Here's the info on the light mounts:

The center lights are mounted with these 175mm x 105mm L brackets - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and bolt through existing holes in the bumper with M8x110 bolts IIRC.

The outer lights are mounted with 125mm x 85mm Alise L Brackets from Amazon that appear to no longer be available. These are also bolted through existing holes, but the passenger side hole required some extra drilling. I used shorter M8 bolts for that.

I used fender washers and rubber washers between the bumper and the brackets, and fender washers, rubber washers and nyloc nuts on the back side.

The existing holes in the outer brackets were all positioned well for this and just needed to be bored out to 10mm for the lights and 8mm for the mounting bolt. A small amount of the grill area had to be cut away for clearance.

The factory holes on the center brackets were positioned well for the side mounting to the bumper, but the longer section of the bracket that the light mounts to needed a new hole drilled between the farthest one out and the center one to get the lights to sit tight to the bumper cover. All holes needed to be drilled out the same as the outer brackets.

Once I got the center lights aimed where I wanted them I padded out the back of them with 3m doublesided foam tape to brace them against the bumper cover so they won't jiggle around. The outer lights didn't require that since the bracket is shorter and therefore more rigid.

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Hope that helps.

Here's another 15" wheel (Black Rhino Rumble) that will fit without rubbing.

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Finally warmer now. My buddies helped me install a 1" lift kit (ADF) from a redditor. Threw on a set of used 215/60 Pirelli P4 A/S on old 16" +40 Enkei rally wheels from a rally chick. Lug nuts are Dorman's.

So old I can't ID them anywhere. The end links were rusty as hell since it's been through, like, 7 winters that we cut them off and put on Whitelines KLC219's meant for lowered twins. Got an alignment right after and it wasn't that wonky! I'm having a blast driving this thing around. Just need to repaint the wheels and get my livery on.

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These things just love the dirt....
tough little buggers!

Long time listener, first time poster. My car may not be offroady (i keep telling myself not to rally this car... but its tempting), but figured this would be the thread most interested in my light pod:





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Go on, get it onto the dirt, its great fun! (and love the work you put into the light pod, awesome!)

16" rally tyres.....soooo hard to find.
Get their first work out this weekend....

Almost forgot about this thread. 7 months later and I finally have my winters mounted onto the 15" wheels. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj3itw1vL2B/

Was up to check out the Tall Pines Rally up in Bancroft Ontario over the weekend and spotted an 86 competing.

Any of you there? Saw a few 86/BRZ leaving the iron bridge area parking around noon hour.
Nice area I had not much opportunity to visit.

So here’s for those who prefer to have fun in the mud.

Will post more rallying picts in the OT photography tread later this morning.

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a dirty weekend away....

Some 2nd Gen love coming soon. :)


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Speedline now makes a BRZ/FRS/GT86 specific 15x6" wheel.


https://get-primitive.com/wheels-ral...-brz-gr86.html


Have 175/70-R15 rally tires getting mounted soon. The ideal size for a lightweight 2WD platform on fast gravel.


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Awesome! The wheels clear the tie rod just fine?

Please keep us posted on your car!

- Andrew

Baaaaaaarely clears, but it does. I most likely will put a 5-10mm spacer on there just to feel a little more comfortable. Or redrill the tierod mounting point similar to what Dirtfish does.


Once I complete the two rally cars in the background on the rotisserie (former Vermont Sportscar 2006 Impreza STI) this car will be getting stripped down and built up as a full production rally car. Goal is to develop it into something that we can reproduce and sell as a turnkey rally car for 2WD rallying in the USA. Similar to what the TMG CS-R3 cars were, except with street legal USA VIN's, and designed for the US rally ruleset.


Car will be 3d scanned, parts developed, manuals made, custom parts designed and in theory, should be able to quickly reorder the custom brackets, cage, carbon parts, etc. since we'll have all the CAD data and tooling built.


Still about 2-3 months away from really kicking things off.

175/70-R15 rally tires mounted up on the 15x6 speedline wheels.



Total weight is right at 48lbs, so just about the same as stock 17" wheel and tire actually (I weighed those at 45lbs), but obviously can smash just about anything at speed with these suckers. :)



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More coming soon!

Just got my lift kit installed. I have yet to drive it properly as its currently in for alignment.
Bilstein B6, 1" Subtle Solutions spacers, 1.5" Subtle Solutions RA kit, Chuhatsu .5" lift springs, Whiteline Adjustable Rear LCA, SPC Front Camber Bolts. I'll do an update later with my thoughts on it. To be followed by 27" A/T tires.

Update: Initial feel of the car after alignment is basically like oem, but smoother (i'm guessing because of the shocks). The springs are frs oem rates, so nothing much has changed, but 1.5" taller. Slightly more body roll, but nothing significant.

Here's some pics post alignment

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Doing some questionable saw and hammer mods to fit the larger diameter tires. The setup on the fitment guide is for 215/65/16 on 16x7+30. Might need some verus steering limiter spacers for the inside edge of the tire on full lock, but the outside edge now clears. I will try fit the limiter spacers to clear 235/55/17 on 17x7.5+35~38 so i have options, but if i can't find a happy medium between offset and steering limiters, ill probably only run 235 in the rear for sandy surfaces. Fingers crossed i can take a heat gun to the fender liner to mold it back and have no rub.

Another update: After driving on the lift, its amazing. everything is much smoother, even slightly spirited is planted and the slight body roll made no difference.

I've now installed my a/t tires and the wheel/tire combo is perfect. After the trimming and folding of the frame rail, I took a heat gun to the fender liner and molded it back for more room and its entirely intact. The combination with the 16x7+30 gives a few mm of clearance on all sides of the wheel well to full lock with absolutely no rub, no wheel spacers or steering limiters required. The tire is flush in the front with no poke. If i had any more poke, the tire would rub on the liner and bumper, if i had any more suck, the wheel would rub on the inner rail/fender.

how much work do you think would need to be do to fit a 225/55/17 on a 17x8 +38? The tire is 10mm shorter and looking at wheel it fit look to be with in the travel of my current autocross seatup height wise. Currently cursed with brembo, but i went about this all backwards

Attachment 220527My inner wheel edge on full lock is about 5 mm of clearance from rubbing the inside frame, which means you might rub on full lock. You will have to do the same frame rail cut and heat gun or removal of the fender liner still. Verus Engineering has a steering limiter kit if you want to run that in the front, but i think that might about the only thing different you will have to do. We might be able to get away with just 1" lift instead of a 1.5" lift. 235/55/17 is another option, i'll eventually get 2 of these to run in the rear when i start to do some rally.

Well if that is the case I might just run staggered with 215/55/17 in the front. I really dont want to start cutting up the frame and what not. Still in the planning phase so I'll continue to research.

What app is that in the screen-shot?

Wheel-it-fit https://wheel-it-fit.com

It's like $5 to unlock it. otherwise there's a demo car that you can still get size differences and comparisons

That’s awesome to play around with. Interesting to see the wheel proximity to the springs also.

Throwing dirt around...

Made a trip out to the Charlevoix rally over the weekend and much rain was anticipated to make it a slippery mud fest show.

Always nice seeing other cars besides STI’s and seeing what an 86 can do is always a treat.
Unfortunately he DNF due to an off road incident, hopefully it will be repaired in time for his home rally late next month.



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More rallying picts in the OT photography tread