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Ultra Cheap/Free Mods
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:48 am
by xpalpha
Just wondering if anyone knows of any super cheap or even free mods for the Vibe that'll increase HP, torque, anything. Just bought an '03 for my wife, and the forums for my other car had a bunch of free mods.
Re: Ultra Cheap/Free Mods (xpalpha)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:53 am
by Toasted7
Free mods... I'd like to get some of those!
Re: Ultra Cheap/Free Mods (xpalpha)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:04 am
by jameyfreeman
ebay motors is a good place to find a deal
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:49 am
by northvibe
well for the a/c in this hot summer is the ac insulation tube mod. increasing hp/torq is hard to do "cheap" persay. but if you can find deals on a cold air intake, unichip or cat back exhaust your in business.which car do you have?
Re: Ultra Cheap/Free Mods (xpalpha)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:07 am
by Kari
Doubt you'll find much of anything cheap to increase HP or torque, but if you like lights, LEDs are a pretty cheap mod that looks cool...
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:17 am
by northvibe
vinyl graphics are cheap too!
http://www.grafxwerks.com
Re: Ultra Cheap/Free Mods (xpalpha)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:35 am
by Mase
You can pull the intake plumbing out and just run with the airbox only.Umm...cut off your muffler. Dremel down your stock header flange. Rip the interior out to lighten the car.
Re: Ultra Cheap/Free Mods (xpalpha)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:48 am
by GMJAP
Quote, originally posted by xpalpha »Just wondering if anyone knows of any super cheap or even free mods for the Vibe that'll increase HP, torque, anything. Just bought an '03 for my wife, and the forums for my other car had a bunch of free mods.Please let us know what that other car forum is. I'd like to check out these free mods for this other car.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:11 pm
by xpalpha
The other forum is
http://www.srtforums.com for the SRT-4. There are several free turbo mods on there. The wife's car is an 03 Base Vibe
Re: (xpalpha)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:37 pm
by ColonelPanic
Free turbos? I looked but it wants to register, I'd rather not do that. A turbo setup is big bucks, how does one add a turbo for free?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:45 pm
by northvibe
the srt4 is turbo'd i would assume he means free as in you can tweak the turbo/engine/computer to get more hp/torq our of the little beast
Re: (northvibe)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:57 pm
by ColonelPanic
Ah. There really isn't squat for one of these cars though that will do anything in the realm of performance enhancement for zero cost. Unless you kick out your passengers.
Re: (northvibe)
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:58 pm
by xpalpha
Quote, originally posted by northvibe »the srt4 is turbo'd i would assume he means free as in you can tweak the turbo/engine/computer to get more hp/torq our of the little beastYup
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:41 am
by northvibe
do you have any pics of your srt-4? they are neat little cars, im glad the US car manf. are starting to make them, ie. cobalt ss, saturn redline and the srt-4...althou i'd like to see something from ford, the focus SVT was a nice little NA car, but i think it needs a s/c Well for the base you could get the s/c from GM and then tweak that, but nothing to start out tweaking would be really free.
Re: (northvibe)
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 7:59 am
by binary
Quote, originally posted by northvibe »do you have any pics of your srt-4? they are neat little cars, im glad the US car manf. are starting to make them, ie. cobalt ss, saturn redline and the srt-4...althou i'd like to see something from ford, the focus SVT was a nice little NA car, but i think it needs a s/c Well for the base you could get the s/c from GM and then tweak that, but nothing to start out tweaking would be really free.SLightly off topic - but I saw a Saleen Focus while shopping for cars... the dern thing had nitrous from the factory! It was also unhooked and empty from the factory! (removed)?Sure looked like a tuner car though... not really impressed.