The GT300 BRZ - Speedhunters

[fistpoint]

Pic 5: afro-engineered air conditioning or noise generators?

[Gums]

Also on pic 5, buttons on the steering wheel!

[Beyer Subaru]

Thanks bro. I had no idea. I thought all of the scoobs in GT were RWD at this point.

Shows how much I keep up with it.

Originally Posted by dwx

All of them have been AWD, including the Legacy they ran last year. This was how the drivetrain was laid out:



It used an external front diff powered by a separate propshaft. The cars were always heavier due to the AWD and I don't know if it was really an advantage.

[ST185RC]

I don't care how much i get flamed on the streets or on forums for ricing out the car with no engine mods or anything, I want my FRS to look like the GT300 BRZ minus the stickers.

[RacelineUSA_Matt]

This thing is absolutely staggering...

[xwd]

Originally Posted by fistpoint

Pic 5: afro-engineered air conditioning or noise generators?

That would be an awfully loud noise generator... My guess is it is some kind of fresh air system.

Even weirder to me in that picture is there is a LCD screen in the middle and then a second digital dash on the left hand side of the car. Along with what looks like a mechanical watch near the LCD?

[AJUSA.com]

A lot of endurance racing sanctioning bodies mandate AC in the cars as a safety measure. ALMS does as well as WEC

[scorcherjf]

Yea those GT300 cars are pretty far from the original car they're "based" upon. Look at the GT300 CR-Z... starts out as a strut/torsion beam FWD hybrid and ends up as a monster double-wishbone all around RWD hybrid lol.

The GT300 BRZ doesn't even seem to use the BRZ's chassis as the suspension is completely different with pushrod double wishbones all around. I'd say the engine and the "shape" are the only things that resemble the original BRZ...

[Jeff86]

beautiful machine!

[daiheadjai]

Originally Posted by ST185RC

I don't care how much i get flamed on the streets or on forums for ricing out the car with no engine mods or anything, I want my FRS to look like the GT300 BRZ minus the stickers.

Speedbumps.
Ramps into parking lots.

Toronto's lovely textured pavement (if you're from T.O).

Snow.

[ST185RC]

Originally Posted by daiheadjai

Speedbumps.
Ramps into parking lots.

Toronto's lovely textured pavement (if you're from T.O).

Snow.

Battle Scars, that is all.

[adamls2]

Beautiful...

[EvoFanatic]

Originally Posted by WatchmaN

yeah well...If they modified it like they did with the brz..no wonder

I now want a really fast (stock looking) prius just to troll on big stock v8's.

[SubieNate]

Originally Posted by scorcherjf

Yea those GT300 cars are pretty far from the original car they're "based" upon. Look at the GT300 CR-Z... starts out as a strut/torsion beam FWD hybrid and ends up as a monster double-wishbone all around RWD hybrid lol.

The GT300 BRZ doesn't even seem to use the BRZ's chassis as the suspension is completely different with pushrod double wishbones all around. I'd say the engine and the "shape" are the only things that resemble the original BRZ...

I think they're required to start with the original chassis. If you look at the pics, the thing has been tubbed front and rear to fit the massive wheels/tires and in the process they murdered the stock strut towers. With the stock mounting locations gone anyway there's no reason for them NOT to move to a double wishbone pushrod system if it's a performance increasing modification. Especially with the engine and everything pushed so far back in the front there's tons of room up there for suspension.

In the rear, there's no need for a trunk or rear seats so they can cut the floor up as much as they want and have a nice fat pumpkin mounted in a tubular steel subframe that's integrated with the car's cage making power transfer more efficient. Again, given the high degree of modification, no reason not to move to the pushrod double-a setup.

Let's face it. Multilink and McPherson systems are both great for street cars where cost and packaging are a concern. When setup correctly, they can do a stunning job (Porsche 911, M3, heck, you could throw the 86 into that list. ) but for a pure racing machine it's hard to beat the adjustability, range of usable travel without adverse camber effects, and predictability of a nice double wishbone setup.

Nathan