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Has the HP changed at all @MartinT? Although that torque graph isn't helping with my decision to stay N/A 🤔 😆

For a basic and cheap upgrade EBC Yellowstuff are a good start or you could go for PFC Z rated. Both of these pads will be completely fine with daily and with light track use. Once you start doing multiple track days, it'll be best if you upgrade to something more serious, Carbotech XP8 or Project Mu Club Racers for example. As for tyres, I personally run PS4's, but other popular choices are Yokohama V105, Continental Premium Contact 6 & Falken Azenis FK510. There is also the Maxxis VS5 although I'm not sure this is available in 215/45/17.

No, a properly specced BBK with the correct pistons diameters will have no affect on brake bias. There are multiple BBK that can bolt straight up to our hubs, a common cheap upgrade for the platform is to fit the front Brembo's from the Subaru Impreza STi, however due to the piston size within this specific caliper the brake ratio (front to rear) moves fowards by about 7% (i.e. in simple terrms, the car will nose dive more under heavy braking). However when Toyota/Subaru decide to offer the new blue edition 86 with a performance back, which has Brembo's as standard. These are the same calipers as the STi Brembo's however the pistons are smaller so they produce a similar brake ratio to the standard car. In a similar context when AP specced the calipers for our car they took into consideration the brake bias and increased disc sized and worked out the correct piston size needed. Stock brakes with a decent set of pads is perfectly fine for daily and spirited driving, it's only when you start doing track days do you notice their shortcomings, that is unless you decide to spend ££££'s on a set of proper race pads.

@MartinT it'd be interesting to see a comparison dyno chart, between this and the old setup.

Unfortunately it sounds like whatever you do, your going to have issues with it getting dirty fairly quickly. However you can get a ceramic coating applied to the car and that'll make cleaning it alot easier and stop and contamination from sticking to the paint. A ceramic coating should last 5 years, so for a cost vs durability comparison they work out very well, it's just the inital expenditure is quite high. Bear in mind a proper ceramic coating will need to be professionally applied by a detailer, some you can apply yourself however these don't have the same durability. Also avoid these spray on coating as they don't have anywhere near the durability that a proper coating has. Here are a couple of products to consider: G-Techniq Crystal Serum Ultra Gyeon Q2 Mohs+ Nanolex Si3D MAX Based on your location check out APM Customs (https://www.apmcustoms.co.uk/) as they are one of the North Wests best detailers.

Update 11/07/2020 - Blyton Park Trackday - Video #3 After posting the track battles footage on youtube, the Lotus Exige owner commented on the video and informed me that he had footage of when I was infront of him for a couple of laps, here is his video. It's nice to get a different persective of my driving.

Update 11/07/2020 - Blyton Park Trackday - Video's Track Battles: Slightly scruffy fastest lap:

Update 11/07/2020 - Blyton Park Trackday A couple of weeks after I booked the Bedford date on the 4th July, I noticed Javelin had released a couple of new dates one of which was for Blyton Park on Saturday the 11th. With everything now booking up atleast a month in advanced, I decied to jump at the opportunity to do another trackday in July. It has been 12 months since my last trackday at Blyton and with the car now setup differently to last time it would make for another good comparison. Making a comparison at a different track that isn't Bedford Autodrome. The day went nice and smoothly with no issue and only one or two red flags. Everyone was relativetly well behaved, there were a couple of slower cars that held a few people up but other than that it was all good, no BMW drivers trying to dive bomb cars in the braking zones for example. I managed to get a few decent stints in, however you can quickly catch up to traffic at Blyton. This actually meant that I had chance to have a couple of track battles with a few cars. A Honda Civic Type R and a Lotus Exige, both were mega quick in straights but I had better brakes and cornering speed which overall made it a reasonably good match. I just need more acceleration and top end to keep up on the straights.... hmm... Harrop Supercharger anyone 🤔, there will be a video below with some of my on track battles. One thing I might look into, is swapping to a less aggressive rear brake pad. The PFC08's are mega but with the STi rear caliper setup I believe they make too much rear brake torque, so the car doesn't dive under braking which makes it hard to trail brake into some of the corners. This just means I have to get 75% of my braking done in the straights, so I don't upset the balanace of the car mid corner. At the moment I can live with this and I'll probably do a couple more trackday before deciding whether to put the Endless MX72 pads back in or get another less aggressive rear pad. Also I'm not sure if it's the lack of shims or groves in the rear pad, but they don't half squeal when braking, whilst the MX72 also squealed it's definitely louder with the PFC's. On the flipside the front pads are exceptional and don't make any noise. Here's a couple of pictures from the day:

I was just looking at Work wheels as an alternatively for you, as they make the T5R which is the same style as the Advan TC4. You can get the works from Driftworks. I'd speak to them and see if they do them in custom offsets as the standard ones listed are very weak. https://www.driftworks.com/work-wheels-emotion-t5r.html

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Update 04/07/2020 - Bedford Autodrome Trackday Video #3 &#4 A couple more video's from Bedford. #3 This is my second fastest lap from the day, only a few tenths off the fastest lap, however this one isn't as clean. #4 A couple of laps from my most consistant session, all in the 3:06 time range. As it turns out this is mostly because of traffic at one point or another during the session. Also it looks like I need some more power as on the 4th lap (3rd lap as you watch the video), the BMW I was chasing went to let me by twice but I couldn't catch him at all. 🤔

Nice to know. Interesting I watched a video earlier by Engineering Explained about his Supercharged MX5, and that only shows 90% as max throttle, maybe it's something to do with the electronic throttle body. Thank you, to be honest I think I could use alittle more attitude. Seeing the photos of the car on track I think it now needs a rear wing of some description, as the backend looks alittle naked. I also might look at getting a vented hood as I found the engine got quite hot even though the day was relatively cool, for July anyway.

No, absolutely not on a trackday. Thank you I'll add Mike the GT86 Aero driver is actually a MSV Marshall at Cadwell, so he knows Dave @ Open Track. I believe the BMW did apologise to him in the pits. Maybe your right, normally I'm not that consistent. Ah thanks for confirming, it was my first time using a data logger on the video overlay. Yes it's just the angle / light, if you look very closely you can see it's on.

Update 04/07/2020 - Bedford Autodrome Trackday Video #2 - BMW Incident As with most trackdays there was a little incident involing another selfish driver, in this case a BMW M3 driver. Myself and a Mike were doing a few laps at Bedford autodrome GT circuit, lead and follow. I lead for a couple of laps and then decided to let Mike overtake so I could follow. On the lap that we swapped positions a Civic Type R (1st car) and BMW M3 (2nd car) came up on myself fairly quickly around turn 9, before the big hairpin of turn 10 which leads on to the main straight. I'm aware both cars are significantly faster than my N/A BRZ, so I keep far to right on the main straight to let them past on the left. I was expecting the Civic to pass me first and then pull in front of me on the right and the BMW to overtake us both. My logic was Civic has 320hp and BMW around 400+hp so the Civic should clear me quickly and the BMW should clear us both in the similar amount of time, and then slot in behind Mike for the chicane. Instead the CIvic goes to overtake me, at the same time the BMW decides to overtake us both, so we end up 3 abreast down the main straight. I thought that was abit close and abit silly of the BMW, end of. Oh no, not the end of it at all. The BMW then decides I'm fast enough to overtake Mike in the BRAKING ZONE (not allowed on UK track days) of the chicane. At this point the Mike is prepared to turn in for the chicane and doesn't expect the BMW to dive bomb him. He see the BMW in his mirrors lucky and stamps on the brakes performing a full emergency stop and stops just before running out of tarmac. This is all going on just as I'm hitting the braking zone, the BMW and Civic make the corner but Mike has now stopped in the track and I'm not sure if he's seen me, so I also do a full emergency stop as I don't want to take the corner if he decides to pull in front of me. Thankfully the new PFC brake pads pull my car to a stop the car nice and quickly. We then both went back to the pits for a change of underwear.... No BRZ's or GT86's were harmed in the making of this video.

Update 04/07/2020 - Bedford Autodrome Trackday Video #1 Here's my fastest lap from the day with data overlay. For some reason full throttle only shows as 80%, treat this a flat out:

Update 04/07/2020 - Bedford Autodrome Trackday As I'm sure most of your are aware and have been in a similar situation with the Coronavirus situation and lockdown, I found that I've hardly used the car except for a run once every two weeks to keep the battery topped up. That work for the first two months until I needed to go into work one day and the battery was flat, typical. I then jump started it at the weekend and it's been fine since. I might look at getting a jump start battery, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know. Anyway due to the lack of use the car has had and the announcement that trackdays will be allowed in June, I decide to get one booked. I didn't want to book on one too early in June due to the main restrictions still being in place. Unfortunately most people didn't care about this and it meant most trackdays got booked up pretty quickly and I missed out. However I noticed the OpenTrack added an extra date for Saturday 4th July at Bedford Autodrome. So I and @willclarke promptely booked the day. Now to the trackday, upon arrival I was greated by a member of OpenTrack sat in his car at the entrance, he instructed me to park in the regular car park and sign on, in the usual place. The regular forms you need to take with you and briefing have both been replaced with online versions. To be honest this is much better as it saves alot of hassle in trying to remember to take the forms with you. It also helps remove some of the urgency to get to the track before 8:30 for the briefing. The sign on, consisted of standing behind the person in front at a 2m distance, the sign on area had perspex screens up in place and the sign on team only need to know your name and see your drivers license. The sign on area was one way so you had to go out a different way to the way in. I then drove round to the garages to unpack/get ready. I was then meet by anyother GT86 owner Mike who was attending and we had a good chat. Social distancing stayed inplace for most of the day. On to the track time, the first session I was aware I needed to bed in the new brake pads, this didn't go as well as intended due to Bedford having so many long straights which allow the brakes to cool, and the fact I had the VSC on Sport mode. This meant the rear brakes got hotter than the front, which caused a moment on the main straight when the rear locked up before the front calipers. I did a few laps and it started to settle in, I then came back in to the pits to let the car cool. The 2nd session I turned traction control off fully which help as the rear brakes weren't heating up so much. I didn't have any issues from this point on. The stopping power provided by the new pads is excellent and I'm happy with the purchase. This helped to give me more confidence in the car. I'll report back on the pads after the next trackday. If you've been following the build you note there have been a number of changes since the last trackday in Feburary, these are the new Seat, new wider wheels and tyres, TRD fins and new brake pads. Overall these changes helped make a massive difference to the car. I can now carry more speed through the corners and I'm not rolling around in the seat so much, this has helped give me a better feeling and controlability. In some cases I found that I was over slowing the car for some corners and this meant I lost the balance and it washed out. Looking back at my footage I can see that I've improved by 6 seconds from my previous fastest lap with the new setup and there is still plenty of time of the table. I'll link my fastest lap video below, as you can see I have a small oversteal issue towards the end at corner 18 (2:55 on the video) where I lose grip for a second and this killed my momentum, plus I definitely think I can go faster through that corner. A sub 3 minute lap should be possible. The new setup also seems more consistant as my laptimes throughout the day are now much closer together, when I got a relatively clean lap. Here's some pictures from the day:

Update 27/06/2020 - New Brake Pads At the start of the year I was looking forward to attending a trackday with Javelin at Spa Francorchamps around March / April time. Because this was scheduled to be a two day event I thought it best to look at getting some new brake pads. My existing front pads were becoming fairly low and I didn't want to run out of brakes at the end of the Kemmel straight for example. Currently I was using the original Ferrodo DS2500's my AP kit came with, I did swap them out for Endless MX72 pads for 6 months at one stage, however I found the Endless pads lacked the thermal capacity needed after several hot laps on track. So I swapped the Ferrodo's back in. I've kept the MX72's as my spare/emergency set. This now left me with a choice, do I buy Ferrodo's again or get something different. I like the Ferrodo's as basic track pad but I felt they lacked some feel / bite, as it turns out this is a common complaint from other reviews of them. So I started to look at other options, there is quite a good selection of pads available in the correct fitment for the AP calipers. I narrowed it down to the following selection: Pagid - RSL29 Winmax - W5 PFC - 08 Carbone Lorraine - RC6E Three of the pad choices are an edurance race compound, so should have excellent durability. In the end I decide to go for the PCF 08 pads, for a couple of reasons: 1. @Deacon had swapped to them last year and he's using them in the stardard caliper without issue or any overheating. Which I think is amazing considering he's still running the OEM calipers. 2. The Nurburgring GT86 Cup cars run these pads in the VLN races. 3. Cost and Availability, at the time they were the cheapest option for a complete set (Front & Rear). 4. I could source them from @James@Amber, all the other pads would mean ordering from a new supplier and I'd rather not have to deal with an unknown company if they sent the wrong size out with the short amount of time before the trackday. (For reference: Partbox also stock the PFC pads) 5. Being an endurance pad they "should" work from cold. Unfortunately however the Coronavirus situation happened and that meant the Spa trackday got cancelled, so I never got round to fitting them until now. I'll report back on the pads once I've had time to try them out. Here's a couple of photos during the install: Front PFC 08 Compound on the left & Ferrodo DS2500 on the right. Fitted: Rear PFC 08 Compound on the left & Endless MX72 on the right. Fitted - Just missing the pins which hold the pads in place.

Atleast most of us have got to experience the GT86 at the limit.....

If your in a massive bind I can give you my old front HoseTechnik ones. But @Lauren is right just buy some new ones.

Hi @beefman I've been insured with Adrian Flux in the past for a couple of years, they are generally one of the cheapest modified car insurance companies. However their sales team can be abit demanding when speaking to them, overall the service was decent, they had no issue with mods and it was easy to add them, either via phone or email. Am I currently insured with them? No, they don't offer competitive track day insurance, which is a key selling point to me. One of their single track day policies is £200. I recently insured with a company called Need2Insure, they were more expensive than Adrian Flux, but I got 5 track days worth of cover included in the price, which made it better value than the Adrian Flux quote. A couple of other suggestion to try: Greenlight - Also been insured by Greenlight, they are very good and politer that Adrian Flux. They just weren't competive enough this time around for me. REIS Insurance Sky Insurance Pace Ward

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That wheel setup will be very aggressive for a stock suspension setup and will poke quite a bit. It'll be fine once lowered and with some camber. With regards to cats and MOT, as soon as you remove the cat from the exhaust the MOT should technically be a fail. However you should still be able to pass with an aftermarket manifold and stock front pipe. The most common exhausts manifolds available in the UK are the Tuning Developments Manifold (best valve for money), Rogue Motorsport Manifold (premium quality) or the Tomei clones (dirt cheap). As for the boxer engine, they are very reliable, the key things to keep an eye on are the oil & coolant levels and there is a triangle shaped plate at the back of the engine that can sometimes leak oil. Also what's a Small track day?

Hi Michael This kit should definitely fit, it has been designed to fit behind the OEM wheels: https://www.amber-performance.co.uk/product.php?xProd=25282&xSec=8430 Personally however this the best kit available and most popular, but I can't confirm fitment with your wheels. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-BRZ-Toyota-GT86-330mm-front-brake-kit-with-AP-Racing-4-pot-calipers/254364472322?hash=item3b394dd402:g:7zQAAOSwuGhbwy2Z It is one of the least aggressive BBK's and does clear most wheels, except the stock ones. Unfortunately those Speedlines have a really high offset so it's hard to say, you could however run a 5mm spacer which will help clear the wheel or if you don't want to run a spacer the rotor hats are custom made so they can make them thicker to have a built in spacer so to speak.

He/she has got a BRZ, so really should have it done at Subaru if they want to keep up the manufacture service record. @1000 PR perhaps ask the Subaru dealer about the warranty conditions if you don't have the service as we are in exceptional times at the moment and it's non-essential.

Why does it say Toyota USA Museum, when it's clearly the Japanese one. 🤣 I opened the link and was like I've been here and it's definitely not in America.