SubiePig's BRZ STX Build.

[Kido1986]

That man isn't human. Teddie's RX8 he's likely in is quick too. Locally, every run he makes is generally fendered FTD or a coned away haha

[Tirewarmer]

Originally Posted by JerryMichaels7

STX for me, hopefully my LCA's get here at a decent time on friday so I can get an alignment other than the negative camber from lowering

I'll have my toe plates with me and a camber gauge if you need any help on site. Toe is easy to set on our cars. Camber should be easy also depending on which control arms you get.

[JerryMichaels7]

Were are yall staying? Should get together friday night, I got a BBQ grill ready to be fired up.

[SubiePig]

Originally Posted by JerryMichaels7

Were are yall staying? Should get together friday night, I got a BBQ grill ready to be fired up.

Staying at the event hotel. I am driving as far as Florida tonight and going to get to the site Friday morning.

[SubiePig]

Long time no update.

I will give a better write-up when I have time about the Dixie Tour and the car build. I got 9th or 21 in STX at Dixie and had the chance to meet some great people and learn where my car and myself stand on a national level for the first time in my first national event in 4 years.

All in prep for the College Station tour this weekend. Car is almost done and should be back together tonight.

[vroom4]

Everytime I see one with graphics I get tempted.

/sidetrack

[vroom4]

Good idea for contingency stickers under front license plate, idea stolen.

[SubiePig]

Okay time for a PROPER update, especially considering the events of last weekend!

Dixie:
This event was really to see how I stand with the car as well as my self on a National level at the start of the year. 21 People in the class, the largest at the event with several National Champions and the guy that won GT Academy in 2012. I sure picked a rough class! Weekend was pretty straight forward, courses were fun but sadly due to a camera issue I don't have video of my runs. I ended up 9th of 21 after 2 days with no major complaints. Found out more about the car and got to work from there.


Before Texas:
As seen from the post above I went through and changed A LOT about the car in the matter of 2 weeks.

Swift rear springs
Diff mount bushings
Subframe bushings
Lateral link bushings
upper rear control arm bushings
Front antidive/caster and inner bushing
Kartboy crank pulley
Kartboy short throw
Kartboy rear endlinks
Kartboy trans and exhaust hanger bushings
TIC Steering Rack bushings
New alignment

Texas Tour:
What a up and down weekend. I had a codriver this time, Raghvan from Houston, who would be driving the car all weekend. He is used to an STX car as he has his own but it is far less built to the rules than my own.

Friday practice went well, those courses don't really tell you much but I did a bunch of runs just to feel out the car with all the changes. Main conclusion, the car felt way more planted, transitional response was much better and the squishy car I had in Dixie was gone. I made a few suspension changes, dropped 0.5 seconds on the practice course and left it.

First day I ended up .4 behind the other Bad Panda Motorports car with Christy behind the wheel. Their tires were showing to be better than the Z2's on the surface which I could never seem to get to stick the way I wanted, there was also driver error in that time difference and was not all car setup.

Sunday I was fighting to keep second with Maxy's BMW 0.1 behind from day 1 and trying to catch Christy. After Radhvan's second run we heard a loud hiss from the back of the car, we had gotten a large piece of metal stuck in the back tire and it was not going to make any more runs. I had 2 left and the only tires we had were my old RS3's I have 3 hours of track time, 40 autox runs and maybe 2-3k street miles on. We swap them over and I jump to the lead by .3 over Christy. She was unable to get back the lead giving me the win for the weekend!

[ame]http://youtu.be/eOUWn1CuwyU[/ame]

[SubiePig]

Well, as Nationals in Lincoln is getting closer I have started to get the car prepped early so I can just focus on seat time and fine tuning. Not much has changed to the car since College Station. I have a new rear sway bar and a new front as a back up if I feel the need to change up the feel in the front.

Also added to the list of people that have helped me is @racerx1715 They sent me some really nice lower control arms for the back of the car to get the rear camber dialed in finally. I have been dealing with way to much camber in the back of the car due to ride height all year so I will finally be able to get full use of the whole contact patch.


Alignment is done unless I feel like there needs to be a change in toe. Corner weights are done. Car is about 60 pounds heavy than the full built STX twins due to not having seats and lightweight brakes but I am a smaller guy so I can deal.


Weight with driver corner balanced, only 5 pounds needing to be moved around to be perfect 50/50.




These control arms are a solid piece, one of the few out there that are STX legal as well at a good cost. Install was easy, definately recommend them to anyone that is needing rear camber adjustment!



Last but not least, I am finally getting some powarrrrrr at the end of the week.

[xwd]

What are your ride heights?

[iLuveKetchup]

Nice build! Are you still within NASA TTD points with the STX parts?

[SubiePig]

Originally Posted by iLuveKetchup

Nice build! Are you still within NASA TTD points with the STX parts?

I was trying to but its no possibl to build an all out STX car you will end up going over in points. Ideal TTD build to me would be E85, coilovers, slicks, and headerback. The car is now in TTC which will still be competitive locally. I plan to run without the passenger and rear seats, E85 and slicks for NASA.

[*Hachiroku86*]

more updates!? how is the car now? @SubiePig

[SubiePig]

Originally Posted by *Hachiroku86*

more updates!? how is the car now? @SubiePig

Car was parted out, returned to stock and sold. 30k miles later with 5k track and autocross miles and lots of highway driving I was suffering from a failing headgasket. Was interesting timing as I was feeling that I should have bought a S2000 from the start since I didn't really care about practical aspect since I didn't daily drive it. So I went nuts and bought this: