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Old April-4th-2004, 06:15 PM
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i'm thinking about putting a pulley,short ram intake,cams,and a shorrt throw shifter on my protege. Most of the stuff is from corksport, the rest is from options auto. if i can add right the total of it all comes out to be less than $700. do u think these are good first mods. any other sugestions on what to get for my car would be great, i don't have to much to spend on it. also are these sites good places to order stuff from?
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Old April-5th-2004, 07:35 AM
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your mods sound great, but dont use corksport. you can get the parts cheaper and better customer service at www.srmotorsports.com
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Old April-5th-2004, 08:28 AM
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can i put 2.0L cams on my 1.8L motor? would they work?also i found corksport was cheaper on must things
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corksport has to be the most expensive supplier I've seen...saying that:

I would recommend relacing your entire exhaust and intake BEFORE doing anything else. Once those are both done cams would be the next choice (but not the stupid j-spec cams). Wagner Motorsports has a set of stage 2 NA cams and RACE NA cams available for $450 that are ACTUAL performance cams. Mine are on the way as we speak and should be installed by this weekend if all goes well. I am not quoting power gains, but I know about what to expect. I'd guess 20-30whp would be safe to say. Even more once you have a good header and intake.

Cams will be for sale starting next week. I'm going to try to organize a GB for those interested.
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count me in on the gb, also when i go to wadner's website it doesn't show the cams, its only shows like 15 produsts am i at the wrong site?
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no the site is just not updated very regularly. also as I mentioned earlier the cams are still about a week or so away. go to the Vendor/GB section if you would like to continue discussing this. Let's not threadjack here!
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