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I don't recall having full instructions with the armrest but visit this site here for instructions and guides for GT86 parts: http://www.toyota-tech.eu/Aim/Aim.aspx?pubtype=AIM&menuitem=1 or click on this link: http://www.toyota-tech.eu/aimuploads/d3c87f05-525f-48a6-862e-1d4964ae9c2f/GT86_Center_Console_Armrest_PZ435_10340_00_AIM_002_827_0.pdf for the full instructions and template.

Congrats and welcome to the club. Any plans for the car at all? Trackdays? Mods etc? Be interested in seeing how you get on with the 86, can't imagine the torque being much different compared to the S2000.

Wow, good going on this group buy, I'd put my name down but I was lucky enough (or unlucky....you'll read why in a moment) to be given one when we were down at Lydden Hill....thats right Lydden Hill....after I binned my car into a tyre wall that faithful day.....a couple of sound lads from the local Toyota dealership (really really sorry I can't actually remember which dealership now...it's been that long), who brought along a rather nice Lexus and joined us on our stand, gave me a copy as a way to put a smile on my face after the incident......so come on people...it's a very good book!

I still can't believe you've ordered a smaller one....big is always better (coming from a guy who sits very close to a 51" plasma for TV, Games and PC use ) Was pretty impressed with the Scan store, it was pretty big with lots to see....though for some reason primarily corsair keyboards and mice....but they had rows of PC's all lined up for LAN parties, a corner with a project and sensors for a HTC Vive....someone was even playing a game on there....wanted a go but they were close to closing They even had some sort of computer desks worth about £11k....something like this: as well as a swordfish PC desk worth god knows how much: The rest of my weekend was sadly spent watching YouTube video's after YouTube videos of keyboard and mouse reviews But I finally brought and received what I think was a great choice with the help of Rob and Will. After owning a Logitech diNovo Keyboard and MX Laser Mouse combo for god knows how many years (I fear it might be close to 10 years), I decided try out a mechanical keyboard (always used flat laptop style keyboards) so I've brought myself a Ducky One keyboard....wanted brown switches to begin with (as while at scan, I had a play with some different ones) but I went with the safe bet of red switches instead as I've heard numerous people say browns are great for typing but can be a pain for holding keys down for gaming compared to the reds. Still getting used to the high keys....and the increase in volume....but hey ho. Main reason I went with the Ducky keyboard is because I need my keyboard to be detachable from the keyboard end as it will need to be removed from the table top whenever I whip the steering wheel out My MX Laser mouse died a while back and was replaced by a R.A.T.9 mouse which was on sale at the time, awesome looking mouse, very cool with all the adjustments etc but like @S18 RSG mentioned, not great for big hands and palm grips. Replacing this really took a lot of time as there was so many out there, was keen on the new G900 but worried it might be too small for my hands, loved the feel of the MX Master but it's not really a gaming mouse, currently own a G700 for work and again, prefer the feel of a larger mouse. The alternative was a Razer Deathadder or Mamba but again went with a safe bet from Rob and went with the SteelSeries Rival 300. I must be getting old as both keyboard and mouse have no thrills, no complex look to them, just very simple and functional. So far so good but we'll see how we get on in the long run.

Nice pics there! Brave man

sorry to see that Joe

Never heard of Martelius so can't say much about them but in general, most cat-back exhausts will just change the sound of the exhaust, not so much any performance gains, most gains are obtained from removing either of the cats in the car (front manifold or 2nd cat pipe just after the overpipe) but then you'd have to see how that would affect your countries version of an MOT if there is anything of the like. Here in the UK, as long as you have one of the cats it'll pass the emissions test of our annual MOT. Be interested to see and hear what the Martelius is like, please keep us posted.

Here's another video from my friend Lee for day 2: And I've FINALLY started on my videos so here's the first one: However this was the easy one, the others will take a lil longer as there's a lot more footage and a lot more to see so it might take me a while to sift through them all and then compile something from it.

When Faith, Mike, Chris and Rich decided to do a Scotland trip, I was gutted I couldn't join them earlier this year. Shortly after, another friend of mine said that him and his mates were going to do something similar, once again I was unable to attend, but then when another group of mates said that they were going to this trip during the same week I had already booked off for a wedding up north, this worked out beautifully. A massive thanks to my friends Paul and Lee for inviting me to join them in their Scotland North Coast 500 run, Paul in his amazing BMW 1M Coupe and Lee in his awesome pocket rocket Ford Fiesta ST. The weather was on and off but it always held out when we were on the nice fast and twisty roads. We started off in Leamington Spa and drove up in convoy up to Dumbarton on the Sunday. The following morning we headed up to Inverness but we took a quick detour around to Stronachlachar Pier, which took a while due to the very tight and bumpy one track lanes but the views were worth it, we then made the mistake of driving over to the opposite side to Inversnaid, the roads were still tight and there wasn't a lot to see when we got there (literally just turned around and headed back) but it was nice to drive along side the loch. We then continued up towards Inverness while coming across some awesomely tight and twisty roads along the way, some up hill hair pins to boot. We even stopped part way through at the Dalwhinnie Distillery for a quick tour which was interesting. The rest of the way was just single to dual carriageways. The next day we ventured from Inverness to Ullapool via the north coast of Scotland, this time round it was a combination of single track lanes with plenty of over taking areas and fast sweeping corners, a much faster pace that then day before but it was still a good 7 hour journey. We stopped part way through at John O'Groats for a spot of lunch and pics before we carried on. We made another stop later on so I could swap over my SD cards from my dash cams while giving Paul some well deserved rest after a sleepless night from some sort of food poisoning the night before.....haggis stuffed chicken anyone? I also discovered a stowaway when we stopped, luckily the car had already dealt with it and decided to eat it, I was warned about the sheep on the road but luckily none of them were feeling suicidal....sadly I couldn't say the same about the birds, there was loads of them flying low down past the front of my car for some reason....luckily the poor one in the picture didn't cause any damage to the car. The next day was an even longer day, we continued around the coast driving from Ullapool via Applecross, then cutting across back to Inverness and then down pass Loch Ness past For Williams before arriving back in Dumbarton. The reason for the major detour was even before we began the journey, we knew petrol could be a problem, being religious users of Shell V-Power we had to tactically choose out routes based on where the Shell garages were....however once you went past Inverness, you were crap out of luck of Shell garages so we had to make do with any petrol station with super unleaded.....sadly there wasn't that many around either, so after leaving Ullapool, we wouldn't have been able to make it to Dumbarton so we had to take a detour back to Inverness to refuel in order to make it back to Dumbarton. This meant going down the Applecross pass which in pictures looks amazing, steep twisty turns and hair pins...but in reality it was a nightmare, proper steep drops with very very narrow roads. We had to creep down and constantly stop in very small overtaking spots....and with old geezers not knowing how big their cars were, we got into a pickle at one point....wouldn't want to tackle that again....just glad we were doing down and not up it. The rest of the roads were awesome, during the last stretch, we went high up into the mountains where there was a lot of mist, really moody atmospheric settings with really fast of open roads.....very fast. On the last day (Thursday), we had a bit of a lie in before the long journey home, however for myself, it was just another journey to be had, I had to make my way down to Halifax for my mates wedding so rather than taking the boring motorway down, I departed from the convoy down near Carisle to tackle some of the back roads through the lake district, some nice roads and pretty scenery there but not really an idea location for driving enthusiasts as most of the roads were 40mph for no apparent reason and the roads were just full of really slow ass drivers. Managed to find a couple of nice twisty roads but not a lot. All in all a very long and exhausting week, each night I was always out cold, one night I tried to get comfy in bed first before I turned everything off to go to sleep however as soon as my head hit the pillow I was out cold, the next night, after having a shower, I sat down, had a look at my phone, closed my eyes and the next time I opened them again, it was 2:30 in the morning.....I was still sat there stark naked. The roads were awesome but some of it did drag on a bit, think we needed to take more breaks or visit more set locations, to my understanding, the North Coast 500 should normally be done over 4-5 days, we did it in 3 so that's pretty impressive....but very tiring. I'd definitely be up for something like this again, I'm sure there are more awesome roads to be discovered but at the same time, bring on some Euro trips! I've got about 300GB of footage to sieve through (footage from my front dash cam as well as nabbing my sister's dash cam to point backwards) so videos to follow at some point but in the mean time, here are some pics I tool.

Congrats and welcome to the club, a very nice purchase indeed. Any plans for the car at all? Trackdays, car shows, mods etc?

More info here

I've been slacking on the video front I know (sorry, but sourcing a new PC to handle it all) but my mate Lee Williams has been on it and made an awesome trailer followed by a day 1 & 2 vlog of our North Coast 500 Scotland trip....."arh sorry Keith".....amazing. Enjoy. I've finally got a new PC so will be looking at compiling some videos....but I've got soooooo much footage to go through

If you want something cheap and very descreat, a mobius action cam with extra long cables and either a suction mount or 3m mount will set you back about £50. I'm sure it can hold upto 64gb SD's (not 100% sure as I only run 32gb) but there's no screen (though with a OTG micro USB adaptor, you could connect it to your phone and use an app that can use external webcams to aim the dashcam), no GPS or any of these other fancy features but like I said, it's small and descreat, a very good fit and forget with very good 1080p@30fps quality which easily rivals go pros. Can be brought from places like amazon, eBay etc.

Welcome to the club and awesome work looking after an AE86 for so long. Please do post some pics up, we all love pics....especially an AE. When will you be looking at getting a GT86?

Got to be 911 [emoji12]

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If they arranged the courier.....do they pay for that?

Wow, sorry to hear this dude, keep us posted

I tend to post all pics up on Facebook and then copy image url from Facebook and past that straight into the post, it usually detects that it's an image now and displays the image straightaway (so no need to press the image url button like you used to).

Can't remember how many pages but it's a thick hard back book filled with info and design stuff of the 86

Lauren hardly anyone gets carbon fibre bits for the 86 to save weight

Have they given you a ballpark figure for a tool, I'm sure I was told they're a good couple of grand which means you'll probably need a fair few people to make it worth wild, I've trained up some people who specialised in fibreglass and carbon fibre and the idea did cross my mind when I had my crash.

Oooooo can't wait

Arh maaaan...what the....why this Friday? It bad enough I have to get up mega early for Saturday to make Tuner Fest....I would have wondered down otherwise

Shame to see you go dude, and brave choice taking 7 years out to become an architect, I hope it all works out mate!