Wes' red Toyota 86 Artisan Spirits

[villainous_frx]

Looks sharp! Hopefully you didn't have to drill into the bumper for that front plate.

[new2subaru]

Looks great!

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Originally Posted by villainous_frx

Looks sharp! Hopefully you didn't have to drill into the bumper for that front plate.

It's drilled but underneath the nose, so thankfully nothing visible!

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

So I was a victim of a parking lot hit and run unfortunately. Someone left a nice outline of a bumper in my passenger door. Can't really see it that well from far away



But then you look closer and



Even closer



Eek!

So I took it to my trusted paint shop and asked them to fix a couple other dings and do a one stage polish while they were at it. The day I picked it up from the shop, someone also came and ceramic coated it. So now it looks like a mirror













Needless to say, quite happy to have it looking good again

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Installed a new gauge cluster cover and added an alcantara overlay to it. I had the overlay up for sale for a while and there were no takers so I thought may as well just use it myself. I was meaning to reupholster all of the trim pieces but that got delayed unfortunately by having to go to 4 weddings in 3 months ��



The teeth on my old one were so worn out, it would no longer stay in place

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Can't believe I haven't posted in almost 3 years.

Got RCE Tarmac 2 coilovers with Verus camber plates for the front and oem top hats for the rear. Absolutely gorgeous things.









I also went with SPC rear camber arms and RacerX front endlinks. Then a few things happened:

1. Coils would rub on the Verus camber plates.

2. RacerX endlinks started squealing bloody murder

3. Replaced Camber plates with TRD oem top hats (from Japan as they're not available in North America)

4. Replaced endlinks with Moog oem-equivalents.

Also wanted to mention that I highly recommend a corner balancing. Really made a huge difference imo.

Also my TOB was dying so back to the shop it went. This time:

1. Exedy lightweight flywheel with stage 1 clutch. Made it a tiny bit more eager in the first 2 gears.

2. While I was at it, I threw in the Verus clutch fork.

3. Turns out one of the cam covers was seeping oil onto the header so that was fixed.

And just recently I got new wheels. RPF1 in 17x9 +45 with Conti ECS02 in 245/40. With the flywheel I estimate I got rid of about 35 lb of rotational mass and around 28 lb of it unsprung. Car became much more noticeably peppy, much more so than from the flywheel alone. That's it for now.









It rides quite high now but it's so comfortable plus I feel like lowering the suspension past the manufacturer's recommendations defeats the purpose of having expensive, quality suspension. So I'm just gonna leave it. Car is comfy and handles like a dream so I'm happy with that.

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

Can't believe I haven't posted in almost 3 years.

Got RCE Tarmac 2 coilovers with Verus camber plates for the front and oem top hats for the rear. Absolutely gorgeous things.









I also went with SPC rear camber arms and RacerX front endlinks. Then a few things happened:

1. Coils would rub on the Verus camber plates.

2. RacerX endlinks started squealing bloody murder

3. Replaced Camber plates with TRD oem top hats (from Japan as they're not available in North America)

4. Replaced endlinks with Moog oem-equivalents.

Also wanted to mention that I highly recommend a corner balancing. Really made a huge difference imo.

Also my TOB was dying so back to the shop it went. This time:

1. Exedy lightweight flywheel with stage 1 clutch. Made it a tiny bit more eager in the first 2 gears.

2. While I was at it, I threw in the Verus clutch fork.

3. Turns out one of the cam covers was seeping oil onto the header so that was fixed.

And just recently I got new wheels. RPF1 in 17x9 +45 with Conti ECS02 in 245/40. With the flywheel I estimate I got rid of about 35 lb of rotational mass and around 28 lb of it unsprung. Car became much more noticeably peppy, much more so than from the flywheel alone. That's it for now.









It rides quite high now but it's so comfortable plus I feel like lowering the suspension past the manufacturer's recommendations defeats the purpose of having expensive, quality suspension. So I'm just gonna leave it. Car is comfy and handles like a dream so I'm happy with that.

Car looking good! Also welcome back funny thing Ive been gone about 3 years and just started modding and posting again

[monkeybike]

Originally Posted by SuperTom

Car looking good! Also welcome back funny thing Ive been gone about 3 years and just started modding and posting again

Same but it's been 6 years for me. Still have the car. Catching up.

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Installed the PST carbon driveshaft that came up for a very good price locally, less than half of MSRP. I used to have the DSS alu driveshaft and that one vibrated bad at around 80 mph no matter how many times I rotated it. No vibration from this one, just a welcome return of a tiny bit of gear whine. This brings the total reduction of rotational mass on the car to 45 lb. She's very peppy off the line, albeit still very slow at highway speeds.

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

Installed the PST carbon driveshaft that came up for a very good price locally, less than half of MSRP. I used to have the DSS alu driveshaft and that one vibrated bad at around 80 mph no matter how many times I rotated it. No vibration from this one, just a welcome return of a tiny bit of gear whine. This brings the total reduction of rotational mass on the car to 45 lb. She's very peppy off the line, albeit still very slow at highway speeds.

Thats the one I have still going strong after all these years and no vibration