96 celica, what to do for power ? Options

[goku]

someone gave me an e-mail saying:

"I'm hoping you can steer me in the right direction. I saw the pictures of your Celica on the internet and figured...here's a guy who knows something about his car.

Here's my issue.

I purchased a Black ' 96 25th Anniversary Edition for my son. It's bone stock, in like new condition, and only has 32,000 miles on it. It drives like a dream, but can't get out of it's own way. Once it's going at least 35 mph it has plenty of "get up and go" but off-the-line it's a dog! I'm not looking to make this into a speed demon but it really needs some help to make merging on to the freeway a bit safer.

In your travels, have you come across any good solutions short of boring out the engine or adding a supercharger/turbo ?

Thanks for reading my e-mail and any advise you can supply. "


what should i e-mail him back ??

[Kwanza]

Heh... this sounds like one of those "I have a friend with a problem" scenarios... not dissin at you or nothin goku.

Anyways, it actually sounds like he's has bad compression in at least one cylinder. Usually when a car can't accelerate well off idle and is constantly boggin down, is because of either mistiming, bad spark, or bad compression. Tell him to go get a tune-up, and or, a diagnostic.

Honestly speaking, if it drives like a dream, it should accelerate just as well. I mean, "can't merge onto a freeway" is anything but "drives like a dream"...