Thread: New, just bought 98 GTP coupe ebay $3100, 80k

Originally Posted by cleangtp

Damn guy those are cheap in price. Maybe I should opt out of the SLP's. You're running 0 knock retard on them. What else do you have done to help keep knock retard down? I know every car is different but you get some good guidelines from talking to others that have already been there done that. Do you have any pictures of your engine bay?

I myself just about **** my pants, when I won the bid on ebay for my GTP. I looked at my wife and said holy smokes nobody else bid babe. She was really happy it's a 2dr like she wanted and had super low miles for a 1998. She really doesn't drive it often as I thought she would. She likes her Mazda6, it's got the 220hp engine.

Also what type of downpipe do you run with the headers or is it totally eliminated? I want to get the cat converter off the car, I live in Ohio and we have no emissions. All they do is choke the car anyways.

I can get some engine bay pics up soon. They come with a 3 inch catless DP and they look awesome. I've got a cheap $40 ebay intake, drilled 180 t-stat, autolite 104's and I ported my blower outlet myself. I'm running no knock on a 3.3 and I'm sure I could run a 3.2 or 3.1 with minimal or no knock. There is no point in buying expensive zzp/ slp headers unlless you're trying to dig into LOW 12's or 11's, and by then, you'd be better off going turbo. Here are pics of them on my living room floor fresh out the box.


You can get these with a VS cam, pulley valve springs and all the supporting mods plus a GREAT TUNE and run a low 13 for less than 1700 bucks installed if you don't mind traveling to Michigan. PM me if you're intrested

I'd probably opt to skip the cam and valvetrain components. I can't have a lopey idle, wife wouldn't like it. Are you saying that 13's cant be obtained without a cam though?

Where in MI are you I'm halfway between cleveland and columbus. Do you work on your car? I'm done with manual labor on vehicles. I had nitrous on my prelude, after having a brain fart and spraying to long I popped the piston ring out of the groove and melted itself to itself lol. I sleeved the block with ductile sleeves forged pistons and rods and it never ran right. After pulling the engine 2 times I finally broke down and bought a stock type sh engine with 7 thousand miles on it and called it a day on that car. It did run 13.50's with just a 75 shot though.

Seems when I mess with engines and internals I ruin them lol.[/QUOTE]

Oh 13's are easily in reach with less than a grand. LOW 13's - High 12's... not so much (at least without spray). I have a VS cam, and its quite possibly the smallest gtp cam worth buying. I got it because I didn't want acrazy lopey idle, and its realy easy on the internals. You cant tell it's cammed from inside the car.

Anyway, I do a lot of my work myself, but I had the cam put in at big worms performance shop. He's a f^cking beast and he damn near works on these cars for fun. Guy gives great deals. I don't know what my 1/4 mile is, but I can beat a modded 07 mustang GT by a length and a half that has ran a 13.3 in street trim. I spent 1100 dollars in engine mods. He put my cam and in in about 8 hours and tund the car to perfection. I removed my resonator and put in 2.5 inch piping. the 3 inch welded up nicely to the pipe, and the pipe welded to the stock Y. All the clamps sealed up great so far.