What Now?

[pureford.]

I have had my 05 zx4 2.0L for a year now and have left it alone power wise.
But i wouldnt mind an extra 20hp or so but im on a strick budget. any ideas?

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[#1fordfan]

cold air intake,header,full exhaust and tune is a good start,but it won't be exactly cheap and all of them together might get you 20 hp.

[YellowJellyBean]

How do you know that you want 20 hp? Is it just to say that you have it?

To make the most of any bolt-on mods you're going to want a tune (squeezes ~5 more hp with intake and exhaust installed), which alone runs you about $400. A decent intake is $200-300 and a decent catback exhaust is $400-450. As was said, that's $1,000 and it might get you 20 hp.

If you need your car to be faster in a straight line, simple bolt-ons won't get you very much. If you need to be fast in curves, you should put the money into your suspension. $1,000 can buy you nice springs and dampers with room left over for new sway bars or a rear brake swap.

[oblivion2kx]

You can do the tumble flap delete on the intake manifold, run midranged gas and get toms tune.

[pureford.]

20hp was just a number i threw out there. im happy with my car in everyway except i would like some extra get up and go. but if its gonna be near 1000 dollars, might as well just save that for a new paint job for my courier...

[rambleon84]

well per fswerks.com, they list 116.5hp and 120 tq for a base run on their '07 2.0L duratec and then 122.4/hp 126/tq with their CAI, thats a little less than 5% gain for $250. (125.7/128.1 hp/tq for an '08)


When they add their exhaust to the cai dyno on their '08, they got 131.6/131.9...So for about $700 you get about a 10% gain in power to the wheels... is that worth it for you?


check out the dyno thread here, give you some ideas on what mods on a 2.0l can do, you can research the prices for them on your own

[bmoore]

i have an aem cold air intake id sell ya

[felixthecat]

Originally Posted by pureford.

I have had my 05 zx4 2.0L for a year now and have left it alone power wise.
But i wouldnt mind an extra 20hp or so but im on a strick budget. any ideas?

If your going to do anything, I'd get rid of the 100,000 mile filter that you now have=(You try breathing thru that) & upgrade to a Steeda sri= short ram intake or a Fwerks cai= cold air intake.I have the steeda sri myself w/ no issues & its easy to clean the filter. Its slightey noticeable too.

[pureford.]

Originally Posted by bmoore

i have an aem cold air intake id sell ya

How much?

[bmoore]

$125 plus shipping for the intake and the injen hydroshield thats on it. its a good deal i paid $285 for the intake and $20 for the hydroshield. its complete i can even give ya the instructions that came with it. im just putting my car back to the stock intake and dont need it.