need some suggestions on performance and looks cat.

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need some suggestions on performance and looks cat.

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i want to just give my bville a little more thump to it like :
im going to get the programed ecm from intense-racing,
magnaflow mufflers w/3 or 3 1/2 inch stainless steel pipes
i want a ram air hood with the scoop look like on the Trans Am
and a K&N Air Kit,any suggestions where can i get the ram air hood from for my 2001 pontiac bville
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Post by lewis26 »

The hood will have to be fully custom. Nobody makes parts like those for our cars.
Also, K&N doesn't make an "Airkit" for our cars. Go with a FWI from intense.
The exhaust is also not going to get you much(if any) performance, it's only for sound.

Go with a PCM and FWI. that should get you headed in the right direction.
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Da713Bonneville wrote:i want to just give my bville a little more thump to it like :
im going to get the programed ecm from intense-racing,
magnaflow mufflers w/3 or 3 1/2 inch stainless steel pipes
i want a ram air hood with the scoop look like on the Trans Am
and a K&N Air Kit,any suggestions where can i get the ram air hood from for my 2001 pontiac bville
3 inches is as big as you want to go for the main pipes. You could do a 3" Exhaust and 3.5" tips, but that's overkill, IMHO. Hood is going to either be custom made by cutting up the old one, or spending a lot to have a custom fiberglass hood made. I agree, get an Intense FWI. It has a K&N Filter, and flows great. K&N doesn't make a CAI for our cars like they do on the Grand Prix's and other more mainstream cars.
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oh ok cool so aftermarket vendors overlook our cars and once we fix them up to a certain look,then they mouth be hanging and *shoot* cause we did it without the help from there assembly line GREAT!!!!!! but all i wanted the exhaust for was sound so cool fwi and pcm got it.............................thanx
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http://www.intense-racing.com <-- For all you need.
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Post by mylittleblackbird »

MY thought is that if you run a single 3" pipe on that engine, since it's N/A, you are going to have even less torque than you do now. I'm skeptical you could even move enough air at full tilt boogie to need a single 3". This is assuming you'd run the full exhaust.
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