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So, I completely forgot about all the stuff I had packed away ready to sell until I cleared out my garage today, so I figured now would be a good time to put them back up on sale. Apologies for the lack of pictures. If you're interested in a particular thing, just let me know and I can get pictures of those bits that don't have them right now. Stock bits: In case anyone is in need of any stock parts, I have a load of them in the garage. I have no real reason to sell them, but would sell if anyone needs them: Stock rear lights - Perfect condition, no issues with condensation, were replaced with Valenti lights a few months ago - Ebay says ~£100 per side, but I'll take offers in that region. Stock wheels - Good condition. 2 fairly new off brand tyres (~2500 miles of use), 2 Primacies with around 4mm of tread. May keep them for track use anyway, but if anyone needs them, I'll take offers in the region of £200. Pic of 2 of them from the day they were taken off. Can get individual pics this weekend. Stock springs - Originally replaced with Eibachs, now replaced by coilovers. Were taken off the car at 20k miles. May not be of any use to anyone, but just in case. I'll say £100 to follow rules, but will listen to any offers Random bits: Nothing car related here, but stuff that's just lying around my room which could be useful to someone. KFA2 2GB GTX660Ti x2 - My original SLI gfx card setup. Both great condition. Great performance, better than 1 GTX680 (you could find what that equates to these days). Will say £50 each for these, but again will listen to offers. Pic was to show size comparison with the 970's that replaced them. Can get individual pics now they've been cleaned up etc. 500GB Slim PS3 - I'm sure most people now have current gen consoles, but this has been sat in my drawer now for around 2 years or more without use. I have a bunch of old(ish) games for it too, and the PSMove with 2 controllers and a few motion games. Judging by similar sales on eBay etc. this is now worth around £100. Will accept something around that. Pic from when I bought it all (minus a load of other games I bought afterwards) All bits are located at my home in South Wales, but am willing to bring anything along to a meet (perhaps with exception of wheels), travel half way to meet someone, or post things providing we can negotiate after shipping costs etc. Any questions/pic requests, please just let me know

Only a small update this time. As those of you who attended the TD open day would have seen, I got around to fitting the rest of the HT Autos kit. I like the way it looks now it's all together. I screenshotted this picture from a video I found on Youtube of the open day (credit to whoever recognises the image from their video) As for today, I took advantage of the first good weekend I've had free in a while, and got around to plastidipping the rest of the interior. The air con surrounds were a pain in the ass to remove and refit, but it was worth it I think. Finally, I had a go at fitting the bonnet struts I bought last week, only to realise that I had fitted them to the wrong part of the wing, and the bonnet wouldn't close. I figured I would just leave the bonnet ajar, lock the car away and sort it tomorrow (as I wanted to watch the El Classico), however due to the fantastic alarm on these cars, I couldn't do that without my alarm going off every 20 seconds, so I had to remove them ready to start again tomorrow. Here is how they sat upon initial fitting though: So, that little plan will toll over into tomorrow (hopefully the weather stays good). I also want to try and get my amplifier for the speakers wired up, as it's been sat on my bedroom floor partially wired for the past month, and, if I have time, plastidip the Toyota badges black, and the centre section of the front lip black also. May be a job for another day however. In other news, my new steering wheel is around a week away from completion. Slightly thicker than the stock wheel, all black alcantara with red stitching and a red 12 o'clock stripe. Safe to say I'm pretty excited for it. That's all for now

Hi all, After a morning of effectively banging my head against a wall, searching through all the forums trying to find a simple answer to a simple question, I've given up in the hope that someone here can help. Basically, I'm looking for the simplest, cheapest option to upgrade the sound quality of the 86. We all know how poor the standard sound system is, so could anyone point me in the direction of a simple solution. I don't want to spend too much time/money on this, as honestly it's not that important to me, but I figure it's a worthwhile job I could get done on a cold, wet weekend while waiting for the good weather to return. Look forward to your responses

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I'm near the southwest, although technically I'm in a different country. Just over the bridge in Cwmbran. Welcome to the club

Indigo are fine, but they remind me a little of Litchfield whenever I've dealt with them. They do a good job, but really they would rather work on GTR's and other high end stuff. They are also monstrously terrible at responding. It took me 3 emails to get a reply from them last time, by which point I had given up. As for how the car feels post map, quite simply, better. I don't think the extra power is particularly noticeable (I'm up from 162whp to 178whp and 135wtq to 145wtq) but throttle response is hugely improved, and the car is so much more alive. There's very little need to change down gears to overtake anymore either, as that extra bit of midrange grunt has made the torque dip less of a hassle. Mine has the secondary decat, catback exhaust, filter and map, so realistically the differences are probably going to be slightly exaggerated compared to what yours would achieve. If you want to give it a go, I'm open to meeting up somewhere so you can get a feel for it yourself. I took a few people out at the TD day who have stock cars, and they were all equally surprised at the difference it made.

As Tareim said, nowhere in South Wales has a reputation of working with ECUtek, so I would rather travel. Abbey Motorsport was the easiest for me to get to, as it's just M4 > M25 and a few miles further, didn't even need a sat nav other than to know which turning it was. Takes about 2 and a half hours to get there, and even better he works on Saturdays too, which is great if you're a 9 to 5er.

Hey, at least my username makes it easy to determine which car is mine... As for knowing who I am, well that's easy also, the guy that doesn't sound English

You can see the photos I took here, however they were taken on my phone, so not the best. I think Will had his camera, so he probably got some better pictures.

I didn't even realise you had the printout of the boost My bad. In which case, the power curve is nowhere near as bad as I was thinking initially. Definitely more to come from it if you want it though. It feels so much more than what's on paper.

That curve looks so much better than the one you showed me, the last run seemed to completely die at about 5k. Either way, as we said, that piece of paper means nothing. That car is outrageously fast.

Top meet today, big thanks to Mike and the guys for the hospitality, food and most importantly, shelter! Good to see some old faces again and meet all the new (to me) people, and some great cars on show. Look forward to the next one.

I don't have a video, but I have a second cat delete and custom cat back with stock manifold. It doesn't drone at all from in the cabin, but as I found out today, it's surprisingly loud from outside, as loud as most other cars at the meet with the exception of those running no cats at all. I'll try and get a video at some point.

Not a BRZ owner, but I have a GT86 and am from South Wales. Welcome to the forum.

My mate is probably coming along in his GTR, so I assume it would be fine

Looking at reviews of long term clients of Jack, the Alcantara tends to hold up pretty well for around 3 years of hard track use. I don't think it'll wear any noticeable amount over 4 or 5 years of daily use and the occasional track day. I should have my wheel in a week or so, so I'll have a good idea of the quality then.

I took the centre vent surround off, but the vents came with it. I didn't even realise you could take them apart. If you find out how they come apart when you put it back together, please let me know Otherwise, looks really good.

This is the latest picture (I think) of my setup, so a few things are missing, but the main layout is still the same. I've worked in the Youtube scene for a while (as a secondary job) so having the extra monitors for editing multiple videos etc. is brilliant. I'm also a fairly avid gamer, hence the ROG Swift (1440p 144Hz monitor in the middle). As a compiled list of parts, from left to right: Console setup: Xbox One Day One Edition, Xbox 360 (never used), 27" ASUS monitor. PC Setup: i5 4670k @ 4.7GHz, GTX 970 SLI, 32GB RAM @ 2600MHz, 500GB SSD, 4TB storage drive, Corsair watercooling, Windows 10. Monitors: 24" LG 144Hz 1080p, 27" ROG Swift 1440P 144Hz, 24" BenQ XL2411T 144Hz Peripherals: Razer Blackwidow Ultimate keyboard, Logitech G502 mouse, Blue Snowball microphone, Fanatec CSR Elite wheel and pedals Audio: Sennheiser HD650 headphones (music), AKG K702 headphones (gaming), Astro A40 with Mixamp (console gaming) JDS Objective 2 + ODAC (for general PC use). Out of picture, on the other wall, is a 55" LG 4K Smart TV. I think that is just about everything. Please excuse cable management. This has been improved since.

So much want. Bring it along to TD if you wouldn't mind mate. I'll need to judge if it suits my car or not. If it does, I'll have it off you

I could be tempted. Not been to the peaks for a long time. Will wait to see the details before deciding for sure.

I don't think I could get away with that. A proper pair of racing slippers suggests you can actually drive properly, that's where I'd fall short.

Good enough for me, time to start being more brave.

Even on track? I'm too worried to do it like that on track in case my foot slips off the brake, so I switch to proper heel-toeing.

If, like me, you're blessed with wide feet, you can just toe-toe around town Brake with the ball of your foot and big toe, blip throttle with your little toe.

I have some work commitments in the NEC on Saturday, so will be heading up for the TD open day in the evening. If you were heading out I'd have said we could grab some food or something.