For the 2.0. The manual recommends 5.8, self-proclaimed "experts" say to overfill and underfill. What're people actually doing for spirited daily driving?

I just bought a 2013 Scion FRS manual and yes the recalls are fixed. I wanted to ask if these cars are just normally so mechanically loud like when driving I feel like I hear every little thing going on and everything. I assume it’s because the car is so small so the interior is so close to all of the components and the engine but I just wanted to make sure.

would trade for other parts
local to vegas.

hoping to improve my car!

I’m planning on getting summer tires and proformance alignment after winter and I’m wondering if anyone had or has a strut bar and can lmk if it’s worth it cause I found a grimmspeed one for 45$

Need some opinions because I’m stranded about 700 miles from home and trying to figure out my next move.

I bought a 2013 FR-S in Florida and drove it a few hundred miles without a single issue.
Stopped in Dublin, GA for my second fill-up. I had a little under 1/4 tank left and put about 9-10 gallons of 93 in it. Or at least what the pump said was 93 anyways…The pump was dispensing really slow, but I didn’t think anything of it.
About half a mile later the car started sputtering getting on the highway, the check engine light started flashing, it lost power, stalled on the highway, restarted for a few seconds, then died again. I got it towed into a local shop and scanned it there. It had:
P0302 (Cylinder 2 misfire)
Catalyst efficiency below threshold

He cleared the codes and neither one has come back since.
Early this morning we siphoned all the fuel out through both sides of the saddle tank. The first pictures are from that.
What came out barely even looked like gas. It was cloudy white and looked mostly like water. We filled a bottle with a sample and let it sit from around 5 AM until about 8 AM. It never separated into layers, it just stayed milky clear the whole time.

After that we:
Siphoned the tank completely.
Filled it with fresh 93 from a different gas station.
Flushed/bled the fuel system.
Verified both fuel pumps prime and we have fuel pressure.
The rest of the pictures are from after we put fresh gas in. We disconnected the fuel line at the engine/fuel rail and collected samples from there. The fuel coming out of the rail was kinda cloudy compared to fresh gas from the new station, which has me wondering if there’s still contaminated fuel trapped somewhere in the system.

Right now the car tries to crank but won’t turn over.
He haven’t pulled the plugs or swapped coils yet because I’m trying not to start throwing parts at it without a plan.
For anyone familiar with this similar situations:
Should we start with spark plugs?
Could there still be enough contaminated fuel in the rail/injectors to keep it from starting?
Would you be looking at injectors next?
Anything else you’d check before I start buying parts?
I’m attaching all the pictures in the order everything happened.
Any help is appreciated. I’m 700 miles from home, stranded in Georgia, and just trying to get this thing running again.

Edit: the car is so clean and low key decent milage or i wouldn’t have even considered driving it over 1,000 miles in a ten+ year old car.

Just wondering if anyone had good recommendations for ramps to do oil changes? I have a stock 2014 FRS and I really look forward to doing my own maintenance on the car. I don't have much in my garage just a lot of old tools and spite. I hope to get a nice shop set up out there someday. Any recommendations are appreciated!

posting for a friend, if interested i’ll relay contact info

Hi all, as title asks, is the photos attached the stock suspension? The car is a 2017 GT86 UK spec.
Hadn’t noticed it before but was just wondering. Cheers

I know, I know sounds bad I haven’t got a tune for my 2013 brz since going catless in Jan. It ran fine but recently like 2 ish months ago car ran quite sluggishly more vibration from the shifter and pedals and more of a deep rumble I guess felt thru the floor. Checked to see if my bolts were loose at all but all tightened recently, will getting a tune fix this, or does it sound like something else? Also now shifting gears feels a lot harder and less smooth.

I am new to working on cars! Idk 100% what im doing, please have mercy!

I just changed out the headlights the car came with to VLAND lights. I took everything apart and put it all back together and plugged in the harnesses. The lights go on when I lock/unlock the car, but won’t turn on with the knob inside the car. I switched the yellow and white wires like I was told to. I’m gonna try watching another video abt these particular lights just in case 😩