My 2013 BRZ

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Originally Posted by DocWalt

Got my TOM'S USDM DOT spec all red taillights finally. They look perfect :D

http://i.imgur.com/9JQFCQ8.jpg

edit: They arrived like this... idiot previous owner of the taillights sucks at life. I had to wetsand/buff them for ~2.5 hours. Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet

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I would send that guy a turd.

A real one.

Kenny, I've noticed your car goes BBRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ - BBRRZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

Kinda cool, eh? :p

Lights look good. I like that spoiler too, oem?

Not OEM.

It's a cheap as hell copy of the TRD spoiler that looks 99%. For $140 instead of $600+ for a properly painted TRD spoiler... I'll take it :)

I completely ruined a front sway bar end link.

http://i.imgur.com/TEHtylo.jpg

I got my front coilovers on at least.

http://i.imgur.com/CVd1lg4.jpg

Quite a bit of rake until I get the rears on, hopefully tomorrow.

http://i.imgur.com/YNkVCyy.jpg

-2.5 degrees of front camber with OEM fitment wheels and winter tires looks atrocious, for the record.

http://i.imgur.com/bSd8F21.jpg

I finished installing my Ohlins today and aligned the car. -2.5 camber up front (Might bump it to -2.8 or something, depends how my tires wear) and -2.0 in the rear. About 1/32" toe in front and rear. Set the dampers to 15 clicks front and rear and took it for a few short drives. For being so much stiffer springs than stock (I'm using 60N/mm front and 70N/mm rear. Ohlins provided 60N/mm all around) the ride is sublime. WAY better than the KWs on my GTI. I'm excited to get some miles on them now :D

No pics yet, I finished up pretty late. The car is sitting pretty much an inch lower than stock. I'm 1mm from running out of adjustment in the rear. The new rear springs being so much stiffer meant I had to lower the back ~8.5mm which puts the height adjustment nearly bottom out. Also, the car looks hilariously bad with that much camber and terrible offset wheels...

My car is filthy as it's been raining for something like ten days straight and it was too cold to bother washing it today, sorry :)

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Alignment specs right now are -2.6* camber up front and -1.9* in the rear. 1/32" of toe in front/rear (wandered too much on my winter tires with 0 toe). The front has settled to 25 1/8" fender to ground, rear is 25 1/2". I think I'll raise the front a bit to 25 1/4" after it finishes settling 100%.

I was at 15 clicks on the coilovers, I set to 12/13 front/rear. That seemed to get rid of a bit of the choppiness over little bumps, the Ohlins ride a lot like stock, but a bit more controlled. They definitely have less travel though, which sucks on crappy Pennsylvania roads.

Looks like a reasonable drop that's still daily beatable. How'd you do that to the front sway bar end link?

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Originally Posted by AdamVR4

Looks like a reasonable drop that's still daily beatable. How'd you do that to the front sway bar end link?

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Yeah, a bit less than an inch drop. I can raise it to higher than stock if I have issues. :p

I'm an idiot and didn't brush the rust off of the threads so as I spun the nut off it jammed and that was that. Once I got the strut off of the car I had to put literally all of my weight onto some channel-locks to keep the joint from spinning as I cranked the nut off. I brushed the rust off of the other bits I took apart and they came apart fine with no damage to the hexes.

I gave my car a proper wash for the first time in a couple of months. Looks way better, haha

http://i.imgur.com/afxd4Vn.jpg

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