Easy Performance
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I've got an '01 Tib that I bought about 8 months ago. Only 56k miles (10k of which I've put on since I bought her) and she runs pretty good, no problems I know of. I love my little Tib. I only have basic mechanical knowledge and all of that is learned from 70's MOPARs. EFI and fancy electronics are foriegn to me.
Anyways, now that I have the backstory out of the way, how easy would it be to add little performance mods like headers, CAI, BBTB, etc? Basically, are these mods truely "bolt-on"? I'm uncomfortable with cutting holes in things. I don't go the track (no track to go to 02.gif ) and I just want to add a little of that power I'm used to with american muscle cars.
And please refrain from flaming me, I know I'm an idiot. loser.gif
Anyways, now that I have the backstory out of the way, how easy would it be to add little performance mods like headers, CAI, BBTB, etc? Basically, are these mods truely "bolt-on"? I'm uncomfortable with cutting holes in things. I don't go the track (no track to go to 02.gif ) and I just want to add a little of that power I'm used to with american muscle cars.
And please refrain from flaming me, I know I'm an idiot. loser.gif
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The question is how much money? If you have enough, go turbo!
All the bolt-ons that you listed are, as called bolt-ons. if you know how to operate a wrench and a screw driver, you are in business.
All the bolt-ons that you listed are, as called bolt-ons. if you know how to operate a wrench and a screw driver, you are in business.
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Vehicle: 2001 Hyundai Tiburon
Intake, Header, Throttle Body, etc. are all essentially bolt on and go. Bolt-ons like this aren't much different then if you did it with a '60s car. Metric socket set, your favorite lucky socket, some wrenches, and an impact gun and you can do anything bolt-on.
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Funny you should mention this as there is a Group Buy going on for the most popular and proven Bolt-ons, the Airram Intake Manifold. Check it out in the Group Buy sub-forum.
I wish we could see some of the gains that the "muscle cars" see from simple bolt-ons. But you'll enjoy Intake/Headers/Exhaust, especially if you get in on the Airram GB too.
I wish we could see some of the gains that the "muscle cars" see from simple bolt-ons. But you'll enjoy Intake/Headers/Exhaust, especially if you get in on the Airram GB too.
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Get a cold air intake, that's probably the easiest bolt on mod. In the meantime, take off all the tubing and resonators going up to your filterbox (don't remove the filterbox!)
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That AirRam GB would be killer... It's days like this i curse my low-pay profession. But thanks for the feedback guys, I've had problems with so called "bolt-ons" with my '74 Dodge Dart despite the large ammount of parts avaliable. I especially had concerns about the BBTB. I really don't want to screw up a throttle body.
As a little side question, what's the highest speed anybody's got a Tib up to? I've only ever taken my stock Tib up to 110mph (not enough road, too many cops). mugshot.gif
As a little side question, what's the highest speed anybody's got a Tib up to? I've only ever taken my stock Tib up to 110mph (not enough road, too many cops). mugshot.gif
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heh... top has been 135 through traffic, running from a ZX3 and a Grand Marquis full of guys out to literally KILL my @$$. NEVER EVER TAKE A PSYCHOS GIRL FROM HIM! Just my $.02
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what all do you have on your car? and what were the RPM at? going 115 stoke scared the s**t out of me. i thnk it was about 5000 or 5500, cant rememmber. just know i was scared and was worried about throwing a rode going 120.(my dad is on this web page too. and i think he would kill me:nono2: if he finds this one):shh: scared.gif