88 gt 5.0
 

i just bought a 88 gt 5speed. its all stock except for k&n air filter. can anyone give me some tips to wake up the motor for more horsepower

go to www.foxbodyforums.com and you will get help there more then here and to wake up the motor do some 3.73 gears to wake it up and 70 mm throttlebody,bbk shorty headers, magnaflow true x pipe,magnaflow cat back,underdrive pullies you can get this from americanmuscle.com and this you can get from summitracing.com cobra intake and some heads that should be all you can get about 300 horses there for under 2,500.

YOu can do all kinds of things from nitrous and blowers and turbos to heads/cam/intake swaps. What are you looking for out of this car?

im looking forward to eventually make it a real fast car. its not gonna be a everyday car once im done. for now i just want some mods to wake it up until im ready to go crazy with it. the car has 95000 miles i bought it off a elderly couple

This is 250ish hp. You won't get near 300 without good heads. I'm not trying to hate, but most of that stuff is incremental gains at best. the gears will make it feel better, the intake and exhaust manifolds can pull you up a bit, but the rest of that stuff is for a serious motor only.
Do the gears now, they will wake it up. But wait to see what kind of build you do so you don't end up buying expensive manifolds twice because the first set doesn't match your build.

exhaust.

headers and a midpipe will wake it up by leaps. the catback isnt needed to replace unless you want to. but the headers and prochamber we did to ours made a hell of a difference for not a ton of money.

after that though i would pick a cam/heads setup you want.

you must not know much about fox bodys.

why is that? i've only built and raced a half dozen of them 5.0's, but perhaps you have some wisdom to share

also, I like how you edited your first post to say he needed heads to get 300hp after I brought that up. That wasn't in your original post that I quoted. At least we're on the same page now.

Heads should be the first purchase, not the last, imho. Heads make the 5.0, or any motor, Period.

unless it's supercharged

I forgot to put heads that was the 3 modifacation i did in my 5.0

turbo is way better than a supercharger and the boost last loneger

so heads cam and exhaust i was looking at the trickflow twisted wedge and the afr heads which would u say. and the exhaust probly flowmasters or magnaflow, not sure what i wanna get for a cam

you should get the trick flow engine kit what is your budget.

i have 3000 to play with

emial me and I will help you with everything of my knowledge with 5.0

Take the heads off and get them freshed up. Also get them O-ringed for boost. Get some good matching gaskets for the O-ringed heads and some ARP head studs.
Now start looking for a good turbo kit, Hellion is big right now.
After installing the turbo get a good tune.
The turbo kits with all the stock stuff on your engine(throttle body, intakes, exhaust, gears) is what works well with a turbo.
Easly a 450hp street machine.

There are advantages to both. This guy's best bet would probably be a SC. A turbo is a PITA to install compared to a SC. Both the SC and turbo can have the boost timed to kick in or last as long as he wants, except the SC can be installed in 1 day.

yea but the turbo doesn't robe gas milage nore still horsepower from daily driving. im always beating people in my turbo car at 15 psi i even beat kenne bell cobras.

how much do superchargers or turbos go for

send me an emali and I will help you or do you want me to build you a kit for under 2500

Sorry, I didn't realize turbo's ARE faster than superchargers

isnt turbo more strain on the motor

atually no the supercharge is I had both of them I had a vortech with 20 psi and it streesed my engine to much and then really robed gas mileage then built a tubo kit and at 10 psi it mayed the same as the vortech supercharger did at 22 psi I still have the 302 engine and I can run 10.54 @ 132 with slicks. and no bottle. sy only 15 psi want me to build you one or give you a good website for a cheap turbo kit.

will it depends on what boost you have it at and the mods of the car also.

Yea, thats kinda my point, I was being sarcastic.

This guy has a 95k short block and you're telling him he needs forced induction? It's gonna last 1-6 months before he blows the bottom end.

He has 3k to work with, why not build a stout long block as a foundation to a hot setup? A forged/stroked bottom end with the afr's (or equivalent) will be a BA ride even if he does nothing else. Swap out the intake/exhaust when he gets the loot, then sc/turbo when he's ready to go to the next level.

bobby, if you have the money to spend, get more displacement with a stroker kit. If you are just looking to wake it up till the "big build" happens, throw some 373 gears in it and peel wheels.

Thats my 2 cents, have a nice day.

he asked if he should get a turbo or supercharger.

ok i will build the bottom to start

what is the car a dd if it is what are you going to do with it mine is a dd and it gets 18 mpg and at 547 horse 593 torqand with the same 302 engine just have 6 grand invested in it. no carb fuel injected is better more performance parts. im telling you email me and I will help you even more.

one more question if i started on the top end i was looking at the trickflow top end kit. would i have to notch the pistons or will i be fine