LGS_18

I have a 92 Firebird with a 3.1 V6. Panning on getting a stage 1 JET performance chip. Anyone have any experience? Could you feel a difference or increase of power or gas milage?
Thanks!

midias

On my friends 3.1L camaro it did not do much if anything

LGS_18

Ok. I had a race recently and lost by half a car and didnt know if it would help make up for it. I was gonna do JET chip, cold air intake, tires, plugs and wires.

midias

No it will not. Your car makes about 140HP max. A CAI might add one or two but it will sound better. Plugs and wires are not going to give you over 140HP they will maybe get you back to 140 but not over. Decent tires might help but IIRC my friends 92 3.1L auto did not have any trouble launching.

You best best for spending is to give it a full tune up, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, air filter and clean out the throttlebody.

tylercamaro

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you can buy my car that has all that 3400 heads/cam chip and so forth. doesnt cuyrrently run because im pretty sure i screwed the timing but i want it gone

LGS_18

I greatly appreciate your offer bro but i use my car as a daily and race everyonce in a while. Kinda just looking for a little bit more pep in my car. Thanks though!!

tylercamaro

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no worries, im trying to get rid of it and it sounds like it has all the stuff you want lol.

midias

Read this
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/v6/3...arts-60-a.html

And this

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/v6/5...ost-power.html

When done do it again. Tons of good information

fasteddi

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The chip won't do much. Thelse engines are hard to squeeze hp out of. Cam p and p the heads. Custom tuning, Headers. Nitrous turbo or hybrid swap. Those things will make a noticeable and sometimes major difference

Things like a Cai or wai, cat back exhaust, plugs wires, underdrive pulleys, mail order chips, won't do much of anything at all.

dmccain

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Just study up on what "fasteddi" has done with his car. His v6 car is a rocket.

fasteddi

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Thanks man. Means alot.

drdave88

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Even if you stay N/A, a catback with headers will do some good. A big bottle neck is that intake manifold too. Porting that woke mine up above 4500 RPM.
As everyone else has stated already, do the maintenance stuff first. You can't build upon anything if you have a crappy baseline to start with. I had gone quite a ways with mine N/A, wish I hadn't pulled it for a V8........

Wafflestomp

If its in your budget def look into a hybrid swap with a turbo its what fasteddie runs and what im in the process of building if not in your budget then look at cam headers and porting a 260 grind cam is a good place to start anything larger then you will need to tune your ecm which shouldnt be to hard because u have a map car.