any ideas for adding 30 to 40 horse to a 2005 ssr. just baught it 3 weeks ago and love it Its an auto and only has 2300 miles on it any thoughts would be great Thanks.
A good tune will pick up 30 hp easy on the LS2. Before you do it do a ported and polished throttle body and catback exhaust. Then have it tuned and you should pick up 40+hp.
My SSR: 05 6 sp. with 4.56 gears, ZR1 clutch, Edelbrock intake, Lunati cam, Crane rockers, C6 modified pan
The LS2 really responds to a cam change. Even a rocker change to 1.8 would help some if you didn't want to do the cam swap. Better valve springs, retainers, and pushrods need to be added for either change. Then you can bump the rev limiter up from 6300 to around 6600 or 6800. These little motors love to REV! A simple reroute of the PCV line will clean up some of the oil that gets pulled into the intake manifold. That will aid performance along with eliminating some oil consumption. Cleaning up the air intake also helps, whether it's a K&N unit or something you fab up. Good Luck!
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I'll list approximate costs for various mods here for you (depending on where you live).....
Tune $ 250.00 - $ 350.00
Gear Swap - $ 600.00 - $ 900.00 Installed
Cam Swap, including new springs, $ 1,500.00 Installed
Catback aftermarket exhaust (non stainless) $ 1,000.00 Installed
Headers, Jet Hot Coated, $ 2,000.00 Installed
K & N Cold Air Intake - $ 350.00
If you have the cam, headers and exhaust installed at the same time, deduct $ 250.00 - $ 400.00. If you do the installs yourself, obviously all of the above $$$ estimates can be reduced substantially.
If you have a bone stock LS2, changing to a 90mm throttle body won't help you. Porting and polishing the throttle body on a stock LS2 will not cost you much, and may gain a few HP.
My $ .02 based on experience. Hope this helps you.
The least expence for starters would be muffler,open up airbox and use a stock k+n filterand look for a preditor tuner new or used I don`t think you want to tear into a brand new truck with low miles on it have some fun first you will appreciate the little changes with out braking the bank
The least expence for starters would be muffler,open up airbox and use a stock k+n filterand look for a preditor tuner new or used I don`t think you want to tear into a brand new truck with low miles on it have some fun first you will appreciate the little changes with out braking the bank
When you say "open up the airbox... Are you talking about just dropping in a K&N filter...Or, did you cut away some of the air box itself?
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