good cheap upgrades?

[cutlass442dude]

does anyone know of some cheap upgrades for the 2.4 that also have good results,...
with fair horsepower gains?

[johny_boy32]

i dont know about cheap but you can get an intake, pulley's, and an exhaust setup for a good price.

[Fast Eddie]

define cheap, like less than a grand? There a ton of stuff out there, but speed really does cost.

[Oldsman]

intake and exhaust would be the best to start.

[Oldsman]

oh, nice 70 in your avatar. is it yours?

[Spy]

cheap upgrades.

go to muffler shop have them replace your resonator w/ straight pipe.

take off your exhaust manifold and port out the collector along w/ the downpipe a touch.

take off your intake manifold and dremel off the "de-tuner lip" on it to gain a slight gain.

swap out your crank pulley w/ the older 2.3L LGO crank pulley. smaller in diameter and lighter.

buy an 2.4L intake for a cavalier on ebay.. less than $70 and usually copycat designs of the popular ones made by RSM/RKSPORT/AEM/INJEN

OBX probably makes a lightweight crank pulley for less than $100

if you're really good w/ working on motors. find a junkyard w/ a 1995 quad4 2.3L powered car, take the intake cam, and than find an older LD2 from 1990-1994 and steal the exhaust cam. Buy some fresh gaskets and swap them into your 2.4L. That's actually a cheap upgrade albeit labor intensive.

also take a 2.3 56mm throttle body sensors on it too mind you, with some work it can be modified in your garage to fit on a 2.4L intake manifold. How do I know? Look at the throttle body sitting on my 2.4L intake manifold right now. *that's right I"m not sporting the 2.3HO manifold anymore, not enough velocity in my opinion*.

Go buy an 02 simulator from casper's electronics and have an exhaust shop remove your cat and replace w/ straight pipe...


CHEAP UPGRADES :)

[cutlass442dude]

thanks alot :thumbsup: that gave me some good ideas.

[cutlass442dude]

oldsman-
nope the 70 cutlass isnt mine but i'd die to have one!