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Yeah, Nigel's been a lot of help. His site just sells seat covers. http://www.nigel-jdmparts.com/japan-...her-seat-cover
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call me conservative but imo my time and money is just too precious to exhort too much effort to do any of it. i suppose all of it has been well spent on my AE86 that, when i bought the fr-s, i just want a car thats a done deal. again this is my own opinion about this. the most ill probably do to my fr-s would be to buy the trd kit. otherwise it will stay bone scion stock. good day gentlemen.
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These are not aftermarket parts, they are from factory, they are stock. We shouldn't have to be putting any effort into this other than signing the paper and handing over the money. Toyota decided to give us the finger though. Also, this is a list of the parts for those who wanted to do a conversion, since it wasn't released here. It's not an opinion thread. It's meant to help others find what they need to get the conversion done.
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- Push button start - Seat warmers - Side mirror warmers - Puddle lights - Dual climate control - Leather/Alcantara - Red digital color for time and such as opposed to orange on Premium BRZ or FR-S To me, it seems easier to source an FR-S front bumper and badge, then rear FR-S badging and BAM! Got yourself an FR-S with much nicer-looking BRZ headlights. Ultimately I want my BRZ to resemble a GT-86 just for giggles. I highly doubt I'll ever pay $3k for the GT-86 headlights, though. I don't even like them. |
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You're right, "easy" is a relative term. I suppose it depends on how much you want to spend and what work you're willing to do and how much of a conversion you want to do. A lot of the FR-S to 86 conversion parts will be needed for the BRZ, such as the headlights. You might be able to get more for the BRZ headlights if you sell them than you would the FR-S lights. So that's a consideration for things. The main differences between the FR-S to 86 conversion and a BRZ to 86 conversion would be that a lot of the interior stuff is already there on the BRZ. However, you have bigger exterior stuff. Like the front bumper, either way you'd need fog lights for FR-S or BRZ (86 are a different housing at the very least than the BRZ's). If you're picky about the suspension, as I am, then you'd be looking at swapping out a suspension. I don't know how much of it is different though, to get that understeer Suby wanted. So you could be changing everything to maybe only a couple parts. I guess it comes down to if you want to do more mechanical or electrical work. The FR-S will have more electrical and the BRZ will have more mechanical, and with that front bumper maybe paint and colour matching or full paint job if you want Hot Lava, since it's a Toyota/Scion only colour. I haven't seen all the parts necessary for a full blown conversion yet, so I couldn't even guess on price. I was easily over 10k when I was looking at parts to do the conversion and I hadn't seen the dual climate controls, push start, smart entry system, or the leather/alcantara heated seats on the market yet, from 3rd party vendors. I didn't look into a BRZ conversion since the only Suby dealership in my area has been to court over so many fraud cases it's not even funny. So I don't know about the costs or all the unique parts necessary for that conversion.
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Very interesting thread!
Makes me appreciate my GT86 Limited even more. About the stereo, I suggest you look at what's in the cars sold in Europe. From what I've been able to gather, there's two head units: Toyota Touch (no sat-nav) Toyota Touch&Go (with sat-nav) These are not the same as on other Toyota models (even if the units are called the same), they are unique for the GT86, according to the dealership. I have a LHD with the Touch&Go, see photo below. This comes with English as one of the installed languages. If there's Toyota's with the same system in the US, you should be able to install the US maps on a Touch&Go. If not, a Touch would still give you Radio, CD, Bluetooth handsfree, and stuff. Also, there's an option available for the GT86 (at least in Europe), a JBL sound system. It replaces all the speakers, and adds an amplifier and a woofer in the trunk. Let me know if anyone's interested in phtos of the JBL system. Last edited by Sarlacc; 02-14-2013 at 03:26 PM. |
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I've actually left out the stereo stuff, for the most part, due to nav units and such being region specific and of course language issues in some cases. Not to mention the shear amount of optional head units. Still, useful information, thanks.
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Can anyone help with push to start part numbers? I can find the tray, tray mat, and lock cap (subaru)but I need the Toyota internals...
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