Easy Horsepower

[Joe_Black]

Here's an easy, but not necessarily cheap, mod to get you about 15 - 20 additional ponies on the dyno: ExtrudeHone.

You'll need to send in your intake, so this may not be ideal for those without additional transportation options, unless you pick up an extra intake from eBay or a salvage/junk yard. But it is a proven and effective performance increase.

If 6 or more are interested we can get a Group Buy on this as well. You can count me as number 1!

[Cyrk]

Will this work or not work with my SC?

[Triathlete]

Basically this process smooths out the burrs and rough spots in your manifold and heads to allow a smoother flow through the system like polishing. This has been going on for many years with the race car/hot rod scene. It should not matter weather your S/C'd or not.
$1725 for heads, exhaust manifold and intake manifold....ouch!
A bit cheaper for a group buy! That is exspensive horsepower.
You can do the same thing at home with a dremel tool!

[WormGod]

That's a LOT of loot for the inconvenience and small hp gain. As Triathlete stated, it's not a new process, so a local speed machine shop could probably offer that service. I don't know about the need to send it out to have it done. *shrug*

[Joe_Black]

I was thinking of JUST the intake, which would net the mentioned gains for about $600. Doing the all the rest is extreme and should only be considered for a full-prep engine job.

As for a local speed shop doing it, yes there are a few that have the proprietary ExtrudeHone equipment and training but even more who "do their own thing" at your potential expense. I generally believe in going to the source for this kind of work.

I haven't really looked closely at the guts of an SC install so can't answer that question, so hopefully Tone will chime in.