Best bolt on part

[TurboTdr3.8]

If you have a stock Turbo Buick what is 1st bolt on part that you though helped you the most when you did it .

 

[rag231]

Rear tires!

 

[Nick Micale]

If you have a stock Turbo Buick what is 1st bolt on part that you thought helped you the most when you did it .

3" downpipe!

 

[jdsgnx]

A scan master!!!!!!

Or better yet a power logger!!!!

TUNE TUNE TUNE!!!!

 

[FASTV6HENRY]

Alky/Scanmaster....i know its two but they are both a must

 

[Bescurred]

Alky of course after scanmaster

 

[earlbrown]

If you're starting from stock, there's no one part that can help you. There's a laundry list of PM parts that have to all be in place backing each other up.

 

[TT/Ameasap]

Head knowledge from this lil website called gnttype.org. and all of JD's Eff ups helped me be a successful Buick owner.

 

[1952ray]

Battery, then the car would crank

 

[we4Mateo]

Earl is right. There's a $1000 of stuff for a stock TR that probably won't make you go any faster, but will enable you to go at least as fast as a stock car should without blowing the thing up.

Fuel pump, hotwire, modern chip, scanmaster, timing chain, valve springs, and a new maf and translator. Those are the first things I'd do, and might as well get injectors with the chip and save yourself some bucks later.

THEN you can start talking alky or race gas and good tires and then you'll need a $3000 transmission and torque converter and then the suspension mods start mounting and by now you'll need reinforce grounds, several backup ignition modules and coil packs unless you go TR6 ignition, etc...read, read, read. Tune, tune, tune.

 

[we4Mateo]

It's an amazing process, and the car will let you know right away if you miss something on your quest for speed.

 

[Pronto]

Putting in an Eaton posi as mine was an open diff. HR lower control arms made a huge difference tightening the handling.

 

[jsta6]

remove the catalytic converter
DEI 530T auto window module
alky
HID headlights
Powerlogger
nitto 555r drag radials

 

[coach]

If you not turning up the boost yet, I would say the biggest gain would be a down pipe/test pipe and eliminate the cat convertor. That stock elbow was terrible.

 

[PSID6]

Put the car on a diet. Aluminum bumper supports, aluminum wheels lose the jack and spare tire etc. Then drag radials to hook it up lol.

 

[John Larkin]

Actually an adjustable wastegate actuator would be an instant power adder to a stock car because you can increase boost. All you have to do then is add higher octane fuel - you would run faster with just that one part. Not smart to not have a boost gauge or knock gauge but it's probably the first part you could use that would increase performance.

 

[Topjimmy]

# One: Walbro 340 GSS fuel pump from Modern Muscle, (now http://www.fullthrottlespeed.com/index.asp ).

 

[dynoman]

For me , back in 86 the chip was the "big" power adder. They were burning proms in our electronics lab @ Rochester Products GM for 50 cents a piece , so I put Weld Draglites on mine. We also would put a tee fitting in the line going to the wastegate . Off of the tee was a short piece of rubber hose with a brass plug in it , the brass plug had a small hole drilled in it to bleed off boost pressure to the wastegate which would allow more boost to be made. You had to experiment with hole sizes to get the right amount of boost. Scary stuff looking back on it knowing what we know now !!

 

[blackgn1]

I like "ALKY"

 

[TurboTdr3.8]

WOW this thread has been very interesting a lot of good ideas , keep them suggestions coming , Thanks