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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise
Fuel starvation is pretty common with various cars on sticky tires and can usually be solved by filling between sessions. Axle issues aren’t really that prevalent within 1” or so of stock height. Oil pressure is probably the most glaring issue, but keep oil temps in check and use the right grade oil for your operating temps and you should be fine for typical track usage.
All that is different than not being able to design a simple steering knuckle with an adequate engineering safety margin. If you don’t trust Subaru to do that, I’m not sure why you’d own a BRZ to begin with.
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Personally I think the knuckles are a non issue. But if you think this car is perfect for track driving out of the box because Subaru/Toyota care about how the 1% of owners that will track this car then I’m not sure you understand how a car company works. The OEMs build these cars to a price point and most of the time the safety margin they built in gets far exceeded on the track. I won’t argue the finer points of what I mentioned but these and other things are just part of the ownership experience when tracking these vehicles. They’re great cars but it’s ok to question the decisions made when Toyota and Subaru design and build things. If you ever look at endurance/race versions of even some higher end Porsches, Corvettes and Ferraris you would be hard pressed to find a lot of things they share with their road going counter parts.
We are lucky to have such a large community of aftermarket companies that question/redesign and improve these vehicles from what is offered stock and they wouldn’t exist if we just shrugged our shoulders and blindly excepted what is Subaru/Toyota puts out.