what are some that you have made. mine would have to be buying that stupid ass SLP flow pac before i really knew anything about ls1's :o. i payed 320 bucks for that damn thing. i've come along way since then .
if i new what i know now i'd of gone with a tsp/direct flow lid, FTRA, and the fernco mod.
I should not have jumped the gun and bought SLP headers. First, they are a rip off and second, there are better headers for cheaper prices out there. The SLPs reduce ground clearance significantly. The bottom of my collectors are scraped. I try to avoid SLP as much as possible. They're too pricey.
__________________ 2000 Chevrolet Z28 / Navy Blue Metallic / 6MN
My biggest mistake was buying a F-body and telling myself I was going to keep it stock!!!!
LOL!!!! - Me too!
__________________ My Personal Toy Collection: 1997 Arctic White Hendrick SS Hard Top LT4 2000 Bright Rally Red Camaro SS Convertible 2002 Electron Blue Metallic Berger SS T-Top Phase II 2004 Silver Birch Metallic Silverado 2500HD Ext. Cab Duramax 4X4
2006 Black Raven Cadillac STS-V 2008 Victory Red HHR SS
changing my car up after I had it setup perfect...thought i wanted something bad ass looking to drive around so i sold all my racing stuff (drag wheels, light weight seats, ect) to buy Z06 wheels and make the car look pimp. Then I was scared to park it anywhere....afraid some punks would F%(K with it and then I missed going to the track, so I ended up selling the Z06 wheels and buying another set of drag wheels again and am now in the process of wanting another race seat exactly like i had. But hey at least I bought the right car the first time (stripper) for what I wanted to do. I think that is the one big mistake most make is buying an all option car and then later trying to strip everything out of it for weight reduction
I guess another one would be spending extra money on a true dual setup with the option to swap in cats, and now the cats just stay on the shelf in the garage.
Buying a converter (although it performed very well) from a company that ended up going under months later, just to sell the converter and only get maybe half of what i had into it
"I would have to say buying that POS Nos 5177 dry kit"
What problems did you have with it? I used to drop over a second in the 1/4 with it and it never failed me. Ran 10.8s with bolt-ons too. I've noticed that most of the people that complain of low power with a dry kit don't keep the bottle pressure over 1100psi like they should (dry kits just don't work well at all with the standard 800-900 psi that people tell you to use with nitrous.) Then they swap over to a wet kit and notice huge power increases while still running it at 800-900 psi which makes the wet kit seem far superior.
__________________ Stephen Sanders-2000 MTI 422CI Z28--->All MOTOR!!!<---
BEST RUN:60FT 1.40, 1/8 6.25/110.37, 1/4 9.82/136.84 2002 Z28 A4 3525 lbs, 3.23 gears, SS4000 stall, MTI LS6 heads/Stealth II cam
Best times-60FT 1.55, 1/4 11.20/121.47 2004 Corvette 'Vert A4 stock w/TCI SF3000, 1/4 12.60/107 "TRUE POWER comes from GOD!"
Nothing major, maybe a bigger cam, but we all say that. Main problem is getting ahead of myself swapping parts between fbods that I trade, and forgetting some basic ones, like a friggin thermo and SSRA...
__________________ 2k Silver SS M6 #2444: TR220, lid, fernco, LT hookers, Borla, free-mods, !CAGS, !EGR, !AIR, TB bypassed ported and polished, TR-55's, MSD 8.5mm Wires, Centerforce Dual Friction, Ripper, Diamond SFC's, 3.73's, N555DR's. '07 Escalade AWD - Just stereo mods. '03 Z06: 239/242, P/P LS6 heads, Varaam Intake, FLP Headers, Billy Boat Exhaust, Spec Stage 3 Clutch, NXL. '86 Chev 1/2 ton
Pat Musi 572 c.i.d. too much to list.. 1100 HP '07 MB E63 AMG
507 HP stock.
Luckly I haven't made any so far thanks to this board and the friends at home who have tried the mods. So I have a 224/581 114lsa, double roller timing chain, and I pro 5.0 with lou's all to install when I get home. Also I plan on headers either pace or hooker LT's and some 4.10's. Maybe a wet kit before the end of the season. Let me know if this is a good start.
Thanks
Brandon
__________________ 2000 Camaro SS
Sold then stolen
I wish I would have found this site before I started modding my car.
Ditto. I have a Flowmaster 80 series sitting in my storage, which I bought before I knew how crappy they were on these cars...at least I found out before I put the damn thing on.
oh, yeah...porting my MAF is a big one.
Other than that, this site has saved me from doing some stupid things performance-wise and taste-wise
__________________ 2001 Pontiac Trans Am A4
K&N-SLP-DYNOMAX-NOS/NX-TCI-BMR
"eBay/PTK kit" build in progress...painfully slow progress
newbie mod mistakes 
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(some people say i MIGHT regret going with 2.5" true duals instead of 3", but so far im happy 
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is a big one.
