What did you do to your 2nd gen BRZ today?

[CincyJohn]

Originally Posted by dragoontwo

Hit a tire tread on the interstate on ramp yesterday morning.

The bumper is a bit cracked, and the insert is missing.

Anybody have a right hand bumper insert laying around after putting the LED liner in?

Ahh man, that totally sucks. Feel for ya!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Flarpswitch

Back when we raced our Austin Healeys and Minis, we didn't mess with stuff just to make the car loud and cool sounding. We were poor folk and if we spent money on mods for the car, there had to be a measurable payback in performance. Tires, brakes and suspension mods came first because that paid the most dividends. Unlike our knuckle dragging friends who only knew straight line 0-60, we had secret information that there were twists and turns on the road. If my pizza delivery routes paid good tips, then I could invest in Weber carbs, headers and exhaust pipes. We also had to keep things street legal because some of the cops where we grew up were real ****s. The goal was a performance boost and if it sounded good that was icing on the cake. Okay, guilty... it had to sound good too. Fake engine sounds and replacement mufflers in my opinion is just like when us kids would attach playing cards to the forks of our bicycles to rub on the spokes. There is something to the whole psycho-acoustic thing with cars, so along the lines of how people perceive their cars, I will reveal a little secret we had back when I was twisting wrenches. Customers would bring their cars in to the dealership complaining about the engine not running quite right. Lots of stuff could cause that. There was bad gasoline that was all over town; many times it was left-over winter blends being pumped when the weather started to get hot. Carburetors and fuel lines were prone to vapor lock and a million other things. However, most of the time we did not find anything wrong. Here is what I would do: adjust timing a bit and send the car over to the wash rack and have every inch of glass cleaned and polished inside and out. Vinyl was especially bad back then and would out-gas and deposit a film on the inside of the glass. Customers would report back that the car ran much better and in some cases they reported better fuel economy. You don't believe me? Try this stunt with a spouse or a buddy of yours. Claim that you are going to do a simple adjustment that you saw on the Internet that is not intrusive to the workings of the car. In secret, make sure the car is a bit cleaner, but pay special attention to the glass. Clean it and so it shines like crystal. Turn the car over to your subject and have them take it for a spin and ask them to report back if they feel any improvement in how it runs. You will become a local genius and of course, don't reveal what you did.

I have said here for years that my car runs better after every wash. Nobody believed me! And even though I KNOW it is just in my head it is still so satisfying.

[dragoontwo]

Washed and ready for tomorrow's autocross.

Thanks to jyelen for the bumper insert.

Lalatina is ready.

[jyelen]

not bad!

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by dragoontwo

Washed and ready for tomorrow's autocross.

Thanks to jyelen for the bumper insert.

Lalatina is ready.

Nice! Well executed drift stitches!
+10 street cred

[eyeballs]

Drained out the tranny and diff fluids, and wiped all the metal off the plugs. There was a good bit, car has about 1300 miles on it. After I did that, I decided it might be good to put stuff back in. So then I put MT85 in the tranny and M1 75-90 in the diff (already had it laying around). I might try the motul next time since everyone else seems to like it. There's an annoying amount of bolts securing the aero panel. Yay.

[Midnightsky]

Put my Hankook RS-4's on for the first time in the BRZ, happy days ahead

[H380]

Did the first oil change at 1450. Found out my old jack only lifts up to 15". Just barely enough for me to get to the drain plug and not tall enough for my jack stands to fit under the car, So a new jack is on the list. Other than that it is do easy to change the oil and filter. 10mm for the skid pan hatch and a 17mm for the drain plug.

[dragoontwo]

All the waiting.

[AK2112]

Installed the spare I bought (came from a 2019 or a 2020 so it's fresh)



Took advantage of some small car parking



And finally, took the Subaru off the rear. Debadge = rice

[22 BRZ]

Swapped lug nuts over to the Subaru black "locking" type. Please excuse the dirty car. Spring melt is taking forever this year (and we are getting 1-2 feet more snow this coming week...)

[Yoshoobaroo]

Originally Posted by 22 BRZ

Swapped lug nuts over to the Subaru black "locking" type. Please excuse the dirty car. Spring melt is taking forever this year (and we are getting 1-2 feet more snow this coming week...)

Do they appear to have cleaner threads than the stock ones?

[22 BRZ]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

Do they appear to have cleaner threads than the stock ones?

I never looked but lucky you, I've got another set waiting to go on my wife's WRX, so I can compare.

I won't bother trying to take a picture, no way I'll get it in focus. The threads on both are probably equally "rough" but the black ones have much sharper tops to the threads than the stock ones. The stock ones look more like an acme screw (not completely obviously, just trying to illustrate what I'm talking about).

[kaesu]

Lowered it! Waited a month for good weather to coincide with my day off.