Dr migg
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- 2015 VF Calais V 6.0
Hi all, first off I'd like to introduce myself to the forum as this will be my first post!
I have been looking into getting a over radiator cold air intake, custom dyno tune, but am still unsure about doing the headers and high flow cats due to conflicting opinions by different shops.
I have a 2015 Calais V 6.0L, and while I am wrapped with this car, I feel a little disappointed with its low down grunt and throttle response.
I would prefer to keep it as quiet as I can from standard, my missus uses it as her daily drive car and I'm getting a bit past the loud exhaust now at my age. I do like it to be quiet when just cruising around.
I have had two mates that have highly recommended I take it to Western suburbs mechanical to get them to work on it.
I've spoken to drew there and he has suggested to go for a cold air intake and custom dyno tune, with the option of ceramic coated headers and high glow cats, keeping the rest of the exhaust standard.
He is saying with all of that I should expect approx 320-340kw at the flywheel or 320-340hp at the wheels, which sounds great if that is an accurate statement.
I've also spoken to Chris from hi-torque on the Gold Coast and he actually recommend that if I want more low go down grunt to leave the standard exhaust alone completely, as putting on headers and new hi flow cats I would lose a little down low but get much better gains from mid to top end..
I am hoping to find someone on here that has done something like what I'm thinking about doing at either of these two shops, and what they felt they got out of the mods/tune.
The numbers actually don't mean a whole lot to me as I know that they can play with the readouts some to make it look impressive for the customer. I'm more wondering what people have felt once they've done these things and how much more performance and throttle response improvements over leaving it completely standard.
I have asked them both the question if we can tune it to run on 98 octane to give it the best chance to get some more out of it, they both say they would do that.
So having said all this, would I feel a noticeable difference in throttle response and get up and go with just the intake and custom tune, or will is feel like a wast of money if I don't do the headers and cats at the same time?
Particularly looking for people that had their work done at Western suburbs mechanical, since they are saying they spend a considerable amount of time tuning each car to what they believe to be perfect before letting it go home.
Any guidance would be appreciated here.
This would be as far as I'd go I think with mods to this car, as I plan to upgrade in about 3 years to a new car and don't want to go overboard and potentially make it harder to sell and waste unnecessary money.
Thanks guys and sorry for the long post, but I figure the more information I can give, the more you guys can help out.
Cheers
I have been looking into getting a over radiator cold air intake, custom dyno tune, but am still unsure about doing the headers and high flow cats due to conflicting opinions by different shops.
I have a 2015 Calais V 6.0L, and while I am wrapped with this car, I feel a little disappointed with its low down grunt and throttle response.
I would prefer to keep it as quiet as I can from standard, my missus uses it as her daily drive car and I'm getting a bit past the loud exhaust now at my age. I do like it to be quiet when just cruising around.
I have had two mates that have highly recommended I take it to Western suburbs mechanical to get them to work on it.
I've spoken to drew there and he has suggested to go for a cold air intake and custom dyno tune, with the option of ceramic coated headers and high glow cats, keeping the rest of the exhaust standard.
He is saying with all of that I should expect approx 320-340kw at the flywheel or 320-340hp at the wheels, which sounds great if that is an accurate statement.
I've also spoken to Chris from hi-torque on the Gold Coast and he actually recommend that if I want more low go down grunt to leave the standard exhaust alone completely, as putting on headers and new hi flow cats I would lose a little down low but get much better gains from mid to top end..
I am hoping to find someone on here that has done something like what I'm thinking about doing at either of these two shops, and what they felt they got out of the mods/tune.
The numbers actually don't mean a whole lot to me as I know that they can play with the readouts some to make it look impressive for the customer. I'm more wondering what people have felt once they've done these things and how much more performance and throttle response improvements over leaving it completely standard.
I have asked them both the question if we can tune it to run on 98 octane to give it the best chance to get some more out of it, they both say they would do that.
So having said all this, would I feel a noticeable difference in throttle response and get up and go with just the intake and custom tune, or will is feel like a wast of money if I don't do the headers and cats at the same time?
Particularly looking for people that had their work done at Western suburbs mechanical, since they are saying they spend a considerable amount of time tuning each car to what they believe to be perfect before letting it go home.
Any guidance would be appreciated here.
This would be as far as I'd go I think with mods to this car, as I plan to upgrade in about 3 years to a new car and don't want to go overboard and potentially make it harder to sell and waste unnecessary money.
Thanks guys and sorry for the long post, but I figure the more information I can give, the more you guys can help out.
Cheers