Recommendations for Suspension Mods

[Racecomp Engineering]

Good advice here. Check out your local auto-x group and get some experience with your car as is before the season is over. Learn what you can about driving and suspension...try to feel what you want to improve before spending money on mods. But as mentioned, you'll want to decide on a class at some point.

- Andrew

[LenA]

I'm also a newby to this car. Have owned Alfa's and a couple of E30' s in the past, so not new to low powered sport cars.

I would suggest reading the stickies on top of this page, mostly by CSG and RCE. Lot's of interesting reading.

My plan is to do camber bolts and maybe SPC LCA and get a good alignment and drive on stock tires/suspension until I can identify what I need to correct(if anything)

Len

[solidONE]

Originally Posted by johan

#1 - Driver mod (seat time).

If you want to get into actual racing, doing autocross... don't touch a thing. Learn the sport, learn your car. When you can't improve your time any further with the car as is, start making small incremental changes.

At that point, then follow the recommendations of @cjd and do alignment and tires.

The stock car handles very, very well and you would be wise to just go out and learn how to drive it well as it as is.

^ this

[Seth Hawkins]

Thanks to all of you for the excellent advice. I'm going to follow it, and drive the car "as is" until I get comfortable with it - and autox-ing. I'm sure the car has at least a season's worth of driver upgrade in it. LoL.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Seth Hawkins

Thanks to all of you for the excellent advice. I'm going to follow it, and drive the car "as is" until I get comfortable with it - and autox-ing. I'm sure the car has at least a season's worth of driver upgrade in it. LoL.

hehe one season in, I know I'm a solid 1+ second slower than the car is, it's a long journey filled with lots of squealing rubber

[solidONE]

Originally Posted by Seth Hawkins

Thanks to all of you for the excellent advice. I'm going to follow it, and drive the car "as is" until I get comfortable with it - and autox-ing. I'm sure the car has at least a season's worth of driver upgrade in it. LoL.

Don't forget to get an alignment that's more performance oriented. Camber bolts to increase front negative camber and that's pretty much it. Enjoy!

[akyp]

Installed OEM crash bolts, went for an alignment (ended up with -1.4 deg camber at the front), then went to the track. Car drove like a dream! The phrase 'should've came from the factory like that' is probably over-used but not in this case. I have no desire to change anything else suspension-wise.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Erollin

Sounds like you got some good advice. I saw http://www.furiouscustoms.com/suspen...-s-subaru-brz/ kit and it looks decent for the price.

That doesn't seem to be a kit oriented for autocrossing or even track use, strut bars are typically not seen as a significant performance enhancement and the vast majority of autocrossers upgrade the front sway bar, not the rear. A stiffer rear may be desirable to dial out the understeer for track usage for someone not looking to go outside the streetable envelope on alignment or spring/dampers.

[wparsons]

It's already been said, but drive the car 100% stock. It's more than capable, and throwing the wrong parts at it can make it drive worse than stock.

Camber bolts and a better alignment would be the only thing I'd suggest doing right away.