01-03-2018, 10:25 PM | #1 |
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Best way to increase HP and keep Warranty
Title says it all. I want more HP but don't want to void Warranty. Is that possible ??
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01-03-2018, 10:34 PM | #2 |
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OEM Cold Air Intake Thats it heh |
01-03-2018, 11:59 PM | #3 |
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yes its possible.
1.) Chevy performance cold air intake + tune (installed by dealer will not void warranty) 2.) Ported throttle body (unlikely to void warranty) 3.) Ported intake manifold (unlikely to void warranty) Those three will net you ~ +15 whp on an SS and cost around $1300 total. A tune to optimize the ported parts will give you even more power, but will burn your warranty for sure.
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01-04-2018, 12:05 AM | #4 |
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01-04-2018, 03:10 AM | #5 |
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$1300 for barely enough to notice and you will forget about it in short time. You want warranty just keep the motor stock and buy suspension.
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01-04-2018, 06:10 AM | #6 |
Thank you Al Oppenheiser!
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01-04-2018, 06:50 AM | #7 |
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sometimes I think bolt ons are over rated; just my opinion...... you can add bolt ons and gain mathematical hp. a driver probably wont be able to feel the gain though. the ported TB will give, in most cases, better throttle response which is something you can feel. best gain for the buck IMO.
real HP gains that a driver can feel will come from blowers, headers, cams, tunes, etc.; all the major mods installed together and tuned..... or move to a ZL1 at some point and add a ported throttle body to it as well. |
01-04-2018, 07:05 AM | #8 |
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Does the SS share the same throttle body as the Zl1, which had a nasty ridge in it making porting it a no brainier?
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01-04-2018, 07:31 AM | #9 |
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Save your money and do cosmetic mods or improve handling. Without a tune, the power you can gain is not worth the money. Over $100 per HP? LOL....nope!
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01-04-2018, 07:36 AM | #10 |
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I have no idea what it is on a car, but on an 300 hp offshore outboard motor you need 10 percent more hp to feel any type of difference at all. I imagine a car is about the same....So let’s say you put on an intake and exhaust, and it adds 15 hp… That’s 3% increase on an SS… You can’t feel 3%......
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01-04-2018, 07:43 AM | #11 |
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The ~3-5% increase is noticeably only in a probably better throttle response. You will have another sound which leads to the imagination that you have more power. in the end only on paper but not really in reality.
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01-04-2018, 08:33 AM | #12 | |
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On my 99 Z28 ~ 350 Factory HP, I did a intake LID, TB, MAF and Smooth Bellow. Still using stock exhaust and stock tune, and I DEFINITELY felt an improvement. No its not LIGHTYEARS better, but it is noticeably more responsive. |
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01-04-2018, 09:00 AM | #13 | |
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If your worried about the warranty, just do cosmetics |
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01-04-2018, 09:08 AM | #14 | |
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With turbo cars, you can often get a significant increase with just a few easy-to-do bolt-ons, depends on the car, but you can often increase the power around 20-25% rather easily. There can still be tradeoffs like reaching the volumetric limits of the turbo sooner, but in general, it's easier to do this with FI cars. I took my 220hp WRX to 280-300 with intercooler, bigger tubes, intake, full turbo-back exhaust, wastegate mods, some other stuff I'm totally forgetting right now, and tune. Not only was it very noticeable as far as power, it smoothed out the power delivery significantly and the turbo spooled faster(to higher boost of course). Still, when you decide your FI car needs a bigger blower or turbo to make more power, you start getting wrapped up in a lot of required supporting mods, so the amount of work can once again go up significantly. |
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