Getting a beams Options

[mi645]

Getting a beams who wants to help me instal it into my car? Any ideas anyone have experience!? I live in socal

[enderswift]

Disclaimer: Not knocking any custom swaps; anything custom is quite an achievment and I admire it simply for the work involved. However, I'd like to add that you cant easily beat oem fit/design with custom parts. I've experienced this first hand trying to make custom parts for cars in the past. Even if you go all out and fabricate a work of art, its still mostly going to fall short of what a team of Toyota engineers devoted their lives to for months.

to clarify, a custom part may 'work' but will it be quiet? reliable for years? will it transmit more vibrations? More often than not those are the sacrifices you need to make when going down that path.

In my case I want a car that doesn't rattle, or vibrate (think poly mounts), or have strange knocking noises. Thing is, a lot of people don't place enough value on those things until after their swap when they have to live with them day in and day out. It gets old pretty quick. So I think that should definitely be a factor when choosing a swap path. I swapped a 3rd gen in and nobody can tell its a new engine until I floor it, and that just makes for an easy car to own as a daily.

If you want a powerful car that has oem smoothness and refinement then a 3sgte or beams swap cant be beat. If you don't care about those things then v6 and other custom engines make more sense.

This post has been edited by enderswift: Mar 10, 2013 - 1:29 PM