on for performance. Cold Air intake is good too, but you can rig that up for free.
IF you have an automatic, then add a converter with the gears.
IF you have a 2000 or earlier, and LS6 intake manifold is a good mod too, and can be had very cheap.
Cat-backs are primarily for sound. Don't buy one expecting performance gains.
MAF sensors, airbridges, x-pipes outside of a header kit, throttle body bypasses or spacer or inserts, etc. are paperweights and the advertised hp increases are pure b.s.
Last edited by _Will_; Jun 9, 2008 at 09:42 PM.
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