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...

[6strngs]

I had my timing advanced to 18 degrees BTDC with 91 octane gas. no problems at all. it makes the car accellerate a little faster in the low rpms. here, I'll even do a write-up for you right now:

1: on the left side of the engine, near your belts and stuff, you should see this plate with numbers on it. it should say like 15, 10, 5, 0, 5. if you point a timing light set to 0 (if you have an adjustable one) at it, you should see a mark on one of the belts right next to the 10 (assuming your timing is in spec) (also, the car should be running)
2: now, go over to your distributor cap and you should see that there is this one 12 or 14mm bolt kinda above it slightly. loosen up that bolt, and you'll see that you can now rotate the whole distributor cap.
3: turn the distributor cap clockwise a little, then go back and check your timing, turn it a little more, check the timing, etc. until you are at your desired spec (I think the max it goes is 20 or 25, which might ok for 93 octane, but I'm not sure, I did 18 with 91 octane with no problems. I also ran it at 15 BTDC on 89 octane; again, with no problems).
4: put the bolt back in and enjoy!



now, other ways for power. cams. webcams makes some for the 5sfe; but I'm pretty sure you'll definately need to tune after you get those. I'd say get a greddy emanage ultimate. it's better than a SAFC in that instead of just altering your map signal which screws up your timing, you can adjust the injectors as well as the timing, and a bunch of other stuff. but it's about twice as expensive.

other than that, maybe you could find a bigger throttle body somewhere. I've head of people using a 5.0 mustang throttle body and a supra 7mge (or 7mgte, can't remember) throttle body. but I don't know what modifications they had to do to get them to work.