Keethos

Keith, are you still going to be up at RRG next Wednesday? I might be in Walsall Wednesday which is only an hour and a half from Macclesfield so I might just venture up for a quick visit....if you are still going to be up there that is. Note, I will still be at RRG on the Friday 12th for my service still!

Come on.....where are all the video's of people getting wet on here?

Yeah, I've heard the that the GT86 is actually more tail happy than the BRZ because the 86 has a stiffer rear???? Beside the obvious front bumper, headlamps and side fender garnishes, I think they also have slightly different rear view mirrors (BRZ's get a big bulky one compared to the frameless one GT86's get) and doesn't the BRZ also have less leather more plastic or was it less leather and more cloth in the back?

Sorry to hear this Keith! How does this issue differ to the early rough idle, check engine light vvti issue people were getting? Wasn't it something along the lines of too tight of a tolerance and some valve staying open or something?

Thanks Mas, I'm touched that you even thought of me Come on Rob, I had no idea about ALS until Mas nominated me, I then had to research into what it actually was, so weather I did the challenged or not, I still became aware and donated, but I still took part and get nice and wet......and I nominated you because I too want to see you wet I'll supply the ice this weekend!

Hi Carli! Congrats and Welcome to the club. Got any plans for the car at all? Mods, trackdays, car shows etc?

Payment sent and PM'd back.

Hey rab, I'd like to take these off your hands, can you PM details please?

It's not so much as do it cos everyone else is doing it, do it cos it's a laugh and donate anyways! I don't really know why they've specified 24 hours but do it anyways Rob!

Awesome stuff....best of luck with the wait....waiting for the car to be built is one thing, knowing the car is sat at the dealers waiting for you is another

Hi Nigel! Congrats and welcome to the club! Sadly no idea where's the best place to get Ohlins from, maybe have a word with toyokid, he is planning on getting a set I believe. What else have you got planned?

Welcome to the club! Like Lauren, we're interested in what colour or spec GT86 you've brought. Any other plans for mods besides a new exhaust?

What an awesome weekend! Had a pleasant and amusing meal with Spec, Faith, Mike, Steeps and Kristov the night before (even though what should have been a lil over an hour journey that turned into a 2 and a bit hour journey dude to a 3 car crash heading up the M1 (which forced us to slow right down heading down the M1, all I can think of is that the crash was very close to the inner barrier which might have meant debris has scattered onto our side thus stopping/slowing traffic. The day at Millbrook was truely awesome! We we're welcomed by Jo and Colin, supplied with refreshments and snacks, given detailed instructions on what we were going to do, asked what we hoping to achieve from the day and like Keith has already mentioned, Colin would explain the technical details of how cars handle and drift. We then set off down to the big circular handling area outside the corporate events building that you see Fifth Gear often tests their vehicles at. The place is a thing of beauty, the roads there are epic, lots of dips & inclines, tight chambers, hair pins.....and the views were breath taking too, the drifting (which I will come to in a moment) was awesome but I also really enjoyed the short drive to and from the CAT office and the circular handling area. Once we got to the circular handling area, we jumped into a drift Caterham and tackled 4 cones evenly spaced out which we had to slalom through and then drift around the last cone before slalom'ing through the cones again and drifting around the cone on the other end. This was the most physically intense part of the day as the Caterham had no power steering and half a turn of the wheel did bugger all to the wheels themselves so to do a lil turn required more than half a turn of the steering wheel. To do this constantly between the cones was exhausting on the arms, and then trying to chase the steering wheel by quickly spinning it back in the opposite direction when drifting the car was mega difficult, my arms definitely weren't quick enough for the non powered small steering wheel, but by the end, I ended up doing less work going around the last cones as I could start to stamp the loud pedal, release the steering wheel and the car would spin around itself and the wheel would naturally spin round in the direction I wanted to go. I could then catch the wheel, hold it a lil while pumping the gas and then release again to allow the wheel to spin back central again. All the while, Colin would stop us, tell us what we were doing wrong and why we were doing it wrong, and then told us what to try to help correct that issue, such a great instructor.....soooooo much fun......but then came the time getting out of the Caterham which was a bit of a struggle trying to lift myself out as again my arms were absolutely knackered by then. Then next session was a similar process, but this time just between 2 cones. The slalom before was more to keep the speed down but this time, we needed more speed as we were to trail brake around the cone and then stamp on the gas, due to the weight transfer, this make the back end very easy to step out and again, this was a mega hoot and I really got into the swing of it.....even pushed it far enough that I almost changed one drift into another but I think I span out in the end We then jumped into a race Caterham to cover the Over Grip Limit Handling side of things, Colin again would go into detail explaining why people would spin out or tank slap and how were could overcome or correct the car to prevent that from happening, a lot of useful information that we did not know about. The circular handling area has a lot of painted coloured marking on the floor and we had to follow the blue marking that made a large figure of 8 but rather than 2 long corner, you had 4 smaller corners. This was designed so we could go around each corner like we would on track, deliberately get the back end out and then try catching it, to straight it out and carry on around the small circuit. This was a big struggle for me.....the Caterham had a full roll cage which mean I had to climb through a small gap on the side to get in and out of the Caterham......I'm definitely not the most agile person around, I was quite surprised that I actually managed to get in and out of it.....the I did end up crawling out of it in the end....not the most elegant way of climbing out After another nice cruise back to the office for a nice lunch, we headed back down again to do a slip angle map of our cars to see what our cars were capable of, but before my go, Colin was kind enough to jump in first to see if he could feel anything wrong with my car, this meant we had a quick blast through the general handling circuit around the corner which was awesome and Colin said that he couldn't feel any issues which was a great reassurance that my car is still solid and that it's primarily cosmetic damage. This required us to drive down the straight towards the corporate event building, brake, turn in, stabilise and then power out back up the opposite straight, catching the back end to stop yourself from spinning out, this allowed use to gauge the 3 areas of the car's handling which was very useful to know. Colin then had the circuit wetted in a big circle around the middle of the circular handling area, we then took turns to go on with our own cars with Colin besides us and tried to get us drifting around in a big circle. I wish we could have had a lil more time doing this as I was starting to get the hang of it with Colin's help, unlike the Caterham which had enough power for the light body to very easily break traction by pumping the gas pedal, my car required me to pump quicker to keep the drift going but ran out of time before I could experiment with slowing the pumping process but holding the gas more, but at the same time, I didn't fancy blowing my engine by going around too many time (starving the engine of oil as it all runs to one side of the engine due to the continuous circular g forces). And last of all, Colin had the whole are wetted as we were getting back into the drift Caterham for a final drift challenge between us to see who could pull off the longest drift, Faith went first who did manage to pull off some nice drifts. Spec then got excited and jumped at the next go who managed to pull off some even more impressive drifts which we thought was game over for us, this was quite surprising for someone who doesn't believe in drifting and it's shenanigans but managed to do pretty well. Mike then rocked up and also managed to pull off some very nice drifts which all most bested Spec, but then I rocked up as the last challenger, Colin explained that the realistic expectations of newbies drifting around the circle for the first time is usually 1/4 of the circle or in some cases 1/2 which Spec and Mike managed so I wasn't expecting much, but within a couple of attempts, everything clicked, using the same techniques that Colin showed us from the very start up to the session in our own cars, I managed to do full circle around the circular handling area, I was buzzing at this point......and very wet I continued to play, playing with the throttle, continuously pumping the pedal but I found myself varying the speed of my pumps, sometimes holding it down longer, sometimes only dabbing it, sometimes backing off for a little longer. I also started to steer more than before, rather than just simply letting go of the steering wheel, now I had to force the wheel back into the turn to help get the back end out more to continue the drift (otherwise you just end up straightening out). So coming from just keeping it simple i.e. just pumping on the gas pedal at a constant steady rate and concentrating on steering in the right direct, it's like rubbing your belly and patting your head, you get for example your belly rub in a steady direction and then you can concentrate on patting faster or slower, drifting felt similar to begin with but now I was patting at different speeds while rubbing in different directions. At this point, I was having sooooo much fun that I couldn't tell how long my drifts were, it was such a blast! After climbing out of the Caterham all battered, bruised and wet, I was still buzzing and just wanted to carry on, but alas that was the end of the training day, we headed back to the CAT office, got our goody bags, certificates and prices for best drivers and drifting god, and started to pack our cars full of crap we had unloaded in the morning. It was such a really really big shame that we couldn't record any of it, I'm so gutted I couldn't see myself drift or even capture the awesome roads around Millbrook. Even though I'm aching like hell and forever relying on my poor memory of this amazing day, I would still highly recommend this to other people, weather you are there to learn how to do something in particular or just to have fun, it's well worth the money in my opinion! Thank you so much Faith, Mike and Spec for wonderful company there, thank you ever so much Jo and Colin for hosting and tutoring us and thank you Mark for /organising/introducing us to the CAT Driver Training courses!

Awesome stuff, what make/brand of items did you get installed? Also, please keep up posted on how you get on after the Millbrook training session!

Good news! Let us know when it's finalised and we can close this thread for you.

Hi Pepe, welcome to the club, when you get a bit of time, please do introduce yourself over in the Newbies section (http://www.gt86.org.uk/forums/forum/17-newbies/) I hope you don't mind but I've moved your thread into a more suitable location rather than in the how to section which is for people to post up how to's/guides etc. I've gone for a full cat-back system (however not nameless or Magnaflow) Cobra system but I've also gone as far as deleting the 2nd cat in the car (1st cat being in the manifold up front). This has improved the sound of the system, made it louder and free'd up some horsepower too. Most people here who have brought an exhaust system have either gone just cat-back, cat-back plus cat delete or cat-back plus sports cat, no one that I know of here has bothered with an axleback system.

LOL, what he said

Awesome stuff! Glad you guys can join us! I've sorted my life out and it looks like I can leave work a lil early so I'll probably arrive at the hotel for about 6ish \o/ YAY

Congrats and Welcome to the club! First and by far the most important mod is.........club stickers from here: http://www.gt86.org.uk/forums/store/ Small mods I went for initially were changing the amber bulbs for chrome bulbs (that still flash amber but look chrome when not lit), cheap shark fin off ebay as I don't listen to the radio which was relatively easy to fit (though I did struggle a little disconnecting the old one because it was tight and I couldn't see or feel the small release tab), however I got a simple black one rather than a colour coded one but the more expensive ones do match well and are even easier to fit - http://www.gt86.org.uk/forums/topic/1131-cheap-shark-fin-aerial-from-ebay/?hl=shark I was also probably the first to ever have a reversing camera fitted to our cars (since you still can't get them fitted at the dealers ) and I paid roughly £30odd for all the bits of bobs (but I already had crimpers, soldering iron etc) however, one of our members is currently selling a plug and play kit which is pretty easy to install again IF you are willing to remove trim and more importantly DRILL a hole in your boot lip (the plastic bit with the Toyota badge on - http://www.gt86.org.uk/forums/topic/1913-reverse-camera-plug-and-play-kit-%C2%A375/ What I'd also possibly suggest as a cheap and possible mod is a drop in air filter, can't go wrong for roughly £30, very easy to swap out and we have witnessed someone gain 6bhp on a stock car (dyno'd before and after fitting one), either HKS or K&N are the most popular/common options. The other item would be the positive shifter gear box mount which again costs about £30 I think and its a plastic piece that slots under the gear stick (under the car) and makes the gear changes feel more....well....positive, more solid. How about a dashcam for your car? I have an awesome small and pretty cheap dashcam that records 1080p that would challenge if not better than GoPro quality call the Mobius Action Cam, only down side is that it doesn't have a lot of fancy features like GPS, a display screen but the beauty of it is that you fit and forget about it! £50 off ebay with the extra bits like long USB cable, sticky mount etc - http://www.gt86.org.uk/forums/topic/1413-mobius-dashcam-1080p-30fps-cheap-yet-excellent/?hl=mobius

Why the sale James? I thought you loved your tow hooks?

I don't know if just having vents on the wings will just be enough or do anything at all as I can't picture there being enough airflow through the engine bay and out of these vent, the wheel arch trim and the suspension mounting points with the backing around that all kind of obstructed the flow, there might be some gaps but I don't know how sufficient they will be....then again I could be completely wrong but this is what I've gathered from the pictures I've seen of what's underneath the front wings, e.g. But I'm looking at getting some custom front wings with side vents on so we'll see.

Awesome stuff Kristov....but seriously? They wrote on your car Poor Paint and then tried to paint over it?

Again, awesome stuff Faith, looked like a right hoot....where were our invites then? There definitely were some nice motors there and I seriously can't believe how random it was to have a Cheeky Girl there

Yeah he did, insurance paid out relatively quickly but don't know if the Gap insurance has paid out yet. Will?

Awesome stuff, I've posted up a separate thread about his mini meet in the social section (Click Here), I'll be at RRG for about 11am, I'm assuming the service and what not will be an hour or two so feel free to pop on over around then and we can go for a cruise as there are some really nice roads around that area!