Just wanted to drop these here. We sat down and took some time with the couple sets we have on hand to take some quality photos for you guys. :coolpics:

This Buddy Club Racing Spec coilover for the Scion FRS and Subaru BRZ is a JDM spec unit. The intended use of this coilover is for someone who does a few track days a year and some autocrossing. It will also work out well for a daily driver who wants to improve the handling of the FRS/BRZ.

Spring Rate:
Front 9K
Rear 7K


Video Review:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nl3OTup9nM"]Buddy Club Racin Spec Coilover for the Scion FRS and Subaru BRZ - YouTube[/ame]

Photos:
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Racing Spec Damper Kit is a high performance sports suspension kit designed by engineers using a vast quantity of data that Buddy Club has accumulated in the past 15 years using its high performance aluminum damper (ie. spec 30.1 Racing Damper) on various racing cars and tuned cars, focused more on the proper damper size, spring rate, dampening, stroke length for customer's use in winding roads and race tracks. The car specific pillow-ball upper mount design, proper spring rate, 15 level damper adjustment, and height adjustment capabilities accommodates driver's requests.

15 Level Adjustment
The 15 level adjustment corresponds to variety of racing stages, from Touge mountain roads to circuits. Adjustment is easy with its click adjusting dial. The dial is located on the upper shaft for regular dampers or on the lower shaft for inverted dampers. This damper is also designed for town use; hence, dampening setting ranges from hard to soft.

Single tube type shell case
Unlike visual based cartridge damper, adoption of the single tube shell case enables the use of wishbone type 46 and strut type 36. This leaves an extra space for larger pistons. Also this change allows for better heat dissipation, which prevents performance deterioration from hard runs. Special steel and anti-friction components are used to minimize friction.

Specialized Pillow-Upper Mount
Application of the upper pillow upper mount allows you to have greater handling response, by minimizing upper chassis movement. Caster adjustment allows the correction of camber for further tuning ability. Caster adjustment plates are not included on all applications.

Spring seat / lock seat
Each single full rotation equals 2mm drop. The adjusting locking seat allows for spring stress to adjust with out the necessity to change suspension position.

Original spring
Tremendous enhancement in durability resulted from a high quality surface processing. Constant testing resulted in a perfect spring rate for each application.

Racing Spec Dampers inherited the same great quality of the P-1 racing damper. Each Racing Spec Damper is made with special components and are tested and produced with out compromise. Each damper are assembled by skilled engineers to provide the best quality possible.

Originally Posted by _F-R-S_ (Post 502327) whats the best autox coilover.. plus everyday driver?

Originally Posted by DriftEightSix (Post 526023) Do I want these or KW v3s?

Originally Posted by DriftEightSix (Post 528034) I do like my ride quality and I feel in stock form I really baby it over speed bumps and stuff so I don't want it to get much worse which i think heaps stiff would do... so KWv3 it is. Sorry for hi jacking.

Originally Posted by Boosted (Post 528638) I just ordered a pair and am excited to try them out. Had some friends use these on their track/DD cars and loved them. -Alex

Originally Posted by empower-auto (Post 556522) 9/7 ?? sum ting wong

Originally Posted by Eau Rouge (Post 556911) +1 on this sentiment. OEM is just below 3/4 (151 lb/in front and 193 lb/in rear, if memory serves) and I would expect any upgrades to follow a similar ratio (unless your trying to create inherent understeer for some reason).

Originally Posted by Eau Rouge (Post 556911) +1 on this sentiment. OEM is just below 3/4 (151 lb/in front and 193 lb/in rear, if memory serves) and I would expect any upgrades to follow a similar ratio (unless your trying to create inherent understeer for some reason).

Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering (Post 557028) While I agree that 9/7 isn't something I would recommend, following the same exact ratio as OEM isn't something I recommend either. :) - Andrew

Originally Posted by Eau Rouge (Post 557216) All good points. I was just using the OEM spec as the starting point to show that the higher spring rate is actually at the rear. If my understanding of the math holds, the wheel rates, after accounting for leverage multipliers, works out to be very close to the same at both ends...

Originally Posted by Eau Rouge (Post 557366) Thanks Drew and, yes, I did read your excellent thread on the subject. I also have a background in mechanical engineering so those are the sorts of things I tend to pay attention to. Now, getting back to this particular topic, does anyone know if the spring rates from Buddy Club are correct? I'm wondering if it was reversed or if they meant to set their coil overs up that way. If the latter, I would like to understand what their objective was in doing so. That way I can make a fully informed buying decision, Buddy Club or otherwise. Anybody know?

Originally Posted by FT-86 SpeedFactory (Post 834703) With the spring thaw upon us here in Iowa, we are ramping things up for the builds on both cars. STX is the target auto-x class for our Firestorm car, we got a huge chunk of goodies installed that will get us in a competitive state. First up, suspension. Just a simple bolt on of Buddy Club Racing Spec coilovers for the first round of suspension bits. We are waiting on sway bars from Whiteline to show up on Tuesday. Already a huge improvement in turn-in and grip from these coils. Steering feel is much heavier over stock and the feedback is still there, just perfect in my opinion. We will see how they perform on track this coming Friday when our local road course opens up for the first open lapping day of the season. My initial reaction is the ride is quite firm on these. I do have it only 2 clicks from full-stiff, but I am not sure full soft will make it change dramatically. Every bump, crack, and undulation in the road can be felt with this setup. I guess you can say, these are not for the faint of heart. Today, I went back and adjusted the dampeners. This time I went all the way to 2 clicks from full soft. I can say that the ride dramatically improved. Instead of being shaken to death, the suspension actually eats up some of the bumps and cracks in the road. It is definitely liveable, but barely! People that are more hardcore than myself would be perfectly fine and tell me I am a sissy, I'm sure ;)

Originally Posted by SmsAlSuwaidi (Post 835062) Cant wait for the results ! may i ask how hard is a coil over install in general, and is it something doable with jacks on the weekend ?

Originally Posted by coachzizi (Post 992301) im thinking about tein flex coilovers, do you recommend these over teins for a daily driver looking for comfort and handling if i need it?

Originally Posted by FT-86 SpeedFactory (Post 992676) Teins are not a bad option at all. We stock those as well.

Originally Posted by asianCHAU (Post 1784978) @FT-86 SpeedFactory I'm torn between this Buddy Club Racing Specs and RSR Sporti Coilovers. I'm mostly going to commute in this car daily, but also use it for some canyon carving. Which would you recommend?

Originally Posted by djvue303 (Post 2581552) Hi @FT-86 SpeedFactory, What is the lowest these coils can drop? I'm not trying to slam my car, but I do want the want a minimal tire gap. From the looks of the pictures with the red FRS, there's still a large gap, at least from the way that red FRS was set up.

Originally Posted by Estey (Post 2584669) I have these coils, and youll be able to slam it pretty low if you want to. You'll have no problem getting it to the height you want. Heres full low http://s28.postimg.org/ii1j70jk9/IMG_2036.jpg and this is about an inchish higher http://s28.postimg.org/4pn4bdssp/IMG_6347.jpg

Originally Posted by SlammedSilly (Post 2592128) YOUR CAR LOOKS TITS! if you put spacers with stock wheels... the car would look tight man, just an opinion though