TNell

you actually do get a very nice sotp gain with pi cams and intake. the coolant port mismatch is no big deal if you search and find good tips on the installation. my 96 was non-pi, then pi intake only. there was a noticeable gain above 3000rpm. then i put the pi cams in. still another noticeable gain.
then i had to go back to the non-pi intake because the pi intake failed (unrelated to pi vs non pi issues). definite drop in performance.

so it seems the intake gives you the most and is easiest to do.

cams are a pretty big job but definitely doable. if you get romeo cams with bolt on gears you can probably use the AFM tool which will save a lot of time.

i had pi heads but decided not to use them because i didn't know if my block would need to be machined and i sure didn't want to have to pull the engine for that.

now to intake & cams vs. full swap--i believe the intake/cams gives you most but not all of the gains of the full swap. with the full swap you'll probably be stuck with 91/93 octane. i just traded the 96 for an 04 and the 96 never seemed as strong as the 04 even with the cams/intake so the heads must be good for at least a little (maybe quite a bit) more

anybody want some npi cams/gears pm

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