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Old 10-05-2012, 08:31 PM
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I have 1000$ to spend help me.

I have about 1000k to spend on my car and I just want it to go faster. Better acceleration and top speed limiter removed. I have an 04 4.4i with the N62 Motor. What is available? Probably from the chip tuning/ software category.
I already have an AFE STAGE1 air intake in there already.
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Old 10-05-2012, 08:47 PM
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Buy a nice, barely used 3 or 4 yr old 600 cc Scoot...it will put your eyeballs into the back of your head, and walk your X in first/second gear all the way down the road.

Seriously, how much 'faster' do you need your 2.5+ ton X to 'go'?
Pipes maybe, to sound better?

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cut the resonators out and put an x-pipe in place. Will sound faster and that's all that matters here since you're not winning any races anytime soon.

Spend the rest on the worst 4 bushings you can find, LOL
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Buy a nice, barely used 3 or 4 yr old 600 cc Scoot...it will put your eyeballs into the back of your head, and walk your X in first/second gear all the way down the road.

Seriously, how much 'faster' do you need your 2.5+ ton X to 'go'?
Pipes maybe, to sound better?

You still humping at GerMotorWerks? We gotta hook up...
GL, mD
well i actually Just got the 600cc moped part covered
and idk im just wanting it to be alittle more special. im not wanting to change the exhaust.

and nope im in college now, but of course when im back in town thats where i most likely will be
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This makes me kind of wonder what Alpina did in designing the 4.6 motor to generate WAY more increased HP than the 9.5% increase in displacement produced. I'm sure there are those here who could list the differences (please do!), but I wonder how much is just purely programming changes. And how many of those changes could be replicated on a 4.4 engine.
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probably cams and compression, but people get way too caught up in all this Alpina talk like it relates to what we got in US X5s.
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Basics first, you've got the air filter has to be exhaust next, let it breathe !
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The BEST way to spend 1k to make your X faster, easy, enroll in a high performance driving school. I did Skip Barber (E30 M3s) and Bob Bondurant in the early 90s. Best money I ever spent on performance, and this is from someone who had John Henessey do the full Venom package on their Viper.
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Yeah i always do the schools when i get a chance. love them.

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Does anyone have experience with a throttle body spacer?
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$1,000 won't buy you any performance for the X5. I'm not being snide; I'm serious. Come to think of it, $5,000 won't buy you any performance. Ok, maybe you can spend $8,000 and get all the Dinan kit - which will net you something like 30hp to the crank - so, about, 20 to the wheels. That's $400 per horsepower that you won't even feel because the truck is too heavy for 20hp to make a difference.

Spend the $1,000 on maintenance, preventative maintenance, any plastic trim pieces or clips that need replacing, minor body imperfection correction, etc.
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