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You said these had sold on the other forum?

£140 brand new plus a £30 filter...make me a reasonable offer

Yesterday I got the train up to Macclesfield to pick the car up from RRG. Richard wasn't there but put me in the capable hands on Mike the sales manager who was very keen to find out more about the car. The first start up was louder than I expected, but then it was a cold start and I've been used to driving a diesel around for the past 2 weeks... A quick fill up before the 190mile drive home in horrible weather conditions Luckily there was zero traffic and I was home within 3 hours. The exhaust does drone a little on the motorway, I don't think there's really much we can do about it...whilst the exhaust sits at around 95dB holding it at 4500rpm, under load it's WAY louder and no chance of passing the flyby noise limits on any track. So I think we're going to try out some aftermarket bung to stick into the pipes coming out of the rear boxes and see if that helps Today was then spent fitting the final mod before the full map gets added by Abbey on Tuesday - the Perrin 3" cold air intake Not the easiest intake to fit, as it means removing the front bumper Remove the old airbox And the HKS air duct comes off too Leaving a big hole in the engine bay, but it just means you can see a bit more of the beautiful manifold Fitting the Perrin CAI also means removing some additional bolts that hold the radiator fan and bonnet catch bracket, to then slide the pipe underneath, keeping the filter away from the hot engine bay as much as possible No real noticeable gains yet obviously but I'm sure it will help once it's on the dyno later in the week

So my Perrin 3" air intake with a foam filter arrived from the States during the week. They recommend cleaning it with a brand that doesn't seem to be available in the UK Has anyone else got or had a foam air filter and what did you use to clean and re oil it? Would something like this be suitable? http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=221771788916&alt=web

Thanks

She's finally done! Will at JP Exhausts in Macclesfield just gave me a call to say it's finished and that he's just emailed me some pics. Ready to collect her tomorrow! I can't thank Will and JP Exhausts enough. Every step of the way they have listened to the spec I wanted, kept me fully up to date and gone far beyond what I ever expected if I'm honest. Will has even gone to the trouble of rebuilding part of the catback exhaust where I'd flattened the pipe into the backbox from the car being so low - he's raised the pipe up as much as possible and even stuck a 5mm plate on the bottom to stop it crushing the pipe in future and making sure it stays a 3" bore No manifold that I know of for the GT86 has a larger bore than 1.75" on the primaries - I asked Will if a 2" was possible and he's somehow done it! It looks amazing, such a shame you can't really see it unless you're under the car :( this large bore will allow us to get as much as possible from the supercharger The main concern was noise - the catback itself with the old 1.5" bore manifold and 2.5" overpipe and front pipe was LOUD. Will has managed to squeeze in 2 huge silencers to the front pipe which will considerably help reduce the noise. Not the prettiest front pipe in the world with the 2 big boxes stuck in there, but it had to be done if I wanted any chance of getting on track So, a few pictures... Manifold - 2" bore in a 4-1 design finishing in a 3" collector It's not quite as unequal as the old Borla manifold was, simply due to the fact that the larger bore means you can't make the shorter side the same as the Borla because of the angles...it's still unequal so will have the Scooby rumble, but just maybe not as much as before Fitted to the car, it looks amazing! Overpipe - there are only a couple of 3" overpipes on the market for the GT86. This connect the manifold to the front pipe but has to go over the front subframe and 3" is a REAL squeeze. But Will has worked his magic and done it without any issues Front pipe - 3" bore with 2 massive silencers to give me a chance of passing the noise test on track Not much room with those boxes in place when it's on the car... And finally, the remade catback pipe that I didn't even ask for Will to do anything to! He's rebuilt about a 3rd of this to raise it up slightly, completely free of charge and the 5mm thick plate will help to keep it 3" if I do bash it again I haven't even seen this work in person yet but I'm already so impressed! Really can't wait to pick it up tomorrow and see what a difference it makes to the sound. I think I still may need some sort of bungs on the tailpipes to make sure I'm track legal, but that's easy enough as the tips of the exhaust are held on with clamps, so I can just clamp the bung onto the actual pipe from the back boxes I'll get some videos over the weekend and then it's into Abbey on Tuesday 17th ready for mapping!

My respect for you has gone out of the window Adam....

Well if you're planning exhaust mods there's no point getting the remap just yet So decat or lights

Decat and remap for me

Litchfield?! You mean they actually did some work on a GT86?

Abbey Motorsport

I'm in Surrey mate, but I'll be collecting the car from Macclesfield this Saturday 14th which is a bit closer to you going by your location as Derby?

Bump, sensible offers considered

Bump, now off the car so sensible offers welcome

Nice sales pitch

Couple of pics from a meet the other week And then an evil front end shot from the TD meet last weekend Missing her at the moment

Why would anyone opt for a BRZ when it's more expensive for the same car?

I fear it won't be as immense soon although the full exhaust system will allow me to have it properly mapped...has it's ups and downs lol

He wants to see my car on his rollers once it's finished so I'll be interested in coming up again

You might be deaf but surely it hasn't affected your ability to read, Sam?

After a long drive from London to Warrington for the TD meet at the weekend, the car is now with JP Exhausts ready to have some work done Unfortunately it's unlikely they'll be able to do anything this week but most likely start work next Monday ready to be collected on Friday 13th. From there it'll be a trip down to Abbey to leave her in their capable hands and hopefully be fully mapped in a few days The team at JP are confident they can make the volume of the exhaust track-legal so fingers crossed although I will admit I was quite loving the noise of the new 3" catback recently

Good to put a face to the name Adam, impressive figures from your dyno run

Good to see everyone. Well worth the 200mile trip last night with Adam and the hotel was awesome. Today was great to see TD's setup - shame I'm not more local as it's definitely a company that I'd be happy discussing my plans with and letting them carry out the work. Very impressive setup Some decent numbers on the dyno from the ones I saw. Sorry that we left fairly early but we wanted to get back to London at a decent time. Unfortunately that didn't happen...4.5 hours instead of the 2.5 it took to get up north on Saturday. Well worth it though Big thanks to Mike and the team and also Rich at RRG for helping me with my plans for next week. Hope no one's ears are ringing from my exhaust....

A few people have. @JamesP1991 is the one that springs to mind

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