Ryan's 86 car journal

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by autoracer86

oh man that stinks to hear. I run Amsoil myself and it's been great off and on the track. Can I ask which one you used MTL or severe gear.

RedLine is good stuff not sure about mixing it with motylgear though kinda defeats the purpose of switching to a GL4 trans oil

MTL was used. Had similar issues last time I ran it, sticky engagement from synchros, especially bad when cold.
Read a while back CSG had a special sauce mix with redline and motul gear 300. I had a bottle of the motyl gear so figured I'd run that. I will say so far shifts much smoother than they have been in a while.

The sticky downshift from 6-5 is gone and high rpm uoshifts from 3-4 are gone. I'll take it!

Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering

I parallel park on the street in Baltimore City so it's a whole other level of paranoia. My street is pretty quiet for the area but my car still looks like I rallycross it a LOT.

I'm just committed to a wrap if/when I get off-street parking someday.

- Andrew

I would lose my mind parking on street all the time . I'm paranoid enough at work with people who can't park properly.

Snapped a photo of it this morning sitting pretty. I'm so OCD it needs a minor paint correction to fix body shop woes and scratching from PDR work. Quarter panel and door were re cleared and look good minus way to much texture/orange peel on lower door.




Sidenote.. should I postpone alignment with new trailing arm and MCA coming soonish? MCA says it shouldn't effect alignment but if ride height changes then it in theory will?

[autoracer86]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

MTL was used. Had similar issues last time I ran it, sticky engagement from synchros, especially bad when cold.
Read a while back CSG had a special sauce mix with redline and motul gear 300. I had a bottle of the motyl gear so figured I'd run that. I will say so far shifts much smoother than they have been in a while.

The sticky downshift from 6-5 is gone and high rpm uoshifts from 3-4 are gone. I'll take it!





I would lose my mind parking on street all the time . I'm paranoid enough at work with people who can't park properly.

Snapped a photo of it this morning sitting pretty. I'm so OCD it needs a minor paint correction to fix body shop woes and scratching from PDR work. Quarter panel and door were re cleared and look good minus way to much texture/orange peel on lower door.


Sidenote.. should I postpone alignment with new trailing arm and MCA coming soonish? MCA says it shouldn't effect alignment but if ride height changes then it in theory will?

Ah that's very interesting. Not sure why we would have such different experiences but good to hear so thanks for updating.

You would have a heart attack owning my car lol. I once scratched the fender tqing my wheels and couldn't care less and the car is covered in paint issues and scratches lol. Yet for some reason I get mad when kids play near it LOL

I won't be getting an alignment done for the same mods but if you have one scheduled and you can wait then might as well. Also the mod is not supposed to change ride height I think only 1 maybe 2 people said it did

[Racecomp Engineering]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

Sidenote.. should I postpone alignment with new trailing arm and MCA coming soonish? MCA says it shouldn't effect alignment but if ride height changes then it in theory will?

I would wait if you can...unless your current alignment is no good since you've got your fresh new tires on.

- Andrew

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by autoracer86

Ah that's very interesting. Not sure why we would have such different experiences but good to hear so thanks for updating.

You would have a heart attack owning my car lol. I once scratched the fender tqing my wheels and couldn't care less and the car is covered in paint issues and scratches lol. Yet for some reason I get mad when kids play near it LOL

I won't be getting an alignment done for the same mods but if you have one scheduled and you can wait then might as well. Also the mod is not supposed to change ride height I think only 1 maybe 2 people said it did

Tried full motyl last fill before I dropped the transmission. I must have temperamental synchros.


Part of the curse being a detailer is that I see everything lol..

Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering

I would wait if you can...unless your current alignment is no good since you've got your fresh new tires on.

- Andrew

👍
I can wait, alignment was done in the fall and no weird Pulling and the wheel is centered.

[RToyo86]

Got the toe arms, STi trailing arm, and MCA mod installed yesterday, then went to get a string alignment from shop close by that does race car stuff.
Zero'd toe all around, evened front camber at -1.8°, reduced rear camber to -1.5°.
Rear tire just barely poking now which tickled my OCD.

Only drove the car to work so far for impressions but I did notice immediately over familiar bumps that rear suspension is more compliant. There is less jarring rebound and compression on impact that could make the rear end feel like it's skipping over bumps on throttle.

Hit same bumps on throttle and the rear end mostly absorbed. Will need to live with it a bit but immediate impressions are good.

[autoracer86]

That's great to hear ! I need to hurry up and order these

[RToyo86]

Spring update, just ticked over 152,000km. Car runs strong, minus the clutch which giving me trouble again. Will have time in June to pull trans and inspect. Cold no noise, once it gets hot it the noise happens.

https://youtube.com/shorts/5_uK5OA5u...y1OrR4a-PmdT52

Installed whiteline diff bushing inserts, quite an easy process. Only 15 minute drive so far but noticed less slop from the driveline. One of the vertical bushings(right) was starting to crack a little, figured this will buy some time before I chisel old one out.

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My brother picked up a automatic 2014 BRZ in red with 60,000 km.
Previous owner went with the iron man theme.. few corny bits in the interior, lowered on springs and a eBay N1 knockoff.
He hates the ride quality, I'll be installing a set of used 13 suspension with 30k I snagged locally.



Went to car meet and snagged a couple quick photos. Got distracted but some cool twins were there, one with a 1Jz swap.

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Swapped back to stock wheels and installed 215/45 RS4s for track. That meat difference tho...

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Had the car at calabogie motorsport park yesterday for light lapping. It was good fun to shake the rust off. New management running things tighter for solo driving sign off(not a bad thing). Hoping to get a sign off on my next outing in July.

Clutch noise was driving me nuts so I dropped the transmission at 10am yesterday to inspect, and re-greased the TOB, Fork and front bearing cover. Removed the Cusco shifter front carrier bushing and had it back together 30 minutes before I had to leave for the track. Car shifts better and no more noise.

Glad I went with 215/45 RS4s on stock wheels, looks like my springs are working hard with that much grip!

[RToyo86]

Did some wet sanding to quarter panel and door to fix excess orange peel from a body shops reclearing most of that side, then polished and ceramic coated. Not bad for a car about to cross 100k miles!
Also managed to revive the tires PPF on the front bumper for one more year.

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First wash since all the paint work. C6 hydro ceramic coating lives up to the hype. Will.see how it wears.

Removed the TRD intake and went back to OEM with Perrin inlet tube. Reflashed prior tune.

[autoracer86]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

First wash since all the paint work.

Removed the TRD intake and went back to OEM with Perrin inlet tube. Reflashed prior tune.

Oh why did you remove the intake ?

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by autoracer86

Oh why did you remove the intake ?

Intake needed more MAF rescaling to get it dialed, drivability wasn't quite as good as tune with stock airbox.

Wanted to revert back to see if there was a difference. On/off throttle so far smoother on original CSG tune with OEM airbox.

Edit: after going over stuff I reinserted the front lower diff bushing and fixed driveability issues I was having. car was difficult to downshift smoothly and letting off the throttle caused bucking.