WEll i am a noob at everything car related (but i know more than my dad, which in the father son situation is annoying because he is supposed to help me -_-) so i have looked to the internet and all those friendly car modders out there that know what tehy are doin (i would hope )

SO last year i got her for free, a red ford escort with a huge bump in the back (knocked that out) and she drives fine, however its not fast enough for me, as a teenage petrol head . So i want to learn how to tune up my engine and get some cheap parts that will give me some good performance.

So far all i have done is clean my air filter and up the air intake to my Weber Carb (stock) which has made it more fuel effeciant and louder :P. and i sprayed my air filter silver (becuase i could)

But i want to do as much as i can, liek totaly clean the engine, make it all shiney again, make it run faster and cleaner, make it louder so it sounds liek a proper car. and eventually i want to modify the outside of the car.

So what im asking is for some help, i want to know what i can and cant do, where to buy things from and and helpful guides specificly for my car.

any help will do i just need a project... I have allready filled it with 21 speakers :P (i was really bored and had lots of old speakers in my loft from CD palyers, Computer speakers, radios ect...)

So yeh, help if you can, pictures of engine, car and speakers after the break ttu later.

Edit1* i have also had an idea, can i use a Plenum like these (http://www.knfilters.com/Racing/plenum.htm) to add a air filter, perhaps one of those performance ones with the vacuum fans in them. will this give my car more power or just 'splode it??