Using handbrake with automatic gt86 and other issues with the automatic version

[Tommygt86]

Hi guys!

As a person who can drift, i am just about to buy a gt86 in Europe for using it every single day!
I am still hesitating to choose the automatic or the manual, but i have some questions, and i can't find the answers! Please help me if you can!

I will not use the car to drift! I will drift with it on track days, but not to often!

With a RWD car if it's manual when i am pulling the handbrake i need to push the clutch because i want to stop the wheel which is under pressure.

With a awd sport car (if it's also manual) if you are pulling the handbrake the rear wheels are moving out of pressure and while you are pulling the e-brake, and you are stepping on the gas, the front wheels are stil spinning (for example you can do it with the subaru, evo, audi s3...

My main question is that how is it operating at the gt86/brz/frs?
Does it have some special elctronic assistance, or it's horrible for the car, so if i want to use the handbrake i need to buy the manual!?

My other question is that i want to add an ecutec racerom to the car, but all the features are for manual!? For example one of the features are the flat foot shifting or the downshift auto blip, does the downshifting auto blip or the launch control working on the automatic/paddle shift version?

Haha, and i still have one more question:

I'm bit disaffected because of the stock sound of the car, but because of my work i can't put a badass exhasut system under the car, so i am thinking to purchase a special thing a kind of exhaust which (sound) is adjustable by pressing a button.
Do you know an aftermarket exhaust which have this silencer buit inside?

Sorry because of my special questions, i hope that you fanatics know the answers, i'm really looking forward to find disposals!

Best:
Tommygt86

P.S: i am wheeks before choosing and buying mine finally!

[that_one_guy]

I started to read your question about hand brakes, got confused, gave up so I'll just say that although I am not a drifter who does e-brake turns often, there is no different between auto and manual.

There is a guy on here that bought the exhaust he likes, then had a muffler shop cut and weld a valve before the muffler so it can be an open pipe when he blips the button on a wireless key fob. This will probably be your best bet. If you only want the sound, then get one of these valves and install it before the stock exhaust.

[golfyankee2121]

Originally Posted by Tommygt86

Hi guys!

As a person who can drift, i am just about to buy a gt86 in Europe for using it every single day!
I am still hesitating to choose the automatic or the manual, but i have some questions, and i can't find the answers! Please help me if you can!

I will not use the car to drift! I will drift with it on track days, but not to often!

With a RWD car if it's manual when i am pulling the handbrake i need to push the clutch because i want to stop the wheel which is under pressure.

With a awd sport car (if it's also manual) if you are pulling the handbrake the rear wheels are moving out of pressure and while you are pulling the e-brake, and you are stepping on the gas, the front wheels are stil spinning (for example you can do it with the subaru, evo, audi s3...

My main question is that how is it operating at the gt86/brz/frs?
Does it have some special elctronic assistance, or it's horrible for the car, so if i want to use the handbrake i need to buy the manual!?

My other question is that i want to add an ecutec racerom to the car, but all the features are for manual!? For example one of the features are the flat foot shifting or the downshift auto blip, does the downshifting auto blip or the launch control working on the automatic/paddle shift version?

Haha, and i still have one more question:

I'm bit disaffected because of the stock sound of the car, but because of my work i can't put a badass exhasut system under the car, so i am thinking to purchase a special thing a kind of exhaust which (sound) is adjustable by pressing a button.
Do you know an aftermarket exhaust which have this silencer buit inside?

Sorry because of my special questions, i hope that you fanatics know the answers, i'm really looking forward to find disposals!

Best:
Tommygt86

P.S: i am wheeks before choosing and buying mine finally!

I am not exactly sure what you are asking about the e-brake, but I am pretty sure you're not going to hurt the car with a quick rip of the e-brake to get the back end to swing around. I know that you cannot get launch control on the automatic transmission, but it does come standard with Dynamic Rev Management, which is pretty much the same thing as the downshift auto blip feature you would find on the tune your speaking of. As for exhaust, I know there are some pretty quiet systems out there. Invidia Q300 seems to be what a lot of people go with for quietness. I, on the other hand, went the exact opposite direction and am running a straight pipe right now. My neighbors may not appreciate it, but I sure as hell love it. Lol.

J.B.

[acro]

Why not just buy the manual. It would be better from the get go for drifting. You can do clutch kick etc. And you would be able to use all the features of ecutek.

The stock auto does auto blip on downshift btw without the need to use ecutek.

As far as I know there is no launch control with the automatic with or without ecutek.


Not sure about electronic intervention when the ebrake is pulled in the auto version

[_______]

I don't think you need to worry about those features you want in ecutek. Automatic paddles have rev matching already and you can easily do a launch control with an automatic, throttle while pressing the brake down and then let go

[stevesnj]

It's a Parking Brake, meant for parking. Just has a secondary purpose..lol

[Tommygt86]

Wow, thank's for the quick replies!

[ashtray]

I can only imagine the drivetrain shock from pulling the handbrake on an automatic rwd car. Maybe the slushbox will take up the slack? I dunno... I wouldn't advise trying it though.

[andrew5826]

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[Tommygt86]

Thx!