My BRZ daily driver - Slow and Steady

[Mr2guy]

Yea, that steering wheel is dope!

[_e90]

you're a madman. love all the attention to detail.

[laextreme5]

All this for a daily. Great work on the paint.

I mean, why not. It wont be a daily one day. Hopefully lol

[nsogiba]

All this for a daily. Great work on the paint.

[laextreme5]

The other night I painted the Prodrive logo on the calipers. Wasn't happy with how they came out. Ended up sanding them down and respraying them.

Let them dry for a few days and took on the task of round 2. Went much better this time around. The new correct seals also came in tonight. Therefore I was able to complete assembly sans pads.

While working on them I took multiple time lapse videos with my phone and stitched them together. Didn't come out too bad for a first try. May in the future due similar things for installs and such. You don't want me to be talking on camera, Im awkward af.






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[laextreme5]

Got back to work on my rear calipers this weekend. Wasn't happy with the paint finish form the first time so I sanded them down and resprayed them. Also went ahead and cleaned the hardware and such. Went to put them all together and realized I had ordered the incorrect seals. So sadly I therefore was not able to fully assemble them. New correct seals are on order, so once those are in I can commence final assembly. Only other step after that is to paint the Prodrive logo on the face of the calipers themselves.


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[laextreme5]

I definitely appreciate the photography. What are you shooting with? A 6D or a D610 with a 50mm?

Yes Canon 6D with a 50mm f1.8 90% of my photos are taken with it. Really like to invest in a 70-200 2.8 next, but we will see.

[alexandermjoyce]

I definitely appreciate the photography. What are you shooting with? A 6D or a D610 with a 50mm?

[laextreme5]

This past weekend was our local IFO show. Used it as an excuse to finally put my new Volk decals on the wheels. Also took some driveway shots in the nice afternoon sun.




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[laextreme5]

ah didnt know it needed trans work, makes sense now. Cant wait to see the carbon drive shaft

Doesn't NEED it, but 4th and 2nd scratch is common on these and I want to fix it.

[hinrichs]

ah didnt know it needed trans work, makes sense now. Cant wait to see the carbon drive shaft

[laextreme5]

For expressing ones' true inner self.

haha, i found that way too funny.

But it is for the brz so i can swap out the synchros and then just drop the tranny in. Therefore the car isnt down waiting for the install. Ill also be doing clutch, new short shifter, and carbon driveshaft at same time.

[MikeyRa]

Whats that tranny for?

For expressing ones' true inner self.

[hinrichs]

Whats that tranny for?

[laextreme5]

Had a bit of a sketchy drive home the other day. Screws for my steering wheel to hit started to come loose. Put some loctite and tightened them up and good to go. Also tore down my caliper to ship to a friend to have some threads fixed. I suck at tapping threads and I REALLY don't want to mess these calipers up.


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Also, incase anyone was wondering, a tranny can infect fit into the trunk. barely. Will be dropping it off to a local subaru shop tp drop the syncros in. Was initially going to do it myself however currently I simony don't have the length of time to dedicate to that technical of a install process.


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