as many of you know, the 86 trans am is garbage. mine is bone stock, not so fast at all.
thinking about putting a cold air intake on it, what else can i do to increase its 0-60 time?

 

 

"That's whaughtumtalkinBOUT!"

 

Change the rear end/gear ratio will get you the biggest seat of pants improment for your money.

You can buy a complete rear end for $100-300, it only takes a couple of hours to swap whole rear ends.

Your car came with a 2.73 rear gear. Go to a 3.42 or 3.73 and it will feel like you added a supercharger to the car lol

One of the test I remember reading was car craft. They took a mustang with a 5.0L engine and done some testing/swapping.
Car had 2.80 gear ratio. Ran 14.921 @ 96.02 in 1/4 mile
Swapped in 3.25 gears and ran 14.276 @ 97.32
Shaving over .6 seconds off your ET is a BIG gain that you will feel

 

auto trans or 5 spd?

 

auto...

 

A torque converter upgrade is some real bang for the buck on an auto trans car.
Ideally, a 9.5" 2800 rpm stall unit like this: http://www.edgeracingconverters.com/...ions-p-35.html


Or, for about 1/3 the cost and still getting at least half of that performance boost, consider this: http://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/c...converter,8668


Don't let anyone talk you into more than the 2800 stall on a TPI street setup, unless you're only interested in 60' and 1/4 miles times, and running slicks or drag radials.

 

This should read
as many of you know, MY 86 trans am is garbage. mine is bone stock, not so fast at all.
thinking about putting a cold air intake on it, what else can i do to increase its 0-60 time?

 

I was gonna say somethig along those lines Fran, but just posted the Vette engine instead. Getting older I guess. Mine are fast enough for me.

 

Yea! I didn't care for the generalization of the post.