[timpryor]

Originally Posted by SAvoltage

after gears and a chip im done with the sixer. will prob get a 5.0 within the next 2 years. a FOX BODY!!

honestly gears and chip will run you close to a grand maybe more and that could be alot of bank to build for t'eh fox body.

again this is my .02 and i know where your comming from but you will see what i mean later on.

[SAvoltage]

well i will keep the six for a while mabey like 5 or 6 more years im gonna drive the hell outta it though college with the fox more of a hobby buy then i will be close to my insurence cut off and i will get like a 07 or 08 GT

[Nite-Mare]

Originally Posted by SAvoltage

well i will keep the six for a while mabey like 5 or 6 more years im gonna drive the hell outta it though college with the fox more of a hobby buy then i will be close to my insurence cut off and i will get like a 07 or 08 COBRA

Better.

[SAvoltage]

haha yah werd a cobra. no wait f*ck that GT500.

[timpryor]

Originally Posted by SAvoltage

haha yah werd a cobra. no wait f*ck that GT500.

same car

do you see my point now?

[ed5150]

dude...300$ (ebay 189.99) or so, and you can get the gears and T-Loc installed...then get a dyno tune/chip burn from CCS or another tuner company 400$ (CCS), add a shift improvement kit, and a few suspension mods, and you will still be under 1000$...don't let people try & talk you out of the mods YOU want, just do them, and make it into a car YOU want to drive bro!!! just my .02 cents,

Ed

[BigJnSA]

Originally Posted by ed5150

dude...300$ (ebay 189.99) or so, and you can get the gears and T-Loc installed...then get a dyno tune/chip burn from CCS or another tuner company 400$ (CCS), add a shift improvement kit, and a few suspension mods, and you will still be under 1000$...don't let people try & talk you out of the mods YOU want, just do them, and make it into a car YOU want to drive bro!!! just my .02 cents,

Ed

WERD!!! :jeff:

[TrueBlueVenom]

for mods ya gotta take a rational approach, too, like how many miles you have on the engine/tranny. if you have a lot of miles on them, you might wanna shift the mod money over to the engine and/or tranny before investing elsewhere. sure would hate to see ya spend money on other areas and see the engine or tranny fail (hope I didn't jinx!)

[ed5150]

:stupid:

Seriously, John has a great point....have one of the Mechanic folks from LSS take a look at your car, and let them recommend Mods they think the car/engine/tranny can handle...from the list of mods YOU want to do...

[VulvaMan]

I would say BBQ Lays! MMMMM!

[tire]

Originally Posted by timpryor

honestly gears and chip will run you close to a grand maybe more and that could be alot of bank to build for t'eh fox body.

again this is my .02 and i know where your comming from but you will see what i mean later on.

Even with an 8.8 and gears/install and a chip it won't run 1k.

If I remember correctly:

8.8 = 150 or so
gears + install = 250-300
7.5 = -75

and mail order chips are 300 or so... so around 700. if he kept the 7.5 it'd be a few bucks less.

and 1k will go a lot longer on the fox than the bang-for-buck ratio on the 6 banger, as tim said. :jeff:

however, if you (SAVOLTAGE) are going to sink the money into the 6cyl, go with gears all the way... don't fear the gear!

[SiLv3R_4point6]

"Don't be a queer get some gear"

[foxracermenace]

well what would you recommend for me being that i plan on modding and keeping karlas sixer. and keeping it a sixer.

[SiLv3R_4point6]

Just tap a hole in the intake tube and spray a 150 shot and your done. Running high 14's all day!!!!! w00t!!1 Swap the sparkies for a colder plug. Hook up a switch by the shifter and hit it when you need it. I had a auto 97 v-6 I was playing around with. Hooked up my friends zex dry shot and sprayed a 75 shot without a hitch and just went up from there. No risk involved. Took it to tad and ran 14.7's all day on street radials.

[SAvoltage]

got um! 4.10's woot woot for a good price too. 51.00 +shipping. will be here in about a week. then ill have Nighthawk (or brian) hopefully put um in in less than 2 1/2 weeks from now. im counting down the days!!

these are them

[tire]

Originally Posted by SAvoltage

got um! 4.10's woot woot for a good price too. 51.00 +shipping. will be here in about a week. then ill have Nighthawk (or brian) hopefully put um in in less than 2 1/2 weeks from now. im counting down the days!!

these are them

is the new speedo gear or gear hardware on the way? your years, i believe, are ok to correct with a speedcal or similar component. otherwise your speedo will be f'd up. i didn't check but if you are buying used gears, that's a big risk. :thumbdown

[auto6banger]

I actually you will need to get a chip with the gears unless you wanna top out at like 80.

[Franchise]

Starting with the 99+ models is when you started to hear noise about using a chip or speed cal to calibrate the speedo correctly when upgrading the gears. Unless something has changed with that line of thinking you will need a chip. For models through 98 model year you can use a speedo gear to get things right.

Are the speedo gears different for both 7.5 and 8.8 applications?

[tire]

i had a 2000 v6 5spd with 4.10s and a speedcal, no problem whatsoever. later i transplanted it to a 2002 model as well.

speedo gears are inside the speedometer, not the rear differential. they adjust the needle manually.

[Nite-Mare]

Originally Posted by auto6banger

I actually you will need to get a chip with the gears unless you wanna top out at like 80.

SAvoltage: 102 in a 65... Top out at 80 might be a good thing!