just got my 850, need help
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Unfortunately no, because what you have is a turtle, you can encourage it all you want, but it's not really going to speed up. Not to sound mean, but the only thing you can really do is exhaust and an air intake with minimal gains, definitely not worth the money. (Ugh, I feel like I've said this a million times). I heard there are tunes available for NAs, but I'm going to guess that with all of the performance mods you can do to an NA you'll maybe be close to even with a stock 850 turbo.
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If you love the car why would you want to change it? I have a 96 850 bone stock with 215k on it that I drive 150 mile a day and it "just simply" amazes me. It's 13 years old, all of the door seals are perfect. It's comfortable, quiet and safe. I still slam the pedal to the floor and it doesn't throw my head back but it still pulls me along. The thing is I always feel like I'll make it home and "I think"...... that's alot to say for a car with 215k on it.
So, my advise is to cherish the finer points of your car and after you put 100k on it and it costs you only $0.05 a mile, you have a bank account full of money and it still works, you'll love it even more.
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Unless your car is already turbo, which it isn't, because 93 only had the GLT model, then no it probably would not be worth building your motor and boosting it, your looking at ~4k to build the motor, give or take, and then probably close to another 1k to add a turbo, plus the 93's use different parts than 94+ 850's. There is someone who turbo'd a 93, but I don't even wanna know what he spent on it. If you have the funds and you plan on making a mean car, then go ahead, but you would be saving a lot of money by buying an 850 Turbo/R.
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Yes, you can do manual swaps, people do it all the time, I am going to do it, but generally, they're only done on turbo models, doing a manual swap will cost you at least half, if not all, of what a turbo 850 will cost. A manual swap costs about $1,500, and that's if you can do all of the labor yourself. Don't spend that kind of money on an NA when you can put that towards a turbo 850 if your looking for performance.