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Originally Posted by orthojoe
I'm not sure how to elaborate, but i'll try. I don't know why the car won't hold an alignment. I'm sure there are solutions out there like toe links and LCAs, but I really don't want to dump any money or time into this car. I don't know if the wheel bearing failures were a fluke, but my friend's wheel bearings went bad on him at around the same time mine did. My rear axle is still fine, but his is getting replaced because it broke. I personally know of one owner who had a DI seal failure on his car, but there are more here on the forum. The problem is, nobody knows why the failures are occuring. Is it because of the high oil temps? Who knows? The driving dynamics of the car are fantastic. So much so, that after my friend drove the car, he ditched his e36 M3 and decided to buy a totalled BRZ to strip out and use as a track car. I'm not so sure that was a great idea because he's going to have to do a lot of work to the car to keep it together with how much he punishes his cars.
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Thanks - greatly appreciated.
When you say 'broken 2 wheel bearings' & 'wheel bearing went bad', do you mean that they developed play to the point where they needed replacement? Or did they simply collapse and the car became undriveable?
Do you know why your friend's axle quit on him? I've read of this issue in at least one other post here, but no longer recall if a cause was established - e.g., excessive lowering.
Unless there are serious engineering defects in the twins, I think the BRZ is going to be a cheaper track car than an E36 M3 could ever be, even if the M3s are fully debugged by now. Now, your friend may be the pioneer with the arrows in his back like Robert Stout is in his FR-S in World Challenge, but somebody's got to go first so that the rest of us can benefit from their experience, right?
