Dyno, For all you...yeah Options

[snadman]

For all of you people who STILL feel that exhaust, plugs, and intake will add amazing ammounts of horsepower...I'm going to a dyno on the 28th of June. I will make sure to find this thread and post the graphs so you can see my car isn't a supercar with just those mods. I'm just getting kinda sick of people saying their intake's going to add 15HP, because it's not. I'm sick of people saying that exhaust adds 15HP, cuz it doesn't. AND I'm sick of people saying that plugs make so much more of a difference...

-For the intake, I may see a few HP, nothing big though or noticeable.
-Exhaust same as intake...you're actually just freeing up HP you already had with better flow (learned the exact details from Exhaust 101 in Import Tuner)
-Plugs...may add something, but not much. I've seen it where plugs don't do anything, but I've also seen minimal HP increases. I'm guessing it won't be anything and basically upgrading to expensive plugs on an NA Celica isn't going to help much.

**PLEASE don't take my whole plugs rant seriously if you run nitrous or turbo. You guys need good plugs, cold plugs! This is for NA Celica's only!

[snadman]

Oh yeah, and in Super Street just a couple months ago...I think they were doing a WRX (correct me if I'm wrong please, I hate giving out information that's not 100% positive) and they had it at a 171.1 HP...they added a full exhaust treatment....only got up to 171.8. (I think those were the numbers...I know it was only a .7 HP increase) now tell me if that's economical...they spents goards of money and didn't gain anything that's noticeable in the least.

The problem is, that some of these mods do help other cars considerably, but not our Celica's. Our problem is in the top end. Adding performance camshafts will help us out a lot more than adding exhaust, intake, plugs, and wires. And if you can put the new cams in yourself, it will probably be cheaper than all that other crap.

I'm not saying that the simple mods don't help, because yeah...you want forced induction you should have exhaust, intake, plugs, wires done, but for NA they don't help too much, especially our cars.