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Old Jan 12, 2005 | 04:54 PM
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What is the best Upgrade you can get? Somthing that gets ALOT of hp fast
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Old Jan 12, 2005 | 04:58 PM
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What is the best Upgrade you can get? Somthing that gets ALOT of hp fast

Nitrous is very fast! Depending on the size of jetting?? You can crank it up till the engine goes BOOOOOOM!
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Old Jan 12, 2005 | 05:00 PM
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well what do you consider alot, you can get the vararam intake, supercharger, nitrous, heads and cam, or just bolt ons
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What's your budget?
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well i know there are lots of options like a supercharger and n.o. i just wanna know if there are any better. LOts of hp fast!
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I gained 200 rwhp with a supercharger installed by Andy at A&A. To me this is the most economic and quickest way to gain substantial hp. Great job, Andy!
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Its pretty open but not to any thing to expensive
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You can get lots of HP with a supercharger. Would love to have one myself, but budget just doesn't allow. Also, a head/cam/header install would give you some definite increases.
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Nitrous $2k installed
Heads cam longtubes catback $6k
Supercharger $8-9k

Cold air intake, $200+
Cam only plus install $1500
rear gears new plus install $1500-$2k+
torque converter for an automatic $700-900

427 from LPE $20k
C5R 427 $26-30k
427 twin turbo $40k+
twin turbo $11-30k

It all depends on how much you want to spend.
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I'm suprised no one else mentioned it.... High performance Hood seal... enough said.
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Vette Doctors 427 C5R block/heads engine replacement. More than double your horsepower in one fell swoop!
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