BE4VER's C Street 2014 FR-S "Darkness"

[BE4VER]

I've never named a car till now but all I can think of when I look at this car is Dave Chapelle, dressed up like Rick James, screaming "Darkness everybody! The Darkness is spreading!" So I guess I'll go with that.


-Rota Titan 17x9 +42
-Dunlop z2 235 40 17
-invidia n1 catback
-Blitz drop in filter
-kartboy trans insert
-feal 441 coilover
-Custom Align and Corner Balance
-whiteline adj. front end links
-kartboy solid rear links
-Perrin Stubby antenna
-grimmspeed plate relocator

I planned on staying in C street but that didn't work out so well..

Sold or removed
-rota p1 18x8 w/ hankook RS3 235 40 18

-BE4VER

[BE4VER]

Updated pic w/Invidia CB on the car. Stupid easy to install and fits excellent.
650 mi on the car still keeping rev's low till 1000 mi.

[BE4VER]

Didn't get 1.5 from the old crash bolts but everything feels good. Dialed out some of the toe as well. Something funny was going on with that back passenger tire so Im really happy I did an alignment as soon as I did. The negative camber before is not accurate since the bolt was installed before the alignment took place.





Decided against installing the FSB and front end links before the first two events coming up next weekend and the one after that. I think it feels pretty good the way it is. Might just need a slightly larger bar up front but I'd like to test the car without it to know exactly how much front bar I want.

Miles are now over 800 so I've started to rev above the 4k mark once and a while and took it up to redline a few times. Love that high rev zone! Just a few more miles to go tomorrow and I'll be able to start learning this cars limits.

[BE4VER]

So just as soon as it started this thread is over.

All of a sudden.. STX OUTA NO WHERE! LOL

Gonna close this page out with my very short stint of C street competition findings.

NNJR #2 was my first event in the new car. I was shiting myself how much faster the car was through the sections I used to slug through in my WRX. I immediately had the feel for throttle oversteer but got bit by lift off and did a sweet 540 park job without leaving the course haha. I felt much more comfortable by the last run and dropped a few seconds.

I ended up 95th out of 145 pax which was way down from the last event of 2013 in the WRX.
I was about 40 spots higher at the end of last year with same turnout so I thought it was mainly because I had never driven RWD until just a few days before the event and after the second event I found out exactly how right I was..

The next event was a MSNE test and tune. It was a 1 hour session with about 20 cars. I got in 11 runs and the learning how to drive RWD problem was solved! I did a breakdown of 4 drivers from event one and my time difference vs the same 4 drivers in event 2 on a course that yielded times nearly identical to the first event. The average pax gain I factored between all 4 was about 30 spots up from the first event.

All cars I compared against below are or almost fully prepped for their class listed v.s my FR-S with a filter, catback, crash bolts/aligned, with the absolute worst sized tire/wheel 235/40/18 (+.784 over stock) I had off my WRX. The Hankook RS3's have great grip but the car was sluggish from the way to large diameter..

-Time I gained on 4 comparison drivers between first and second event with both events having roughly a .6 mi length and :50 second average time.

Event 1 *Entered as limited prep C Street v.s...

Driver A(Cstreet-BRZ)Pax50 = +4.116
Driver B(STX-GTI)Pax68 = +3.072
Driver C(STX-RX8*2013 nat chmp)Pax11 = +6.399
Driver D(STX-FR-S)Pax 5 = +7.120

Event 2
Driver A =+.891
Driver B =+.803
Driver C =+3.611
Driver D=+3.925

Event 1vs2 diff..

Driver A -3.225
Driver B -2.269
Driver C -2.788
Driver D -3.195

I am very happy I was able to adjust to this car so quickly after just two events.

Video of event 1
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk7M7BJqljQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk7M7BJqljQ[/ame]

Video of best 5 runs of event 2
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQU73F16Nag"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQU73F16Nag[/ame]

I will be starting an updated STX journal very soon as I've just ordered a set of Feal 441's from Odi at Feal, and have a bundle of other things getting installed in the next two weeks to hopefully test in STX at NNJR event 3
Also just mounted a set of Rota Titans 17x9 w/ 235 40 17 Dunlop Z2