Wow you people are pretty rude to a new person huh? (excluding the two previous posters).
Stevie956, Welcome to the RC world and the, as you have found out, rude forum of RCU!
(good luck round here...)
Something you can do to give it more performance is upgrade it to a Brushless power system (let me know if you need help with what this is), and put in a Lipo battery. I would advise that you read up about lipo batteries first though.