Don't listen to this guy, he's a tree huggin' HIPPIE from Austin, traded his 272 bumpsticks for an IPOD

 

20gigs of fury!!

I would go for cams and a tune for your next 2 mods. A tune alone is good for an easy 25whp and with cams, gameover .

 

At what whp do headstuds become suggested?

 

I don't know if there is a magic number, in retrospect it would have been my first mod. oh and O.A.R. rrrawwwwwwwks

 

You should install the head studs as early in the process as possible but a good time is when the cams are being replaced as the labor can be done at the same time. You have enough mods already that with a tune you should have the head studs.
My car is a daily driver and I made sure to add reliability mods as well as performance mods. Like I stated before I get 21 mph and its fast as hell.

 

IC piping and Cams, next...

 

drop a hemi in it!!!!!

seriously though i think the best bang for the buck(aside from nitrous of course) is cams.

 

Best bang for the buck will always be a tune, followed closely by cams... though I have to say.... my ipod link does kick ***, so +1 on the ipod thing!!!

 

Do you not have to pull the head to install headstuds?

<--- Honda guy, sorry.

 

hks 272's, headstuds, hks rs intake, 10.5 hotside, IC pipes and a reflash

 

I did some more research and found the 10.5 is only good for about 10whp.

I would really like to make some big gains with my following mods, relative to the price.

Cams and headstuds are a definite, but I'm not so sure about the rest now.

 

Find a nice lower i/c pipe, man you wouldn't believe the difference you'll feel in throttle/boost response. Good mod for the price and I think one of the vendors has the entire Helix set on sale for $290 shipped. One thing I personally love about replacing all the factory upper piping is how much space it clears up under the hood.

 

No, you don't have to pull the head to replace the head bolts. The 10.5 hotside is no a horsepower upgrade, it is a spool upgrade. You will spool faster with it than without.

 

Bump.

 

After looking through a bunch of dyno graphs it seems that every cam combo aside from 272/272 will fall off before 7800rpm. I don't mind having that but I would like a supporting mod to add some power where they start to fall off, to keep it pulling strong to redline. Would a 10.5 hotside do this? Or what becomes the limiting factor from 7000rpm up?