You have $10k USD and a stock BRZ...

[thecarfilmer]

damn where i live tacos are $2 from the truck. i wish they were a dollar each..

Originally Posted by DuMa

Valenti's and 9,700 tacos

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by thecarfilmer

damn where i live tacos are $2 from the truck. i wish they were a dollar each..

Del Taco.

[thecarfilmer]

oh never in my life I have been there before lol

Originally Posted by mav1178

Del Taco.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by thecarfilmer

oh never in my life I have been there before lol

Technically $10k can get you 23000 tacos on Tuesday.

http://www.deltaco.com/specials

[softgrip]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Really? This thread is for real? I gonna be little blunt here. If you're not gonna do your OWN homework to figure out what YOU want out of YOUR car. Just go to your local tuning shop, give them the car key, $10k, ask them to make it better and call it the day.

From driving this car and figuring out what you want from this car and research it is part of the fun of owning this car... but that's just me.

The more I research the more questions I have, the less certainty of direction.

I'm used to buying PC parts - there are very simple metrics for "bang for buck". That is not the case with these cars.

Wheels - who the hell knows, but probably lightweight 17x9
Tyres - prob eagle f1 asymmetric - but again, spoiled for choice
Coilovers - my god... So many things!
Brakes - sti brembo t3 ... Maybe?!
SC - prob sprintex with hks supporting mods

The one thing I'm certain of is my audio set up, but I have worked in a music studio and have my own home studio, so I know what I'm looking for. Even so, the head unit is down to a selection of 4, but at least I have the brand.

[shiumai]

Wheels&tires, suspension, exhaust to start with.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by fumanchu1

buy a book on how to research your own opinions?

Ohhh Snap the burn lol

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by softgrip

The more I research the more questions I have, the less certainty of direction.

I'm used to buying PC parts - there are very simple metrics for "bang for buck". That is not the case with these cars.

Wheels - who the hell knows, but probably lightweight 17x9
Tyres - prob eagle f1 asymmetric - but again, spoiled for choice
Coilovers - my god... So many things!
Brakes - sti brembo t3 ... Maybe?!
SC - prob sprintex with hks supporting mods

The one thing I'm certain of is my audio set up, but I have worked in a music studio and have my own home studio, so I know what I'm looking for. Even so, the head unit is down to a selection of 4, but at least I have the brand.

I think you need to drive the car some more to identify what you want done to it. Areas you want improved. What might be great for some may not be for you. Can't really compare car parts to PC parts.

[softgrip]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Can't really compare car parts to PC parts.

Exactly.

Also, part of researching is asking people's current opinions to form your own, not just reading through millions of 2-4 year old posts and using the "search" function.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by softgrip

The more I research the more questions I have, the less certainty of direction.

I'm used to buying PC parts - there are very simple metrics for "bang for buck". That is not the case with these cars.

Wheels - who the hell knows, but probably lightweight 17x9
Tyres - prob eagle f1 asymmetric - but again, spoiled for choice
Coilovers - my god... So many things!
Brakes - sti brembo t3 ... Maybe?!
SC - prob sprintex with hks supporting mods

The one thing I'm certain of is my audio set up, but I have worked in a music studio and have my own home studio, so I know what I'm looking for. Even so, the head unit is down to a selection of 4, but at least I have the brand.

There you go, now we're kinda going somewhere. Instead of

Not for stance!

Go...

What are YOU looking or wanting from this car? Are you tracking it? Are you autoxing it? Are you drag racing it? Are you drifting it? Are you rallying it? How many times a yr are you racing it? Maybe 2~4 times a year? Maybe 4~6 times a year? Maybe once a month? Maybe 2~3 times a month? Not racing it, but want some mods on the car, cuz just you can. Wanna show it off to your friends? Peeps?

Again, without goal in mind, we can give you endless mod options and it could be right for some people, but it could be wrong for you. If you just looking to show off a bit, or maybe wanna to mod it a bit for shits & giggles. That's fine, say so. We'll give you shit ton of mods you can do without worrying about breaking NASA/SCCA class rules. If you're looking into track/autox, but not sure where to begin search which organization race around your area. It could be NASA or SCCA. From there you can see which mods you can & can't do. We even have thread for that!

So... let me ask again, what are you looking to do from this car?

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by softgrip

The more I research the more questions I have, the less certainty of direction.

I'm used to buying PC parts - there are very simple metrics for "bang for buck". That is not the case with these cars.

Wheels - who the hell knows, but probably lightweight 17x9
Tyres - prob eagle f1 asymmetric - but again, spoiled for choice
Coilovers - my god... So many things!
Brakes - sti brembo t3 ... Maybe?!
SC - prob sprintex with hks supporting mods

The one thing I'm certain of is my audio set up, but I have worked in a music studio and have my own home studio, so I know what I'm looking for. Even so, the head unit is down to a selection of 4, but at least I have the brand.

Ichi beat me to posting this but I've already got it written so it's going up anyway:

Unless you know what you want to do with the car any advice is pointless. As hardcore as you think you are, what you've posted is the equivalent of "I need a laptop, can't decide if I should prioritize an SSD, 4k screen, touch screen, battery life, or getting a dedicated high end graphics card, my budget is $3k" You can get a little bit of everything with that budget, but not quite, and there's a chance you compromise on something that makes the laptop just not work well for you in day to day life. Modifying cars is harsher because there are rarely 'no-brainer upgrades' coilover A isn't necessarily better than coilover B because it's more expensive or has better brand reputation and at the end of the day all you really need is a good spring and damper combo (kinda like how a 4k screen is pretty overkill on a laptop even if you're a gamer it's just not worth the money when your graphics card can't push the frames to it). Some vendors tried marketing "stage 1" and "stage 2" back in the fast and furious days, it's mostly died out as information has spread that clutch E isn't automatically the better choice over Clutch F because it holds more power the same way a GTX990 is better than a GTX980, the perfect set of tires for setting a good drag strip time are going to be garbage when you're commuting to work in the rain. There are dozens of examples of where you could buy something mentioned in this thread and potentially extremely regret it.

The first question asked is: "Well are you going to be gaming, editing photos or browsing facebook and writing Word Docs?" Buying the hulking laptop with a GTX980M and a month later post again bitching about battery life and how it sucks to be in the library hunting for power carrying your 10lb laptop while you write your research paper is akin to buying 17x9's and bitching about the price of tires and how shitty your fuel economy has become and how you can't do anything competitive locally because you put your car in a class it can't compete in.

Put the money in the bank, go drive the car, and only spend the money to fix problems you find. That's it. If anybody makes fun of you for rolling around at stock height or on stock wheels or whatever, well, I'd guess they're probably not very fast drivers or capable of setting up a fast car and their opinion doesn't hold much weight to me.

You could go out and spend $9k on suspension and 1 year into ownership be sitting at a stoplight thinking, 'goddamnit I need to get in front of that V6 Camry by the next light but that driver is really aggressive so I can't out drag him and it makes me feel inadequate, should have bought a supercharger' or "I spent $10k on wheels and tires and a supercharger and coilovers but now I want to compete in this autocross/time trial/HPDE class and all that stuff makes me uncompetitive and it isn't fun so I have to sell at a $3k loss and buy the right parts"

Edited to add detail: There are rarely part X > part Y in cars without a ton of caveats.

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by softgrip

Not for stance!

Go...

(Parts/build - not investing, other car or track days)

Jackson Racing Supercharger, oil cooler and custom tune
Nameless full 3 inch catless headerback
cusco 4.56 and 1.5 way diff

The end

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

Jackson Racing Supercharger, oil cooler and custom tune
Nameless full 3 inch catless headerback
cusco 4.56 and 1.5 way diff

The end

What?!?!?!?! JR SC is nice, but c'mon! Edelbrock SC!!!! lol

[jawn]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

What?!?!?!?! JR SC is nice, but c'mon! Edelbrock SC!!!! lol

1.3 LITERS OF BLOWER DAWG.