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Luke.Cariveau 08-14-2012 11:32 AM

"Kuro"
 
The Beginning.

I saw the BRZ commerical around May 30th. I immediately fell in love with it, after following up with multiple subaru dealerships in washington where I live and to no avail.
I purchased my BRZ from a local dealership back home in Maine when I was visiting family.
I decided to put 13k Down and set up financing for the remainder.
Kept payments down to 350$ which is manageable for my budget.

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The Voyage

I had to pay to ship it across the country!
And with no patience I had it expedited.
In 7 painful days I received it on the 16th of June.

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I was so excited in the first weekend I put on about 800 miles.
Drove it until I was hurting from the seats!

First Mod!

Next step was to get these silly clear windows tinted!

Here she is all clean and tinted. I had the windows tinted 20% all around and
the side markers tinted because of the contrast I didn't like the yellow.
Also debadged the rear for a "cleaner" look.

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Rims/Tires And Exhaust.

Right when I received the car a local friend who was in the Subaru community immediately recommended I get some wheels. After a few weeks I decided on Work Emotions Ultimate's.
I drove a hour north to a wheel shop That was recommended to me and had a staggered set up of 18x8.5 +47 Fronts And 18x9.5 +38 Rears. I wrapped the rims in BF Goodrich Sport Comp 2.
235 Front and 245 Rears. In the same day I went 3 hours south to Nameless Performance to put on a full exhaust!

Here She is with the rims and exhaust installed!
Which was on 12 Aug.

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Smoked Tints/Overlays

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Coilovers!

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Detailing Done By Reflective Auto!

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Local Photo Shoot!

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Streetsweeper.NW

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Luke.Cariveau 08-14-2012 11:34 AM

NW Carrier Meet 12'

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Fog Light Overlays

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Putting Her Away For The Season!

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Interior Wrapped In 3M CF Vinyl

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Powdercoated Exhaust

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Upgraded Rotors And Pads

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StanceWars Golden Gardens 13'

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCUPtYt1BKE&feature=g-upl"]Subaru BRZ Exhaust - YouTube[/ame]


Mods:

1.)Window Tint 20%
2.)Side Marker Tint
3.)Tail Light Tint
4.)Badge Overlay's (Gloss Black / Matte Black Stars)
5.)Fog Light Overlays
6.)Interior Wrapped In CF Vinyl
(1-6 Were Done By Guardline Here In Puyallup)
7.)Badge Removal (BRZ/Subaru)
8.)Nameless Exhaust (Installed Locally By Them)
9.)Work Emotion CR Ultimate (Installed By Driven Products)
10.)Pedders XA Coilovers (Installed at Nameless)
11.)Pedders Front Camber Plates
12.)Front adjustable sway bar endlinks
13.)Nameless Front Plate Delete
14.)High Performance Rotors
15.)Hawk Racing Pads

Considering:

1.)Header From Nameless
2.)Momentum Intake
3.)Sharkfin Antenna
4.)Tune
5.)Perrin Pulley
6.)Flossy Knob
7.)Cusco Rear Lateral Links
8.)Replacing Alcantra With Leather
9.)Swapping Yellow Bulbs For Clear/Silver

Edit: I will be reformatting/adding pictures as I go along; I'm new to contributing to forums and want it to be easy to navigate/read.

Luke.Cariveau 08-14-2012 11:34 AM

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Mishimoto 08-14-2012 12:45 PM

Car looks great! And the exhaust sounds excellent.:happy0180:

eikond 08-14-2012 01:27 PM

Love it! Nice wheels.. the stagger looks great!

schtebie 08-14-2012 01:29 PM

Nicely done! Hope to have my CBS soon too.

And great name for the car. ;)

BoxeRZ 08-14-2012 05:43 PM

Wow that is looking mean! Love the wheel choice, mind saying how much$ ?

DarkSunrise 08-14-2012 05:48 PM

I really like that wheel design in black.

dj_mallu 08-14-2012 06:01 PM

I have the same exact car.. Looks great with tint and new wheels.

Luke.Cariveau 08-14-2012 06:11 PM

I had it all installed, reusing my old tpms sensors.
Rims/Tires/Center-Caps/Lugs/Installation
Was about 3,600.


Quote:

Originally Posted by BoxeRZ (Post 379189)
Wow that is looking mean! Love the wheel choice, mind saying how much$ ?


Luke.Cariveau 08-14-2012 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj_mallu (Post 379223)
I have the same exact car.. Looks great with tint and new wheels.

Yea It's a looker!
Pain to keep clean though.
(-_-)

BRZranger 08-20-2012 07:24 AM

Nice setup, not too different than what I'm doing. As far as keeping her clean, i generally garage it. I bought a California Duster to quickly wipe the dust my black BRZ... Along with daily detail spray tips bug guts off. All that work means I wash once every 3 weeks (while it's dry and sunny at least).

Wolfking 08-20-2012 08:55 AM

Omedeto! "Kuro" ga suteki na namae desu yo!

Luke.Cariveau 08-30-2012 07:28 PM

Updated 30 AUG 2012.


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