How can I add Some HP???, Easy ways to add horse power? Options

[k-weaver]

Hello Everyone,

First off I would just like to say thankyou for everyone who posts on this web site, I have found out so many different things just by reading other posts. Again this is a great site, thankyou all.

Anyway,
I own a '96 Celica GT with a 5s-fe. I currently have:
NGK Plugs
Catback exhaust 2.25" pipeing
CAI
Header

My car has 148,000 miles on it and I was just wondering how I can get some more horse power out of it without swapping and without throwing in a turbo (seems like alot of miles to turbo, prolly a waste...). At this point I am kind of out of ideas. I was thinking of putting an MSD ignition box in, however I was reading on here that I will see little to nothing by doing so. I also thought about adding one of those "racing chips". Again, I read on this site that these are crap.

I am pretty much learning as I go. Every performance upgrade to my car I have performed (except exhaust) so I am not afraid to get my hands dirty. Any thoughts or ideas will be highly appreciated...

[Redline08]

So few celis have it cause of idiots like you spread all this misinformation.

lmao, ok dude i am the only reason nitrous isnt used by thousands of celi owners...

Nitrous isnt used because its not practical. To run nitrous successfully and safely, you have to introduce precise amounts of additional fuel with precise amounts of nitrous oxide which requires something like an safc2 or a piggyback fuel management system. All of the extra oxygen provided by the nitrous oxide must have fuel with which to burn or you will damage your engine severely. On top of that in order to reach a power gain through all the rpms, not just the lower ones, you have to advance your ignition just right and it is too easy to run too much ignition advance with nitrous, and too much will not only hurt power, it will quickly bring a nitrous engine into detonation and destroy it.

So in the end in order to not kill yourself and your car you will spend a ton of money getting the piggyback and your ignition right, on top of dyno tuning and refills. Not at all practical...

O and by the way sherlock he lives in cali which has the most picky and strict inspections in america, in addition cali is home to thousands of ricers who think nitrous makes your car a rocket and im sure mechanics know to check the intake tube or the intake manifold, it takes 2 seconds and they get to charge for removal so its 2 seconds well spent.

[6strngs]

O and by the way sherlock he lives in cali which has the most picky and strict inspections in america, in addition cali is home to thousands of ricers who think nitrous makes your car a rocket and im sure mechanics know to check the intake tube or the intake manifold, it takes 2 seconds and they get to charge for removal so its 2 seconds well spent.

umm... why don't you actually try know what you're talking about before you say anything. California doesn't even have an inspection. we just need smog once every two years and when I had mine done in april he basically just checked that I still had two catalytic converters and that my intake had a CARB sticker on it. that was it. besides, even if they did check for nitrous they only check once every two years so you just have to pull the whole thing out once every other year. I'll be ripping my turbo back out in two years (if I don't sell the car by then) for smog.

cali is home to thousands of ricers? haha. it's also home to the some of the most modified cars in the country. it all depends on what your definition of rice is. to me, a ricer is someone who trys to mod their car to be cool but really doesn't have a clue about how anything actually works.... which to me, is kinda sounding like you right now.