AJ124

I was reading your thread on Talkstuff the other day, looking good. Between yours and @Ade builds I'm getting all sorts of silly and expensive ideas!

I posted this on the FB group but thought it was worth posting on here for any non fb'ers.
Absolutely awesome engine spec on this super taikyu car. That noise and 8.5k rpm shifting 😍
 

After installing a P99PRS in a customers car this week and reading your thread your going to cost me money @Ade! 

Nicely done @Ade dash panel came out well too.

A few pictures from Bedford yesterday with the new rear spoiler fitted. The Spec L exhaust recorded 80dB at 4500rpm, plenty of headroom for when the stock manifold is ditched 
 

Tuning Developments Turbo Kit + Oil Cooler + Moroso sump baffle + already modified Sump, everything in the picture.

 
  The white 86 was bought for my wife and she has no interest in having the car turbo'd so it has to go! especially as I already have the identical kit on my own "86.
The Turbo was originally fitted in May 16 (so not a year old yet) and has covered around 5000 miles, it has already had two oil and filter changes (the last being in January), it has been very well looked after and is in mint condition.
 
It has been inspected, checked and then removed by Tuning Developments and given a clean bill of health and the receipt for this will obviously be included.
 
This is an extremely rare opportunity to get and fit one yourself "if you're good at this sort of thing", the only thing you'd then need is a tune. If you aren't that mechanically minded you could always get the Guru's at Tuning Developments to fit it for you. 
 
The many extras to the turbo come to over £500 alone
 
Onto performance
Well this is what Tuning Development say about their kit and I can agree with them 100%, it's AWESOME!!
Tuning Developments have been testing and fine tuning our very own GT86 from new, having explored various avenues of performance improvement, the finished product is now available, the Tuning Developments Turbo Kit for GT86, BRZ or FRS.
 
Since both the Toyota GT86 & Subaru BRZ were launched, a common finishing comment from anyone having a test drive would be that the chassis could easily cope with more power, and that if it had a 'little more go' it would be perfect. This is where Tuning Developments have stepped in and given an excellent option to the marketplace. Take a stock GT86, BRZ or FRS and dyno it. On our Dyno Dynamics machine we have ran many vehicles now and have a large catalog of results. Generally a stock car will run between 180bhp & 190bhp at the flywheel. With most of the power at the high end of the rev range, after 5500rpm. With the Tuning Developments Turbo Kit install, the car now produces these sorts of power levels at just 3750rpm. Making now 50% more power and 45% more torque!
Throttle response is improved over the standard car, along with bucket loads of mid range torque when comparing to a factory car. A dyno overlay can be seen further down this page showing just how much more drivable your GT86, BRZ or FRS could be with one of these Turbo Kits! 
 
Our particular stock GT86 made 184bhp with 160lb.ft torque as the peak numbers; the same car now makes 278bhp with 230lb.ft torque at just 5psi (0.35bar) of boost. That is an increase of 94bhp and 70lb.ft Torque over the standard car! For such low boost pressures this is an impressive feat, yet it is far from showing the full picture, overlaying the dyno data really does show how night and day the difference is.
 
The really exciting point is that the Turbo Kit does NOT lose ANY power at ANY RPM compared to the stock car; it makes MORE POWER, ALL of the time! At 4,000rpm the car is making 75bhp and 90lb.ft Torque MORE than a factory car, making joining motorways, overtaking and so on far easier and removing the need to rev the engine as hard as you would do with a standard car. That being said, if you do let the engine stretch its legs it certainly picks up speed much, much faster than the factory car! A nice smooth, relentless pull right the way into 5th and 6th gears with no signs of letting up. The Tuning Developments GT86/BRZ Turbo Kit is also stock fuel system friendly along with stock clutch friendly in this baseline trim, another positive.
 
To live with, the car is still as simple and nice to drive as Toyota and Subaru intended, economy when driving sensibly is not effected and we often see over 40mpg on a run despite having over 50% more power on tap.
 
The Tuning Developments GT86/BRZ Turbo kit is manufactured here in the UK and is based around a Precision Turbo with CEA Billet Technology. Despite being a fairly large frame of turbo, the car makes 5psi of boost pressure before 3,000rpm meaning that there is no feeling of turbo lag that is sometimes associated with turbo cars, instead, the Tuning Developments Turbo Kit gives off an impression similar to that of a much larger engine, offering a broad and more importantly useable torque band. The upside of using a larger frame of turbo is simple, future proofing. This turbo kit will not need any upgrades in the future if more power is wanted. Simply add fuel system and drive train upgrades along with ECU boost control and more boost pressure can be added (Testing is ongoing at the moment). The GT86/BRZ Turbo Kit is capable of 475+ bhp without any hassle. The turbo unit itself is rated well in excess of 500bhp. Making the Tuning Developments GT86/BRZ Turbo Kit the perfect choice for your GT86, BRZ or FRS! 
 
Included In This Package:
 
Stainless Steel Exhaust Manifold (Equal Length) 
Stainless Steel Uppipe With External Wastegate Takeoff
Stainless Steel 3” Downpipe
Precision CEA Billet Turbocharger
TiAL MVR 44mm External Wastegate
Aluminium Intercooler Core
Stainless Steel Intercooler Pipework
Silicone Joiner Hoses For Intercooler Pipework
Oil Feed & Return Lines For The Turbo
Modified Sump Pan To Accept Oil Return
Turbo Blanket
Heatwrap For Downpipe
Gaskets
Vacuum Hose
 
Its on e-bay for £3300 but would take a less from one of the members on here, any questions or offers please message me.
 

Contact @AJ124 on here he can trim binnacles and does it on an exchange basis (I think).

Just a quick update, received and fitted my new Alcantara dash panels from @AJ124
Looks so much better!

Still waiting on my Anarchy motive gear stick to turn up, but I presume that'll be the next thing to arrive.
Also.....Just a word of warning to those of you looking to get EBC Yellow brake pads, mine seem to be throwing out a hell of a lot of brake dust! Not a huge issue for me as my car is dirty all the time.... But to those that may be concerned about such things, the EBC's haven't been great so far on that front. Only other criticism is that the cold bite doesn't seem to be great, has admittedly caught me out a few times heading to roundabouts! But apart from those two issues, the pads have been great and lasted surprisingly will in the 30 minute Silverstone sessions. However the real test will be the Club track day at Blyton Park!

New gear knob fitted. Even managed to catch a few sun rays on the second picture ☀️

New exhaust arrived today. It's the HKS HiPower Spec L with black carbon tips. HKS have recently revised the design a little so it's now listed as 90db with the carbon tips. This should work nicely with the JDL manifold to keep me track noise limit friendly. I'll hopefully get it fitted in the next few weeks and I'll post up some video clips when it's on.
Few pictures for now:-




Thanks to @James@Amber for the excellent service as always 👍
Once this is fitted I'll also (finally) be able to get the centre Valenti light fitted too.

Glad you enjoyed! I'm actually down the yard working on the car all of this week, so hope to post some big updates soon

On Monday I spent the day at AST having a few more tweeks made to the Motons. While the low speed damping was excellent they just weren't as happy as I'd have liked with the high speed damping (the stuff you feel more pottering around on a daily basis).
AST had a plan as they felt it wasn't a spring issue but rather a damping one. To remedy this they produced custom pistons with 4 extra bleed holes for the rear and 2 extra for the fronts along with enlargement of some of the existing bleed holes. They went with less at the front to keep the precision and taughtness that you want on turn in. Changing the piston like this reduced both the compression and rebound damping. AST wanted to keep the compression a little lower but return the rebond to as it was so they revalved the dampers to achieve this.
So did it work?
Yes. When I first drove it, after just the rears being done, the difference was marked. The overly fidgety nature at low speeds and slight bounce this brought had gone. With the fronts done too the transformation was complete. The drive back felt more like a 'normal' car and that was with the dampers set to 2 clicks from fully soft - previously full soft was needed for road use. Finally the dampers felt like they could 'breathe' with the road 😀
I'm at Oulton Park today so they'll definitely get a trial by fire and I'll report back on how they do later 👍

Yes sir. Got a Varis on order.

Short video taken today by @Jared or his missus. Finally made me realise how mental the screamer pipe actually is.
Thought it might be of some interest to others  
 
 

Saw this in Dubai and thought of you guys

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@AJ124 I'm still discussing this with Hel but I'm pretty sure it'll be a 99°c one

TC off, FULL POWER!

It will be interesting to see what power this puts out! Probably not as much as we would all hope mind you.
  

I'm not sure if that's the same ITM but SARD are working on a very similar design.
Here are their design photo's:

 

I have the Cusco arms as I got them at a great price second hand and like the rubber boot that protects the rose joint, been fitted for 6-7K on my car including 2 track days and they make no noise or show any signs of wear.
I bought some Japspeed adjustable drop links and the quality was awful, the rose joints lasted a matter of weeks, I wouldn't trust their LCA's personally. 
I would have gone spl or velox if the Cusco ones hadn't shown up in the classifieds. 

Small update on these Cobra HFC we have had a couple of NA cars fail on the CO readings while having a MOT test our SC car passed easily but both NA car's even with the HFC pre heated  the car/s wouldn't make the correct CO reading but not every car has failed with the latest Cobra HFC
 Abbey/Cobra are looking into updating the HFC to sort this issue.
We will be in contact with everyone that has brought this updated HFC from us after the holiday period with what is going to happen.
Thanks
Mark
 
 
 

No thanks bud, hopefully got a buyer at full price

It's sort of inbetween the standard feel and having the spring completely removed. I didn't like it with no spring in there, the MTEC one is just right! - I really struggled fitting mine though, very fiddly I found!

@AJ124 Not yet no, our car will be having both fitted very soon. Particular customer just went for the shifter springs today.
 
Cheers
 
Mike

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