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[GST_Rice]

Hey guys I'm new to this forum...and am also basically new to the DSM scene. I just got my 98 GS-T about 2 months ago. Since then I've added quite a few aftermarket parts to it, and intend on continuing on the quest for DSM Nirvana!
So far I have added quite a few go fast and look good parts. We'll start with the performance parts. Hahn Racecraft Super 16G, Starion FMIC with 2.5 inch custom piping, Greddy UIC with Turbo XS Type H BOV, HKS Mega Flow Intake, Buschur Racing down and midpipes with a Greddy EVO aftercat exhaust, OBX short throw shifter, ACT 2100lb. Clutch, Pilot front and rear(upper and lower) strut bars, Apexi AVC-R and have ordered some pulleys and 550cc RC injectors.
As far as appearance mods I've added a set of chrome 18" Akuza Sublimes, lowered the car 1 3/4 inches, painted the center piece on the tailights to match the color of the car and added altezza sides, clear front bumper marker lights, tinted windows, carbon fiber dash trim, reverse indiglo gauges w/matching hvac controls, carbon fiber sfift handle, specially made shift and ebrake boot covers and a pillar mounted boost gauge!
Ok now here's the deal, the car feels fast and I've handed a few stangs in my area their rears but I want faster, staying within a budget of course! Where do I go from here....it seems that I have exhausted my options as far as budget performance parts go for these cars! If anyone's got any ideas please let me know! Also I was going to take my car to Import Wars on 10/12/02 but it got rained out and the track is closed for the winter any idea what my car is capable of in the 1/4? Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

 

[rubbersidedown]

porting and polishing... head, o2 housing, exhaust manifold, turbo.... umm get and external wastgate maybe? you'll need a better fuel pump if you're still using stock (i hope you aren't). what else? .. umm a FMIC.. and personally i would have gone w/ a full 3" exhaust and a 2600lb. clutch. oh and a limited slip differential that's all i can think of off hand. i know there is a lot more you can do but i don't feel like listing any internal mods.

so yeah, i guess you can just wait for someone to add to the list.

 

[mike9146]

....it seems that I have exhausted my options as far as budget performance parts go for these cars!

No, you just spent your money on the wrong parts. The Starion IC is a POS that doesn't flow, and for what you probably paid for your S16G, you could have bought a 20G. You wasted money on an EBC, when you could have bought a MBC for $30 and used the rest for some sort of fuel control, which should have been one of the first things that you bought, right after a fuel pump. If you're truly on a "budget" and want to go fast, sell the crap you shouldn't bought in the first place and buy the stuff you should have before you melt your pistons from running your engine too lean. Have your car logged and find out what is really going on.

Mike C.