Out Of Ideas. =[ Help!!!

I have finished all of the cosmetic work on my 84 Regal Limited T-Type Clone. She looks beautiful. (See pics at bottom)

Only problem is she has a tranny leak and a worn torque converter bushing. Right now the tranny only leaks a little and the car only hesitates when cold so I am going to try to hold off on that as it is expensive and I want to get to the fun stuff.

So for the fun stuff. I have a stock 4.1. I have not messed around with it yet. All I have done is replace the valve cover seals and put in a Dixie Horn.

I really would like to start getting some decent power out of this car but its hard with the tranny problem. I was thinking about installing a decent exhaust. Not sure if I want Cat-Back or just duel. I was thinking about cat back because to go duel i thought it would be best to get new headers and I dont wanna mess up the o2 sensor. I want something loud with that deep rumble to make kids cry.

Can anyone give me some ideas on what I should do next for my baby? Like exhaust and things to add power to the stock motor. I am looking to spend under 250 for exhaust. Not sure what way to go other than Q-Jet with the motor but for now the money is too tight. Any help will be appreciated. =]

Thanks, Mike

3 inch single exhaust with a dynomax ultra flow muffler oughtta give you the sound you want

I was thinking about a cam change but not sure how to do it. I really like your thread for the intake mod but I am thinking of going with an Offy intake. Now what about a set of no turbo hooker headers?

Sounds good to me. Is this keeping the cat or removing it?

Kick the cat out, it will just puke a hairball eventually

The pacesetter or hedman headers will be the cheapest "new" ones you can find. For the price they aren't too bad, but if you can find the hooker turbo headers like the others have said, or even the hooker super comp's that they used to make. I was able to have an exhaust shop fab up a true dual exhaust with no cats that connected to the headers and dumps before the rear axle. They charged $160, but I provided the mufflers. A single 2 1/2" or 3" would be fairly cheap too. I have heard the big single will drone pretty bad though.

As far as the intake, i would stick with the stock 4 barrel you have unless you choose to go really wild with the cam. If you dont have emissions checks- yank the smog pump and delete the cat to "clean" things up, drop weight, and give you a few hp.

By the way, what trans do you have?

Also, BEAUTIFUL car

Deff. going with the Smokey Yunik intake. =] Working on getting one by tomorrow.


I dont know where to start for headers. I would like to get something cheap to start.

Not sure of the proper name but I think it has a 14 bolt pan?

I am going to go with header and take the cat and smog pump out.

I would like a new cam though. Any ideas? How tough is it to do a cam swap?

I dont think you will like the low end.

A.j.

As AJ said...I dont think you will like the low end power of any single plane, especially if you have stock Regal gears and torque converter. As a matter of fact, you wont like the top end power either, without headwork and a good size cam.

I reccomend the Performer Intake, or if you can find it (good Luck) the offenhauser dual port.

A.j.

Another question: Do you plan on keeping the ECM? If it was me and it was going to be a driver, I'd do headers and exhaust, GN cam or the 204-214, new valve springs, timing chain, front cover mods, baffled oil pan, clean up the stock intake, 3.08-3.42 gear, modify air cleaner to have 2 fresh air hoses routed to behind headlight area-and you should have the OD trans beings you have a factory 4.1 I'll assume. Those are my thoughts

How bad is the low end?

Thanks for the info. The tranny is stamped metric. I already bought the Yunick intake. So for now I will have to live with that.

I will wait on the valve covers for now because it already has edlebrock ones on it.

I will let you know about the headers by friday also.

I do plan on keeping the ECM as I have no idea how to mess with one of them or remove in with out screwing something up. I really like the idea of changing the cam but also do not know much about it.


I was looking into the fresh air intake just like you describe but I dont know where I would run the houses out. I was thinking about taking the inner 2 headlights out and buying these screens that I saw to make it look like the are still there. Then I found there was some Aircond. stuff in the way of it. I was going to pull it out but It was infront of the radiator and I couldnt get to it. How exactly would you run the lines?


And yes I do have the OD tranny.