{"id":1494,"date":"2019-01-11T15:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:42:16","slug":"agent-86-update-ls-v8-swap-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/agent-86-update-ls-v8-swap-begins","title":{"rendered":"Agent 86 Update: LS V8 Swap Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After two years of development on many other aspects of our shop 2013 FR-S &#8211; testing of coilover kits, big brake kit, giant wheels, flares, camber plates, battery relocation, and more &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58786#post58786\">V8 swap finally began<\/a> in December 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Projects\/2013-Scion-FRS\/i-LKQmxnt\/1\/ffbf628a\/M\/P1102697-M.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58786#post58786\">3-part Forum Build Thread update<\/a> covers the last few months of work on this car, including some random things like a wheel bearing replacement, flare fab work clean-up, carbon front nose options, and other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Product-Pictures\/Vorshlag-BRZFR-S-LS1-Swap-Kit\/i-TbqqPq7\/0\/01b56809\/M\/DSC_5976-M.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But the V8 swap is what matters most! The FA20 2.0L came out, then we stitch welded a stock crossmember, modified the tunnel to accept the giant Tremec T56 Magnum XL, and got the mock-up LS and T56 installed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Projects\/2013-Scion-FRS\/i-cNkKRmg\/0\/96c00991\/M\/B61G4637_edit-M.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We took a &#8220;starting weight&#8221; of the 86 chassis, which already has a BBK, coilovers, 18&#215;11&#8243; wheels, 315mm tires, giant Optima battery, and more. Then we weigh damn near everything we removed, and do some weight analysis. Lots to see in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=58786#post58786\">this 3-part update<\/a>! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of development on many other aspects of our shop 2013 FR-S &#8211; testing of coilover kits, big brake kit, giant wheels, flares, camber plates, battery relocation, and more &#8211; the V8 swap finally began in December 2018. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/agent-86-update-ls-v8-swap-begins\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}