Top 5 Performance Tips

[Tnats]

Hey all,

I have a 2003 330xi. I am looking for everyone's top 5 performance tips. Since I live in Denver, the air is light up here so keep that in mind. Also, I would like thing to be ranked by value. So, for $500 I could get more hp but for $300 I could get 8. Or something like that.

Thanks!

(performance tips meaning what can I do to make my car go faster, handle better)

 

[adrean8j]

1. Fixing anything that is currently broke!
2. Suspension, suspension, suspension!(sport shocks, sport springs, swaybars, etc, etc.)
3. Chip-tuning(power gains are not that huge but still something you can do relatively cheap)
4. Exhaust (Eisenmann is arguably the best but expensive, others include stromung, remus, supersprint, borla, and more and more....)
5. Cold Air Intake(this one is up for discussion as for exactly how much, if any, horsepower gains you could get with this mod....I did it and did a dyno test(I also had recently put my sport exhaust on too) and netted a roughly 7-9 hp gain....

Bigger HP gains come with camshaft changes and forced induction but can be pricey....i let others put their two cents in....

 

[Tnats]

Here is a good article I found, gives me some stuff to go on.