HUGE CAR MEET
 

Often I see footage of the 86 community meeting up in big locations like California or New York. Not much in my area, so that's why I'm proud that I was able to set this up. Amazing moment !

https://youtu.be/fTcdFKNCtlE

Looks like a good time. Lol, at the mall cop saying you need a permit to take professional photos :lol:

HUGE CAR MEET
 

I was thinking it would be cool to get together a bunch of FR-S/86/BRZ owners. It’s really cool you organized that! [emoji106]
My brother and I happened to stumble on a Nissan GTR meet near where he lives. There were also a few R32 Skylines, a group of Supras, MkIV and MkV, and some other cool stuff. It was fun watching, and hearing the GTRs and Supras leave. Gave me goosebumps! [emoji2956] I wish I had taken some videos!

*And one 86 [emoji1]

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You guys drive like dipshits on public roads. That is exactly why I don't do meets or clubs.

Yeah and you guys wear your underwear for several days in a row.

Ya that was some pretty incriminating videos using a highway as their own track.


I have been to at least 12 meets/cruises around Canada and the US with as few as 8 cars and as many as 150 and have not seen that sort of activity at any of them. Even the big Norcal meet with all the cars there I didn't see any of that going on. Nothing wrong with meets or cruises since most behave fine.

Not to be that guy (but I'm gonna be that guy), the longer shift nob induces higher/amplified stress on your transmission than wasn't initially designed. Nice car though :burnrubber:

And since I am usually that guy and not ashamed of it I will say that although there certainly would be a mathematical increase in stress the difference would be so minuet it would be insignificant and cause zero extra wear or damage. Transmissions are not precision instruments where such minor deviations have any affect.
Now, if it was three feet long and you were using all that leverage beyond the shift operation...

The Lava is wearing some nice rims.. what are they? The Lava and Gold works, not seen the combination before..

If you need to blur your speedometer then you're doing it wrong.

Also in daytime when literally anybody could be on the road.

Very smart.

Typical Musting owners. Wait..

Jesus christ, what a bunch of absolute dipshits.

No wonder my insurance keeps going up year over year, when there's a bunch of small peckered, insecure boys driving these cars.

Always blows my mind that people are willing to risk that much on a public road and will never consider going to a track day or an autox or a drift day. Really anything but doing stupid shit on the street.

This thread is not going in the OP's expected direction.

Covid doesn't apply if it's for fun!

How is the IRP shifter working out? I've driven one and the reverse lockout was a bit hard to use

I'm surprised, but it's ok we just enjoyed the drive to the next location.

Please do ! I'm sure there are dope people in your area that would love that. Yo ! That car selection you said is amazing.

I'll have to ask him & get back to you.

So glad I invested in the IRP shifter, haven't had issues with the reverse lockout.

I can't say it has never happened, but we shut it down real quick. We work really hard to host the events we do and fighting the stigma of groups like this is most of the work I take the brunt of. Events and videos of events like this have consequences that most don't realize or don't care about

It was a little surreal, especially because we had no idea it was happening! Nobody was driving crazy or anything, they were all being responsible. But a GTR with a good exhaust sounds amazing. [emoji33] So many Godzillas!!


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I was very impressed by how well behaved everybody was. Now, I can vouch for after we all split up since Spike was my driver and he seemed a bit nervous at first and took it very easy.

I'm sure there are plenty of good groups out there, but I don't think they exist in Oregon. I have seen a couple of these freeway swarms before, it's amazing to me how badass they think they are while doing it to. One of them was a local Subaru group who always leaves their "spotted" cards on my windshield witch I promptly throw away.

One of the groups that I hung out with were @Ultramaroon 's buddies in Portland. They were all well behaved. The only issue was how loud they laughed when Ultra tried to leave the restaurant parking lot we were in and ended up in the McDonalds lot next door instead. There are good guys in that area just like everyplace else.

What


I totally meant to do that

Well it was on the way to the crack whorehouse.

If you're afraid of covid stay inside :thumbsup:

He has a valid point but precautions can be in place.

I skimmed through the video but immediately stopped watching after I heard a pop tune.
Something about UEL headers and a pop tune really makes me dry heave. I guess I'm not the demographic for that broken car sound.

Don't you know? Sounding lethargic and farty is the new cool.. No one wants to sound like F1/2/3.. GT1/2/3.. etc cars anymore, that's too high pitched and lame.

https://youtu.be/sBvu7lxtzYM

I love that Nardi deep corn. Is that the 330 or 350 mm diameter? How does it feel?

It's a 330 mm wheel, I love it as well ! More of a sporty feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFy1B08IYR4

Dude you met Aaron in person? AND you bought his steering wheel? Sick lol.

Does the wheel sit closer to stock with the quick release + deep dish design or no? That's my biggest concern with the deep corn vs classic design.

Finally what about cruise control, did you somehow keep it?

He was real cool. It does sit closer to the driver than stock but no issues. Initially didn't care for cruise control when I sold my stock wheel .. but might try to get it back. Not sure yet

Gonna put my flame suit on for this one, but really, I don't care that much...


...the 86 platform is basically turning into the 1992 EG hatch for the younger generation. You can just tell by the video posted by OP or better yet, just go for a drive; all kinds of MY13 FR-S cars bastardized to death can be seen every few minutes.


Don't care much for the torque dip, don't care for the apparent "lack of power" or any other common gripes people may have with this platform...the only thing that makes me want to sell mine is the thought of being associated with the type of people modding MY13 cars - just an absolute train wreck :barf:

Eventually happens to any inexpensive performance car as they get older and even cheaper. Just point and laugh.

With rusted-out fart-cans and mismatched body panels.

believe it or not, the requested mods get cheaper and cheaper as the cars age.

watched this trend with the 3rd gen eclipse, was part of it where midway through--valued around $10-15k, people were doing 3.8 MIVEC swaps with no problems, some guys building 4g64's and running 1/4's near 10 seconds or better, and near the end where the cars value topped $5k for a good condition model and every mod people wanted to do had to come in under $300 or it was 'too expensive'.

that's cars.

Same thing happened with the Z32 300ZX community. The Z was never featured in a movie of anything, so they just got old and values dropped - especially the poor NAs.
Drive what you like and mod it like you want. It's your car.

EDIT: well, the car values got cheap, but the mods didnt. With the twin turbos, you still had to have two of everything...

I dont even get how that's even possible. How does it change the frequency and sound like its revving at 18000 RPMs?

there some header/collector/resonator wizardry at play that he's not showing us.