Originally Posted by C130NAV (Post 2775396)

Nice vents I agree the heat is crazy. Love the strut brace was wondering what would clear it and the hood. :-) Any solutions on the CANBUS yet? WGP just did my CAN translator and I got my PS and AC but Temp is reading Celsius and my fuel is still in limp mode. :-/

Originally Posted by C130NAV (Post 2775396)

Nice vents I agree the heat is crazy. Love the strut brace was wondering what would clear it and the hood. :-) Any solutions on the CANBUS yet? WGP just did my CAN translator and I got my PS and AC but Temp is reading Celsius and my fuel is still in limp mode. :-/

Originally Posted by cf6mech (Post 2775479)

MRS Electronics and I are working on it. Collin the go too guy at MRS has many other primary functions at MRS besides this one. I keep in touch with him weekly and he just informed me he personally just bought my make/model/year PCM through EBay so things should progress faster. Just so happens I'm going to be in his area next week on business and we are going to meet up.

Originally Posted by cf6mech (Post 2774691)

I also added a front strut bar, I chose the Carbing as its not hinged, steal and I knew it would fit over the LS and clear the hood and vents. White looked horrible in my bay so I had it powder coated wrinkle black.

Originally Posted by Fenix (Post 2776949)

Does the car understeer a lot more with the LS?

Originally Posted by cf6mech (Post 2300245)

You might not see why but the scales don't lie. I'm sure Mr.Fair, upon his completion of the build thread will have explanations for you and us all, it will be coming out soon. As I have noted before Vorshlag weighs everything.

June 24 at 12:36pm

Terry Fair A stock BRZ/FR-S has a F/R ratio of 56% front / 44% rear. It is now 52% front / 48% rear with the V8.

Originally Posted by Calum (Post 2777189)

Why would it, the weight added was minimal. If anything a turbo kit probably adds as much and in a worse spot. Also, they moved the engine back a fuck ton, which made the front:rear weight distribution better than stock.

Originally Posted by Vorshlag

I was super excited that I thought we had moved from 56% to 52% front weight bias with the V8 swap. But it was too good to be true. I screwed up and didn't read the picture correctly. Our guys had the scale readout to show corner bias, not front to rear bias, and I should have noticed this. So the mistake is 100% mine, I own it. A sharp eyed reader on one forum caught this mistake from my last post, and the front-to-rear bias actually didn't change at all - still 56% of the total weight on the nose. But considering what the car gained (134 pounds), with all of the added weight in the middle and front of the car, to manage to keep the same front-to-rear bias was still a good thing. Most AWD and FWD cars we've weighed are closer to 60F/40R, so this V8 FR-S is still ahead of many competitive cars out there. My apologies for posting bad info - mistakes like that drive me crazy - and I have already corrected this mistake on many forums where this thread is posted or re-posted.

http://www.vorshlag.com/forums/showt...?t=8275&page=2

Originally Posted by Fenix (Post 2776949)

Does the car understeer a lot more with the LS?

Originally Posted by Fenix (Post 2777211)

It is 56%. Whether better or worse, the handling will change with an LS engine in it. I am curious. ;)

Originally Posted by cf6mech (Post 2777309)

For the life of me it over steers first......i would prefer a slight understeer first as the torque it has would easily correct that in a corner......I need to work on a sway bar set up or play with spring rates alignment and more....i have a track day set up for next month to hopefully work with Track Works to iron these issues out and get suggestions......it has a front to back bias as the original car.....I havent gone crazy on horsepower as some and what Vorshlag has plans for (500 whp+) as that in and of itself creates more issues and development work which frankly I dont want to be the guenni pig for......its time for me to enjoy what I have and what Im extremily happy with.....a FRS/BRZ with reliable 350 to the wheel horsepower with grunt out of corners.

Originally Posted by Griever423 (Post 2778160)

You going to be at MSR Cresson soon? I'd love to come out and see the car if you're going to be there.

Have you been working with the guys at TTW? I'm sure they could help with dialing in the car at the track.

Originally Posted by Fenix (Post 2776949)

Does the car understeer a lot more with the LS?

Originally Posted by wparsons (Post 2778742)

He has no front sway bar IIRC, so it'll be more likely to oversteer than understeer.

Originally Posted by cf6mech (Post 2778835)

It was far worse until I removed the rear sway bar as well.