The TPU UK Clubhouse

[Space Lynx]

Stock suspension, my previous one I did lower it with lowering springs and changed the ARB but I had 17" wheels, this one has the 18" TRD wheels which to me fills the wheel gap perfectly, the car corners similarly to how my previous one did.
I have exhaust manifold on order but there is a back-order, once its arrived i'll be getting that installed with a tune which will remove the torque dip in the 3.5k rpm range.

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Here is a photo of my black GT86 back from few years ago.(I'm also in the photo in the background)

nothing wrong with enjoying yourself mate, especially if you got a job you love. me personally i don't love any jobs, i like my jobs but i don't love them, sooner I can be retired and in Hawaii sippin on something nice and reading and napping at my leisure the better. and that means don't spend my money on expensive items. hehe

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Stock suspension, my previous one I did lower it with lowering springs and changed the ARB but I had 17" wheels, this one has the 18" TRD wheels which to me fills the wheel gap perfectly, the car corners similarly to how my previous one did.
I have exhaust manifold on order but there is a back-order, once its arrived i'll be getting that installed with a tune which will remove the torque dip in the 3.5k rpm range.

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Here is a photo of my black GT86 back from few years ago.(I'm also in the photo in the background)

Hmmm... Isnt it a little slow for a 2L 200hp car?? I have seen premium estate cars that have better 0-60 than what seems to be claimed (7.4s) but i always take those numbers with a grain of salt. As for the picture, whoever owns that car parks like a fucking twat. Taking up three spaces for your big ego GT86. If he's one of your friends, Tell him i said hi and im willing to fight him 1 on 1 in a ring with no weapons.


::EDIT::

Oooops, just realised you said it was yours. Yeah man. you parked like a fucking twat. come 1v1 me.

I bet that subaru in the background gets better numbers than your GT86

 

[the54thvoid]

^^ Hope those comments are tinged with knowing sarcasm. It's his car.

 

[kurosagi01]

Hmmm... Isnt it a little slow for a 2L 200hp car?? I have seen premium estate cars that have better 0-60 than what seems to be claimed (7.4s) but i always take those numbers with a grain of salt. As for the picture, whoever owns that car parks like a fucking twat. Taking up three spaces for your big ego GT86. If he's one of your friends, Tell him i said hi and im willing to fight him 1 on 1 in a ring with no weapons.


::EDIT::

Oooops, just realised you said it was yours. Yeah man. you parked like a fucking twat. come 1v1 me.

It was a local car meet so...parking "normal" is semi thrown out of the door bruh lol,I don't park like that on normal basis.
The car is indeed "slow" straight line speed but it makes up for it with the driving position and how it handles.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

It was a local car meet so...parking "normal" is semi thrown out of the door bruh lol,I don't park like that on normal basis.
The car is indeed "slow" straight line speed but it makes up for it with the driving position and how it handles.

was that grey golf on the right also in the car meet??

I think i spy a black toyota of some sort or BMW to the right of the subaru

 

[kurosagi01]

was that grey golf on the right also in the car meet??

I think i spy a black toyota of some sort or BMW to the right of the subaru

Pretty much the whole side of the retail park was part of the meet up, some arrived late so parked straight while some early people would have parked in an angle(like I did) to semi-show off lol.
It paid off, someone clearly saw my black GT86 was photo worthy to taken a photo.
Hopefully next year will be semi-better and I can start attending events, hopefully none of them will cause any conflicts when i'm in middle of moving out.

Edit:
i'm sure the WRX STI does out-perform thee GT86 lol, i've gone past caring now for straight line speed. Gets bit tedious and boring seeing so many samey cars wanting to one up in straight line speed.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

this just somehow surfaced on my youtube feed...

Its a bit late but still quite relevant

Gotta get that N.10 Christmas rave on.

 

[phill]

Evening all How is everyone??

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Not too bad. Just frigged about changing all the top radiator fans to Corsair LL120 from cheap no brand ones. They match the LL140 on the bottom Radiator now. Cleaned the CPU block too, there was a few bits of crap in it.

 

[phill]

Its never something simple and easy when you need it to be... Hopefully everything will go smoothly

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Did discover the corsair iCue lighting node pro rgb controller is very interesting it has a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller; up to 128 kB flash; up to 12 kB SRAM and 4 kB EEPROM; USB device; USART in it.
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/LPC11U3X.pdf

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[kurosagi01]

I had a bit of a electrical wiring problem with my car last week(mainly my fault), which led to hour or so fiddling outside in the cold which led to me actually catching a cold.
Slowly getting better I guess but damn, haven't caught a cold since early 2020.

 

[the54thvoid]

Can't catch a cold from the cold. Though it can weaken the immune system and make one easier to contract.

 

[kurosagi01]

Can't catch a cold from the cold. Though it can weaken the immune system and make one easier to contract.

Probably what happened, I did go out in heavy rain the night before fiddling more during the day.
I parked the car up, turned it off and it just went black.
Connect a battery charger to the battery and electrics worked wheen I checked it in the heavy rain in the evening.
Still had issue so went to get myself a new battery from Halfrauds(Halfords) and a multi-meter the following day.
Checked my battery and it has 12.5v so nothing wrong with it..anyway go to change it anyway with new battery and find out the terminals are flipped(also too short) on the 86 so took it out and put old one back in and it "worked", the alternator is charging with the battery so all good.
Went out for a drive and parked up no problem, try to start it again and all the electrics went black again..so popped the hood, checked the earth point is tight which it is, check the positive terminal its all tight. Gave the negative terminal wire a wiggle and the electrics came back..so popped the boot get the socket wrenches out and tighten the negative a lot better this time(it has nut on both end) and now no electrical problem.
So moral of the story, I messed it up and fixed the issue I created.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I had a bit of a electrical wiring problem with my car last week(mainly my fault), which led to hour or so fiddling outside in the cold which led to me actually catching a cold.
Slowly getting better I guess but damn, haven't caught a cold since early 2020.

any future plans for your GT86?

 

[kurosagi01]

any future plans for your GT86?

Already done these to the car:
TRD intake kit
TRD gear knob(old was a bit knackered)
Eonon Head unit
Armrest(OEM fitment)
TRD fender wind garnish

I do have a few bits on order and kept with Fensport(Toyota specialist), they have most of it already in hand but waiting on the exhaust manifold to be delivered from Japan before booking the car in to get all the leftover bits installed and tuned.
I do want to change the tail lights with something similar to the gen 2 to make it look a bit more modern, the clear tail lights is a bit to retro for me.
I did thought about going supercharge or turbo route but I don't want to ruin the reliability of the car as its still unknown territory on how reliable the engine is.
Not that I am planning to sell it but since its a TRD edition the value should stick or go up keeping it close to NA vs going Force induction.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Already done these to the car:
TRD intake kit
TRD gear knob(old was a bit knackered)
Eonon Head unit
Armrest(OEM fitment)
TRD fender wind garnish

I do have a few bits on order and kept with Fensport(Toyota specialist), they have most of it already in hand but waiting on the exhaust manifold to be delivered from Japan before booking the car in to get all the leftover bits installed and tuned.
I do want to change the tail lights with something similar to the gen 2 to make it look a bit more modern, the clear tail lights is a bit to retro for me.
I did thought about going supercharge or turbo route but I don't want to ruin the reliability of the car as its still unknown territory on how reliable the engine is.
Not that I am planning to sell it but since its a TRD edition the value should stick or go up keeping it close to NA vs going Force induction.

Not looking for any major engine changes then?

 

[kurosagi01]

Not looking for any major engine changes then?

Nah i'm done with chasing "power", the roads are going to get dominated by "electrics" eventually which will do 0-70mph in 3 seconds.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Nah i'm done with chasing "power", the roads are going to get dominated by "electrics" eventually which will do 0-70mph in 3 seconds.

In that case, you've got the wrong car....

 

[phill]

And this for me, is one reason why I don't look at Tik Tok....

 

[kurosagi01]

In that case, you've got the wrong car....

I have a bit of pride to not drive such car lol.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I have a bit of pride to not drive such car lol.

It's an idea. You can turbo a 1L anything

 

[Space Lynx]

Nah i'm done with chasing "power", the roads are going to get dominated by "electrics" eventually which will do 0-70mph in 3 seconds.

If you had a max budget of $22,000 USD (17,000 quid or so) what would you buy for long term commuting to work use?

I am losing my mind trying to find a new car to get to work with. 2022 Honda Civic, lot of those in stock near me, and a couple 2022 Toyota Corolla's in stock near me. I wouldn't mind something that lets me sit a little higher either, like a subcompact SUV, lot of those in that price range, but most of them have turbo engines, and I want this vehicle to last me 400k plus miles. I intend to take very good care of it and do everything the manual it comes with says to do on upkeep.

And this for me, is one reason why I don't look at Tik Tok....

I heard on the Joe Rogan podcast that some computer engineers reverse engineered some of the tiktok algorithm, kids in other countries get feeds of scientific experiments and other positive things, in America they get feeds of gender and race stuff. Not sure if there is anything to it, but scary stuff if there is.

 

[phill]

If you had a max budget of $22,000 USD (17,000 quid or so) what would you buy for long term commuting to work use?

I am losing my mind trying to find a new car to get to work with. 2022 Honda Civic, lot of those in stock near me, and a couple 2022 Toyota Corolla's in stock near me. I wouldn't mind something that lets me sit a little higher either, like a subcompact SUV, lot of those in that price range, but most of them have turbo engines, and I want this vehicle to last me 400k plus miles. I intend to take very good care of it and do everything the manual it comes with says to do on upkeep.



I heard on the Joe Rogan podcast that some computer engineers reverse engineered some of the tiktok algorithm, kids in other countries get feeds of scientific experiments and other positive things, in America they get feeds of gender and race stuff. Not sure if there is anything to it, but scary stuff if there is.

Personally a Civic, but the ones I've owned in the past they didn't have a good range of torque so you always ended up revving the engines to pieces to get anywhere, but being a Honda, never a problem with them I think a Corolla has been described as a micro or a fridge in the past, so I'm guessing they aren't the best in the world for being involved but it depends if you want a drivers car or an A to B car....
400k miles on a car? I doubt you'd ever keep it that long... Even with a 40k a year for 10 years would you get close...

My Seat Cupra R I have, I had at just under 40k and that's coming up 10 years ago now, I've just gone over 121k in it.... I don't average 10k miles a year, so I'm not sure I'd have a car that would have parts available that long

I just try to stay away from Social Media if I can. I believe there's too many problems with it that out weigh the good from it.. It's just another platform everyone tries to get noticed on.. I don't believe it's a good thing having such a high profile as you can see some really struggle with it...

Just my views but still What Facebook was created for and what it is now, two completely different things entirely......

 

[Space Lynx]

Personally a Civic, but the ones I've owned in the past they didn't have a good range of torque so you always ended up revving the engines to pieces to get anywhere, but being a Honda, never a problem with them I think a Corolla has been described as a micro or a fridge in the past, so I'm guessing they aren't the best in the world for being involved but it depends if you want a drivers car or an A to B car....
400k miles on a car? I doubt you'd ever keep it that long... Even with a 40k a year for 10 years would you get close...

My Seat Cupra R I have, I had at just under 40k and that's coming up 10 years ago now, I've just gone over 121k in it.... I don't average 10k miles a year, so I'm not sure I'd have a car that would have parts available that long

I average 19k miles a year sadly