Only thing is..premium fuel..high gas prices... Fml
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08-26-2009
Only thing is..premium fuel..high gas prices... Fml
08-26-2009
yeah..... making your car faster isnt cheap
Last edited by Jakegday; 08-26-2009 at 05:01 PM.
08-26-2009
lol ya i no but they havent been that bad this summer
08-26-2009
yeah.........it isnt like 4.50 a gallon like a couple years back........thank god. Hopefully the prices stay were they are at or come down a little. We will see. If you are SC then you are already running premium so it doesnt matter as much to us....LOL
08-26-2009
is that sssm90 kit any good i dont wana do top swap jus got new motor put in with low miles
08-26-2009
so this would be the perfect time to get the top swap, then right?Originally Posted by bballa0740
Why don't you want to do it now? I dont know much of the ssm90 kit....hopefully others that do will chime in...
08-26-2009
no like it pisses me off cuz i wanted to do it and the dude that redid my motor said it would be too much work and jus got me a regular 3.8 from the junkyard with like 50,000 miles on it other wise i would love to do top swap. and ssm90 looks tight but you gotta by like 4 other things with it ughhhhh more money down the drain
08-26-2009
no that is what top swapping is........you use your stock NA lower end with a SC on top.....you use the SC heads and intake stuff but you use your NA block. Because your NA block is higher compression you will make more power than you would if you had the entire stock SC setup. I just looked at the ssm90 kit and it sucks because you dont want their pcm on anything supercharged unless you want to buy new motors all the time. That PCM is half of the cost of that kit. I will get you some info on the top swap.........
08-26-2009
read this thread as it applies to you directly if you are wanting to top swap.....http://www.grandprixforums.net/f17/top-swap-info-faqs-also-lots-7763.html
08-26-2009
of course the ultimate way to go is turbo set up, but to do it right you will need at least 5-10k .......and dont do it half-a$$ed either....I dont know how much money you have to stick in it or what you are looking to spend.......options are pretty much unlimited until you have kind of a budget set up and you let us know how much work you can do yourself........how mechanically inclined are you? How experienced are you working on cars?
08-26-2009
lol im 17 with a summer job that banks thats why i got money and me and my dad do some **** on cars but if i had anything done like this prolly pay some one to do it. but ya i would love to do top swap
08-26-2009
says page not found
08-26-2009
look in the na section(which we are in now) it is one of the top couple of threads....look for the one that says top swap........not sure why link doesnt work
08-26-2009
alrighty thanks
08-26-2009
im still not understanding i read the top swap guide. this dosent sound to bad but like i said could i take it some where and they could get parts and things or is it better for me to gather them all first? and if i got new pcm would it be useless after the swap just wonderin?
08-26-2009
the PCM would be useless after a top swap, but there is nothing like doing the top swap yourself to learn the internals of the car so you know how to fix everything. take a weekend and do it on your own.
08-27-2009
even if you are not going to do the work yourself, take the time and find the parts yourself if you want to save some money. If money is not an object, then have someone else get all of them for you.......see if you can find them at a junkyard or from Morad Parts company......if you can get a good deal from them. You will need a new PCM after the top swap or a retuned PCM....
08-27-2009
alright thanks
08-27-2009
how much does it usually end up costing i the end when its all said and done any one know?
08-27-2009
if you do it by yourself: $500
if you pay someone else to do it: $1500
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