Master-Beater
| Year: | 1994 |
| Chassis Code: | ST204 |
| Type: | GT |
| Body Style: | Hatchback |
| Transmission: | Manual |
| Color: | Black and Silver/Chrome |
| Location: | Washington, MO |
Added about 15 years ago by Detatch. As of over 13 years ago,
Performance
Engine: 5S-FE with no internal modification.
Intake: "long-ram" - tubing is septic plumbing for an RV, and runs from the throttle body down past the cruise control to the back side of the crash bar. segmented intake tubing was used to ram air into the filter from the air dam.
Exhaust: 2.5" piping straight back to a $30 Oreily's muffler.
Transmission: stock S54
Stripped: A/C (including compressor), COMPLETE (save for drivers and passengers seat, dash, center console, and back seat) interior, and all the paneling that got in the way of frequently messed with parts.
new (OE grade, but new none the less) sway bar end links.
"new" motor mounts. front has a metal plate welded to it, and the rear is shore 75 polyurethane.
Suspension
stock.
Exterior
autozone hood scoop, motegi racing 16" alloys, full "custom" (rattle-can) paint job. doesn't look half bad, considering it's the end result of a couple drunken 21yo's who got drunk and found the spray paint.
LOTS of dents from temporary buyer's friends.
Interior
GUTTED!! only has drivers seat, passengers seat, most of a dash, upper steering column cover, center console, and back seat.
More info
Floor pan support rails are bent, but that seems to only be from idiot mechanics throwing jacks in the wrong places. Brand new wheel bearings!!
I didn't have the ride, experience, or resources to do the 3S swap I had planned myself, and several mechanics screwed me on the install. The interior is now gutted, and the engine swap has been done in my other celica. The OE engine, transmission, etc. is back in the Master Beater. She runs well now, and is a blast, ESPECIALLY on gravel and dirt!!
The Master Beater was then sold to a friend I use to work with, who planed on fixing her up.He said if he could get the car up and running with little cost and little effort, he would work with me so I could buy her back for under $1000... If it would have taken dumping a lot of time and money into her, he planned on keeping this one... There is a lot of blood, sweat, tears, urine, time, money, effort, love, and personal attachment in this car...
Well, I got her back. Some mutual friends of myself and the buyer got drunk and in their less than better judgment kicked, scratched, and burned quite a bit of the exterior... Needless to say, the buyer made a $1600 profit off this car, and I got her back for free. A new alternator, some wire connectors, and a battery later she's back up and running (SCREAMING) down the road. Bottom line is, I got her back and I don't plan on letting her go any time soon. Call it a passion... But I love these cars, and this is THE celica that made me fall in love with these things.
As of now, she's got a custom spray-paint-job, a new name ("Master-Beater" - the beater of all beaters, superior to 90% of all other beaters), and a few more basic mods. The gate guard got pissey with me over coming on base running open-header without a map sensor way back when... It turns out they frown upon loud cars with four foot flames underneath. Needless to say, the exhaust was the next set of bugs I had to work out.
