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Installed the Toyota OEM mudflaps. Not quite as much protection from the front flaps as I'd like, but that's OK.
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NNJR autocross #1 in the books! I finished up 2nd in PAX, 1st in STR. Amy was 4th in STR, a very solid result. We struggled badly with understeer, made one car change and then just sort of didn't make another change with runs happening so quickly. We should have kept making changes, but that's on me for not accepting that the car wasn't performing at its best, whoops!
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Philly SCCA had their second event yesterday, I finished 2nd in PAX behind another BRZ in STR (Simmons) by 17 thousandths... SO close! We had made huge setup changes after the understeer monster at NNJR, this was WAYYYY better. So fun now!
My fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkmkeJOy8s Amy's fastest clean run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP7e6f7v78 Amy's fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgI5bMuk0qc Me vs Simmons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO75pYk9yZs |
Back to MetLife stadium for NNJR #2! I finished 3rd in PAX and Amy finished 3rd in STR. Car was working both better and worse all at once, haha. More changes for next event!
Amy's fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk97CZn2Lrg My fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucFLKYROqAM My last run was going faster... until it wasn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCNaaMYwFc |
Needed more rear camber! Rear lower control arms from the first gen aren't legal on the new car due to a change in motion ratio, makes this mildly annoying but oh well. The only other options are a $650 set of upper control arms or a $130 set of offset upper arm bushings that are a huge PITA to install and adjust as well as being easy to have them slip...
I'm giving a $25 option a try :) I got ~0.3 degrees more rear camber (one side gained like 0.5 degrees, so I just evened it out) using two MOOG K90473 camber bolts. They torque to about the same torque spec as the OEM bolts so I'm hoping they don't slip. I'll find out soon! https://i.postimg.cc/RZHmdmx7/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/Y00KWKxm/image.png Alignment before: https://i.postimg.cc/ydNccD4Y/alignment-20220319.jpg Alignment after: https://i.postimg.cc/cLDzf8Pr/image.png |
Did NNJR event 3 today, got the car working well finally (hey guess what, setting the shocks to where Shaftworks told me to set them works well) and Evan Schickel, 2018 DSP national champion, codrove to get ready for the NJ ProSolo
My fastest, good for 2nd in PAX, very close to Jeff Hurst (2013 STX national champion) in an STR ND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZ4CAfLM8g Evan's fastest scratch time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP2O7_vqIa8 and a wild side by side! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy-G7n7zFUo |
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My videos from NJ Pro. I coned away ~4 tenths on the right, but my left was pretty darn good. Really really liking the car! Left side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZ2dxXpStU Right side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srCCgAU38Hw Evan's fast runs, he never felt as comfortable as last weekend and also coned away some time: Left side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dBpPHO4DI Right side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zi2I17lbFA Amy's fast runs, left side data is broken somehow but whatever. She killed it this weekend pulling off 3rd in L3 and 3rd in the Ladies Challenge. Meshing with the car well and learning how to be aggressive with all of the mountains of torque versus our RX-8 last year! Amy found ~5 tenths each side during the challenges too, really proud of her! Left side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLuXLemsb88 Right side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYwc-u5J2-4 |
I swapped from the Perrin 2.5" catback to the CSG Touring 86 catback... It's effectively OEM+ inside the car and not very loud outside the car either.
I have a JDL UEL and ISR Overpipe, stock frontpipe. The drone with the Perrin catback between 2-3k RPM was getting old quickly, not sure why it's so bad on a 2nd gen with UEL. Local friend has it with an EL header and it's drone free, so YMMV. The CSG Touring 86 is damn near silent inside the car, may as well be OEM+ with zero drone and not much noise. It's getting a little louder after ~100 miles but I doubt it will ever get loud. Outside the car, on video anyway, it's not as deep of a sound as the Perrin but it's also less raspy and more "wooshy" The CSG installs a little easier than the Perrin because you can set the tip depth easily, but the exhaust clamps were installed "backwards" meaning the bolt was on the wrong side of the exhaust for maximum clearance on installation. Kinda dumb but whatever, easy to fix. I also wish the CSG was 304 stainless, big bummer that it's not. Prior setup with the Perrin catback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-81a_fWbYpo New setup with the CSG catback (will update when I get some miles on it like the Perrin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21KhhV9crGc Anybody want to buy a Perrin catback? haha |
New exhaust sounds killer! Glad it solved the drone issue. Drone drives me nuts.
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First event in a month!
Philly SCCA/WDCR SCCA autocross at Ripken stadium in Aberdeen. I took home 2nd in STR with Amy in 5th. Neither of us were super happy with our driving with both of us hitting a lot of cones, Amy never got a clean run :( My fastest with a questionable cone call (nobody knows where I hit the cone and the car ahead of me on course was hitting lots of cones): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hEQX8ymQ2s Amy's fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LZDrjKcnO4 |
New exhaust sounds OEM+ you're right! Very nice tone to it.
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I love it! It's a ton of fun. It feels heavier than the ND and RX-8, the front end clearly doesn't work as well since it's strut front end. It's really nice inside and the power is really addicting. The power delivery is also really fun, feels like the RX-8 where it's rewarding to rev it out but with a LOT more torque.
Philly SCCA had another event this weekend, it was ridiculously hot and humid and we probably used four gallons of water spraying our tires to keep them cool! Really fun course and it was a lot of fun to work with Amy and see her improving as a driver! I pulled off first in PAX with a really close battle with an STR class ND Miata. 15 thousandths! Amy ended up finishing a really close 5th in STR, she's clearly getting comfortable with the added pace this year and she's crushing it. Here's my fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjhxP1eTUEc Here's Amy's fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgT83IZOjHk Here's a side by side between the STR ND and myself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8NKwxUScvU |
Philly event last weekend! Here's my fastest run, good for 2nd in PAX right behind Kevin Donovan for his first PAX win! He was always super fast when I codrove his CRX so I was super happy for him taking the win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I-V9RZmnMU Amy's fastest, an early run and she found a ton of time later in the day but it just never worked out with a full run. Still really good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7whipiCViY |
Toledo ProSolo! Super fun, even with the wrong car for STR. 500 pounds more weight than the ND Miata on the same tire is going to be hard to make up for. We whiffed on setup big time on day one, big thanks to Jon Lugod at Shaftworks USA for an all new setup to try on Sunday. The car was magical.
Weather all weekend was whacky. The entire morning session on Saturday was thrown out with thunderstorms, so we ran 6 runs in the afternoon instead of four. That meant no time to test anything really and Amy got stuck in drying conditions both days since of course it rained again overnight into Sunday. Amy drove extremely well, just had bad luck getting away from the tree because of the changing conditions of the start line. Here's Amy's fastest left, unfortunately the line dried up and she red lit :( : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkymoIqDyg Here's Amy's fastest right, tagged a cone somewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZt41LSObZU Here's my fastest left side run, not much left on the table for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IuFZhhugag Here's my fastest right side run which was the first run on the fixed setup so I was feeling it out, I tagged a cone and got in the marbles badly on my second right side run and threw that away. Oh well! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkPRH8nv4gI |
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I was there, but not driving my car. Driving Tamra & Andrew's crazy RX-8 :) https://i.postimg.cc/13rdLc1C/0-A8-A...5004-1-001.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pdVSxh22/0-A8-A...5004-1-002.jpg |
A couple of weeks ago, I got to drive one of the fastest DSP class cars in the country, an RX-8 on gigantic Hoosiers! Lots of fun and we worked on setup stuff all day, then it rained, then I got a dry run, then we ran out of gas so I missed out on a couple of runs to try and clean up my cones.
Here's Tamra's fastest run (car owner and prior national champion in the car): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw1wobezPKM Here's my fastest run (+2 cones somewhere?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMDYafIKC1Y This past Sunday I was back into the BRZ with my prior codriver Jon! We also worked on setup a little bit and really dialed it in. I pulled off 4th in PAX with Jon in 10th. Jon struggled a bit with the 1-2 shift upsetting the car so he short shifted this run, if he had just shifted normally he'd have at least tied me because he absolutely killed it in the slaloms! Jon's fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94OmdPVq4Gc My fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnlQ517wBYs |
I won the silly big trophy again! Sorry Amy!
Here are my two Al Holbert Memorial Trophy winning runs: Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtwdyGBMLXg Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxeUJ7SDApM Thanks to everyone for making this weekend happen! Super fun and what a crazy battle with Kevin Donovan! 0.073 gap between us for the Holbert! My fast (but dirty) run from day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOs0LoHixLM or my fast but dirty 3rd run from day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UyF-fGQDDw My last run from day 2 (not Holbert legal but great for the day's results!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQzmfJ2rt-k https://i.postimg.cc/Jh5PtFnr/298960...35952707-n.jpg |
Philly SCCA on August 28th:
Really fun event, except for the frustration of not finding pace after my first run. Really annoying, but I had really good pace on my first run anyway haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmFrO-8r8_c Nationals in Lincoln a week later was a TON of fun... More to come on that :) Final NNJR event of the year! I was in with a slim chance of winning NNJR DOY again but it didn't happen with my car's disadvantages against the ND Miata in STR. My car felt amazing, huge credit to Shaftworks USA and Karcepts for their support this year! My fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEPaDiBV0zY Jon codrove too, he's his fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsNEQK7Cu9Q Philly's second to last event! It was a rainy one in the remnants of Ian. I did end up earning the Philly SCCA Driver of the Year again! The first time it's ever been won by one person three times in a row, a huge accomplishment! Here's my fastest clean run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T9ujL6us0k and my fastest dirty run (I hit the second set of cones on the left side of the car, maybe with my wake): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnDb5t0EYqQ A fantastic year of autocross and a huge thanks to my fiancee (soon to be wife!) Amy for her support. As always thanks go to Shaftworks USA, Karcepts, and everyone else that's been involved with the build and set up this year. Hit up Shaftworks USA or Karcepts for any performance parts and setup questions you may have! |
Autocross yesterday with SJR SCCA @ Bader Field. I finished 2nd in PAX with a flying last run after murdering a LOT of cones early on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J413B48vgy8 Amy finished 4th in STR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTqeeyr7NI Tuned today with Mike from Xero Limit. JDL UEL, ISIS Overpipe (left over from my first gen and they've since rebranded for obvious reasons), CSG Catback, and K&N panel filter. Charcoal filter in place. https://i.postimg.cc/jjwwCLmh/image.png Lower two pulls are stock tune with all of the same mods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovSsJBAoZw |
Healthy pulls, you're near 100 hp/liter now if i'm mathing right?
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Replaced the stupid huge tips on my exhaust with some aliexpress tips that are knock offs of Akrapovic's Ti tips https://i.postimg.cc/sjCzjZHY/image.png |
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Love the tips haha :mrgreen: Went to the car show today, really liking the GR86/BRZ twins of this generation. The seating felt GOOD and the size is perfect for throwing it around mountain roads out here. I'll have to look at some mods for them to price out a build. Meanwhile, the mk8 feels so cheap now. Big disappointment. :( |
The Mk8 really really needs to get rid of the touch controls, it seems like a winner otherwise and the looks are even growing on me.
Finally got my APEX Racing VS-5RS wheels that I ordered in July... https://i.postimg.cc/DyDzvckR/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/vmvMVrkY/image.png Got some hood struts for Christmas so I installed those yesterday https://i.postimg.cc/WzN74vrp/image.png |
All settled into our new place, I was ceramic coating the wheels and weighed them.
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Installed eightyzips shift & handbrake boots. They look amazing and while the install was fiddly, it went smoothly and they installed well.
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I was just looking at BRZ's and thought to come check on your thread. Looks like things are carrying along nicely! 232whp is a strong number. Do you know approx what they dyno stock?
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Working on a copy of the GR86 Cup car hood vent... an expensive print to reproduce at a print shop, not too bad at home but a bit annoying. I'll print it in ASA on my Ender, it's too big for my Method even split into three pieces. Annoying because the Method has way better surface finish but oh well.
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A BRZ is roughly the same weight as a well equipped E30. Everyone's quick to say "that's not enough power" in theory, but I bet the driving experience says otherwise. |
It's definitely enough power, haha. I do plan on FI... but no "need" for sure.
My GTI was ~175 whp and ~2400 pounds or so, old German cars really really hid their power well, they're quicker than they let on. |
STI Performance Muffler & STI wing arrived today! Threw the muffler on real quick to replace my CSG Touring 86. It's too quiet inside the car, but I am so excited to do a mid pipe & front pipe to open it up now.
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NICE!! Congrats bet you wanted that for a bit :)
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Total time was a week from order to receipt :) Not too bad, haha. Paid a pretty penny though! |
Installed a JDL Ultra Quiet frontpipe today, I found a gasket that works to adapt from 2.5" frontpipes to stock midpipe, which is nice
Walker 31398 fits perfectly with no hassle, but does have a smaller ID (which is about the same as the stock midpipe anyway) If you want to dork around cutting some of the gasket's built in metal flange that fits into the frontpipe, a Walker 31554 "fits" as well if you cut away most of the metal ring so it only has a few tabs left to center it/support it in the front pipe. It seals fine and all, just know it's a bit of a hassle up front for essentially no benefit. The other gasket wasn't available locally to me so I did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzzs6wqYh8A |
NNJR Autocross from last weekend! I finished 4th in PAX and had a friend from *way* back in my 3000GT days codrive, his first time in a proper ST car after years of the wrong DS car :)
My fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luA7zuv4fSY Sang's fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TEEBbKLq3k |
Not the greatest pics... I've gotta clean up the car and install a little longer front studs before I can go anywhere for better pics. Only 5.5 turns of lug nut engagement with 13mm front spacer compared to the 10mm spacer I was using before with the Enkeis, not quite enough!
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Replaced my Eibach front studs with ARP for a bit of extra length for more spacer options, mostly so I could run 13mm front spacer for my new wheels.
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