Celica Forums General Discussion Engine and Performance 400hp V8 vs. 400hp 4 cylinder

I knew I shouldn't have tried to guess what those parts are. Now I just feel really stupid.
So what the hell is an exhaust control valve and water wetter?

exhaust control valve is just a throttle body like device in my exhaust pipe by which I can open or close the plate by way of a switch in the cabin. basically it lets me have a loud exhaust and free-flowing exhaust for performance and a quiet one with more restriction for low loads.

water wetter is just an additive to your water/coolant mix which is supposed to reduce engine coolant temps by maybe 20 degrees. The stock ecu should advance the ignition timing a bit and maybe give you more horses. I don't think my PFC will make any automatic adjustments according to ECT. anyways it's better to have a more efficient cooling system. controls temps and degree of knock. I should do a test to see if it really works...

Mike, I have a job offer for you. A friend of mine and I are going to open a custom car shop in Killeen Texas. He already has about 80k to put down and I have a job lined up that will put about 70k in my pocket after 6 months. I am going to put that 70k into the building of our shop.

The reason Killeen is the best place to open a shop is because we do not have a good shop anywhere in our area and being next to the biggest Army post in the world, we would have thousands of car nuts that love to spend money on their cars. Once we have all their money, it will be time for them to move to another post in the Army and we will get a whole new batch of people with money to spend, but we will never over charge them for anything we do.

The reason it will be the best custom car shop ever built is because we know what people want and we are going to give it to them. People want to go to shop and have the guy at the desk be friendly and know what the hell he is talking about.
They want a one-stop shop that they can do everything at. We will provide that. You will be able to bring us a hunk of crap you bought at the junk yard for $50 and we will strip it to the frame and rebuild it from the ground up.

We will turn the old blown engine into a high performance racing engine, do all the body work, add a custom paint job, custom interior, custom sound system, chrome anything you want chromed and find the best deal on all parts that we can.

We are not trying to get rich off of this shop. We will sell every part and do every job for the least amount of money possible. We just want to do what we love to do, build custom cars.

We want to have the kind of shop that everybody has always wanted in their town. I think that once our shop get's going and the word gets out how good it is, we will then get customers from Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and all the small towns within a 4 hour drive of Killeen. We will not hire idiots. We have started our hunt to find the best people we can find that is a professional at what they do.

The reason this will be a great place to work is because my friend and I are not assholes. You need a couple days off...No problem. You're late for work...who cares, shit happens.
We do not believe in working weekends. Weekends are for having fun.
You want to trick your car out...no problem. What's ours is yours when you work for us.
Our shop will be a big happy family and we will have fun everyday at work. You will look forward to comming to work.

We will build a drag strip near our shop. Something we all want in our area. This will also be one big party with food, drinks, cars shows etc...And cost the people way less than any other strip. Again, not trying to get rich.

Anyway, I think you would be a great member of the team. Think about it and keep this offer in mind. It will always be there for you.

exhaust control valve aka a exhaust cutout

Say, nice bike - T1000

Thanks Clyde. What is a T1000.

It's a quote from the movie "Terminator 2"

I should have recognized that. I liked the way he said that.

this still lives

No, this topic is dead. The Mustang guy that was supposed to come on here and argue that a Mustang could beat a built Celica read QTRMLR_1's report and chickened out. I'm sure he knows that could not have won that argument.
So, time to let this topic slip away.

Lot of good information in here though.