Been playing alot of Forza 5 lately and really want to upgrade my TL!
Any recommendations for a good HP gain?

 

Headers
Exhaust
Intake
Pulleys
Manifold spacer and throttle body spacer

Thats about it for bolt ons.

To go further get some heads and port and polish them out.

To go even further then that build/do a 3.5 or 3.7 swap

 

Most gains you'll see from bolt on mods. Would be headers.

But you also have the intake,light weight pulley, cat back exhaust, throttle body spacer.
That's all I have on the top of my head and I think that's really all there is for bolt on mods that will increase throttle response and add power.

If you have the bread, You can get a supercharger and the 3.5L motor. But I would recommended swapping out transmissions if you go that route. IMO not worth the money to get a super charger and or get an engine and do all that re fabrication

Supercharger around 4k just for the supercharger and more with labor.
2006 Accord tranny looking at around 1100-1500 depending if you install it you're self.
For the motor it's self I imagine over 1k without labor.

That's a lot of bread to dish out. If I were to take that route, I would just sell my TL and use that extra cash to get a g35 or something.

 

Yeah, once ya start spending big bucks on performance mods to an older TL with a weak tranny,
ya may want to consider buying something else for more HP. Unless Grandma gave ya the car !!!

 

Forced Induction

 

Let`s do the math.


~supercharger 5 g`s
~3.5 engine 2 g`s
~all bolt ons suspension, pulleys and others 2 g`s


Take the intake resonator out and drop in a K&N air filter 35 bucks. Buy a pepsi with the money you saved and call it a day.

 

thanks everyone

I'm gonna look into headers now and get some this week

 

In order to play one must pay. No one said that parts were gonna be cheap for our cars. But in the end it's all worth it and something to enjoy and be proud of each time you hop in and start it up

 

Hey DannyDee, before spending any serious money on all the performance mods and extra goodies.....make sure that your TL is basically solid and worthy of spending any hard earned cash on. General routine PM stuff like the T-belt, suspension and tranny need to be dependable first, IMO. Then play !!!

 

Another thing you may want to consider is putting the TL on a diet. And maybe if you want to get hard core get yourself a programmable ECU. The 1800 for a programmable ECU would still be cheaper than going full blown.

 

You can't use an EMS (programmable ECU) without the six speed swap.