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gt5759 · 06-29-2022, 07:58 PM

Hello everyone. Fellow ZN6/road racing enthusiast here, hoping to bring some visual and verbal enjoyment for everyone as I go through the process of building and developing my BRZ for W2W fun.
Small backstory of myself and the car/cars to get us going! I have been racing and engine swapping cars for about 20 years now for fun and for work. Most recently I ran a NA Miata in ST4 with a Ecotec swap with decent success. That car was chosen as a very good friend ran midgets years ago and wanted to start racing with me but didn't want anything high powered, so 200 whp and 2400lbs later we have this...

So, after several years of beating that thing up and my teammate having some changes in life I let the Miata go to a nice couple in STL, MO. Wanting to get back into a higher HP car but have the ability to move up and down in the NASA classes I did some hunting/researching thus leading me to this 2017 BRZ PP.....

Having a "little" damage she needed some loving from a good friend of mine before the fabrication begins...

So after getting it repaired I drove it around for a few months while working on customer cars, quite enjoyable stock I have to say, before beginning tear down. (everything is sold btw)

Beginning of tear down and cage fabrication.

Still need to finish things on interior (belt loops, dash mount, fire bottle...list is long)but for the most part its done. I just need more parts to arrive and more time.

So on to the fun stuff!!! Horsepewrs......

So a bit of an avalanche of pics from the last couple months but it pretty well gets us up to date! As she sets at this moment, with the two stock seats in it and a little under a 1/8 of a tank of fuel left in it.....

So without seats its about 2140lbs.... not as good as i hoped but pretty close. Numbers are little skewed left to right as the right rear shock is bent from the earlier impact, so its like a bad corner balance haha thus really light on that wheel (its about 2 inches higher than the left when in free air!)

I'll get deeper into spec's as we go and feel free to ask questions, I enjoy bench racing/bench building as much as the real thing!

06-29-2022, 07:58 PM	#1
gt5759 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2021 Drives: 2017 BRZ Location: central US Posts: 137 Thanks: 215 Thanked 373 Times in 116 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	NASA ST4 - U build thread - engine swapped Hello everyone. Fellow ZN6/road racing enthusiast here, hoping to bring some visual and verbal enjoyment for everyone as I go through the process of building and developing my BRZ for W2W fun. Small backstory of myself and the car/cars to get us going! I have been racing and engine swapping cars for about 20 years now for fun and for work. Most recently I ran a NA Miata in ST4 with a Ecotec swap with decent success. That car was chosen as a very good friend ran midgets years ago and wanted to start racing with me but didn't want anything high powered, so 200 whp and 2400lbs later we have this... So, after several years of beating that thing up and my teammate having some changes in life I let the Miata go to a nice couple in STL, MO. Wanting to get back into a higher HP car but have the ability to move up and down in the NASA classes I did some hunting/researching thus leading me to this 2017 BRZ PP..... Having a "little" damage she needed some loving from a good friend of mine before the fabrication begins... So after getting it repaired I drove it around for a few months while working on customer cars, quite enjoyable stock I have to say, before beginning tear down. (everything is sold btw) Beginning of tear down and cage fabrication. Still need to finish things on interior (belt loops, dash mount, fire bottle...list is long)but for the most part its done. I just need more parts to arrive and more time. So on to the fun stuff!!! Horsepewrs...... So a bit of an avalanche of pics from the last couple months but it pretty well gets us up to date! As she sets at this moment, with the two stock seats in it and a little under a 1/8 of a tank of fuel left in it..... So without seats its about 2140lbs.... not as good as i hoped but pretty close. Numbers are little skewed left to right as the right rear shock is bent from the earlier impact, so its like a bad corner balance haha thus really light on that wheel (its about 2 inches higher than the left when in free air!) I'll get deeper into spec's as we go and feel free to ask questions, I enjoy bench racing/bench building as much as the real thing!