Maarten's drift/show GT86

[Maarten]

Hi,
Let me first introduce myself. My name is Maarten and I live in Belgium. I'm 24 (2015) and I bought my GT86 second hand with 63.000km in november 2015.
It's a silver 2013 model with navigation and rear parking sensors, leather seats and a center arm rest.

So the car as I bought it (at least after a good wash):



The first thing i did was test the practicality of this car. And I have to say, it didn't disappoint me. 3 of us went on a 2000km road trip to Austria to participate in the red bull crashed ice event there. Packing 2 full ice hockey gears, an extra set of skates and clothes for 4 days for 3 people.
Fitted with a good set of winter tires we set of through Germany over the autobahn. Reaching a speed of up to 240km/h (granted slightly down hill) but 200km/h was easy to maintain and still quite comfortable.







Well... It was a great experience. The car did really wel. Even had some fun in the mountains with the car on some twisty roads as there was no snow yet.

Then in Belgium, snow hit us drift fun!!



Anyway... the second thing I did with it was a drift event at our local race track, circuit zolder. This was during the race wars event where allot of show cars come.
And in the end, I had the dirtiest car on the entire event But I had great fun. Learned allot and I'll definitely do it again.







After lowering the car I also did a 500 km tour to the Nurburgring and of course, who can resist doing a few laps there. Sadly I have no photo's of this.

That's about it for the activities for now. Here come the mods.

First mod: KW V3
Installed them myself, took me about half a day. I'm really happy with them, the ride is allot better. High speed driving (autobahn) is allot more stable, the car doesn't dance around anymore as it used to.
And it looks great. I did raise the rear a bit after this photo as I thought this was somewhat to low compared to the front and I don't want a slammed car.






After a loooong search I finally found the wheels I wanted. They are soo nice.
Japan racing JR-21 Hyper black
Front: 18x8.5 ET35 235/40r18
Rear: 18x9.5 ET35 255/35r18
Tires: Continental contisportcontact 5

Slight rub on really heavy corners. Not sure what it is yet. But I think I should have taken a 245/35 in the rear. Or I'll have to roll the fenders. Not sure what I'll do yet.





For now this is it. Next things will be paint taillights red, exhaust, clutch, lips, and some more. Not in any particular order.

[Boomerang]

Nice, Autobahn must be fun!

[Iceman]

That poor girl

Originally Posted by Boomerang

Nice, Autobahn must be fun!

It is, when you don't get stuck in some traffic jam doing 5kmh

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by Iceman

That poor girl



It is, when you don't get stuck in some traffic jam doing 5kmh

What? you get traffic jams on the autobahn?

[gatorbushmen]

Those wheels look great!

[Maarten]

Small update. Tail lights Red ,a rebadged and invidia exhaust. Looks so much better imo.
Also had a small drift event/mini meet at a local industrial park where the popo let us have some fun now and then
Still went really good with 255 in the rear on stock power
Tires where shredder after haha.

Next "mod" rear toe control arms



Thanks to Eddy Meuris for the really awesome pictures

[Maarten]

Oh and I reached this a while back... In the mean time I'm already at 92k+km Meaning I've done about 30k km since end of November 2015

[CARBON10]

lol at the 868686.86! Nice! Looking good man, never seen those wheels before but they suit the car well.