I'm about a week from have a 1990 GXL in pristine condition, but i want to make her a little bit faster, what are the first things I should do?

 

great year for the GXL, do a search

 

Exhaust. Intake. Two basic things.

 

1) Read
2) Full Tune Up (plugs, check 6PI, VDI, etc.)
3) Read
4) Exhaust
5) Read
6) ...Did I mention read?

Seriously though there are a number of options depending on what you want the car to be.

 

RB exhaust, intake, full tune-up, short shifter, then have fun with her. You can always upgrade braking an suspension, and get ramped actuators from pineappleracing.com Besides that there isn't much you can do to maintain the origionality of the vehicle.. If you want faster then you can post a thread on the forum asking "how to get 200+rwhp out of my N/A for almost no money, and without comprimising reliability" thread, then sit back and watch world war III unfold on the rx7club forum. Sounds like a great N/A take great care of her