Chee La's celica progression thread thing, 7AFE ---> Greytop BEAMS Options

[cheela]

Well, very long overdue but I figured I'd start this thread so I'm not posting everywhere else.

but, I'll write more later. Just wanted to start the thread and that's pretty much it. !

stop by later for a big update.

This post has been edited by cheela: Sep 28, 2018 - 8:54 AM

[cheela]

I think you know just enough about cars to kill yourself, lol. spring time re-fix-it meet!?

yup, that's actually pretty accurate.

Plans set lol, just not this one week in march that I'm busy.

Chee, if you're patching that split rubber fuel line on the engine you DO NOT want to use regular 'fuel hose' from the parts store. It's ****ty single wall fuel line that rots out and turns rock hard after a few years. It's really vacuum hose they're selling for fuel hose and it's super ****ty and unsafe. You want dual wall high pressure rubber fuel line, buy it somewhere online, it'll last for decades and not turn hard and crack. Also you want rubber ONLY where needed, I see older cars where they've got rubber hose strung and zip tied snaked through the engine bay in all kinds of unsafe ways just begging to get damaged and start a fire. Get some copper/nickel hard line and fab metal fuel line as much as possible, obviously you'll need rubber at flex points like from the frame to the engine and maybe a short section from the line to the carb but really nothing much else, certainly keep rubber sections to less than a foot.

Gates Barricade hose is what you want, or the equivalent from Continental. Also use Oetiker clamps or fuel hose clamps NOT worm clamps as they cut into the hose over time and need to be re-tightened to prevent leaks.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gates+barricade+...ef=nb_sb_noss_2
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=continental+elit...b_sb_ss_sc_1_22
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=oetiker+fuel+lin...=nb_sb_ss_i_1_8
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fuel+line+hose+c...nb_sb_ss_i_3_10

Good news is all that stuff is high enough grade to use on any vehicle including Celica's with modern fuel injection. Personally I'd just run an all new line from the fuel sender with either nylon or make a hard line from copper/nickel, that way you know it's done right and it won't suck air or leak fuel. I know it's a no pressure system but man I've seen what even a small fuel fire can do to a car and that's the fastest way to send one to the junk yard when you burn up hard/impossible to get parts.

and yes, that's what happened with these hoses. I beleive the previous owner just rigged this up with cheap fuel hoses and so both of them split. I got a new hose online and was able to get into the garage for storage. I'll have to check and see if the fuel line I got is up to par with those or not. If not, I'll switch it out once springtime hits. thanks!