Angelina

Hello folks, 
Thought I'd introduce myself before I stick my oar in in the main forum.
A month or so back I flew back to the UK, got off the plane, drove up to Manchester and picked up my BRZ.

I drove home, jacked her up and gave her a once over. All seemed well so I packed my bags and headed to Dover.
Several days later, taking the scenic route via France/Belgium I ended up here;

Apologies for the poor photography I was busy, the guy who wanted to come for a passenger ride was also pretty crap with a camera.

I primarily took the trip as I had a few weeks off work and wanted to get a benchmark for the new toy. She's not bad. With the standard pads/disks I did start to get fade towards the end of a lap or 2 but that's easily resolved. I've owned 40+ cars in various states of tune, primarily built by myself on the car park/drive-way. 
I left the ring and headed for the Black Forest.

Spent a few days here, beautiful scenery and fantastic roads (be wary of bikers if you do head this way)
Then popped off to Switzerland for a little watch shopping/alpine pass bombing. However, following an almost incident with an avalanche whilst following a slightly pikeyed Impreza I decided it was time to head home.

Anyway, I'm here to participate/glean additional knowledge as and where I can. I'm out of the country now for 3 months so plenty of time to stock pile parts back home for a weekend of tinkering on my return.
Plans so far; Meister R GT1's (I've had Zeta/ZetaCRD's on a few cars now and they've always impressed)
17x8 Konig Hypergrams in Bronze
Potential brake upgrade. (WRX 4 pots are appealing)
TD Stage 1 with UEL
Removing the resonator. As good as it is on a backroad, on the Autobahn it gave me a migraine.
Anyway, nice to meet y'all. 

I was up at 45 when I did it and was a good thing. You spin off a few times and one of the side effects was that I blew my hose off the idle air valve and the car started stalling and could not idle. If any of you get into this situation, it's a quick fix. Remove the engine plastic cover and you will see a dislodged rubber hose. Connect that back in and put the cover on.

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Just picked up my white 65 plate gt86 primo from Perth. Really enjoyed the 85 mile drive home

Put mine up to 40psi when I got there. Deflated back to 35 the next day. No need to do the full 55


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Great pic's matey

Great pics as always, Will. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Lauren for organising, great to see so many 86's together. Quality convoy Lee, enjoyed all the pops and bangs up the M1!!! 

Lovely photos. Thank you. It was a good day.


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Hi Everyone
Here are my photo's from Japfest Donington on Saturday 13th July. (For those not on the Facebook group)
I think I got everyone's car, if I missed you out sorry.
Thanks for looking 
Will 

Booked a Travelodge just down the road on the a31 so I don't have such an early start with 2 kids on the Sunday morning

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PoorBoys Black Hole is a glaze, so if you just apply it and no sealant / wax on top, it probably won't past a wash or two. It's good stuff to use before waxing / sealing.
Autoglym UHD has great gloss on dark colours and lasts around 3 months in my experience. I've also got Soft99 Fusso, which has great longevity (6-12 mths) and looks good, but not quite as good as UHD. If you don't want to wax regularly worth considering Fusso or a ceramic coat.
Forensic Detailing on YouTube for good product tests. If you want to properly geek out on this stuff Pro Detailer Magazine is worth a look.

I used some Poorboys World Black hole on Sunday and this was the result:-

Interested to know what Wax everyone uses for dark colours? I've recently purchased a Dark Grey GT86. 

So this has happened... Again.
 
Someone reversed into it whilst it was parked. At least it wasn't a lorry this time, just over a year ago.
 
Left a note thankfully, but what a absolute PITA.
 
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Temporarily installed window box when my wife decided to buy plants on day out in Worcestershire countryside.  I’m thinking it looks good enough to become permanent 😎

Looks nice! Whats the TD na package?

Gives you everything you need to know against the standard GT86. Small things which could matter to some and could not. Same engine, gearbox, transmission, LSD.
https://media.toyota.co.uk/wp-content/files_mf/1437051642150511MTOYOTAGT86EQUIPMENTSPECIFICATIONS.pdf
Missing items:
Keyless entry, Auto climate control, power rear view side mirrors (and its heating), Cruise control, auto headlights, Xenon (Halogen instead), spoiler (Typically only in Pro but could be optioned on based 86), heated seats(Typically only in Pro) . Came in solid paint not metallic and 16 inch alloys instead of 17.

It has an LSD .


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Hmm, primo has or hasn't LSD diff?

Brakes discs are smaller, yeah. Other than that it's mechanically same.

Hello,
Anyone who owns a Primo model.in England on here? I've read about the main difference... Key start, no digital spedo etc...all stuff that doesn't seem overally important to me 
Is there anything mechanical wise? I saw something about the breaks being smaller? 

Lee is the main man I just eat cake🍰🎂

A lovely day today. Thanks for organising Lee and Nick.

Yep enjoyable day thanks to all that made it just found out there was another gig at Santa Pod so not a bad turnout

A lovely day today. Thanks for organising Lee and Nick.