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hmm, so I need to get my valves shimmed soon (valve noise....) so would it be a good idea to upgrade the cam and replace the valves with lighter ones and use stiffer springs if that's all I'm doing in addition to higher flowing intake and exhaust and headers... I'm kinda thinkin about stuff I...

Hmm... well ya I get a lot of the "what a waste of money" and "my $2000 88 RX-7 is better since I only paid 2k for it and you have about 7k into your 88 supra"... and i'm sure every supra owner gets the "when is it going to be running again" question.... (sooner or later haha)... but my parents...

Gunna keep it short here. Whats an overview of what you would do to get more power out of a stock N/A.. Say, if you had a freshly rebuilt one sitting in your driveway, what would you do to it? oh, and please nobody say NA-T.. or swap for a turbo.... anything other than turbo'n it.

Well, here is a picture of my car (one of the only ones of the ones that turned out that I liked)... and damn it it was one of the sleepy eye ones :cry: (my friend suggested it)... anyways.. doesnt look too bad, really sharp, and I didnt wash my car before we took the pictures (was kinda a...

hmm, I took a second look at my car... no cat is really visable, i thought it was within the shield for the manifold, but by the looks of that diagram, it should be right after the heat shield, so, looks like I have no cat (could be, it was kinda dark when I had the second look)... anyways...

haha no worries, I think I got it, thanks mickyg for the help! So I'll try to come up with a plan for my exhaust... either scrap my muffler and old resonator and put a straight pipe from the cat back to an aftermarket resonator, but keep the same diameter pipe that is coming off the cat. Or I...

so if I were to put a test pipe in or gut the cat, take that muffler out, and put a new resonator/muffler such as a Magnaflow where the old rusty resonator is, I would probably be losing some low end power, but possibly gain a little high end? Instead of hacking apart my old system, would it...

haha ya, that's what I thought, some kind of resonator or some type of silencer... it looks newer than the rest of the setup, and the pipe coming off of it looks brand new, going into the old rusty muffler....

hmm, odd, didnt know that cats looked like that, all that I have seen are kinda wierd shaped, not like a muffler... ah well haha, like I said I'm new at all this. anywyas, here are some pictures of everything since i've already gone out in the rain to take them haha...

Whats that line running to the polished pipe for your intake? I just went outside to have a better look at my exhaust, it's raining.... anyways, i can see the cat, right where it comes down from the engine, then there is some piping, then about halfway down the car it looks like a smaller...

I'm going to be getting a new air filter, and making a metal heat shield to keep the engine heat out, then using a metal pipe instead of the plastic resonator that's currently on there, and attatch that to the factory elbow going into the intake manifold. I would prefer to not have to swap...

that test pipe says it's a 3" diam. will it fit my stock exhaust? How big is the stock exhaust? Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the quick reply! Really, I kinda want to know what the stock setup is, how big is it, could I just put a high flow muffler on it for now, or is the stock exhaust too small. I dont have a whole lot of money right now, so cheap as possible, not going to do headers and I probably wont...

Just curious, I'm fairly new to the car world, but what would you suggest as an upgrade for my factory exhaust setup... As far as I know it's all stock... Thanks in advance for all the help!

haha yup, that "bird cage" is actually supposed to be a picture of a rad.

that's how she goes...

I think you might be able to get a little more than 230hp out of it.. but dont ask me.

depends where you live... it's a semi-desert where I live so it's pretty nice on summer nights to cruise around with the windows open... but during 40C days it's nice to have some ac to cool you down a bit...

I like how the paint is set up aswell, pink wouldnt be my choice for a colour tho... maybe a charcoal metallic kind of colour and black, would look pretty good with some matching rims. I wouldnt do that to my car tho, but it is very well done, and I respect the owner for going out on a limb and...

Get the head compression tested, and get a hydrocarbon test... check for a bhg... mine had no symptoms of a bhg other than air in the lines and overheating issues. No milky oil, no oil in my coolant, no white smoke... I thought I had trapped air... but as soon as I fixed my cooling system...