I've managed to get a couple companies to honor free shipping to AK, even on larger items. At the very least they've come most of the way and only charged me a paltry amount. We'll see. The only sure way to defeat is to not try in the first place.

 

Hey Guys, im looking to get a few things ported has anyone got stuff ported from someone up here? I am looking to do the exhaust mani, the intake mani and the throttle body. How hard is it to get that stuff off? The intake looks like a PITA

 

Josh your such a little girl lol.. jk. Honestly I personally don't think you should mess with the intake manifold. I can see benefits from the tb and exhaust manifold, but the manifold just seems like a PIA. But hey it's your car hehe.

 

I'm just bored with it in the winter because there is nothing major to upgrade. Most of the stuff I'm changing is to make it cleaner under the Hood but have no power gains. That's y I need to do something productive lol. So no on the intake, I need a new exhaust Mani anyways mine sucks.

 

Maybe look into sending the intake mani out or doing a core exchange. MAPerformance seems to do a nice job, it'll cost you $250 + shipping but you'd get a nice piece. I've never really heard anything good about any local machine shops except for one in the valley that seth at P3 auto out there uses, he seems to be happy with their work but the name escapes me.

As far as not getting gains from porting the stock intake..... MAPerformance claims this ......

I know its a vendor trying to sell stuff, but I"m sure there is something to be had. For $250 its probably a decent hp/$ as well....cams get you a little more than that but can cost x3 as much.

I was told by a guy I know who builds drag cars that he would never get machine work done locally if he could help it, he has this opinion because he's had work done in town before and always regretted it.

When I swap turbos I'll get the stock ex mani ported and if funds allow probably the intake and TB as well.

 

Most of the work I've seen is port matching and cleaning up the castings. Not to hard to do it yourself if you so choose.

After pulling a motor the intake manifold wouldn't be too bad. LOL I guess its all relative.

 

I hear you Josh I was just giving you crap lol. Honestly for the price of sending out your manifold to maperformance or any other vendor you might was well save more cash and get one of these bad boys. http://magnusmotorsports.com/product...ntake-manifold They claim up to 50whp on a dyno non-stock turbo cars.

 

Got offered 28K for my X...wasn't planning on selling, but it is just a garage ornament. Think I should sell?

 

have you even had time to enjoy it since you rebuilt it?

 

You are better then my wife for spending my money lol. Every link you send me makes me wanna spend more. Any other goodies.out there?

 

Dude sell it.. it's basically that a garage ornament. Let someone else apperciate that gorgeous ride.

LOL I know of a lot of other goodies, don't get me started.

 

Its an X, sell it, they are still making them and if you decide to get back into one you can probably pickup a shell to build cheap, or a new one to keep stock, or maybe you want a BMW, etc etc......

Now if it was a IX I would say keep it

 

It's just a car. Not like you can't buy another one if you want.

Everything is for sale for the right price.

 

I'm pretty sure my BOV is sticking now. Guess I need to find me one of them bad larry's now. Does anyone know of one for sale around here or a place to get one for a decent price?

 

What makes you think its sticking? no more psh psh on shift? The valves are pretty simple so if it truly is sticking a little disassembly and cleaning would probably fix it.
You talking stock or aftermarket?