# Should i Stage 2?

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**Created:** [October 4, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-i-stage-2/192805 "2007-10-04T12:21:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![alleycat58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@alleycat58](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/alleycat58)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 6:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/should-i-stage-2/192805/29 "2007-10-07T18:21:59Z")

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> [@Saab 900, before & after](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/saab-900-before-after/32841/8):
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> well i like all the colors but yellow on the SS. oddly enough, when i start searching for Z06s, yellow will be my number 1 choice tho. lol.
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> anyways, i def want reliable. and i hope the pcm is all good with the intake and stage 2 mods, if i go that route.

Same here, I don’t like yellow, and I don’t like Laser Blue. I think it’s just my own genetic color sensitivity, it’s just WAY too purple for me.

Your PCM will be fine. Plus the canned stage 2 tune, IIRC, is done under the assumption of having an intake and exhaust on the car. Only reason I say this is I know the people that were having CEL issues with their intakes said the Stage 2 tune eliminated the issue. The stock PCM can handle quite a bit. I think my boyfriend’s running meth, 60# injectors, 2.6" pulley, with a +7000 RPM rev limit and it’s done just fine. Other people have been able to tweak it for NOS, cams, and turbo swaps, so stage 2 and an intake will be a cakewalk.

> [@she just doesnt learn... lohan arrested again](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/she-just-doesnt-learn-lohan-arrested-again/32868/13):
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> i say do it man, i drive my ss/sc as dd and would go stg2 if i had the $.
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> alleycat58: that black ss/sc you seen could have been me. i was on my way home from indiana at about 5ish, but mine is an 06

Nope, it was an 05 for sure. I thought at first it was another one of the black SS’s around, but I eneded up behind them. As I was catching up thinking it was Brian, I noticed the two antennas on top since the 05’s didn’t have the combined XM/OnStar antenna. So I knew even before I saw the badges it was an 05.

If you see an Arrival Blue one up in Indiana at any point on a Tuesday, that’s me. I think the other girl that had an Arrival Blue SS graduated, I haven’t seen her up there this semester.

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