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  5. Posted · Report reply

    Exhaust system is around a year and a half old as is believed to have been on the car for around 9000 miles.

    I've had the car up in the air a few times in the past couple of months ( before it being sat at fensport now, and the entire system is in perfect condition other than a very slight fraying on the section of flex pipe due to a handful of speedbumps disagreeing with my ride height.

    Full system consists of;

    Japspeed Manifold  (with cat) Rrp £450

    Milltek Non Resonated primary cat back system to twin exit back box (includes over pipe and secondary cat delete) RRP £1030

    Considering the slight fraying I believe this price is more than fair. 

    As the price is also a third of the cost to buy new I wont be shipping the system ( unless you pay for postage) this means  It will have to be collected in person.

    £500 if gone this week.

    Whatsapp me if easier- 07870882235

    The system sounds absolutely amazing, and isn't droney until 80mph. you can  drive around all day under 3k and sound like a factory spec performance car, then plant your foot and sound like a weapon.

    Exhaust can be heard paired with my supercharger twice in this video.

    And once in the trailer for the above, below.

    More videos available upon request via whatsapp.

     

    Grab a bargin.

    no offers

    No swaps

    No part ex

     

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    Hey guys, making it official.

    I'm selling my Litchfield spec S supercharger kit. (just the kit, not the car!)

    Its been maintained in my ownership without worrying about cost.

    It had new belts fitted at Litchfield two months ago, and has done around 200 miles on them.

    In total I believe the kit has done around 8000 miles.

    I'm asking for £2000, not a penny less (maybe a penny). 

    I see this as a more than fair price for 112bhp of bolt on power, especially considering the shelf price from Litchfield at £4300+.

    It makes the car the speed it should be.

    It also makes a very nice noise.

    It also looks damn good under the bonnet, but not outrageous, almoat oem looking.

    On top of the above, it has also increased the fuel economy. I regularly see 45/55 mpg on the motorway when maintaining speeds higher than I should be (not by too much)

    However driven in anger that isnt the case ( but it's so worth it, smiles per gallon)

    Heres a few pictures, and a video link.

    EXTRA

    My full exhaust system is also up for sale, if brought with the charger I will sell it for £500... It is built from- Japspeed manifold, 2nd decat pipe, miltek catback. (See video for sound)

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    Videos

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    UPDATE FINALLY

    Hey guys, sorry ive been lazy with the forum updates, here's an update for you.

    So, lets wind it back a few months.

    Build udate that was due to be come 'very soon';

    I brought some STATÜS Racing full Carbon Ultrasuede Ring-GT Bucket seats, and they are fantastic. They're abit snug for frame, could've done with the Ring GT-X size.

    The reason for me not posting the update was that I was supposed to receive a carbon centre console at the same time, along with some smoked valenti revos. However this didnt happen as my supplier had let me down and I couldnt be arsed to do a build update just for the seats.

     

    This lead to me near enough not using the forums for a long time and just using the facebook group as its alot easier when access to a laptop / pc is limited.

    Nothing catastrophic happened to the car, that isnt why I wasnt posting haha! ( until 2 weeks ago).

    As above, two weeks ago i developed a horrible noise under my bonnet, i hadn't a clue what it was,  but it didnt sound happy.

    Turns out it was just an injector seal.

    I had the noise diagnosed at fensport. Whilst i was there I had a good two hour chat with Adrian, and we've decided to go a little mad as the car is with them anyway.

    Step One-

    Get my Litchfield kit off ( and sell it to Tashan)

    Step Two-

    Fit AVO turbo stage 4+ ( with some.new bits on it that could be a first for the kit, I don't know much about it but its gonna be special)

    Step Three-

    If the price is right, fully forge internals

    Step Four-

    Upgrade Fuel System

    Step Five-

    Add Water/Meth injection

    Step Six- 

    See Dyno Graph of over 450bhp :)

     

     

    Sorry for the lack of updates, Ive just been lazy😂

     

     

    Forgot to add, I hit 160 on a privately owned site, resulting in my seibon wing generating too much downforce for my booting. I know have to 4" long cracks going towards the back of my bootlid and curling over the edge. I'm currently trying to decide which carbon bootlid to buy as a replacement 😂

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    23 minutes ago, S18 RSG said:

    My point isn't practicality really. Realistically, nothing I've even done to my car is practical (it's lower, no longer has usable back seats, has a loud exhaust etc.). My point is more about being sensible.

    I've been around the modified car forum scene for over 10 years. I've seen my fair share of people spending thousands on their cars for various reasons, and seen my fair share of failures and disappointments in the aftermath (especially when spending money for the purpose of getting attention or impressing others).

    I was just trying to get you to think about WHY you want to spend so much money on something so unnecessary. If you are doing it to impress people, you're following a dangerous path.

    That's all I'll say about this. It really doesn't matter to me what you do, it's you rmoney haha. I'm just trying to be Mr. Sensible.

     

    23 minutes ago, S18 RSG said:

    My point isn't practicality really. Realistically, nothing I've even done to my car is practical (it's lower, no longer has usable back seats, has a loud exhaust etc.). My point is more about being sensible.

    I've been around the modified car forum scene for over 10 years. I've seen my fair share of people spending thousands on their cars for various reasons, and seen my fair share of failures and disappointments in the aftermath (especially when spending money for the purpose of getting attention or impressing others).

    I was just trying to get you to think about WHY you want to spend so much money on something so unnecessary. If you are doing it to impress people, you're following a dangerous path.

    That's all I'll say about this. It really doesn't matter to me what you do, it's you rmoney haha. I'm just trying to be Mr. Sensible.

    I completely 100% understand your view on people spending money on their car to impress others, I've know people spend stupid stupid stupid amounts amounts of money and have failed drastically, however in this particular situation its entirely for me :)

    The things I do to my car are because I like /want them, I couldn't give a flying **** what others thought haha, and once I've added something I like to share it because I like it.

    Had the bumper been just to impress people it would've been wrapped the second I brought the car.. 

    Referencing back to your point about the covers (as it ties in with the above), I've made it my goal to eliminate the roof panel, however that would also entail a reapray, which I cant quite justify as when I get the paint redone I'm having everything stripped out so it'll look like a factory job. This also means I need my full cage fitting before hand..

    My point is, as its because I like the CF bumper and want it for myself, just having it wrapped would bug the hell out of me, even if it looked exactly like the real thing...

    As above though, I completely understand your concern and it isn't really very sensible, but personally I still think it'd be pretty neat:)

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    @Church as you can see, it wont just be my bumper that is carbon fibre :)received_10154043168135561.jpeg

    7 hours ago, S18 RSG said:

    You know what, I just deleted about 5 paragraphs answering you, because as I've learned many times on here, and generally around internet forums, my opinion counts for shit and you're gonna do what you want anyway. Why make myself look like a dick and try and make you see another perspective, when it's a complete waste of both our time :P

    If you truly believe the best use of your money is to buy a carbon fibre bumper, you go right ahead and do that :)

    Your opinion does count, and I understand all of your points, and for the most part I agree with you that in that it is an impractical exercise.

    However,  it everybody wants to be practical all of the time :)

     

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    7 minutes ago, Church said:

    Then imho it should go with CF wrap on .. hmm .. at least all around lower half of car body. Or at least i'd play a lot in photoshop to find out what else to wrap, to get good enough & of consistent style overall looks with such bumper fitted. Or make such bumper two part - body color till lower line of front headlights, and below that - CF.

    I once also was interested in one CF part, not for aethetic reasons though. But custom one-off part costs put me off. As in i wanted bumper & engine protection pan from CF for weight savings (vs eg. alu part) & finally protect somewhat bottom & front of our .. "bulldozer shaped" :) that can easily dig into snow and very low from ground, thus easy to scrape, front bumper for a bit more rallyish use on gravel & snow/icy roads. College with WRX was more lucky, due WRX/STI being more common and more often used for rallies, hence his wasn't custom one-off. But prices for me were cited 450eur model/560eur for mold/430eur for part itself. Of course as there are only few GT86 in Latvia and most probably almost no-one of their owners will think of rallying those, almost certainly first two steps had to be paid by just me, hence tripling price.

    I totally see where you're coming from, but if you saw the rest of my car you'd see why I'm against just wrapping my car to match :)

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    3 hours ago, S18 RSG said:

    The point of carbon fibre was always either aesthetics or weight saving. 

    In the past, if you wanted weight saving and aesthetics, you got real carbon fibre. If you wanted aesthetics, you got things wrapped to look like carbon fibre.

    The bumpers are already light enough, so the weight saving aspect is irrelevant. Surely if you just want the aesthetics, getting the bumper wrapped achieves that.

    At the point where you go real carbon just for aesthetics, you've done it so you can brag about having real carbon, but from memory, I'm sure when I looked at your car at Japfest there were a few panels which were just covered in a carbon skin as opposed to being real carbon (the roof and perhaps the fenders also from memory?), so with that being the case, is it really worth spending hundreds, or perhaps thousands of pounds on real carbon, when other parts of the car are just covered/wrapped anyway?

    The only thing that is a cover is the roof, the arches ( if you couldn't tell from the way that they fit) are 100% real carbon also, the doors are CFRP which the entire outer layer of the door being a carbon shell but the insides of it that hold the cards FRP.

    Wrapping never looks the same, of it did, why would people ever buy the real thing?

    On your note about bragging, I don't share thst view point. Its about not cutting corners and being half arsed, if the most part of it has been done properly why not do the rest in suit?

    Granted your point about weight saving is valid, the difference will be unnoticeable, but it's still there, the replacement part will be lighter and more robust. 

    Heck, I'm not trying to sell you one, I'm just seeing if people would be interested :)

    3 hours ago, Tareim said:

    @S18 RSG there will never be a carbon fibre wrap that will look anywhere near as good as true genuine carbon fibre

    The above member understands ( thumbs up emoji ) :)

    3 hours ago, S18 RSG said:

    A carbon wrap is maybe £100.

    A carbon bumper is maybe £1000.

    Worth it?

    Plus, re-iterate my final point, various parts of his car aren't genuine carbon, just carbon skins/covers.

    There is only one 'skin/cover' that is the roof panel. This is due to the fact that at the time seibon didnt do a replacement roof panel for it like they do now. This  (singular) cover was fitted as a decision by the previous owner.

     

    3 hours ago, Church said:

    BTW, if it's done for aestetics .. IIRC there was one cheap trim in JDM, with steelies for wheels & unpainted bumpers, especially for those that intend to mod it in track day car. It looked FUGLY! There are parts, that look good, if contrasting with body paint (eg. roof, fender garnish, stripe under sidewindows, some small bits), but whole front bumper?
    Have you guys really checked out how it will look with just bumper in CF looks? And if you'll "fix" that with painting in body color, where is CF's aesthetics part then?

    BTW, imho it wouldn't be lookwise that bad, if front bumper wouldn't be visual continuation of bonnet, and be visually just underside/bumper part, like many older cars are. But as it isn't .. there is reason, why most aftermarket bumpers for toyobaru are body color painted aswell.

    I take it you havent seen my car :P it wouldnt just be the carbon front bumper, look at my profile and you'll understand my interest. I understand your point though, and I completely agree thst if someone just brought a CF front bumper and no other mods it'd look silly.

     

    3 hours ago, Deacon said:

    They're not my thing but good luck with it 🖒

    Thanks :)

    Are you sure they're not your thing? It'd look good against the black ? ;)

    I joke, cheers again though :)

    36 minutes ago, Ztox said:

    I think he just wants a carbon fibre bumper regardless :lol:

    Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner ;)

     

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    2 minutes ago, Lauren said:

    I think you have a bit of a problem in that hardly anyone has a BRZ and nobody with a GT86 is going to want a BRZ front bumper. 

    Also I'm not sure what the advantage is of carbon fibre. It might be a bit lighter, but the plastic ones will hardly weigh a huge amount. 

    As above, it can be the 86 bumper, or the hybrid of the two the APR one.

    The same could be argued with the carbon fenders in regards to weight reduction. The aesthetics of it would be the main appeal I'd imagine, and if people like myself that are swapping out what they can for carbon then in the long run every little helps :) 

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    8 minutes ago, Keethos said:

    Have they given you a ballpark figure for a tool, I'm sure I was told they're a good couple of grand which means you'll probably need a fair few people to make it worth wild, I've trained up some people who specialised in fibreglass and carbon fibre and the idea did cross my mind when I had my crash.

     

    Ive been told the mould is be less than 4 figures, if i want one of each theybsaid they would do it at a discounted rate, or I could pay a little extra and own the rights to the mould (s) :)

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    22 minutes ago, Deacon said:

    Although this will look nice it won't be very day to day practical as cf will crack and break if you cach it rather than bend like the oem plastic bumpers won't it?

    You'd be surprised, it can be more brittle, however if you rely on your bumper being able to bemd and flex then really you shouldn't be driving.

    My BRZ is 45mm lower than stock and I have a CF varis front splitter, the worst I've done is scuff my splitter on the occasional speedbump... 

    I wouldnt say it would make the world of difference, the worst that could happen would be the CF would crack, then it can just be repaired by re lacquering and polishing...

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    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, today I would like to offer you the opportunity to have your say/ show your interest in a carbin fibre front bumper (or any other bits you want custom fabricating.

    If you've seen my BRZ, you'll know I'm a fan of carbon fibre.Because of this I have been in contact with a company that custom makes carbon fibre parts for motorsport racing teams. They generally make the undertrays, diffusers, splitters, wings, various body panels, full carbon bodies for gt/lm cars ( they even did a full carbon body for a nissan gtr road car!).

    This company has agreed to custom fab me a front bumper out of CF to match all of the oem mountings and such. 

    To make the bumper they would have to take a mould, and obviously it would come out as the BRZ shape.

    Would people be interested in buying one if the price was right? 

    If enought interest was shown for the 86's on here then I can also get an 86 mould made so they can be produced.

    Now the reason why I have posted this and asked if anybody would be interested is because to get this bumper made just for my car, Is because the company wont have any use for the mould afterwards, so have nothing to cover the cost of it being made, other than me paying for it.

    Now I am not opposed to the idea of forking out a few extra £££ for something one off, but I thought I'd give all of you guys the chance to be a part of the first ever (globally) batch of carbon front bumpers. 

    As the cost of the mould being produced could be rather steep, the price for the bumpers will reflect that. In turn, if there's lots of you interested then the bumper gets cheaper, and if there is serious numbers interested, then i'll be able to get the cost right down.

    Ive yet to be given the numbers about how much everything is going to cost, i'll post wherever necessary when I get that information. This thread is purely to gage interest.

    Ontop of the above, is there any bits people want making thatwould universally fit the brz/86? If there is enough demand for any part no matter how big or small I can have it made... all carbon is FULL carbon too, none of the off the shelf CFRP like my car is covered in, meaning that the underside of the panel will look as pretty as the outside. I plan on having a new bonnet made so that when i have it open the underside looks as good as the top! :)

    Sorry for the essay, and ontop of that the poor grammer! (The joys of typing on a smartphone and not quite knowing how to convey your point )

    Hope to hear from you guys soon

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    Hey guys, sorry for being so slack on here as of recent times, I'll have some build updates next week though :)

    So the reson for this thread. Out of those of you who have Bunnied the Rocket, who had the most confident/ best quality body shop?

    I've managed to secure a 1 of 1 Full carbon rocket bunny V2 kit and will be looking at getting it fitted after ive been to new york with the other half (we're going 28th dec - jan 6th ) as I've spent what I can until then due to it costing a bomb.

    Obviously i know that the standard kit be it v1 or 2 is an absolute ballache to fit/waterproof, let alone a CF one...

    Any hints/ tips/ pointers/ post codes/ urls/ numbers/ names would be helpful 

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