Kouki 86 low mileage direction - Supercharger/Lightweight/GR

[will300 812]

@Feemono & anyone else interested, At the recent Donington trackday I noticed two cars didn't have the little intake resonator despite having an otherwise stock intake. However what both cars did have was the Tuning Developments exhaust manifold, I therefore suspect that TD remove this as part of there upgrade package, most likely so it doesn't get mellted by the hot exhaust. 

[Gt86Aaron 3]

They definitely blank them off at TD as they did when mine went in for there NA kit 

[Feemono 7]

Big thanks Will for that and cheers Aaron as this whole thing was baffling me and making me question everyone who's worked on the car including the Toyota dealership who I purchased it from. 

I didn't like the title of the TD thread elsewhere on the forum but I went and vented in there anyway with my thoughts on TD but suffice to say in here, was thinking to ask TD for a branch resonator back but I don't think I'll venture the energy on it now.

My current thinking is to try and get my hands on a used Japanese/Aus/North American air intake as that'll net me the missing resonator and improve the airflow as a whole. Just a shame someone else isn't paying for it... 

I can't get a straight answer as to whether the updated 2017 air intake will fit neatly on the UK car's Zenki manifold though. Conflicting reports on one of the American forums I forget which.

Thanks again guys!

[surrey86 352]

I tried it with it back in, and rotating it a bit so it wouldn’t touch and I did feel the throttle response was slightly better so left it in. However I will say the difference wasn’t much to get excited about - not talking night and day here it was fractional at best.