jprevat

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Would a head job, mild cams, and a custom tune net enough make it worth while? I figure you might be able to shine a little light on the subject.

charliedyal

Head job - roughly $400
Cams - $600+
Tune - $400+

Worth it?
F**k yeah!

jprevat

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Lol well that doesnt sound too bad to me. What head job and cams would compliment each other? Just a 3 way valve job and some twisted wedge cams?

ibd2328

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If you had non PI heads, you could do a head swap and gain 50hp easily.

ibd2328

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When you are looking for budget horspower, think combustion chamber size and ratio.

charliedyal

Mil the heads

charliedyal

The sad thing is that no matter how much we've spent & what we've done, the project is never complete. ESPECIALLY, after reading in on everything ibd2328 has going on. Its friggin contagious!! LOL

ibd2328

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I'm going to have well over 10k in this project. But it's tranny, frame, and engine. All built.

4.6_fan

i would just like to get myself to like 280 to 300 reliable hp and a bump in torque. obviously a blower would be bad ***, or a twin turbo build. but minimum 5 grand i would guess for a good blower set up and even more for turbo's. and a 5.4 swap would be nice, but my 4.6 is super low milage for the year and would hate to trade that in for a higher milage 5.4. plus i have no shop capable of coin the swap in so that means paying someone to do it. maybe my 1500 dollar budget is just too low to get the gains i want thanks for all the input though

ibd2328

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300hp at the wheels? I doubt you are seeing 210 at the crank right now with age. Power is expensive. A small 8psi blower would be the way to go if affordable.