Celica STX, Different performance wise? Options

[Justin]

I have a friend who was just givin an stx coupe. He says that it does come with a different stroke and cams. I didn't belive him, so , he took me for a ride. He only has an intake and that thing pulls way harder than my st. For even more testing, I raced him. To my surprise he won by a 3/4 to 1 carlength. I have full exhaust with no cat and a resonator. He also said it has different gearing, but I did'nt pay attention to where he shifted in my ride along. He also said it comes with stiffer suspension and that it came from the factory with an unclearcoated front bumper. Also his is like 190 something of like 250. So, uh, I'm really confused.

[snadman]

Its pretty simple. You lost torque by having an exhaust that decreased backpressure to the point of losing power. That is why unless you turbo your car or have some other type of forced induction you do not want a big exhaust with no cats. you lose backpressure and therefore lose torque. Easy and simple as that. The STX is the same as ST but if you take an STX vs. an ST with minimal backpressure which causes torque loss....well then your ST is slower. DER!