Sorry guys, wasn't quite ready for this to be started but that just gets me off the computer to go take some photos
. Can't complain about something like that.
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Originally Posted by Calum
Do they also have a turn buckle style adjustment?
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Yessir.
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Originally Posted by djliquidsteele
In what way does lowering affect toe?
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Please see below.
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Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering
What would be really cool is if you had a before and after pic under the car with these things installed. 
Nice job guys.
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Thanks Andrew. See below as well for some installed pictures.
If you look on the rear of an OEM FT86 at OEM ride height on the ground, you’ll notice that the toe control link is near horizontal. This was not on accident and makes quite a bit of sense as to why OEM did it this way if we think about it briefly. The rear toe angle is always changing as the suspension cycles up and down. To minimize the amount of toe change during suspension travel, the toe control link should be horizontal while at static ride height. This is not achievable with a lowered vehicle. Therefore, we designed an add on to our rear toe control links which restores the OEM geometry by bringing the toe link back to near horizontal on a lowered FR-S/BRZ/GT86.
Rear toe control link installed on a stock ride height vehicle.
Using a level, we can easily see that the toe link is near horizontal at stock ride height.
As we reduce ride height, the toe control link moves further away from horizontal at static ride height. This may be hard to view in this picture though.
In this photo it is clear to see that the level is showing the link is clearly no longer horizontal.
With the spacer installed, we can see that the toe link has been brought back to a near OEM position.
Final evidence that at ~1.25"-1.38" of static ride height reduction results in a horizontal toe control link, restoring OEM geometry for the toe link.
Rear toe is an important area of vehicle setups. A BRZ/FRS being driven in a performance situation will benefit from more rear toe stability during hard driving. This will aid in making the handling as consistent as possible when pushing the vehicle hard while lowered.