TSZ Beams, The daily car Options

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Yes indeed, I ended up with another Celica. A project car yes, but one that's pretty well done already.
At least one to be a year-round daily (yes... even in the winter salt snow).


It's funny to be buying cars from old celica veterans here. First it was Colin's V6; now it's Kurt's Beams.
To be honest after selling my FR-S I was not looking to get another celica. But this deal was too good to pass.
Thanks to my brother who moved on from celica's to off-road for coming with me and spending 2021 July 4th weekend to get the car from Ohio.

Car has about... 85k on the chassis and 65k on the beams motor as of right now? Low mileage overall, and pretty clean.
Chips and small dents here and there; but I didn't care so much cause overall it was still very good.
Plus it came w/ some interior and exterior goodies so I couldn't complain. Given the pandemic prices this was very nice deal.

Knowing that the car hasn't been driven in a long while, I decided to get a dolly just in case (good thing in the end).



Things were going swell until we hit the Dells (4 hours from home) around 10 PM and then one of the trailer tires ripped on us.
A long night trying to get to Walmart with their long lines and having to take the front bumper off lead us too tired to make it home.



Nonetheless we made it home safely. The car was bogging a bit and at first we though it was just clogged injectors or old gas.
But after while it got worst and so I ended up replacing the fuel filter. BROKE my gas line along the way so repaired that real quick.
However we found out later it was actually a valve cover gasket leak. Shout out to Mike Thoma though for offering his ignition coil cause I thought it was that.
Quick online order from battlegarage and visit to the junkyard for an ignition boot (thanks Pruis) and things were good again!



The exhaust was definitely too loud though for my taste, and sat rather low. I wanted something similar to the SP2 so I ended up going with Ken's suggestion.
Magnaflow 14829 muffler, 2.25" catback with OEM cat, and then a Summit Racing resonator. When I find my testpipe I'll fit that one instead I don't want my cat stolen.




Fixed missing stud up front, still have to install the interior audio and upgrade the lighting overall. Also it came w/ seized ksport coilovers so I'm soaking them in PB blaster as I gave it my old 1" Eibach Springs on KYB/Bilstein shocks. Here it sits with the old 5zigen wheels that I had on the FRS and Celica before.



Annnndddd this is how it sits now now that winter is here. Got some wheels with Artic Snow tires since snow tires make the difference up here in MN.
Future plans currently once it's warm again is to get my audio/lighting figured out and then paint the front spat red.


And here's a video or two on how the car sounds: Beams Celica with Magnaflow and Summit-Racing exhaust

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A long while since an update:

- Removed my 3 post spoiler. Ended up trying a few different things. Ended up going w/ the Downstar Delete kit + some gaskets


- I also noticed I was getting a lot of sputtering eventually, so I opted to get some oil catch cans. It looks like from research it's good to have two of them.
I realized the open throttle oil catch can was catching a lot of oil; but the one to the intake was barely getting anything.
Ghetto rig the catch can until I get some better placement.


Last but not least was running into heavy vibration issues from wheel/rotor/brake issues. So I ended up going with nearly everything new.
- A6 rotors, new brembo oem calipers, new (used) wheels, and decided to finally add in the rotor bracket to run larger rotors

Before/After: had a buddy redrill the A6 rotors to 5x100


The main issue I was having was that the caliper bracket wasn't properly centered, giving me rather terrible vibrations


With some help, I ended up shaving down the bracket using a mil, then adding small spacers wherever needed (makeshift washer rings).


I also ran about 1.5mm spacers additional to the rotor increase bracket cause I was having issue w/ the rotor hitting the calipers.
New caliper piston gaskets, bleeder nozzles, and some cleaning (and minor paint damage which was just g2 paint so I didn't care).
Running on some newer Enkei PX10 since I wanted to retire the 5zigen FN01RC's from the daily summer.


What's next: probably going to roll the fender whenever possible, probably the last thing besides the typical maintenance.