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But if you can't go that far, and you have the money, the TME Turbo is a GREAT mod! Dyno4mance sells, and installs them.

 

Evotagger: your welcome. Okay on the sway bar.

Inline4G63: You bring up a good point. But I do the 10.5 installs for $200. I remove the turbo to do it, which is the longest way to do it. But less headaches in the long run.

There should be some cheaper places to have the work done. Check around.

Brian

 

you have taken two ends of the spectrum. the cheapest cam install and the most expensive hotside install. cam install from a shop is $300 around my neck of the woods, and the hotside is an easy install from what I gather that one could do themeselves. i did my mani, which is half way there and it was easy. cams also require $100 arp studs. cams also require a tune. you can just slap a hotside on there and not worry about anything. ofcourse you would want to tune it, but it is easier and not required. plus a hotside doesn't void your warranty. so cams are quite a bit more expensive and risky then a hotside.

hotsides add more tq then hp so I think you will like it more then the numbers suggest. but i wouldn't complain about $20/whp anyway. might as well get a tme or the evo ix turbo (when it comes out) if you are having a shop install the hotside. i can't justify paying more for an install then the mod and you will save alot of money by getting a new turbo put in at the same time.

 

At least in my experience you've got to be really carefull where you take your car to have it worked on.

Pay the little extra and take it to a reputable shop. Just my 2cents.

 

You do not need ARP studs for cams.

If you're planning on putting on a hotside yourself, buy some studs for the turbo ahead of time because most likely 1 or two will break on you when removing the stock hotside from the turbo.

And you can justify paying more for the install than the part if you don't know how to do it yourself, and you want someone that knows what they're doing to do the work for you. Andrew at Dyno4mance for instance has installed a great number hotsides and could do it in his sleep. Plus he has the shop/tools/knowledge to fix anything that might go wrong (like the stud breaking) while doing the install.

So to me it's worth the stretch. I mean, if your going to do something why pay $100 less and have some backyard amature do the job (and possibly f it up) when you could just pay a pro. $100 extra for GOOD labor on moding my $30K car isn't excessive, it's insurance.

 

The install of the 10.5 Hotside does not appear to be too difficult.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...hreadid=132695

 

i installed my cams, gears, and headstuds myself...i would install the hotside myself...it looks like a pretty simple job...so you can factor out the price of install

it seems to be worth it to me as far as i can see...i may be calling you soon andrew

 

I'd say if you feel you can do it yourself, go for it. It really isn't that hard, it's not simple, but definately not impossible or anything. And if you do it yourself, totally worth it.

 

that is not what 90% of the tuners say. $100 bucks for added safety is what they always tell me. maybe you don't need it, but you don't need 93 octane either. that doesn't mean you should run 89.

 

just let u know I dyno 339.9 whp 332.7 tq on stock turbo without the 10.5 hot side... now I haven't it but I haven't tune it yet I'm goin to install the meth. kit then I going to tune it

 

on what dyno?

 

On a side note, I have a bridge for sale if your interested let me know.

 

at CFT

 

they appear to have a mustang dyno...which typically read low, but can read high as well

im comparing my peak numbers to those who have dyno'd on the same dd dyno...im not too focused on peak numbers anyway...its just an easy way to portray power on the net