JRot

Well I figure, I've been extremely slack in both this forum and the other one that shall not be named. So some of you know me, most probably dont xD that's how pro I've been at staying out of the loop. Anyway mods done thus far, sound pipe delete, induction pipe, replacement air filters lols. Vinyl wrapped some of the inside panels debating colours atm. Sound deadened doors, some of the dash, replaced door speakers and dash tweeters. Will be possibly dual subbing it soon and delete the rear speakers. As for external partially vinyl wrapped, heavily tinted with limo shade, Seibon cf bonnet, Seibon cf rear wing, beatsonic v2 aerial wrapped carbon. I am debating headlights soon, redening or black spraying the tail lights (spare set), full vinyl wrapping. Oh yeah and I have a Quicksilver Cat back exhaust system installed.. Hear that from a long way away. Anyway I named my car after a jedi 'Ahsoka' so here is my build thus far. Yeah ignore the lettering I'll get it done alot more subtly soon I'm only showing my build now as I see GT86's and BRZs quite alot now, most the time I'm overtaking them all! Seeya around

Yeah gone are the days of me being interested in noisy things. I get some people love the noise and dare i say attention. But I'm starting to prefer peace and quiet I'll be honest; over after 5 years of ownership, I am debating throwing in the towel and selling up next year; in order to buy something newer. Though I love the 86; I kinda want something different now, I think I'm somewhat growing out of the 'race car' phase. But I'm in no rush to sell; I have to save up regardless as all the cars I like are a bit expensive. Though nothing like that Supra... no matter how much BMYota gode me I won't buy one.

One thing I'd state you'd absolutely have to do with the quicksilver is delete the sound pipe otherwise its too loud lol I mean it's quite loud as is and I've sound deadened some of my car. But with that pipe it's too much. At least you're sounding more normal than most I see these days.. Who all want poppy, fire spitting and gun shot sounding cars. If I recall it was £1100 or something all in to buy and fit by Amber performance. But going on memory there, I wasn't paying attention the 2nd time round lol.

Haha that's alright then was thinking damn I have to clean the car lol. I'm still waiting on the recall too since they called it off due to missing sealant. A meet up for exhausts that's a new one. Aye the quicksilver isn't the cheapest out there, I went for it twice now due to how it sounds, its lightweight and looks nice too. Also the added thing that not many have one, I've only ever seen in the 5 years I've owned this car... 1 person selling one, and no one saying they own one. I just wanted sinething a bit more unique. Which is why my original plan was to have a custom tri central exhaust built, buuuuttt the cost of that was being quoted around £2-3k so I chickened out lol

Well some are more sociable than others. But not many. From my experiences anyway, maybe I'm just a bit more critical now I'm in my 30's lol It's just been through the battles of living in the UK, the damage on it is from ballbrained people who can't drive without ploughing into things first. I can easily drive out to meet half way etc if you'd like but let me know your availability. Though I do need to replace all 4 tyres before I actually die in that car.

Haha, thanks for the concern that crash was quite a while ago so I'm totally fine now, at the time my shoulder a neck seized up and the 86 took the full impact. Im in the process of tidying up the car, and intending to do some fixing and replacing of panels over the next 6 months to repair all the war wounds...im based around the Silverstone area so depends where abouts you are lol. I kinda ditched the car scene recently after just witnessing utter retardacy at various meets etc. The quicksilver I've gotten now is fully bedded in and is about 4 months old.

I was rear ended when stationary by someone going 40mph in town. It absolutely wiped out my exhaust system, I had it repaired via insurance and then looked at by a specialist I think whatever cracked broke on the inside and also the Y section must have had a crack in too from the crash, so it's not really the exhausts fault, just mine for not replacing sooner. I love the quicksilver exhaust though bear in mind it's quiet deep and loud at high revs. I replaced with another new quicksilver exhaust recently.

Actually going to try quoting with you guys; though 9am phone line opening hours grrr Who knew moving from one side of my town to a new part of my same town would spike my insurance cost from £608 to £891.. money saving experts (lowest £925) compare the market (lowest £895) aviva (current insurer offering £891 +Breakdown) direct line (£875 no Breakdown) :(

So in regards to the Harness: Always-On™ Module for 2013-2016 Subaru BRZ (EU/AU/JDM) Estimated Total Including Handling and Shipping: $75 (Shipping: USPS - First Class Package International Service Customs Charge & Handling Fee: £21.60 https://www.diodedynamics.com/always-on-module-for-subaru-brz-eu-au-jdm.html

Before anyone laughs the vinyl is wrecked on my car, so yes it will come off as I will be getting bodywork and panels resprayed soon

Hello all, Right rather than me bringing up a long deceased post on another part of the forum, I recently took the risk to buy a harness loom from Diode Dynamics for my Crystaleye V3 Headlights with the aim to use a plug and play kit to run the sidelight boomerang as a DRL. Diode Dynamics had absolutely no idea if it would work, being about £100 for this little venture, I was a bit reluctant to spend that and find it didn't work... Anyway, I can confirm it does indeed work, granted the long white cable that came on the harness is not plugged in as its for something else, I have the 2 main plugs installed: Car off - Headlights OFF / DRL's OFF Car on - Headlights OFF / Handbrake Engaged/DRL's OFF Car on - Headlights OFF / Car in Neutral or in Gear and Handbrake released/ DRL's ON Then they just stay on when the headlights fire on with the Automatic lights on sensor etc. So all works 100%. The routing of the cable/conduit, I've literally just preliminary routed it above the radiator dual fans and under the air filter box, and then wrapped up that long ass loose white aforementioned wire and plug around the left side headlight harness and pushed it into one of the many holes in the engine bay. I took a few photos as I know a couple of people have been asking me about this for sometime now

Hi, just a query regarding this na tune, how long does it typically take to do it all? So fitting manifold, overpipe, tuning etc?.. Asking mainly as... Well Cheshire is pretty far north for me (3 hour drive) so purely wondering. I was debating body work modifications, but since I'm going to keep this car till it dies I may go down the performance route instead. I may also consider the td cat back too maybe, half my cat back is custom the other is quicksilver, but the quicksilver part is cracked and blowing... Hence the consideration to changing exhaust. So yeah if you would let me know potential time frames to carrying out work I'd be appreciative, thanks.

I tried yellow headlights it looks cool but if you plan on driving at night ever I'd highly recommend you don't. The yellow light doesn't reflect off dark cars all that well.. So I almost wiped out my car on a black parked 4x4 at night... You can tint them but just need to find a decent tinting company really. But again tinting effects the light output pretty heavily depending on how dark you go, obviously. I removed that tint and ended up buying new headlights instead.

I shoved sound deadening on the inside of the door panels then on the internal door card certain areas for me rattled like bastards (window controls) so I carefully peeled that plastic crap thing back and deadened the entire internal door card my doors now weigh a tonne but soooo much better on speaker quality. I put some additional deadening strips near the tweeters in the dash.

Lol let me know have a new job now, would happily drive up and buy it tomorrow or Saturday xD let me know if it sells.

The issue I had was the Alignment Laterally the lights were pointing outwards, it was partly my mistake for not noticing 2 pins that slot into the chassis at the side of the car when putting the headlights on the car... with those slotted in correctly the lights are seated correctly and then was just adjusting their height- its all fiddly as hell as its requires a screwdriver to adjust. As yet, I haven't ordered this harness, but I've asked the question; be it with no response from the company... so I'll try again... -.- https://www.diodedynamics.com/always-ontm-module-for-subaru-brz-eu-au-jdm.html In theory plug that in and it should use the sidelights as 'always on' so similar to DRL's. (The sidelights on the Crystaleyes is the long LED Strip) The issue: There are 2 plugs on the stock headlights one is the power, the other I believe is the DRL control. However the Crystaleyes only have one connection... the power... which gives plug and play functionality to the headlight, indicator etc... but as a result the DRL connector or what I think is the DRL connector is free and not plugged in... hence me looking at that harness. How the Harness works: The harness plugs into the stock BRZ headlight giving the boomerang (which is a sidelight on the BRZ not a DRL) and plugs into the DRL cable near the front indicator.. in the GT86 case i theorise it plugs into the headlight the same and then plugs into the DRL connector that I said is loose. But id rather know for sure than spending £50 odd on the harness and a further import charge... But that's my theory anyway. As for the Crystaleyes for Australia I have no idea, you need to check the pin configuration, the JDM ones are 8 pin for UK usage. but as CrystalEye is a Japanese Company I expect all their lights will remain non DRL's unless you get either a harness or rewire them and splice the wires... Hey Church, The Black Central part is a Black Gloss Airlease Vinyl Wrap; its been on the car almost 4 years now so quite durable. Yeah these cost a hell of a lot less than the stock OEM headlights new... there were some options on Ebay recently for stock used ones but still around £500 for offside £800 driverside.. which is ridiculous... though new they are laughable. The Crystaleyes JDM V3 Black LED that I bought from Nengun Japan cost around £780 all in.. but prewarning did take almost 1 month to arrive! 2 weeks in UK customs... lol..

I silent coated the entire door, and the internal door card and the light switch controllers - my doors now weight a shit load each, I have the focals fitted... Sound deadened the boot spare wheel area, the boot lid, a few places in the dash.... Massive change in sound quality. I'm looking at doing similar to the rear speakers or just deleting them and fitting a new amp and a sub or maybe a seat delete and fit rear speakers and a sub. So sound deadening it all best ever decision... But an absolute ball ache. Still running the stock head unit; pioneer install or tablet install. That is the question.

Hello, thanks for the mention, the spec D lights aren't the right pin configuration for UK consumption. The headlights I got are EU dot stamped etc, they require manual adjustment (which caused a few issues at my most recent mot, but I've established why now and its passed happily) I got my crystaleye JDM set from nengun in Japan, you swap out the ballast and bulbs from stock to use them, the only gripe is Japan doesn't have drl laws so they aren't set up to run as Drls. So I haven't yet but I will be looking in to ordering a harness either for brz or frs to see if I can't rewire them to enable 'always on' functionality. If you have particular questions on the install I'll answer as best I can.

Never really had negative attention. Had a few say 'I'd thrash it in a straight line in my bmw' then their friends say 'but it's better looking than your BMW' Otherwise most the time in Brackley the kids from the local school egg me on at the traffic lights to rev lol then give me thumbs up and scream they love my car hahaha. But at events too it's always suggestions or things people like about the car, like about my intentions and suggestions on where to go for the next mods, when I say 'can't do that yet no money' I get 'dude you have carbon stuff, you can afford it'....

Hi all, just a quick one my car failed its mot a few days ago so I'm kinda rapidly trying to resolve this, but my aftermarket crystaleye JDM headlights are causing an issue, the lateral alignment is pointing outwards as opposed to Inwards. So I need something to compare against while i try and adjust these lights. Has anyone got any photos taken from inside the car showing the oem dipped beam Pattern against a wall from a few ft/metres away? Any help would be greatly appreciated! JRot

Yeah under recommendation I used the one local garage, they said they're fine and motd it and it all passed, plus I fixed the bumper gap so that's all good.

They are usually okay with me but i wouldve thought advisory maybe not flat out FAIL...

Hi all, I got some info from. The other forum, as I'm still friendly with some of the admins. I just had it tested at an mot station in Brackley and they said theyre absolutely fine, nothing they would fail it on, so going to pay the extra £30 and get them to mot it this afternoon. They asked me who at Toyota mot'd my car and recognised the name, and went in to saying he's rubbish xD Changing headlights: involves removing the front bumper ~ about 1 to 2 hours as half the clips are shit and just snap, and the side indicators suck. Then unwiring everything, removing the headlight support brackets, disconnecting the washer jets, Swapping out the hid ballast and bulb into the new headlight.... Took around 40mins per light,... Then aligning it all... Then getting snowed on hailed on and rained on, reassure all the above... It took around 6 to 7 hours the first time I did this, yesterday it took an hour to remove the bumper and headlights then 4 hours adjusting them. Not a simple easy task. But I should be OK for photos now, though thanks for the offers.

I do but they are in storage presently, if I can fix these aftermarket ones to be correct I'd prefer that else I have to swap them out put the stock ones in then mot it then after swap these back on again, if you've ever taken the front bumper off you know that'll be an absolute bastard to do repeatedly. So a photo of the stock beam pattern against a wall is all I'm asking for.

Ah I'm. Still debating this, the issue I have is I need 4 new tyres! And my front bumpers still hanging down... Plus I'm only in Brackley... Aaaaaaah! D':