Racing Chip? Need advice, please help

[erfirebird]

i have a 94' firebird 3.4 v6 and i am looking for a cheap way to increase horsepower. i have found that racing chips might be an option, i need to know if its bad for my engine or not

thanks

[Christopherrr]

Drop the chip idea...no point.

Coinsider doing, exhuast, gears, intake.

What's cheap? Slapping on a V8 exhuast can be as little as 60 bucks.

But to answer your question...no it's not bad if done correctly.

[MunsonGTA]

waste of time for a v6 car. some steeper gears would help you out

[Joe 1320]

waste of time for a v6 car. some steeper gears would help you out

I disagree to a point. If the engine has been modified, a new program would be required to get the thing to run correctly and to it's potential.

Now to be technical, the 94 has a flash memory and does not have a removeable chip in the ECM..... therefore, you cannot but a chip, you would have to seach out a competant tuner that can do the program for a 94 V6. Up until a couple of years ago, that option didn;'t exist as the aftermarket tuners had not cracked the GM program enough to be able to write a program.

If you want good performance from your V6, this is what you need:

Stage 1

*SLP cold air intake for a 93 Z28 or V6.
*3.42 posi differential from a 94-97 Z28/TransAm with a stick shift.
*Z28 factory intermediate pipe and catback
*1LE aluminum driveshaft

Stage 2
* Headers
*power adder such as a small shot of nitrous

Stage 3:

*aluminum heads and intake from front wheel drive 3.4 motor
*custom ground camshaft
*custom computer program
*larger high flow injectors

[Joshu]

So Joe, after all of those mods how much Hp do expect to see?

[Joe 1320]

350 hp with a 100 shot, heads and bolt ons.

[ConElite]

350 hp with a 100 shot, heads and bolt ons.

That would be pretty fun!!

[Joe 1320]

There was a guy running a turbo on a 3.4 that dyno'd 378 HP.

That was with quite a bit of engine work and high boost. The 3.4 is actually a nice little race engine but suffers from a very restrictive top end. Redo that and it's a little screamer.

[Joshu]

There was a guy running a turbo on a 3.4 that dyno'd 378 HP.

That was with quite a bit of engine work and high boost. The 3.4 is actually a nice little race engine but suffers from a very restrictive top end. Redo that and it's a little screamer.

Thanks for giving me hope! haha!

[MunsonGTA]

I disagree to a point. If the engine has been modified, a new program would be required to get the thing to run correctly and to it's potential.

Now to be technical, the 94 has a flash memory and does not have a removeable chip in the ECM..... therefore, you cannot but a chip, you would have to seach out a competant tuner that can do the program for a 94 V6. Up until a couple of years ago, that option didn;'t exist as the aftermarket tuners had not cracked the GM program enough to be able to write a program.

If you want good performance from your V6, this is what you need:

Stage 1

*SLP cold air intake for a 93 Z28 or V6.
*3.42 posi differential from a 94-97 Z28/TransAm with a stick shift.
*Z28 factory intermediate pipe and catback
*1LE aluminum driveshaft

Stage 2
* Headers
*power adder such as a small shot of nitrous

Stage 3:

*aluminum heads and intake from front wheel drive 3.4 motor
*custom ground camshaft
*custom computer program
*larger high flow injectors

he didn't mention anything about having done any mods. and if that's the case then you don't need one.

[MunsonGTA]

Thanks for giving me hope! haha!

check out this thread

http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/po...under-way.html

also this thread. both guys run turbo v6's.

http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/po...v6-test-n.html