Thread: upgrade help

Hardly any of those do ANYTHING to a 3800.

Click the link in my signature...then ask questions.

Reading is the best mod out there.

if you happen to have posted in the right section and youre n/a then pretty much anything you listed besides headers will do nothing for you.

read over this thread, then get back to us:

http://www.grandprixforums.net/safel...car-17482.html

Bio but wont headers get you less low end torque if he is n/a

No...there is no physical loss in torque if you are talking numbers...it moves the powerband up where these motors lack.

So headers on an N/A car aren't ideal...but won't hurt either IMO since it is better than stock crap.

no. its a myth. the 3800 makes so much torque its not even funny. anyone that says 'oh man i lost low end' they are dumb and dont realize where the power went (up a few hundred rpm).

Originally Posted by csssaint12

Bio but wont headers get you less low end torque if he is n/a

Yea but he should notice a gain in top end

Originally Posted by Ricky21

Yea but he should notice a gain in top end

Noooooooooooooooo rickyyyyy..

see above posts.

I was misinformed then. my bad

I don't think you were misinformed...I think you just had the concept of what it did a little off, that's all. You were on the right track.

Ok. Well now I know the band is just moved

I really want to see a video of someone with a N/A L36 with headers, preferrably SD headers. A video of them driving of course to see how the power is shifted and overall sound.

Im pretty sure headers change sound be it any car.But thats cool bro

it does, but not as much as you'd like.

If you had catted headers I'd bet 20 bucks you wouldn't notice anything.

The sound difference your getting is from the catless section 99% of the people on here run.

stock brahh

RACE BRah

im n/a with a short ram and headers, no cat, stock catback. i felt a little difference in the way the car pulls what u heard above is correct. i feel it pull a few hundred rpms more than before and its not so jumpy from a stop around town, much smoother and a lil better MPGs too....and it sounds goood, not loud, but much better than stock