Ear plugs BECAUSE RACECAR. Even at 90 db you're not supposed to expose yourself for more than an hour or two a day, then at 100 db it's like 15 minutes. I'd imagine it's somewhere in the 90-100 db range inside the car on the interstate, so technically yes ear plugs should be used for longer durations.

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Ive been told the car is very loud haha

yeah I use them for trips longer than an hour or two. Without them I am completely drained from the noise, vibration, and heat

Good call. I drove my Miata home from Arkansas with a hole in the exhaust. I had fainter hearing for a few days and I think (what?) I might have done lasting damage.

Cool racecar you got! I would pick up another DD though.

took a break after a really busy couple months with driving the car from meet to meet and show to show all over the north east.

I got a little screen time on a Vlog I follow on Youtube. I never thought theyd talk about my car among the sea of stanced show cars haha





Vacation from car life was going all well until I took the car out for a drive and ended up breaking my diffuser off while backing into a spot that had an oddly angled curb. Of course my car is so loud that I didnt notice until it was too late.





A week after that I backed into a dumpster at a car meet. It was the same color as the night sky so I didnt even see it.


I was upset about the whole situation so I decided to make a big diffuser out of dibond instead of waiting till winter to make a CF one.

dibond








someday I want to refinish the rear subrframe














I silicone sealed all the seams on the underside so its "air leak free"
Should have it fully mounted by the end of the week.


annddddd...


Its really really REALLY big hahaha
I need to redo those back mounts there too

This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Aug 29, 2016 - 8:53 AM

holy sheetz that's big. (that's what she said)

now ur gonna need a big ass wing to go with that big ass diffuser.

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Here I thought I was blind with my 20/400 vision. At least the new rear diffuser looks promising.

Really ?

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Later on yeah hahahaha

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Its purpose it to take your eye away from the spidered bumper hahaha


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downforce brah


atleast I kept the bumper intact

Friggin purists hahaha


so far its still intact. Ive lost maybe a couple mm's on one side from misjudging the height of some water valves in the mall parking garage haha
I am going to see about trimming the diffuser down a bit and fine tune some of its design when the car is up this winter. Its still going to be big as hell though


Happened upon an idea that I may play around with this winter. Had a conversation with a friend about it way back when and just remembered that it would be a neat small mod.
Putting it on my thread so I will remember to do it.



This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Sep 19, 2016 - 11:08 AM

Master cylinder brace, I've seen them before for the Miata.

The firewall is not that flimsy that pushing on the brake is going to push out your master cylinder.
you used to have such good things....what has happened!

This post has been edited by playr158: Sep 20, 2016 - 2:44 PM

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Like Boxy said, in the Miata world these are recommended and I plan to do one. I have SS lines waiting for install. You think the Celica firewall is stiffer?

I like the diffuser but I wouldn't put it on my own car, Eff anyone else's opinion beside your own, I applaud you for doing something different in the Celica game.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Sep 20, 2016 - 4:06 PM

Indeed do your own thing, and really everything done is based in physics and in the pursuit of bettering some aspect so I'm all for it. I'm sure most will think I'm crazy for taking a handling, braking, and aerodynamics over horsepower approach with the Firebird, but that's what I want to do to try and make my ideal car.

I remember the firewall flexing on my old MK3 supra when you smash the brakes pretty hard. Picked up a brace it fixed the problem. Trying to get one for the Mk4 as well. Carbing makes a strut bar with the brace built in, but it's only for RHD applications. :\

So much negativity. I think it looks sick. I wouldn't personally put it on my car cause it would look out of place, and I don't race it, But I think it suits your car really well, and its functional too, which is what you were going for.

Keep it up!

Everyone lay off Mike.

Just because he's doing crazy, extreme, unusual, wacky, almost stupid things to his car and he feels like he has to touch and modify just about every part on his car it doesn't mean we should make fun of him. It's his business to do whatever he wants, even if it makes other people sad.

There is a piece that is available on rhdjapan that braces engine movement. Expensive but perhaps you can make ine yourself, every little bit helps

Mike your an animal, That diffuser is something fierce! The cars looking great the hood looks awesome too!

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thanks FRIEND

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yeah an engine torque damper. That thing is way overpriced. But would be a neat addition. If I could find a damper I would definitely make one. Probably could even scavenge one from another car makes piece



Like I said before
6GC is like 85% purists. I am in that 15% lol

Im not one to care what people think so critique away. Im still going to do hood rat **** with my car. Its fun to do bad things
I myself knew going into making this diffuser that it would be very difficult to make it both visually appealing and to maximize (to the best of my 1st try DIY abilities) performance. I chose to go with performance, hence why if you noticed, there arent really any more pictures of the diffuser on here or anywhere really. Ive tried many angles and but its just not very photogenic.

I dont really plan to keep this on forever. Like I said in a previous post. This was literally just a snap decision after I broke the CF one. I do plan to make a fiberglass or CF diffuser in the future. But for now, I am going to mess around with this one to refine it a bit more. Winter time is the rest of the underbody so the diffuser will be purposeful




yall are just some scrubs...
and you know my policy on scrubs

More 15%'ers wouldn't be a bad thing!! Love what youve done with the car, always look forward to updates on it!

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thanks! Its good to see some old old school members still hanging around the site!




Im starting to dig a bit more into the supercharging plan.
At the moment I am focusing on figuring out details for the mounting of the SC, the tensioner, the belt size (w/l), and the crankshaft pulley.
Most of the rest will be much simpler to come by and do.

I have started talks with a member on the MR2 forums about his setup and have also found a few details of a 4AGE Rotrex kit setup that may or may not be produced still. From the companies website they say items can be purchased separately. I believe the bracket they make could be modified to fit the 3SGE, not sure yet, still in the speculation stage. I figured it would be cheaper that way than to have one made from scratch.

At the same time as this whole mod, I would like to do the MRS Electric power steering pump to be able to free some room down there. The way that the bracket below looks, it might have more spaces for things I probably wont use.

pics of the 4AGE setup


This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Sep 29, 2016 - 2:05 PM

Whatever hapened to the member set up on his mr2 did he sell it?

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He sold it back in 2012/13.
The guy who bought it was trying to sell the kit in 2013 according to a thread on the forums. The last post said he was willing to take a loss on the kit, he needs it gone. That was the last Ive been able to find on it, and that member with the kit hasnt been back on the forums since 2013.

I am talking to the guy the kit originated from though.

was looking at the HKS GTR on motoIQ and noticed the basic shape of the diffuser is similar to mine! lolol

Over the past month or so Ive been considering a small turbo over supercharging the BEAMS.

For the SC all my researching has been coming to dead ends and it seems more and more that I would have to be building it from scratch...which could happen but I dont really see the reason to for the same result a small turbo could give.


I was informed that the BlackTop Altezza exhaust manifold flange is the same as the rest of the BEAMS. Knowing this, I be be able to use a log turbo manifold from them. The only thing I am seeing from their setup is that the manifolds turbine flange is rotated upwards as opposed to the 3SGTE which is downwards. Id rather have it downwards as I dont think the turbo would clear my hood.

Still so much to think about. I never was really into turbos so I dont know alot of the details of the systems. So Ill have to do some learnin.

It would be nice to run one of those fancy BorgWarner EFR 6258

This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Nov 9, 2016 - 12:04 PM

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Nov 9, 2016 - 8:30 PM

I can attest to Borg Warner transmissions at least. I think either it or maybe a ProCharger would complement the BEAMS, something that adds power lower down anyway since the BEAMS is so upper RPM based. I'm sure it's why Lotus chose to supercharge the 2ZZ-GE in the Elises, kind of round out the powerband some.

By all means do not turbo the beams. You will be going in uncharted territory where few sailors have navigated. Enjoy the beams. For a year or two. Go for a fourth gen swap and save yourself a headache. Start off with 250 hp with no headache. I decided to reswap instead of tuning the beams. At the end its what you think its best