Just to clarify was I was talking about with the intake. I bought my car about 8 ½ years ago. It had 130,000 miles on it with a freshly rebuilt motor by someone who didn’t use the proper parts. It had cast pistons and a cam for a naturally aspirated V6. Two years after buying the car, I saw a listing on ebay for a $40 hotair intake that was gutted. I purchased that intake and installed it on the car and ran with it for 4 years with a personal best of a 7.78 second pass in the 1/8th mile. The cast pistons gave way at the end of the 4 years and I cracked the ring lands on a couple of them. We pulled the motor and I decided to build a stroker. Shortly after completing my stroker motor and running it in the car, champion made its new hotair intake. Pat and Richard decided to dive into flowing hotair intakes and convinced to pull mine off to flow it. We flowed it and it was better than a stock intake, but the ports didn’t flow evenly. Pat did his porting magic and was able to get the ports to flow a lot closer. At that point I could have made a decision to go with the Champion intake or put my freshly ported intake back on. My belief was the champion didn’t flow that much better to warrant spending the $750 (which building the stroker pretty much tapped me out of cash anyway). So there have been a lot of changes that went on and I can’t really say what performance benefits I received using my intake.
I've pretty much done all the spending I'm going to do on the car other than new tires. There's plenty of tuning opportunities left in the car, so I'm done with all the performance mods.
