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Old 09-01-03, 09:46 PM
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Free/Cheap Power in an N/A

OK, I want to know what I can do to my 87 GXL for free or total less than a couple hundred (in parts).

I am quite handy with the tools so I don't figure in labor costs, just parts.

I already plan on street porting (or other port) my engine sometime soon, so any other ideas for cheap/free stuff??
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Gut cats.
Remove emissions.
lightweightening, and removing non-essentials -- (windows, doors, carpet, seats ... use vicegrips instead of steering wheel, etc)
Wire the 5/6th ports open, or use an aircompressor/rpm switch to activate them.
of course there's porting, but not only the engine, the throttle body, the intake manifolds...
build your own cold air intake out of Dynomax U-Bends
etc etc etc
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These dynomax U-bends.....hmmm where would you get this, and has anyone done it? Do you weld them together?
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They're just mandrel-bent U-Shaped peices of pipe. You cut them to the angle you desire, and weld them up, or use silicon interconnects.
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https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...threadid=31410

Peruse through that for awhile. Also visit the 2nd gen archive. Plenty of good information out there.
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use vicegrips instead of steering wheel
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