Advice - If you had 12,000 to spend on mods on a stock car what would they be?

[Russ M]

Bump up from 12k to 15k and you can get Doug Levins 1st stage blower kit. That would be my choice, will make by far the most power. But then again BTR and a few others have come out with some resonably priced kits as well.

 

[ACR Joe]

K&N's/smoothies
Skip shift eliminator
Short throw shifter
Headers/cat back
Big brakes
Drag racing? 3.42 gears
Road racing? HD radiator/engine oil cooler/PS cooler
1.7 ratio rockers/65mm throttle bodies (both or niether)

Have a ball .....

 

[THEMASH]

Go with BTR's kits

Exhaust and headers $3500+
Intake System $400+
NOS $1900+
Stage II Heads $5000+ <---- not sure, not out yet
Half shaft $700
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$11500

I might be a bit off on the prices.
And you will be making more then 620RWHP and above 700RWTQ "Venom 650 killer"
call Tom at BTR for more detail.

If you are going to spend more, i would go with a Doug Levin supercharger and BTR exhaust+Headers

 

[TomMiriViper]

If your new to the viper performance maybe try nitrous? For less than half the amount you can make good power. I wouldn't put it on a '00 or newer viper though, It's too violent for the stock pistons. I've had the best experience with Doug Levin Motorsports with supercharging my viper. A lot of people first try nitrous and then end up with the supercharger.

Tom

 

[Tom Friend]

My shopping list:
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<LI>Stripes (color shift)
<LI>Wheels
<LI>GT2 wing, splitter, dive planes
<LI>Side pipes & GTS-R rocker panels
<LI>Headers, Hi-flow cats, mufflers
<LI>Sean Roe toys: HID, pedal mods, shocks/springs, cooling mods
[/list]

 

[FastMatt]

Tell me more about this stage 1 blower kit? price? power #'s? what boost dose it run?
dose he sell it as a kit, or only installed?
why would you not use NOS on a 2000-up car? and the pistons/rods weeker?

Matt

 

[Steve Ferguson]

Driving school.
Driving school.
Driving school.

Nothing will mean more than investing in yourself.

 

[THEMASH]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 1bad gts:
Call Nick at Modern (732)222-3679. For 12000.00 he can do a full top end job (you will have a guaranteed on moter no nitrous 550 plus RWHP)You may even have some money left over.

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Thats a great price for that amount of power, but on his web site, it says his kit is $20,800.
I am going to give Nick a call and see what he says.

 

[pauls]

Learn to drive the car you have. Then you'll appreciate any mods you add and can properly evalute them.

 

[Fred(DrivingSchool)Kinder]

The most important modification is to the computer that connects our eyes to our hands, feet and *ss.

Join your local VCA then.

1. Take the Skip Barber 2 Day Driving school (25% discount to VCA members)
1.A Do as many autocross events as possible.
2. Take the Skip Barber 1 Day Car Control Clinic (10% discount to VCA members)
3. Repeat 2 as needed
4. Take the Skip Barber 3-day racing school (10% discount to VCA members)
5. Take as many Skip Barber Lapping days as possible.
6. Join Viper Days and open track events/high per driving schools

When you can manage the 450 horses available then define what you want to achieve and spend $$ accordingly.

 

[Chuck B 98 GTS]

Go supercharger! Had mine done 2 years ago by Doug Levin Motorsports... Love it! Doug is a talented super tuner when it comes to performance engines. You can trust doing business with him and his cars are very fast. I've spoken with others and his cars bring a great resale value and not to mention they are a work of art.

Charles B.