Daninplymouth

Haven’t done that many yet as it’s not a daily car however i have been driving it all weekend & absolutely love it.
The screamer pipe & wastegate chatter are addictive & if its power your after i would suggest there’s no point messing around with anything else just bite the bullet & go for it, you won’t regret it.
Dan your only down the road in plymouth (im in Starcross) so your more than welcome to meet up & I’ll take you for a spin in it.

Quick update
I received the exhaust in three parts :
Header & Overpipe

Midpipe
Rear silencer
 
I decided to wrap the header with DEI Titanium wrap to avoid heating the engine oil and bay too much.


 
That was for the start of the week. This week end I decided to install the full exhaust in my tiny garage with my car jack stands, it took me the whole day which is pretty good knowing my exhaust is old and has 90 000km (~60 000 miles).

I also installed a sound generator suppressor part I 3D printed


 
It was dark by the time I could go out and try it out but I spent 40 minutes smiling. The sound level is a bit lower than with the original exhaust when cruising and that's without the sound generator. I didn't find any drone or noise I didn't want to create .
Once you start putting some load on the engine, the sound becomes great ! It revs with a sound I could qualify of stainless steel sound. The exhaust really answers to engine load, if you rev slowly it won't be very loud, if you give the accelerator a dab, it will become more "dramatic".
I really love this exhaust and I think it's what this car was lacking : sound and no torque dip (soon for me with my remap). If someone is interested I'll post some pictures / videos of the car with its new exhaust.

For the second Saturday in a row I’ve been on the road since 6.45am and only just got home, but all i can say is a massive thanks to Mike at Tuning developments the guys there are magicians.
This is how the car should have come from the factory.
It,s 99% motorway driving home so havent had too much chance to give the car some beans but the few times i have have been exactly what i was looking for in the car.
Anyway a few pics for anyone who’s interested 

Cars looking good👍

And here are the photos now iv just got them on

And here are the photos now iv just got them on

Hi
Thought i should probably make a little post of what i have done to the car now and keep it up to date as i add things on. Firstly i have owned my GT86 for nearly 12months now and i still love getting in it everyday for my short drive to work. This is the only car in my house and is used for everything and everyday and touch wood so far not one issue in my ownership.
Car was the updated kouki pro edition in white, so far my mods have only been fairly small as i wanted to make sure i had no major issues whilst still in the warranty but i have some big plans in time and am planning on keeping this car until it dies.
First mod i done was the TD resonated exhaust, the tips look so much better and gave the car the much needed sound to match the looks.
next up was another trip up to TD to get their NA upgrade, i went for the EL manifold. The car made 186bhp as it was and left at 205bhp with the standard decent gains across the range. Whilst in i also got the shifter springs fitted as well as a new mtec gear knob. shifting now feels great although it did take a little while to get used to the new knob as its quite long  and i had the inlet hose changed just to ditch the sound generator pipework.
Driving back though as much fun as i was having i couldnt help but think the exhaust was a bit loud, i thought it would settle down after a few weeks but it never really did. so next i ordered the super res centre pipe from TD to match to the exhaust and got that fitted. To me this has the perfect mix of quietness when needed but still has a decent sound when you want to play silly buggers.
My latest addition has been a new set of wheels, i have never been happy with the stock primacys, to be honest i cant even see how they are legal to sell especially in damp conditions. But rather than replace the stock sizes as the odd size made them expensive i wanted a bigger tyre and to fill out the arches more and didnt want to use spacers. After looking for month upon month and honestly changing my mind about 100 times, i actually changed 3 times in the 24hours before placing the order. i have ended up with OZ Hyper GT's 18x8 ET35. really like the look of these but have only seen them in one picture on a GT86 so im hoping they will look as good as i hope. Just waiting on them to arrive from Italy now then i will update with some photos i have gone with pilot sport 4 225/40/18 which i think will be great. i had these tyres on my previous Focus ST and they handled 330bhp and a ton of torque really well so cant see the GT causing any problems with a lack of grip.
I have a few more plans for the future and i will start saving and ticking things off my list, they are
coilovers, mainly to get rid of the arch gap and not planning on going lower than 20-25mm
upgraded brakes, probably the reyland kit
TD turbo kit, cause powerrrrrrrrrr
Then i would like to at least replace the drivers seat, if i could get something a little lower that would be great and a bit wider. The only other internal part i wouldnt mind changing is the steering wheel to a j-luth/keys so its a bit smaller and sits a bit closer to me as i have long legs it should make it more comfortable and help with a better driving postion
 
 

Had these delivered today, am away for the weekend so planning on getting them fitted Sunday evening.
will upload some photos once I have them
 

Thanks have cancelled my mishimoto’s and ordered a set of the steel rays
 

Thanks have cancelled my mishimoto’s and ordered a set of the steel rays
 

I would say no. Their graph is completely wrong and made up so in my eyes if they can’t even put the effort in to at least make a graph look half realistic what’s the mapping going to be like? To get an noticeable benefits I think you would have to go with header and map there’s no other real way to make any decent improvement 

I have had it on for 5-6 weeks now, some days I love it but others it actually leaves my ears ringing (must be getting old) plus the other half doesn’t like it much.
i think iv asked TD before about purchasing a mid pipe separately but think it was something like £250 I really don’t want to spend that much so I’m guessing it’ll be a lot cheaper to get a local exhaust place to weld a new resonator in but if someone wanted to buy the resonated mid pipe then i would be tempted to order the part from TD so just trying to weigh up my options as don’t want to spend £250 then get stuck with a mid pipe 

I think you can just about get away with that, but I would think it would make the handling feel soft. I know some people don’t like the 225/45 on an 8’ rim so I would think on a narrower rim this would make the sidewalls feel even softer 

Yes equal length on mine
 

Easy way is take the 12v cap from the power socket in the glove box, then look under your pedals you will see a hole where the sound enters the cabin. The cap fits the tube fine so you can test and remove if you don’t like in less than a minute

Thanks all just wanted to check it was normal and I wasn't being stupid with how I check the level

Hi it’s starting to get cold here now and my cars are quite prone to freezing up as the temperature drops. This will be my first winter in the GT so wondered if there was anything I could do to make my life easier. I have applied some gummi pfledge to the seals. Is it ok to use cool water to help clear the windows? 

I’m in. Can’t wait 👍

If you do get an answer back could you post it on here. Like the look of these and would be interested to see the price 

Are the sensors on the valves on these? I was a bit confused as Iv seen some wheels say the tpms don’t fit but if it’s in the valves then surely they should fit all wheels?

joined the club yesterday collected this my17

joined the club yesterday collected this my17

joined the club yesterday collected this my17

If only I had my GT86 😢 Can't get one till the start of Feb but will be straight up to see you then