Quote Originally Posted by slick2500 View Post
1. Where have you been searching that says the cold air intake adds 20 hp and the exhaust adds 15? Those 2 mods at the max might give you 5 more hp.
Well don't forget he did mention headers, not just a cat back. So that's more than 5 combined.

9. I have painted calipers on my car. It's not hard, but time consuming depending on how good of a job you want to do. Since you only see the outer and top part, some people leave them on the car (on the knuckle) and just tape everything off, prep and paint. I removed all 4 calipers, and brackets and scraped, wire brushed, and cleaned with brake cleaner before applying 4-6 coats. It's holding up great so far. My only regret is that I didn't get 100% of the old paint off first, some was on there good so I left it, I should have used an angle die grinder and a scotch brite pad on it. (if you remove all calipers, it's a good time to do a brake fluid flush)

12. http://www.grandprixforums.net/ultim...0-a-49055.html
^ This is a decent list, there are many that should have been added to it but I'm not sure if the user is still active or not. The posts below suggest more things. (Let me say trying to find that post was absolutely impossible using the forum search. I spent 5 minutes and couldn't find it. I typed the same stuff into google and bam the first link there it was.)
http://www.grandprixforums.net/safel...0-a-67580.html


13. This is only true in the case of a bit of modding due to be being supercharged. At the time, the 3.8 SC made about as much as a small V8 of its time in 98-05.

Also since you just got it, maintenance is a great place to start, that can give a bit more HP and better mileage.