brianL's STX BRZ build, story, and pictures

[brianL.]

This is the story, build, and pictures of my 2014 BRZ Limited That I bought in October or 2013. I Haven't posted much since I'm more of a lurker. I am building it to be a STX car in scca autocross but I plan to start doing 1-2 HPDE a year.

Update from 5/4/14 me racing at the tire rack solo nations







Sorry for the iphone photos I'm looking into buying a Nikon COOLPIX P520 soon!

The day I bought the car










I drove the car all winter and drove to or from work in just about every snowstorm and had no issues until I parked my car in my driveway one day.

[brianL.]

I had damage on my roof and had small dings and dents on my right quarter panel,hood,a pillar and fender. The total damage came out to 5,800 dollars and insurance paid.

I brought the car to a trusted body shop that painted a lot of our cars at my old shop that we restored and a lot of high end luxury cars.There not cheap but they do great work.

They replaced the hood, mirror, and the roof with O.E.M. parts. Everything got painted except the doors bumpers and trunk lid



























Even though these pictures are scary looking the car came out looking like the day I bought it. (Fun fact the roof is only held on by 4 spot welds and the rest is heavy duty adhesive from the factory)

[brianL.]

Time for MODS!!!!!

I ordered enkei RPF1's 17X9 +45 offset all around.I purchased Bridgestone RE11A's 255/40/17 I was going to get hankook rs3 since they are super grippy but I daily drive this car so I wanted a good dual purpose tire for wet/dry.

These wheels and tires do not fit the car with stock suspension in the front due to the spring purge hitting the side wall of the tire. Sooooooo I wasn't plaining on getting coilovers this year since I am building my supra but I purchased a set of KW V3's

I bought the wheels tires and coilovers at Prime motoring in East Rutherford N.J. and I give them a A++ they were great to deal with and they hooked my up with the KW's installed for the same price they go on FT86 Speedfactory.













Thats a 5/8 drop all around before it Settled

[brianL.]

thinking of going to 86 fest on the other side of the country! maybe road trip it there in the brz.....?

[unvevo]

That's crazy. Glad you were able to get her back to normal!

[brianL.]

me running the car at the Tire rack solo nations at met life N.J.

[brianL.]