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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 09:01 PM
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sry about this post..i have some intake stuff in here but here it goes...my plan is to do a head swap to EX. After that is taken care of, will putting a new intake mani/skunk 2 TB and new intake + doing stage 1 (or 2?) cams do alot more for hp gains? Which mod would be better to do after the head swap first?

ALso w/the EX head swap- is a Vafc-2 from apexi all i need to make this work instead of re-flashing the ecu?
 
Old Nov 5, 2006 | 09:30 PM
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reflashing is cleaner because you dont have to splice into computer wires. but then again i do love the way my safc-2 looks ontop the steering column
 
Old Nov 5, 2006 | 09:54 PM
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ya i think ill go w/the vafc2 . but is that all that is needed?
 
Old Nov 7, 2006 | 05:41 PM
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If you do anything more than a stage 1 cam you will need an EMS. A VAFC2 will not cut it. Power gains... prolly not as much as you'd like, maybe 40 at the crank, real rough estimate.

Reflashing will be tough, have to find a custom guy, no shop will do an OBD2b reflash.
 
Old Nov 7, 2006 | 07:34 PM
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yeah you would have to convert to obd1 to reflash
 
Old Nov 8, 2006 | 09:15 PM
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can i pull off stage 1 cams / vafc2? wat do i hav to do the reflash for, the stage 2 cams or wat?
 
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