WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR FRS TODAY?

[KMA KiCKz]

Gave it a nice wash 🌊

[BRZZZZZZZZZZ]

We got a new race track very close to our city (finally). Our club was lucky enough to be one of the first on track yesterday. Here’s a video a friend took from his BRZ, I’m in the FRS that changes to leader part way through the video.

[WNDSRFR]

What with the crazy unpredictable price of gas lately, I decided to do an experiment.

My average gas mileage over at least the last five years has been 28.3 mpg. So I wanted to see what kind of mileage I could get if I really tried. This all on 93 octane BJ's gas by the way.
For three days I drove like I had an insurance dongle attached. (Short shifting, coasting as much as possible and stepping on the gas like I was stepping on an egg.)
I managed a whooping 32.4 mpg. A whole 4.1 mpg increase!
What a waste of time!
If I wanted to save on gas I could use 91 octane. Or maybe I should just be driving a Prius. This is not what this car was designed for.

Experiment is over, not worth it, back to normal.

I love this car.

[Busybee]

Originally Posted by WNDSRFR

What with the crazy unpredictable price of gas lately, I decided to do an experiment.

My average gas mileage over at least the last five years has been 28.3 mpg. So I wanted to see what kind of mileage I could get if I really tried. This all on 93 octane BJ's gas by the way.
For three days I drove like I had an insurance dongle attached. (Short shifting, coasting as much as possible and stepping on the gas like I was stepping on an egg.)
I managed a whooping 32.4 mpg. A whole 4.1 mpg increase!
What a waste of time!
If I wanted to save on gas I could use 91 octane. Or maybe I should just be driving a Prius. This is not what this car was designed for.

Experiment is over, not worth it, back to normal.

I love this car.

Thanks for sharing the experiment. I was wondering what you would get highway only with dongle attached 45-50 mpg?

Thanks


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[soundman98]

Originally Posted by WNDSRFR

What with the crazy unpredictable price of gas lately, I decided to do an experiment.

My average gas mileage over at least the last five years has been 28.3 mpg. So I wanted to see what kind of mileage I could get if I really tried. This all on 93 octane BJ's gas by the way.
For three days I drove like I had an insurance dongle attached. (Short shifting, coasting as much as possible and stepping on the gas like I was stepping on an egg.)
I managed a whooping 32.4 mpg. A whole 4.1 mpg increase!
What a waste of time!
If I wanted to save on gas I could use 91 octane. Or maybe I should just be driving a Prius. This is not what this car was designed for.

Experiment is over, not worth it, back to normal.

I love this car.

lol. i average 22mpg...

[WNDSRFR]

Originally Posted by soundman98

lol. i average 22mpg...

How do you manage that?
Only drive uphill against the wind?

[BRZZZZZZZZZZ]

Originally Posted by WNDSRFR

How do you manage that?
Only drive uphill against the wind?

Going to guess track use included. My cars lifetime average since I bought it is 9.8L/100km (24mpg) which is split between highway, track and city cold weather use (-20 to -30C).

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by WNDSRFR

How do you manage that?
Only drive uphill against the wind?

mostly city and some highway. no track time, as funds are being diverted elsewhere

easy. it's my fun car, and it's most fun when it's singing it's way to redline leaving every stop light. doesn't mean i'm flooring it, usually just holding each gear till i run out of revs or get bored with the noise.

if i wanted economy, i would've bought a whole prius instead of just the tires!

[FSFRS]

Bought some RPF1s from a fellow FRS owner.

here they are on my firestorm

255/40/17 17x9 +35

fronts are kinda aggressive because camber is at like 0.1 degrees, lol.

2020 dampers with RCE Yellows.

I originally had 3mm spacers on them but they work fine without them even with 255s suprisingly. Plus the extra 3mm made it poke out too much.

[RToyo86]

Originally Posted by FSFRS

Bought some RPF1s from a fellow FRS owner.

here they are on my firestorm

255/40/17 17x9 +35

fronts are kinda aggressive because camber is at like 0.1 degrees, lol.

2020 dampers with RCE Yellows.

Looks good!

Did you need to pull out camber to make it clear the struts or is that just where it's sitting for the time being?

[RToyo86]

Beautiful weather outside today which allowed me to do some paint TLC on my driver door. Booking PDR repair for the dent on Monday, and will do a final polish when I recoat the car this summer.

[FSFRS]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

Looks good!

Did you need to pull out camber to make it clear the struts or is that just where it's sitting for the time being?

I didn't pull out camber. It doesn't have bolts or tophats. I think the camber would help it fit if it was added from the tophats. Camber from a camber bolt will make it hit the strut.

[foxyrand]

Changed up my oem wheels with some HyperDip. This is a color called 'brass monkey', a fairly dark bronze. Wishing now that maybe it was a step brighter, but ah well. Wheels needed attention, they had already been painted black by the previous owner, but have a fair amount of nicks and rash and the paint was chipping badly.

[MJones_RB]

Originally Posted by FSFRS

Bought some RPF1s from a fellow FRS owner.

here they are on my firestorm

255/40/17 17x9 +35

fronts are kinda aggressive because camber is at like 0.1 degrees, lol.

2020 dampers with RCE Yellows.

I originally had 3mm spacers on them but they work fine without them even with 255s suprisingly. Plus the extra 3mm made it poke out too much.

17x9's work great! I have 17x7 RPF1s and I put 20mm spacers front and back to get them flush.