Quick upgrade for college kid

[DFickel]

Whats the fastest way to upgrade the stock in er now. I'm going to be around my home base this summer and wanted to build it up a little. Any kits or fairly simple upgrades I can do? websites?

[gpse3400]

what do we have?

[DFickel]

97 3.1 lumina ltz baby 135000, looks brand new ha, any suggestions?

[SappySE107]

56mm TB from a 3400. Swap your linkage out and thats it. Instant noticeable improvement. Going further would require pulling the lower and upper intake manifolds for a large port setup.

[1988GTU]

Change tire size and recalibrate the speedo.

Or

3500 and a getrag 284

[DFickel]

how much does a 56 tb cost?

[robertisaar]

http://wot-tech.com/shop/gm-60v6/56mm-throttle-body/prod_177.html

looks like Ben has them for $45 plus shipping.

[DFickel]

looks awesome, will i need to do any porting or exhaust work if I installed this? seems pretty simple bolt in, any issues i should be aware of such as slightly decrease gas mileage? im thinking it could go up maybe with the increase in hp

[robertisaar]

need to do porting/exhaust work? no.

would it be beneficial to making even more power? yes.

a larger throttle body alone shouldn't decrease fuel economy at all.... well, it might for the first few tanks since you'll inevitably be wanting to guage the difference in power, but after that, there should be no noticable change assuming you go back to your normal driving habits.

[DFickel]

awesome, thats why i come to this site to find out this stuff ha, do you have this done to your car also?

[robertisaar]

i haven't, but it is a very common thing to do for the reasoning of how little it costs compared to it's benefits.

[DFickel]

does anybody know if this comes with instructions or know of how long it took them to switch it out, problems encountered etc?