My BRZ daily driver - Slow and Steady

[laextreme5]

love the attention to detail mate... cant wait to see more.

Thank you!









Quick little update. Had some time while waiting for som eone the other night to clean and detail my car. It needed it very badly. Put a coat a wax on it as well. My sons new car seat came in as well, i of course had to had to get a matching father son recaro. Also borrowwed a friends 70-200 and played with it a bit.


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[sandras]

Clean work and nice write-up!

[laextreme5]

Started sanding on my Ce28s a bit. Started with knocking down the roughness. The spokes aren't so bad, but in all the crevices its a real pain. Considering sandblasting them for ease of kicking the roughness down.

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[laextreme5]

Alright, small amount of catching up to do.



Few weeks back ordered some springs to test fit on the TEIN coilers.

Its a Hyperco 4'' free length 350lb with a 2.5" ID. I needed a new set of springs that would fit with air cups and I wanted to go with a shorter spring so that I wouldn't have issues getting the front ride height without sacrificing any bump travel. Swift only had a 5" in a 8k and I wanted to keep the "stock" tein spring rate.

I also ordered a hyperco helper spring since the main spring is so short and would be loose. I ended up ordering the wrong size and it doesn't quite fit. I already have the next size ID up on order for test fit. Overall the new springs weigh half as much, which is always a plus, give me the room for lower ride height with good bump travel, and fit with the air cups.


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[laextreme5]

I also finally got my horn functioning. Id been putting it off and putting it off and finally just did it. Ready for road rage honks.


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[Benwalsh91]

i like how you colour coordinate your oil bucket to your coilovers.

and yes colour is spelt with a u.

[laextreme5]

i like how you colour coordinate your oil bucket to your coilovers.

and yes colour is spelt with a u.

Get outta here ya brit lol

And yes, i TOTALLY did that on purpose with the oil drain pan.......






lucky coincidence haha

[Shikeira]

Wow this is insane. Great BR ZED (for you Brits :p)

[190Evan]

More like " Bloody christ, quite the jibbly wobbly br zed there, tons of good bits mate. ta' ta'and cheerio!" as Mehowski would say lmao

[laextreme5]

Back at it some more over the last few days. Started tear down and stripping of the rear calipers. Teardown went smoothly until I came across a broken bolt by the previous owner when they were painted last. Just lovely.

Im assuming he had them powder coated as this shit does NOT want to come off. My paint stripper had eaten a hole in the top an been exposed to the moisture over the last few months so it wasn't near as strong as it is when new. I need one round on one set and it didn't cut it.

Brought them to work to use the sand blaster and the sane in it was wet. Then I tried sanding with 180 and 80 grit. While taking it off it was extremely tedious and would not come out of all the crevices. For round 3 I went to lowes and bought some more paint stripper. Works better than my stuff I had at home, but still going to take several go at it.

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So when I originally installed my bucket Recaro a while back I wasn't happy with the brackets I had gotten. they were flimsy, wouldn't lean the seat back near enough to be comfortable etc. I finally changed em out last night, with some help from the little man. Mind you most of the pics are of him helping me (first time dad problems)so I don't have too many of all the progress. On top of that the power went out for a few hours while I was in the middle of it all so that didn't help with documentation and what not. But I was finally able to get it in, deleted the sliders, lowered it another 1.5'' and leaned it back dome more. Will have to get some completed install pics another day.



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SO as you can see. I had purchased the aluminum side mounts with the intention to use them. Basically I could not get them to work. So I had to resort to using the steel ones from before. Not too big of a deal. I also ended up having to drill new mounting holes 1'' lower to get the seat to not hit the base and to sit at the angle I wanted. I was a damn fight the entire time. But im now 100% happy and confident and I can now drive the car how I want to and how it should be.

[laextreme5]

More of the same, one of these days these rear calipers will be rid of its previous coating and ready to send of to a friend of mine for a special little somethin somethin put on them.


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For a change of pace as im getting sick of stripping paint, I started trimming up a center console I purchased. Plan is to delete the cup holder area as to me its kind of an awkward design, and then buy two universal cup holders to drop in. Will give a much more clean look, rid of the awkward centerconsolecupholderthingamagig they came up with. It will also allow me to add in some foam underneath the material im going to wrap it in as on long drives I rest my elbow there and being a hard surface it starts to hurt over time.

With the cupholder area cut out I cut a section out of it to use as a blank to start creating the mounting area for the Tein EDFC controller.

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[screescree]

Your photography skills are beautiful!
Every shot is like, art.

Oh, the car's pretty sick as well

[laextreme5]

Your photography skills are beautiful!
Every shot is like, art.

Oh, the car's pretty sick as well

Thanks man i appreciate the kind words, but i wouldnt go nearly as far as saying they are all that good. Maybe 1 or 2, if that lol

[laextreme5]

FINALLY DONE STRIPPING THE REAR CALIPERS TO MY LIKING. Fuck powder coat, that took way too many sessions of stripping and scraping. The outer portions will now are boxed up and shipped out to a buddy for some work.


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With the calipers taken care of I turned my attention back to the interior pieces. I picked up some new cutting disk for my Dremel and went to town on chopping it up. First I cut the heated seat button mounts out so I could reuse them in the front portion of the console. I then trimmed up. the cut line of the main center console to get it ready to grafted in the center section.


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Next up I got to work on the push button trim. I cut out the push button mounting so I could use it to mount into the shifter trim. With it out of the way I was able to trim up the flat section id cut from the cup holder area to create a blank to plastic weld in.


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With the trimming of the blank completed, and ready for the plastic welder which I will have to bring it to work for, I turned my attention to actually mounting the EDFC controller into the blank area I just created. I took some square aluminum tubing and cut it into two 90* angles. Ill be cutting out another set and two small sections to glue to the bezel as the actual mount itself.

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[hinrichs]

Very cool, can't wait to see it welded back together. Glad you finally got the calipers stripped down.