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Old 2004-03-09, 12:32 PM   #3
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SECCS stickers are good for 5 HP a piece!

Seriously, on NA, all you can do without affecting reliability much is intake and exhaust. In a way, that is true for turbos as well. All the boost bumping etc. is not great for reliability.

A decent filter may be worth a couple HP. A cat back a couple more, and manifold back and a high flow cat a couple more. I'm not even sure a CAI will buy you much over the above.

After that, you get into higher compression by thinner gaskets shaving heads or new rods/pistons, porting or replacing intake and exhaust manifolds etc.

Chiping NAs is seldom worht more than a couple HP, and may afect engine life depending on how far they push the knock envelope.
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