I pulled out my seat belts and sent them to Safety Restore (thanks matthiu95) to get them changed to red. While everything was out for the seat belts, I went ahead and used Noico sound deadening. I mainly focused on the outer skin.

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Some extra chassis rigidity seemed like a good idea since the BRZ is an older, 100k mile car now. So I installed a Cusco ALC OS rear strut tower brace. It's hollow aluminum with a dry carbon fiber layer over it. I put a few layers of clearcoat on the carbon fiber the day before I installed it. That was for protection but it improved the look a little by giving some gloss and depth.

On here I read a lot of posts saying this is a waste. But I don’t know what they’re talking about, I could feel the difference immediately on the test drive. I'm not sure if it'd make much difference in a time attack but you definitely feel it and is worthwhile IMO.

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I picked up a carbon fiber fuel door from 316-Composites on eBay. It's an OEM fuel door with a carbon fiber layer over it, they fabricate the carbon fiber in-house. It looks great in person, it has that 3D look to it. The fuel door is riveted on with 1/4" blind rivets, I've had a hell of a time trying to find a rivet gun that can do 1/4" rivets.

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I picked up a pair of 2019 OEM BRZ headlights from eBay. They were in mint condition for $830. I’ve been watching eBay listings and they usually have wear and broken tabs, so I jumped on this listing.

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Nice, is that a straight swap with 13-16 BRZ’s?

On the 2017+ headlights you have to re-pin 2 of the wires for the turn signal to work, swapping the solid green and striped green wires.

I was following this video @7:10
https://youtu.be/W00DV9I9jp8

After that then it’ll work just like the 2013-16 headlights. The boomerang won’t be DRL like 17+ models, it’ll work like a parking light like usual for 13-16. Fingers crossed that the video is right. You’d have to do something like Diode Dynamics Always-On module to get the boomerangs you be a DRL like 17+ models do.

interesting, thanks!

@Diode Dynamics, would your always-on module work with the 2017+ lights on a 13-16 BRZ?

That’s a good question, I’m not sure. I’m just going to leave the boomerangs as parking lights cuz I’m keeping the 13-16 front bumper which has the DRL LED strip. So it’ll be the same functionality as 13-16 headlights (hopefully)

I put in the 2017+ BRZ OEM headlights. Everything functions the same as the 2013 headlights did - boomerangs come on as parking lights etc.

For anyone with a 13-16 BRZ thinking of putting in 17+ headlights, here are the steps:
1. Parked in front of my garage and turned on the headlights. Then used painter’s tape to mark the top and bottom of the light beam on the garage.
2. I followed the YouTube video. On the 2017+ headlights I swapped the solid green and striped white/green wires. The smallest jeweler’s flathead I had was too big to un-pin the green wires. I had to use large, curved pointed tip tweezers from an e-cig coil building kit lol.
3. I removed the front bumper and old headlights.
4. On the back of headlights you’ll have 2 connectors. The 8-pin connector for the headlights and a triangular 3-pin connector for the leveling motor. Near the triangular 3-pin connector, you’ll see a white plastic bolt that’s scored for a flathead in the middle. I used a flathead to adjust the white plastic bolt so it’s in the same position as the old lights. This manually adjusts the level of the headlights.
5. Installed the new lights the same as you’d reinstall the old ones, no difference.
6. Turned on the headlights and made sure the light beam matches up with the painter’s tape on the garage.
7. Tested the leveling motor with the dial in the cabin, running lights, parking lights, low beams, high beams, turn signals. All worked perfectly!

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^ Forgive the yellowish color in the boomerangs, I couldn’t get the photos to come out accurately. They’re actually a bright white with no yellow, the same as when they’re DRLs in the 2017+ BRZ’s.

Overnight parts from Japan!

Well, except for the overnight part. My wife bought me a pair of Baruta red carbon fiber paddle shifters as a fur-ther’s day gift!

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Installed the Baruta paddle shifters and steering wheel.

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I followed the tutorial below for the steering wheel and paddle shifters. It wasn’t a hard install, you just have to be very careful with the clock spring. Very very careful.

https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30631