Subaru BRZ STI Spied Testing on Nurburgring!
 

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A Japanese test group has just been spotted at the Nurburgring driving what appears to be a prototype for the Subaru BRZ STI. This Subaru BRZ was being driven by some Japanese drivers, and accompanied by a rather large Japanese contingent off-track.

The car wears most of the BRZ STI parts previewed by Subaru so far - black front splitter and new, lower side-skirts that both wear STI badges. STI badged brakes can also be seen behind new 14-spoke, STI branded wheels. The dual exhaust tips look to be significantly fatter than the standard models, filling the slots in the rear valance. Finally, a large fixed rear wing is bolted onto the rear deck, though it's slightly different in design than the one seen on the BRZ STI Concept.

What other performance upgrades this model boasts is not yet known, though if it had any sort of turbocharging (rumors), it would possibly have Subaru's trademark functional hood air scoop in some form.

Photos are posted below.

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What are they gonna call it? Ts or STi? Kinda cool that me and lanez have more STi bits than STi does.

You can tell that it had the Limited wing on it and they put little white stickers over the holes.

So it's got:
Lip
Sides
Wing
Brakes
Rims

We need an under hood shot.

New intake manifold to remove the dip in power.
New air intake and exhaust.

That is all.

Now move on.
Go about you business.
Nothing to see hear.

BRZ STI! Yay!! :)

That wing is close to what I want, outer mounted, maybe not as high. About ten inches high.

Those wheels.... :wub: WTB in black.

the wheels look they need spacers or something imo - regardless... this seems nice, hopefully it does have FI - though i doubt it.

the hood scoops are normally also only for TMIC's i cant see an obvious FMIC/SMIC in the pics though

For them to go all the way to Nurburgring tells me they are testing the aero parts with that wing, brakes, suspension, and/or internal N/A engine mods. And/or prepping for some motorsport competition like VLN. That looks like a stock exhaust with factory JDM tips.

Sweet, that's good news.

This looks different from the other BRZ STI prototypes

look at the ride height, its def got some sort of suspension upgrade

Though its just cosmetic, I hope they do away with the black brake calipers. I truly miss the gold on the WRX Sti's

Beyer's got the right idea. Still looks more like a BRZ tuned by STI (tS) than anything else.

Without interior or underhood shots we're all just speculating on what else it has. Those do look like JDM exhaust tips though.

As far as wheels: That's what happens when you add width but stay at +48 offset...Subaru keeps their offsets high.

9K REDLINE OR BUST!

New seats as well

Also, no STi exhaust? I thought that was already developed...

Now this is worth looking into. The WRX/STI have never come with branded exhausts (HERE anyway)...but I'd imagine that the JDM WRX tS might have, since it was just a parts catalog car.

And it looks lower than the STI springs would make it.

I agree that there is likely no FI going on in there, beyond that everything is speculation, I don't think there is much to gain from these photos so far.

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you can see in this pic the standard radiator, no inter cooler, unless they want to later put that on and add a hood scoop

Agreed. The springs drop it 15mm. If it's anything else, maybe Bilsteins?

Still looks N/A. No scoop, and by the looks of it, I cant see any hints of an intercooler in the grill.

I do hope for a higher redline as well Guff!!!!

They have always said any STi version would be faster than the standard one, so I'm guessing some NA tuning maybe bore and stroke.

Didn't Karamatsu say that stronger valve springs is all they needed to safely redline at 9k or something? Or am I mistaken?

That would be something...

I bet this will be a japan only Ts version, just like the new Legacy on 11/13.
http://www.sti.jp/common2012/tS_teaser_02.png

Yeah pretty much... that was Subaru chief engineer Masuda in an interview with Top Gear magazine I think.

http://files.sharenator.com/Fap_Meme...300-206447.jpg

Highly doubt it'll come to NA.

If so it be altered =\

n00b question: I take it for current BRZ owners, if we wanted the increase in performance, we could just buy the STI parts and get the tune and be good to go? :iono:

I spy - no intercooler

big brakes are present though

I'm expecting new exhaust, higher reving engine, better tires, the aero pictured, and the price tag of 35-37k

That is, of course if it comes here

dat Wing

Do I spy 5x114.3 hubs?

Awesome that the car is SWP! Gives me a better idea of how the STI bits look without only relying on my imagination.

I like the look of that wing from the angled shots, while a bit tall it looks to fit the overall look of the car to me.

Definitely hoping they opened up the redline a bit and fixed the torque dip, that'd be sick.

(Someone had to say it)

ITS OVER 9,000!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik

You can also see the driver smiling. :w00t:

Nothing much to see here, just a GT wing and some STi bits that're already available.

I think you may be right about the need for more displacement.

Based on some earlier comments I heard out of Subaru, their stated goal was 250 hp normally aspirated. Higher lift/duration cams, stronger valve springs, and an 8500 rpm redline (and maybe revised intake manifold, tb, and exhaust) might be enough for 230-240 hp, but I can't see you getting too much more power out of a 2.0L production engine that lacks variable valve lift.

My guess is that Subaru will need to bump displacement to 2.2L to hit 250 hp NA.

No visiblie IC and no hood scoop, it aint no turbo in the engine :(
Maybe there are other mods under the hood. Why would there else be bigger brakes if no more power is added? :D

And i have a hard time seeing that rearwing being streetlegal, atleast here in Sweden.