1995 Chevrolet Beretta Z26 from North America - Comments

The tires had to be replaced.

The shocks and struts had to be replaced.

The brakes had been replaced, I could tell.

Sharp looking car.

Decent performance. Can be upgraded to very nice performance reasonably cheaply, and you can have 200+ h.p. in a 2900lb car.

Can beat BMW 318's and 323's. Hangs with 325's and with a little intake/exhaust work, will beat those, too and the 328's as well...

Engine and tranny are smooth as glass.

Handles very well, but rack is somewhat loose.

Seats too close to the front and springs too soft.

200 hp out of a GM 3.1? Must take a lot of work, or Nitrous.

To the comment about 200 hp from a 3.1. It can happen, the engine comes with 160 stock for that year. Intake, exhaust, computer, there you have it.

Intake - 5hp MAX

exhaust - 7hp MAX

chip - 8-10hp

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Rounding it off at about 21hp gained by mods.

Stock hp - 160

mod gains- 21

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total - 181HP.

I been tuning cars for 12+ years and there is no way between what you mentioned that would give that beretta 3.1 200hp. You must believe all the BS hp figures that manufacturers state they make...

Most cold air intakes only give you peak hp and actualy give less than stock from idle to upper mid-range area.

Optimum exhaust size for the 3.1 as a performance additive would be 2.25", 2.5" it actualy too much as it looses 6-8% of its low-end torque.

Chips are a differant story, so many companies out there and most of them hardly do muh more than full throttle re-mapping. Generaly they add too much advance to the timing forcing you to use higher octane gas to reduce the detonation from their settings. If somebody says you can get like 20hp from a chip on a normaly aspirated 4-6 cyl motor... are full of crap. Only big gains like that are from V8 cars Big 6's, or cars with electronicly controlled turbo's (ecu controls wastegate)

You need to do some better research and not believe in the hype of the advertisement of manufacturers. They state and do anything to pull ya in... OBVIOUSLY this is true since they got you hooked... Silly Fast & Furious wanna-be's, SIGH!