JRot Build

[JRot 13]

Well I figure, I've been extremely slack in both this forum and the other one that shall not be named. 

So some of you know me, most probably dont xD that's how pro I've been at staying out of the loop. 

Anyway mods done thus far, sound pipe delete, induction pipe, replacement air filters lols.

Vinyl wrapped some of the inside panels debating colours atm. Sound deadened doors, some of the dash, replaced door speakers and dash tweeters. Will be possibly dual subbing it soon and delete the rear speakers. 

As for external partially vinyl wrapped, heavily tinted with limo shade, Seibon cf bonnet, Seibon cf rear wing, beatsonic v2 aerial wrapped carbon. 

I am debating headlights soon, redening or black spraying the tail lights (spare set), full vinyl wrapping. 

Oh yeah and I have a Quicksilver Cat back exhaust system installed.. Hear that from a long way away. 

Anyway I named my car after a jedi 'Ahsoka' so here is my build thus far. Yeah ignore the lettering I'll get it done alot more subtly soon

I'm only showing my build now as I see GT86's and BRZs quite alot now, most the time I'm overtaking them all! 

Seeya around

 

[Cerastes 204]

Very nice, no pics of the inside? 

Tempted to tint my windows, gets so hot inside, seats are unbearable to sit on. Plus it adds some more black/darker bits to it. 

[JRot 13]

No photos of the inside atm, as I'll be redoing it all soon, so it'll go back to semi stock soon on the inside.  The tinting in say limo on the rear windscreen and rear quarters makes a hell of a difference for 1 privacy, 2 temperatures and 3 yeah it looks awesome. I will say one thing i have to like double check my rear windscreen at night as unless the car behind has xenons i wont really see them, except out the side mirrors.

[JRot 13]

I am debating replacing the headunit and doing the Rommed Nexus 7 ICE install, at leas then that's significantly more powerful than any head-unit out there. But its a time consuming and relatively complicated install ^^

[JRot 13]

So, I could have fed 500 odd Africans families for a month and supplied running water to several settlements. But being part African I turned my nose up at that and bought these headlights instead. 

<3 them, now to just sort out the sagging front bumper issue. 

 

P. S yes the front black quarters will be going soon. 

 

 

[Minion 132]

4 minutes ago, JRot said:

So, I could have fed 500 odd Africans families for a month and supplied running water to several settlements. But being part African I turned my nose up at that and bought these headlights instead. 

<3 them, now to just sort out the sagging front bumper issue. 

 

P. S yes the front black quarters will be going soon. 

 

 

I've been looking at getting a set of these, do you have a link where you got them from?

Also were they a straight forward swap? I've heard that they can be a bit of a pig?

[Lucas 244]

I like seeing them in UK.. i Love D-Spec headlights, but they have different connectors don't they? 6 pin for US cars and 8 pin for UK/Euro cars, so it does need re-wiring. Was this the case?

[JRot 13]

Ello,

 

Sorry for the delay, these were Crystaleye Black LED JDM headlights, they were 8 pin and were plug and play, they themselves were easy swap out move the ballast over and replug all back together, however the front bumper is an absolute pig to remove and to also put back on.. mines sagging and i'm looking into resolving it soon.

The only downside but again I'm looking at a solution involving a small pre-made wiring harness and adaptors from a  company in the US is these crystaleyes do not run the LED strip as DRLS, however they do as Side lights, so I'll be getting a harness to ensure they stay on when the car starts and always on. Saves me splicing wires anyway.

They do not use motors to adjust so its a bit of a pain to set up the beam, but hell at least one less thing to fail *looks at my stock lights where the motors failed angrily*

From my research prior to buying these, The Spec D headlights you have to do full wiring, cutting, soldering and then manual beam adjustment too, as they are 6 pin only and built for the US market only, they can be modified to suit, but if i'm / you are willing to spend this money on your headlights then you shouldn't have to do a shit load of rewiring and cutting in to the primary car lighting harness.... that was my reasons anyway.

I won't beat about the bush, you may call me crazy, but the costs of these were cheaper than me replacing the stock headlights... considering the motors had both failed. 

These were £453 for the part, then ~£50 premium insurance (optional), then ~£160 P&P, then a further £140 or so for import and duties and the parcelforce charge. so in total i think it worked out as £780 all in.

If your still interested, or just to look at the nice shinies on their website, I purchased these through Nengun in Japan. awesome customer service, took about a month to get to the UK due to being built to suit UK consumption..

https://www.nengun.com/crystaleye/led-headlights

 

[JRot 13]

Next modification gets to the UK in 2 weeks and will be the Buddyclub JDM LED taillights, figure, sequential taillights to go with sequential headlights.

[Kodename47 446]

4 hours ago, JRot said:

I won't beat about the bush, you may call me crazy, but the costs of these were cheaper than me replacing the stock headlights... considering the motors had both failed. 

Are you sure that both motors failed? Or has something happened to the level adjuster sensor under the car?

[JRot 13]

8 hours ago, knightryder said:

Are you sure that both motors failed? Or has something happened to the level adjuster sensor under the car?

Well the LH headlight motor I opened up, it was black inside so that defo failed, the RHS with manual adjustment you cannot move it... So I assume it's stuck. 

[Kodename47 446]

6 hours ago, JRot said:

Well the LH headlight motor I opened up, it was black inside so that defo failed, the RHS with manual adjustment you cannot move it... So I assume it's stuck. 

Manual adjustment?

[JRot 13]

Hello all,

Right rather than me bringing up a long deceased post on another part of the forum, I recently took the risk to buy a harness loom from Diode Dynamics for my Crystaleye V3 Headlights with the aim to use a plug and play kit to run the sidelight boomerang as a DRL.

Diode Dynamics had absolutely no idea if it would work, being about £100 for this little venture, I was a bit reluctant to spend that and find it didn't work...

Anyway, I can confirm it does indeed work, granted the long white cable that came on the harness is not plugged in as its for something else, I have the 2 main plugs installed:

• Car off - Headlights OFF / DRL's OFF
• Car on - Headlights OFF / Handbrake Engaged/DRL's OFF
• Car on - Headlights OFF / Car in Neutral or in Gear and Handbrake released/ DRL's ON

Then they just stay on when the headlights fire on with the Automatic lights on sensor etc.

So all works 100%. The routing of the cable/conduit, I've literally just preliminary routed it above the radiator dual fans and under the air filter box, and then wrapped up that long ass loose white aforementioned wire and plug around the left side headlight harness and pushed it into one of the many holes in the engine bay.

I took a few photos as I know a couple of people have been asking me about this for sometime now

[JRot 13]

Before anyone laughs the vinyl is wrecked on my car, so yes it will come off as I will be getting bodywork and panels resprayed soon

[JRot 13]

So in regards to the Harness:

Always-On™ Module for 2013-2016 Subaru BRZ (EU/AU/JDM)

Estimated Total Including Handling and Shipping: $75

(Shipping: USPS - First Class Package International Service

Customs Charge & Handling Fee: £21.60 

https://www.diodedynamics.com/always-on-module-for-subaru-brz-eu-au-jdm.html

 

 

[DGT86R 6]

Thanks @JRot 

Ordered both headlights and harness 👍

[CherryBomb 34]

Hiya. I read in another post that you said your Quicksilver exhaust is cracked and blowing. Can you give some details about that? I'm really surprised. I was under the impression it was a high quality product, and I'm considering getting one for my car.

[JRot 13]

16 hours ago, CherryBomb said:

Hiya. I read in another post that you said your Quicksilver exhaust is cracked and blowing. Can you give some details about that? I'm really surprised. I was under the impression it was a high quality product, and I'm considering getting one for my car.

I was rear ended when stationary by someone going 40mph in town. It absolutely wiped out my exhaust system, I had it repaired via insurance and then looked at by a specialist I think whatever cracked broke on the inside and also the Y section must have had a crack in too from the crash, so it's not really the exhausts fault, just mine for not replacing sooner. 

I love the quicksilver exhaust though bear in mind it's quiet deep and loud at high revs. I replaced with another new quicksilver exhaust recently. 

[CherryBomb 34]

Ohhh, I see, it was due to a collision. Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. The hell with the exhaust, are YOU ok?? Did you get whiplash?

I like the Quicksilver because of the sound. Well, as much as one can assess via video. If you're out and about sometime, could I meet you somewhere and have a listen of yours? It would be good to know what it sounds like in real life before spending the money.

[JRot 13]

1 hour ago, CherryBomb said:

Ohhh, I see, it was due to a collision. Damn, I'm sorry to hear that. The hell with the exhaust, are YOU ok?? Did you get whiplash?

I like the Quicksilver because of the sound. Well, as much as one can assess via video. If you're out and about sometime, could I meet you somewhere and have a listen of yours? It would be good to know what it sounds like in real life before spending the money.

Haha, thanks for the concern that crash was quite a while ago so I'm totally fine now, at the time my shoulder a neck seized up and the 86 took the full impact. 

Im in the process of tidying up the car, and intending to do some fixing and replacing of panels over the next 6 months to repair all the war wounds...im based around the Silverstone area so depends where abouts you are lol. I kinda ditched the car scene recently after just witnessing utter retardacy at various meets etc. 

The quicksilver I've gotten now is fully bedded in and is about 4 months old. 

[CherryBomb 34]

'retardacy' lolol. That's a new one. Even though we are highly social creatures, we do have a hard time getting along, don't we?

You live near a race track? hahaha, that's a riot. Why am I not surprised?

I'm not bothered about the state of your car. I'm sure it got smashed up. I'm about two hours away from you, but that's ok. I don't mind. It's just an excuse to drive my car!

[JRot 13]

9 minutes ago, CherryBomb said:

'retardacy' lolol. That's a new one. Even though we are highly social creatures, we do have a hard time getting along, don't we?

You live near a race track? hahaha, that's a riot. Why am I not surprised?

I'm not bothered about the state of your car. I'm sure it got smashed up. I'm about two hours away from you, but that's ok. I don't mind. It's just an excuse to drive my car!

Well some are more sociable than others. But not many. From my experiences anyway, maybe I'm just a bit more critical now I'm in my 30's lol 

It's just been through the battles of living in the UK, the damage on it is from ballbrained people who can't drive without ploughing into things first.

I can easily drive out to meet half way etc if you'd like but let me know your availability. Though I do need to replace all 4 tyres before I actually die in that car. 

[CherryBomb 34]

I don't mind coming to you. But I'm not in a great hurry, so waiting on your tyres isn't a problem either. I have to save the money for the exhaust first anyway. I'm just doing research. In fact, I just posted on the other website about possibly starting a meetup just for talking about exhaust systems! lol. I have so much to learn.

[JRot 13]

57 minutes ago, CherryBomb said:

I don't mind coming to you. But I'm not in a great hurry, so waiting on your tyres isn't a problem either. I have to save the money for the exhaust first anyway. I'm just doing research. In fact, I just posted on the other website about possibly starting a meetup just for talking about exhaust systems! lol. I have so much to learn.

Haha that's alright then was thinking damn I have to clean the car lol. 

I'm still waiting on the recall too since they called it off due to missing sealant. 

A meet up for exhausts that's a new one. 

Aye the quicksilver isn't the cheapest out there, I went for it twice now due to how it sounds, its lightweight and looks nice too. Also the added thing that not many have one, I've only ever seen in the 5 years I've owned this car... 1 person selling one, and no one saying they own one. I just wanted sinething a bit more unique. Which is why my original plan was to have a custom tri central exhaust built, buuuuttt the cost of that was being quoted around £2-3k so I chickened out lol 

[CherryBomb 34]

No, it's not the cheapest, but it seems to be about £100-£150 more than some other good ones, and that doesn't seem extortionate. The really cheap ones are cheap for a reason, I think. The main thing is I really liked the sound. I want a deep, rumbly sound, not a poppy/bangy sound or one that sounds like a Kawasaki dirt bike.

And no man, don't clean your car on my account!