Not 100% sure if this is the right section, but here we go anyway.
I've decided to put an intake on my 2002 lancer ES, I live in NJ and some people up here are telling me that cold air intakes are meant for dry areas and not areas like NJ. Can anyone verify this? My friends are telling my to get a Short ram intake, but I've read a lot about how short ram intakes don't add much horsepower.
Also, can someone tell me what else I can do for fairly cheap for HP.
I've been looking at a magnaflow exhaust, and RRM headers.
Thanks in advance.

 

If you want to go with the cold air intake you could get the air bypass valve http://www.tirerack.com/engine_tunin...il.jsp?ID=1082

also if you do get the intake and exhaust you could get a tactrix cable to tune for some better fuel curves and what not. plenty of threads in here about tuning with that and software.

 

Is your car Auto? If so you have to get a short ram anyway unless you can somehow make a CAI fit. If its 5-speed and you want a cold air thats cool, you can get a bypass valve if you really want to but unless your sitting in a puddle of water you wont do any damage. Also short ram and cold air intakes add very little hp on our cars.

 

True, it is an auto so I guess I'm going with a short ram.
What's the best for HP without throwing a turbo in or something?
a chip?

 

chip? LOL....no. You can get a piggyback ecu, Catback, intake, ported intake manni, test pipe, and then you will see a little power increase.

 

The only chip made for our cars is by Jet and I wouldn't buy it as it doesn't do a whole lot.
HyperTech is making a programmer, but it'll be like a year.

If I were you I'd be looking in the RRM light wieght pully department, makes a big difference.
Also intake and header and exhaust make power, but you really need to be looking to either tune your car (openecu.org) or get it tuned by a pro if you start making changes like this.

 

thanks for the tips
how much is it about to get tuned?
I know turbotrix in edison NJ will most likely do it, and they're like 30 mins from me

 

In my area, once I get turboed....I will be tuning my self, but if i wasn't....a tune is like 250 or so with that including dyno time. Still, don't expect a whole lot of power without turboing, you might see....20hp for about 1200 bucks? turbo for 1500 is going to add about 60hp, and have the potential to turn my engine into mush! If you want speed, get a diff car or turbo.

 

But how much would a turbo be all together? Because on RRM I see a turbo kit for 4200, but I've seen small turbos for like 1000, so if I get a small one, how much would the rest of whatever is in the kit be?

 

You can put together a turbo kit for $1,500-$2,000 if you are buying good parts and take your time to find deals.

However I'm not a fan of turboing our engin without upgrading the pistons, rods and head studs.
To do this it would be about that much also.

And this all is just parts cost.

 

True, I'm not too worried about labor costs, my brother in law has a shop near by.
Also, I have an automatic, so I would need custom piping right?