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[momentai99]

Hey guys, my celica is abnormally quick. I shift at 5500 typically but I just changed the clutch and my car takes off like a bat out of hell. I know I was driving it slipping before and it makes a difference but my other car is a 1982 camaro with a 350 and 345 horsepower (net) under the hood. I bought my celica from some kid who had the engine rebuilt because he blew it up and it has maybe 20k on it now, i've only driven it maybe a thousand miles.but everyone talks about how slow these cars are stock, mines really not. Had a friend pull it apart and he said the car isn't stock and as far as he can tell. He owned one for years, a 5th gen though and he said it's nowhere close to his. But all I can tell it has is a cold air intake....what the hell could they have done when it was rebuilt?ported the heads maybe?

94 celica gt 5sfe

[Box]

Like I said, out of some 20+ cars that's what I've noticed. Still, usually the larger the engine the lower the idle. Also the numbers I quoted were for cars with manual transmissions. Automatics generally idle 100-150 higher than their manual counterparts. Again from personal experience and reading service manuals. Really as long as it isn't idling at some ridiculously high rpm that'll harm the engine you're ok. I personally find the idle of a carbureted big block intoxicating.