Quote Originally Posted by Swarzkopf View Post
Looking for a reliable high 13 second daily driver, I'd do:
- Colder spark plugs (AL605s or 104s)
- K&N drop in panel filter
- Either headers (more effective, more work, better bang for buck) or 3" downpipe (effective enough, less work, more expensive per gain)
- PCM tune
- 3.5 pulley
Done-zo

You could throw 1.9 rockers and a fenderwall intake into the mix too, if you want.
I'd skip the PLOG. I had one on my Regal - saw no gains at all from it honestly, even after tuning - when I swapped the parts above from my '00 GS to my '06 GP GT I left the PLOG on the Regal. LOL

Anyway, those basic mods really wake the car up, make it a lot more fun to drive in my opinion, and don't really muck with it's ability to be a daily driver. Anything beyond that starts to compromise daily driver reliability in my opinion. You could throw an intercooler on it and keep boost low, but that would kind of defeat the purpose of intercooling, etc[/COLOR]
Isn't there a major disadvantage sticking with a panel filter vs. a CAI or FWI? If not, I'm all ears...would love to have something I have clean less often!