Hey guys, So I have a 2003 Monte Carlo in base spec, and I want to get a bit more kick out of it. its done almost 129,000 miles, so its probably lost some. I'm not the best mechanic, but i have a few friends who have a lot more knowledge than i do. I'm not looking for a huge amount, just whatever i can get. I have a custom exhaust system from a 93 firebird lying around, in a few pieces but intact minus the catalytic converter, and was thinking of putting that on, because hey, i have it and its pretty much free. Anyway, thank you all for your help!

 

You can get a cold air intake, do exhaust, you can do top swap with is taking your 3.4 intake manifold and swap it with a 3.5, if you can somehow find a grand am supercharger from a 3.4 I believe it can be fit on, other than getting it tuned there's not much to be done to a 3.4 really, there's a thread on here that lists all the mods for a 3.4 its nice

 

Wow. there's more than i thought! Now i have another question. Will buying new spark plugs and wires help me get some lost power or fuel mileage back? I'm guessing my plugs aren't in super good condition right now.

 

I mean replacing any old plugs and wires with definitely help, they will fire better. You can get a cold air intake for like 30-50$ at autozone, depending on how you want to set it up and you can always easily change it. Don't buy some overpriced k&n intake for like 300$ cause they require proper maintenance and basically you can get the same result for cheaper from other brands, also straight piping your car will make that v6 sound good while idling and take off

 

Also something called a u bend delete helps, you can get new headers, and other stuff

 

$50 for a cold air intake? Now that's in my budget. do you have a link/product name of a cold air intake? I'm heading to autozone today, and figured i might as well kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Sadly straight piping is illegal in NH, though you can modify your exhaust, at least they repealed that..

 

I'm pretty sure as long as you keep your catalytic converter you can straight pipe, and at autozone you can buy a 30$ spectre cone filter, or spend 40$ for a k&n filter head, and honestly you can set up your cai super easily the way the hose from the intake is, if you want to text me at 440-344-2645 I can send you pics of how I did it, it takes no more than 20 min

 

Actually I haven't paid my phone yet so if you can wait like an hour I'll be back and can help you out have to run up somewhere real quick

 

works for me, Ill have lunch break about then.

 

looking at autozone website, im seeing cai's for around 100, and just a cone intake for 40. ill text you when you give me the ok, so i can see what you did, and what to get.