We picked up our Asphalt Grey FR-S today from Alan Jay Toyota/Scion in Sebring, Florida earlier today. It's a manual with the BeSpoke radio and what I really found surprising was how great this color is, especially in bright sunlight. There is some orange peel that I noticed on the rear decklid, but overall the car is really pretty. After getting over the joy of picking up the new toy, I made my first stop of the day at our friend's shop: Titan Motorsports. They have an AWD Dynojet and our goal was to get a baseline idea of the power numbers and curve.
I'll leave my first driving impressions for another thread, because this is about the baseline pulls we made today (but MAN is this car fun!).
We did 4 pulls, the first 3 were fairly close together and today was a hot day in Orlando, all three pulls were between 160.8 and 161.1whp. We decided to let her rest for a few minutes and turned the fans on high to cool everything down so that there was as little heatsoak as possible.
On the 4th and final run, the car posted 164.7whp:
Video of the run is coming tomorrow!
I was satisfied with the numbers and I think we have a great baseline to work from. This car at 200whp, with a little less weight and some suspension upgrades is going to be a little rocketship...
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and here on FT86club to see how we build up our FR-S to make a great platform even better. We have parts in development and will be offering them for sale very soon. The car goes on track next weekend for the first time. Pictures and video to follow.
-Jon