dante1616

HEY EVERYONE!

I am making this thread so I can see what others have done to increase HP in there ES300! If you can please list the product installed/company+website it can be purchased at and also the year of the car the product was put in that would be great! And of course say how much HP was actually added and the cost of the part!

3000

It's a secret.

chrispy

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great exterior for sure. these cars are not for making fast and the interiors are decent as the come, but the exterior can be made to be very sleek and non-grandma-ish.

Pheonix

Well... For about $500usd you can install a wet n2o kit & make whatever you want to make. Up passed 300bhp on the stock fuel pumps without much tuning.




Intakes can make about 7-10bhp peak depending on what engine you've got. Chalk that up as $30-200usd depending on how you wanna go about it.
A cat-back exhaust gains very little 5bhp. Maybe 7-10bhp peak on later engines with the flapped mufflers.
I make about 10-15whp (maybe more on the vvt-i engine's) on a y-pipe depending on what pipe diameter I use & if there's no cat, or a high-flow cat. $315-375usd.
Having a good piggyback (Not a bull**** SAFCI/II) will cost $300-500, and give up 10bhp pretty easily. With the ability to re-tune as you mod.


Head/valve work really brings out the top end, and makes gobs of power compaired to anything else N/A, but it costs $$$...

Cam's run about $200-220usd a cam (x4) for custom re-grinds. Will take some form of management to use, but you can get 15-20bhp out of them.

Throttlebody's fall under intake/ cat back mods. Not really anything there. Stock TB's are 70mm, the dual TB's are 50mm. Good for hundreds of horsepower over stock before you *really* started to see some gains from going to a 90mm tb, or dual 70mm's.

I'd like to make some upper intake manifolds with short runners, big pleums & w/o all the crap in them out of stainless (since it's cheaper than alu), but no idea what those would turn out power wise. Probably free up 10bhp or so based on tony's manifold, which is tottally different than what I wanna make LoL!

I'd like to make some intake manifolds

Pheonix

Seafoam helps.
Run 5w-20 synthetic.
Always use NGK, or Denso plugs only.
3vz-fe & 2vz-fe owners can adjust their base ignition timing & adjust the fueling via the AFM's cog.
Everyone can adjust the fuel pressure, or run a series of pot to do minor adjustments.
If you have an MZ block, relocate your knock sensors.

um

If your engine has an EGR system, take the upper intake manifold off & clean the thing of carbon. (Dremel + flap wheel sanding disk makes very short work of this...)
Block the EGR system off...
Port the intake manifolds while you're at it.
Bust out your cat, or install a test pipe.

Ditch weight when you race. Passanger seat & spare/tols are the big offenders. 25psi front, 40psi rear. Keep a tire inflator to pump the fronts up when you're done...

Rear Sway bar for a 92-96. Front & rear's for every other model.
New springs & struts, struts & slip on coil overs (Be weary. VERY stiff), or full blown coilovers.
Weld cross braces into the sub-frame.

Pheonix

Adjust your kick-down cable if you have one.
Adjust your valve body pressure via the valve body pressure solenoid if you have a later transmission.
Install a better, higher stall torque convertor.
Have your valve body upgraded.
Rebuild your transmission with IPT's raybestos blue plate special option if you're holding big power.
Swap your differential for the Camry SE v6's hidden option 3.717 final drive.
Do the E53 M/T swap, light weigh flywheel, good clutch & pressure plate.


Have an aftermarket LSD machined into your differential, or swap over the MR2/Celica E153's 4.14 differential with optional limited slip.

Choas

I' wrather have a spell check LOL but i'd have a highly modified ext. and a lightly modified int.

Cdratz

damn Pheonix, thanks for all you threads, I learn so much from them....

cino135

lol, just the humor i needed today.

omarg

q-ship please.

Choas

I'll second that when it comes to motor stuff you know whats goin on

dante1616

Jesus pheonix, what the hell do u do for a living? if your not in automotives then ur deff. wasting talent! thanks for your posts!

Pheonix

sorta toyota/lexus tech, but i've moved off of all that into school for welding. Loving it too. Cars make alot better hobby I think.

Would like to get into more extreme engine building, but u know... That's one of those dream jobs LoL!




This way I can make some car parts 4 people & myself anyways.

dante1616

Well I was wondering pheonix if the gas you put in helps/adds any performance. I have been using premium (the last one) since i got the car, but is it really necessary? Im paying like 5 or so bucks more for premium than regular. IS it necesary? and does it actually help performance?

vin 78

How increase performance?
Buy another car. An overweight Camry w/ auto trans is a recipe for a slow car.

Don't get me wrong, I love my car, and wouldn't trade it for anything, but lets face it - w/o MAJOR modifications our cars are pretty lazy. I gave up on aftermarket performance parts years ago.

Just my thoughts.