Great description of the KB products. This car is still dual purpose, but it’s somewhat rarely driven on the street. As you suspected, this car does see frequent oil changes. The last change was in May and this is it’s 5th oil change in 1.5 years and 11000 miles. Thanks for documenting this!
@@aygwm Common practice to change oil every 2 -3 track days. In the owners guide for the STi it even recommend changing oil before and after ever driving event.
@@aygwm Reasonable question, haha. First two oil changes were done early and free due to the 2 years of free routine service included with the car. After that I stopped using OE Subaru oil and started tracking the car with 5W30, so I left the other 2 free changes unused. My most recent change was a little early at 1,700 miles, but I needed to install the baffle, so it is what it is. Meanwhile, I’d done 3 track days and 1 autocross day with ~50 runs on it, so I don’t feel too bad about the timing.
We honestly weren't optimastic as the SYMS baffle already prevents oil from surging up into the front timing cover. Im personally not a fan of then extra pick up tube strainer either.
Great description of the KB products. This car is still dual purpose, but it’s somewhat rarely driven on the street.
As you suspected, this car does see frequent oil changes. The last change was in May and this is it’s 5th oil change in 1.5 years and 11000 miles.
Thanks for documenting this!
Thanks for the support and working with us Brian!
Why in the world have you changed the oil that many times?
@@aygwm Common practice to change oil every 2 -3 track days. In the owners guide for the STi it even recommend changing oil before and after ever driving event.
@@aygwm Reasonable question, haha. First two oil changes were done early and free due to the 2 years of free routine service included with the car. After that I stopped using OE Subaru oil and started tracking the car with 5W30, so I left the other 2 free changes unused.
My most recent change was a little early at 1,700 miles, but I needed to install the baffle, so it is what it is. Meanwhile, I’d done 3 track days and 1 autocross day with ~50 runs on it, so I don’t feel too bad about the timing.
@@aygwmcooked oil needs replacing, no matter how “young” it is! 😁
OMG, you are working on 900BRZ’s car. Nice! You guys are really doing what Subaru and Toyota should be doing! Keep up the great work! 😊
Thank you for the kind words. Im sure 900BRZ will agree, we are just trying to find solutions for our community
had their pickup in my 06 sti back in the day. highly recommended
Their EJ products are fantastic. I am no so sure about their fa20/24 offerings
Seems like there will an answer for the oil starvation at some point. Thanks for making these videos. I think I have watched them all.
Thanks for your support! Yes, I'm sure we will find the answer to the oil starvation issue at some point.
Loving 900brz mentality on this issue, I'm inspired to learn more about tracking stats with a computer I only use torq for now
I'm assuming this upgraded pickup and baffle would also work on the VB WRX correct?
You'd have to ask Killer B. Although this owner has proven these items to have no positive effect
Interesting solution from Killer B. We'll see how it pans our (pun intended).
Spoiler alert: results showed no improvement.
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Shoot… No improvements at all or very little? Maybe IAG will be able to do something 🤞🤞
@@CarsOverPeople No improvement. It seems the Kazama Auto Baffle is the next one to try.
@@CMAutohaus
Shame… yeah, we should try any & all baffles/other solutions to see which one(s) will truly improve reliability…
I'm so disappointied these mods made things worse.
We honestly weren't optimastic as the SYMS baffle already prevents oil from surging up into the front timing cover. Im personally not a fan of then extra pick up tube strainer either.
@@CMAutohausI bought the extra strainer, should I not install it on my 86?
@@murbin.86 Yes, I do not recommend the extra strainer