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Originally Posted by tech4pdx
I will have to disagree to an extent. I am going by prior experience in what was my previous love affair: my modded 2000 Trans Am WS6 6MT Convertible.
It came with a Borg Warner/Tremec T-56 6sp manual. Brass synchros and rated to handle 450 ft/lbs of torque (just like the Vipers of that era). Excellent transmission, but with a sometimes leaky slave cylinder. Only gave me problems twice in 70k of hard driving.
In very cold weather, well below freezing, I never once had any problem shifting that thing in 2nd or any other gear for that matter. It look a lot of abuse too, on the factory fluid. Never changed it.
Now.. On my FR-S, different story. I will only say that switching to Pentosin 75W80 MTF2 fluid "cured" the issues. Previously, I was barely able to pull the car out of 1st and 2nd was a no-go. I had to shift to 3rd instead. I learned to start warming up the fluid slowly in 1st just to get something drivable within 5 minutes.
Not bashing my own car.. I like it now that Pentosin makes it feel better.
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Yes, sometimes going to a friction modifier at your own risk, can make things more functional, and that is what all automotive enthusiasts encourages you to explore. Even CE Tada says he loves for all enthusiastic owners to covet and experiment with various features and modifications. But he too, while being left to enthuse more than ever as a Toyota corporate staff as a personal lover of automobile and motorsports, is still working within confines of a very large firm.
To really make him happy perhaps, is for us to bring feedback and suggestions as we do, and give them back the knowledge too. Some or most of the suggestions might not be something that can pass the rigorous other standards for chemical properties, longevity that Toyota aims for products, costs, and hundreds of parameters that assure Toyota who they are. But even a several billion dollar R&D resources at Toyota is nowhere near the R&D capability of all the enthusiastic owners and 3rd party teams combined.
I think it is fair to say, we can and should do our part in making the FRS/BRZ more our own, from here... and develop these cars together.
The ORIGINAL AE86 was a car that came with a few key essential parts and in a great package. But conjured from mere and simple Corolla pieces and bits, it was the owners and tuners, over the course of 30+ years that made them the cult cars and enjoyable and potent cars today. If the FT86 siblings carry the same blood, why don't we adore the car and repeat the process as owners and enthusiasts?
AE86 out of the showroom wasn't nearly as spiffy as most of the cooler AE's out there today. And FT86 should not be perfected just yet only 12 months after launch, if we can help it!
I've put RSR Ran-Up in the engine and got a few ponies more where it counts, right in the middle of the rev ranges. That's really not a lubricant, but surface friction modifier... I might even try it in a manual transmission car (mine's a paddle as you all know). If Super GT teams all use this and if GT500 Sard SC430 gets 9km/h trap speed at the end of the straight at Fuji using in their gearbox... And drivers all raving how stable the shift feel becomes in their sequential dog-box... Hummm... Maybe, just maybe?