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more power - 4/25/2007 1:48:28 AM

blazerbeam

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i bought a 96 blazer last summer and i want to start doing some modifications to it
my dads got a zr2 with a cold air and magnaflows and it sounds sick so i want to do that but i don't know where to go from there.

i'm thinking a chip and a throttle body spacer?

any help would be good

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RE: more power - 4/25/2007 8:59:43 PM

hockeykid15

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chips are nice but i think you will have more response with a power programer. especially since you are doing more than just a chip. dont know too much about tbody spacers. if you are willing to spend the money i would do a complete exhaust (headers back).

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RE: more power - 4/26/2007 12:57:55 AM

blazerbeam

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it just economizes your fuel a bit and it sounds like a small turbo at the right rpms

its just a small spacer and some new brackets and its cheap and sounds cool so whatever lol

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RE: more power - 9/18/2007 10:02:11 AM

blazinblack

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for the most power you have to run headers with full exhaust, throttle body spacer or even a bigger throttle body, and a programmer if you really want to get power i would put all new internals in it or at least a rebuild

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RE: more power - 9/18/2007 2:43:36 PM

Butch

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If you go with a cold air intake your not supposed to do a throttle body spacer, vise-versa..

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RE: more power - 9/18/2007 4:00:58 PM

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There is nothing wrong with combining a CAI with a tb spacer, but spacers on these motors tb spacers really do not provide any real results. There have been quite a few people here that have them that say that they got absolutely no gain out of it, just a part throttle whistle...

And if you are going to go through the trouble of doing a CAI, make sure that it is isolated from the engine bay heat. An open element air filter open to engine bay heat is actually worse than the factory air box.

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RE: more power - 11/18/2007 9:07:37 PM

blazerbeam

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yea i bought a volant intake since then and i'm very impressed with it.

highway pickup is way better now. i've also cut my cat, put a dynamax highflow muffler on it and i put a chip in as well.

bout 4 days ago i ripped up a supercharged volkswagon corrado so it must have done something

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