My 2002 MCS is now a week old to me, but it's already time to mod. What's the best bang for my buck? I'm looking at either the ALTA intake or ALTA SC pulley.

Was leaning towards the intake just because my filter looks like it could use replacing anyway.

Edit: Arg thought I was still in the Drivetrain performance forum....move please :(

 

Cheap mod you can easily do yourself: Intake (Alta is most popular)

Mod with biggest power increase and cost the least: Pulley (Alta is most popular)

 

The SC Pulley will give you the most HP for the buck. But you have to remove the Intake to install it, so most people add them at the same time. it all depends on how much money you have to spend at one time. give me a call if you need more advice.:smile:



Chad

 

Almost all our www.USMiniClub.com members that are regular participants of the Club meetings and garage parties have done both CAI and the 17% or 15% Pulley. We have the pulley installations down to only 1 hour and 15 minutes per. We do these at no charge for our club members, and we share the labor time helping each other-learning the robes on how to do it. There are over 150 pictures of the Garage party installations in our Gallery. We also have ALTA internet Shop with the lowest prices on the net-matching any one else’s at www.usminiclub.org including full installation support line.

We are located on Long Island in New York, come on down...

Paul,
mini_one

 

I am in the NJ area and looking for some clubs/groups to be apart of. I will have to check out the club! But onto the post, intake is the first thing that can be done with out serious work. Most people do a pulley as well. This is something I will do soon as well. You might also want to look at exhaust and even ECU tuning i.e. MTH.

Garrett

 

The thing deterring me from exhaust at the moment is the hefty price tag. I'm not use to a simple catback costing upwards of $700 when on all my old cars they were around $300.

So I'll start with some cheaper gains first, and eventually move to exhaust

 

I went with a scorpion exhaust that only set me back 550. I love it to death and the sound is really nice.

Garrett

 

ALTA CAI was my starting point, next is the exhaust, and than the pulley shall come.