WORKS Turbo BRZ

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We took the BRZ out to Sonoma Drift again on Wednesday.

Minor changes were made by adjusting the front camber to as negative as possible with the factory hardware and the installation our WORKS Exhale Axle Back Muffler.

Enjoy a few photos from the event and video will come soon.

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Some clips of our BRZ getting loose at Sonoma Drift again last Wednesday.

[ame]http://youtu.be/c66U1IFSBHQ[/ame]

[glorydays]

love how you can tell when the ebrake gets yanked lol

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One of our Engineers, Leon, got to autocross and lap the BRZ on track at Sonoma Raceway last Weekend.



Videos will be up soon.

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[ame]http://youtu.be/tuyEmEqRMg0[/ame]


Short video of a handful of fast and/or interesting runs from the autocross day.

You can see towards the middle of the course there is a small slalom section.
It was interesting in that you could choose to start the slalom on either the right or left.
As you will see in the video, Leon started the day going wide to the right, but later changed to starting the slalom on the left as he felt it was faster.

Also, I should note that the vehicle was returned to completely stock form again as this was the first time the vehicle had done any type of "grip" driving.

Hope you guys enjoy!

[WORKS]

Working on Leon's track day video right now and will be up later today.

I wanted to give you guys a few excerpts from his driver's summary of the autocross day as well.

To give you some context on his perspective, Leon has driven his S2000 in 5 track days and as mentioned earlier is one of our Engineers. This was his first time driving our BRZ (or any BRZ or FR-S for that matter) in a motorsports event.

Here's some of his comments:

• Left TC and ASC on first run, very intrusive
• Car is very grip-limited in all aspects: braking, cornering, accelerating
• Lots of turn-in understeer as well as mid-corner (steady state) understeer
• The throttle pedal, on the other hand, is very annoying. Engine does not tip-in until pedal is depressed by ½” or so; makes smooth takeoffs and part-throttle modulation more difficult than it should be
• Need more headroom! (Leon is 6'2")

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Video is ready to view from Leon's track day at Sonoma Raceway

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDyLk1VY0mA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDyLk1VY0mA[/ame]


Initially, after driving in the autocross event, Leon wasn't very impressed by the car, but after the track day he thought, "what a fun and rewarding car to drive!"

Below are some more of his thoughts:

It is a very easy car to drive at the limit, slides are easily correctable and predictable. Initially, I had little confidence in the brakes caused by coming in hot into turn 7 and just not stopping. I had to drive off into the runoff. After that, I increased braking distances but started reeling them in as the day went on. At the end of the day, I felt satisfied with the brakes as far as what the stock system can do. Sonoma is fairly easy on brakes so I experienced no fade. The pedal stiffened up, if anything, as the brakes were being applied. The biggest bottleneck on this car was the tires, by far. Once it has stickier tires, I’d recommend more aggressive brake pads.

This chassis is really capable and given some extra grip and braking power, it will be a monster on this track!

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Just realized I forgot to set the track video to public. Sorry about that!

Video is NOW viewable! Enjoy

[Lonewolf]

So when are you guys going to start throwing some more of your parts at this thing?

[inertia]

+1 Rims, power mods, external cosmetics...

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Originally Posted by Lonewolf

So when are you guys going to start throwing some more of your parts at this thing?

Should be happening soon! We're still working through making minor changes to see how they affect the vehicle. Things like using WRX "crash bolts" to gain a bit more negative camber in the front wheels, trying different alignment settings, and swapping out the BRZ suspension springs for FR-S springs.

Originally Posted by inertia

+1 Rims, power mods, external cosmetics...

To give you a preview for our power mod plans here are a couple more photos of our second Stage 1 development kit.






In case it isn't clear, the metal bar attached to turbo is only there to hold the turbo in place for development purposes; it is not a part of the kit.

[srizzors25]

I was going to say, that is a bit interesting, little heat sink to cool the air ha?

sweet deal so far man. You should definitely put some works wheels on it haha

[ModBargains]

Interesting heat sink. Great build!

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Originally Posted by srizzors25

I was going to say, that is a bit interesting, little heat sink to cool the air ha?

Yeah, exactly.

Originally Posted by srizzors25

sweet deal so far man. You should definitely put some works wheels on it haha

The name would definitely be fitting! Wheels are one of the next changes to be made. And thank you

Originally Posted by ModBargains

Interesting heat sink. Great build!

Thanks, appreciate it!