Looking for more to do....

[KillionsFRS]

I am looking to do some more stuff to my car but don't really know what options I have left. What else can I do to my car to add power (bolt on wise)? I am not really interested in dropping a Turbo in my car, I would like to avoid this at all cause. The following things are what I have done to my car.

Intake
Header
Exhaust
Pulley

*On a side note, I got the AEM SR intake. Should I be getting something else? I heard this is not a very good intake.

[Lavalover]

E85 tune?

[marcoaferrer]

flex fuel & a good tune

[calibrz]

Grimmspeed intake should on the way soon...should've just wait

[FR-S Matt]

FI is the most logical next thing to do. Save up!

[GotBRZ1691]

Phantom Electric Supercharger?

Its FI but not like a turbo or traditional supercharger.

Also cost a lot less and is easy to install with decent power gains?

get the OFT and tune away.

[ZionsWrath]

So you spent half way to an FI kit on bolt ons with no tune?

And you want to waste, oops, I mean spend more?

???

[F1fletch]

Make
It
Lighter

Carbon driveshaft
Shorai battery
Delete spare
Etc

[FR-S Matt]

Another important note, suspension wasn't mentioned. Get some wheels/tires/coilovers or springs on that car! I've never done suspension in my life and I installed coilovers and learned quite a bit along the way. This is a really fun project car.

[protpibe]

If you add up the cost of intake/exhaust/header/tune and figure out the dollar amount vs how much power you've gained, you'll be kicking yourself for not skipping all that and just going FI.

My best advice would be to stop buying parts for NA power because the gains are minimal at best.

[FR-S Matt]

Originally Posted by protpibe

If you add up the cost of intake/exhaust/header/tune and figure out the dollar amount vs how much power you've gained, you'll be kicking yourself for not skipping all that and just going FI.

My best advice would be to stop buying parts for NA power because the gains are minimal at best.

You need some of those bolt ons for FI though, like the exhaust. Definitely limits the power of both SC and turbo.

[gramicci101]

Originally Posted by KillionsFRS

*On a side note, I got the AEM SR intake. Should I be getting something else? I heard this is not a very good intake.

It's not that the AEM intake isn't very good, it's that the OEM intake is pretty well designed to begin with so there's not a lot of room for improvement. So aside from upgrading the filter ther's not a lot that needs to be done. GrimmSpeed is developing one that genuinely makes improvement though.

Do you have a tune? If not, I've had good success with the OFT. If you want to stay NA, maybe Crawford BPBs? If you want to stay off of E85, then that's about as far as you can go and still be considered "bolt-on parts". If you want to play with E85, moto-east makes a great flex fuel kit.

[protpibe]

Originally Posted by FR-S Matt

You need some of those bolt ons for FI though, like the exhaust. Definitely limits the power of both SC and turbo.

I agree, but limits it to what? 230whp instead of 260 with a restricted exhaust? The overall hp gains per dollar are still light years ahead of an NA build.

A header, overpipe, front pipe, cat back, intake, and gas tune will net maybe 180whp? 185? I would imagine a bone stock innovate non-intercooled supercharger would put down in the neighbourhood of 210whp and do more than just flatten the torque dip.

In my opinion, if power is the goal, you can't do it with NA. Just my opinion though

[GotBRZ1691]

Originally Posted by protpibe

In my opinion, if power is the goal, you can't do it with NA. Just my opinion though

unless you rebuild the block. You get more power that way but again cost is the issues and FI will still get you more power. I plan on staying NA for awhile, and once my warranty is up I plan on boosting