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The Celica GT 4 All-trac is so heavy, no wonder it's so slow. Every time I have to look under the hood I get very pissed off, the bonnet is so heavy. The engine is so huge and compact and i've seen cars with much smaller engine giving it a good licking, e.g. the Starlet. I will buy a Toyota Starlet any day over the celica.
I've had a Celica gt 90 model for 3 years, in that time I've put in a K&N filter, exhaust, extractors, and cold air induction. the result is still boring. if any of you are thinking of doing more you'll be wasting your time and money. the engine is a heap of junk in terms of performance. if any of you are thinking of more performance the only thing I can recommend is an engine transplant. the 3S-GTE motor is the best for the job. don't get me wrong it's a great car, I've had no problems with it.
Oh yeah and to the all-Trac celica guy, your car is pretty fat in stock form. if you want to blow away little starlets and V8's and Honda's etc you will need more power, lucky for you your engine could be tuned to make big horsepower. first - do all the breathing mods exhaust, air filter, cold air intake. second - big front mount inter-cooler the stock one is pretty useless where it is sitting, run more boost. by doing these you can easily obtain about 70 horses no problems even more depending on your cars condition. make sure you use good oil and high octane fuel since your cars an import.
Good luck.
Hey I have a question.
I own a 91 Celica GT. I love this car. I have over 252,xxx miles on the 2.2.
I am interested in swapping in a st205 to replace it at 500,000 miles or more when ever it gives in to old age. My question is can I take a st165 or st185 and swap a few parts and make a st205. If so please Email me at jakeharvey19@hotmail.com.
Thanks.
And if you want real horse power get a 426 hemi in a 1970 super bird.
Import gt-r, alarm and imobilizer (as standard) has just stopped working. Anybody know anything out there that might fix it? Please e-mail me at d_mevlit@Hotmail.com
Done a hacksaw job on the cat, but replaced it with a straight through pipe, noticed a slight difference.
This car is the 2.0l model, can I take the intakes and turbo of the 4x4 turbo model and bolt them straight on??? Again e-mail me if you know anything about it please! Standard wheels still on it and with the rws the outsides of the tires are wearing fast (heavy foot, lot of bends in Ireland) will wider tires help this or maybe just better rubber???
Lowering job, if I thread the dampers further down and leave the original springs on the car will there be any side-effects??? e-mail me at d_mevlit@hotmail.com.
Hey guys I have a 94 supra w/a t-61, 98 corvette w/a procharger, and a 74 road runner. if you do the wright mods on a celica all track no zo6 vette or 450 hp car will touch it. by the way my supra by far kills my outher 2 cars. oh the vette has 480 rear wheel, and I amlooking for a celica all track so the guy who has the 1 from japan I might want to take it off your hands. please reply.
The turbo for the 5SFE engines is made by burien toyota, it costs 2500 and can be found on poweredbytoyota. com it comes with
Toyomoto exhaust manifold
Garrett TB0344 turbo
Down pipe
Intake pipe
K&N filter
Intermediate pipe (between the turbo and throttle body)
HKS Racing Blow-off/Pop-off valve
4 360cc Toyota Injectors
Oil pan
Map Sensor
All necessary hoses, clamps, nuts, bolts, fittings, studs, gaskets and such required to install the system.
It Still needs
Turbo Timer
Electric Boost Controller
Intercooler
Boost Gauge
AFR Gauge.
Some of these items are available as accessories and some are not necessary.
Jason, you're quite ignorant about cars. As other people have pointed out, your more free-flowing exhaust will not add 30 HP. Adding larger wheels will also not help. You will have a higher top speed, but you're acceleration will actually suffer.
As for Celicas seeming slow, it's because they weren't really designed for the strip, they're more suited for the bends of mountainous roads. Remember, the GT-4 was a car that won the World Rally Championship. (twice if I'm not mistaken) If you don't want it, please sell it to me for a low price :D. All wheel drive turbo is pretty rare nowadays, and I'd love to have the stability (and flexibility in winter seasons) of an AWD car as a daily driver.
I own a 1990 celica gt and it has over 275000 km's on it and a new motor 50000 km's from japan, the car is still pretty slow, but it will smoke most of my buddys in civic's 240sx's etc, on the highway, but they dust me on the straghts, ontill I get into 4 gear then I smoke them. I love my celica, but I hate being told buy civics. I love my car I handles like a dream on the stock springs. For now I am going to get a 91 talon tsi 4wheel drive trobo beceause it is faster. But when I start to make a lot of money I will for sure, but onther Celica and make it go fast.
Toronto, Ont
S.A.
The turbo kit gives you 190hp with 5lbs of boost, but the turbo can go to 7lb of boost.
Someone asked about headers earlier for a 5sfe engine, well look at 86-89 Celica GT 2.0/3SFE headers they have the same fitting as the 5sfe and will work. Summit Racing has one made by pacesetter.
I own a 90 Celica GT-S with a few minor modifications preformance muffler, and piaa lighting and I am planning on dropping in a new header (the above metioned), a cat-back exchuast, hi-flow catalitic converter (Factiod: <-Catalic Convertors contain $platnium$), and hopefully a cam gear and pulleys if I could find the two. Can anyone help with the latter?
The Toyota Celica is a good car. Curb weight is around 2600lbs in talking about the GT. The car has an iorn block so it could hold more with a turbo kit. It has 100 whp and 123 lbs of tourqe to the wheels. This is real power with the kit from the Burien Toyota it should have 145 whp and 165 lbs of tourqe at 5lbs of boost. custom intercool it and get lower comperssion pistons you add more boost now v8's will seem like the inline 4 they hate so much. Oh yea do not bother with cheap bolt on's as the way the cam is designed it does not relive much power to bolt on's. It is web cams. and jason 30 hp from bolt on's. do your homework. What you did to the cat might even effect exaust flow and you end up losing power. And to the domestic muscle car owners stop hating powere is power it just seems your car needs 4 more cilinders to cacth us. Also whats so bad about having a nice looking fast car. If you do want to know more perfomance part for the car search 90-93' toyota celica perfomance parts.
Hey guys I've owned my 1990 celica gts for 8 yrs and with 64k when I bought it it was sweet now with 180k its in the remodel phase which I'm glad for because everything, but cam gears are available theres even a group buy on altezza tail lights in the works check ebay 90-93 celica... thatll work and just celica..as far as the car being fast as much as id like it be its just not geared for it. youve probably noticed that up a hill you can whoop an integra, but then on the track they will beat you by.5 sec at least why?? check it the car comes with 130-135 hp stock 140-145 torque depending on 90-91 92-93"92-93 being better" it shifts out of 2nd at 55mph 3rd is a measily 80mph most hondas get to 85 mph and believe it our not that's the difference. in a nutshell everything that was said on this site was correct except that jason fella, but we should give him a break I was 18 once... if you want your 5sfe to hall either change to 3sgte complete swap "although you can use your 5sfe tranny". or increase all flow of gas, air, exhaust backed up with a new ecu program and if you really want any motor can be bored ported and polished its "all money" as my friends say it never ends... goodluck tuning
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salem, or we race up at portland intl raceway and no my 90 celica isn't fast yet I just picked up a 12k rebuilt tranny and a 3sge/te head that will help a lot when I'm done I swear it will be more than magazine worthy, but that won't till it ends..
I own a 90 gt and have found a several sites for upgrades on your 5th gen celica. Is anyone interested in a short shifter? Try: www.twmperformance.com Also nopi has a catalog with pulleys and other various parts. The most complete listing of bodykits is on www.toyotacelicaonline.com I probably have a site for anything else that you need. If you have a question mail me @ 90celicagt@mail.com
-Aaron Roberts.
I have a 91 Celica with the 5s-fe in it. No word of a lie, it is pushing 700 000km and it still runs like new. I am going to rebuild the motor and add a few accessories. If there is anyone who knows where I can get a turbo kit for it could you please let me know at whaddayasmell@hotmail.com. This would greatly help me, thank you.