Any GT86 owners from Belgium?

[Pascal_TTH]

One way or another, I'm gonna find ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna win ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya'

Tomorrow at 4 pm !

[remme]

Sounds like somebody's is going to be verry happy this weekend ! lol

... and looks like fairly reasonable weather in the weekend as well

[mackeye]

Take it easy Pascal !

Have a GREAT weekend with your new baby

[Pascal_TTH]

340 Km around Ardennes² and Petite Suisse Luxembourgeoise² under a nice sun. 8,4 l/100Km with Shell V-Power (1,44 €/l).

Here she is :



² : Don't know the names in english but those tow regions have no straight road : up and down with a lot of turns.

[remme]

8.4 L/100 ... he'll I'm struggeling to stay under 10
(on 'fun' roads of course, not on economy-run style highway).
But you're absolutely right, la petite Suisse is the perfect area for playing with an 86/BRZ. You just gave me some inspiration for a short weekend stay in the area over there.

[mackeye]

Wanted to share with you some pictures of my baby that was washed under a wonderful blue-sky ... so fresh, so clean!

[Guillaume]

Great fun in Mettet last Monday.



[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHSp1W1GSnU"]Subaru BRZ @ Mettet - YouTube[/ame]

[mackeye]

That's fun ! Thanks for the video.
Plus you were lucky with that nice weather

I was at the Mettet circuit last octobre, had a couple of turns with a different car ...

[Pascal_TTH]

I spend some times to *Meguiar's* my BRZ. She's so sweet now !

[projectXTR]

Hey guys,

Was browsing the interwebz as per usual and stumbled upon this : http://www.fgamotorsport.com/catalog...brz-200ch.html

Seems like to me seeing that it's just plug and play.

Does anyone of you have experience with this product or the company itself ?

[Pascal_TTH]

Stay away from those *bullshit*. If you want more HP, go for a better exhaust (Milltek, SuperSprint, and so) or for a custom ECU remap or ECU Tek.

I will never go for such a box.

[GT-086]

Or Unichip.
I know the distributor for Benelux. Lives 5 km from me

see http://www.rw-scenter.be/index.asp

[remme]

Fully agree. Just had a look at that website.
+35hp for 500€ and in 5 minutes time ... if something sounds too good to be true, most of the time it isn't true !
Getting more hp's out of a modern naturally aspired engine isn't that easy.

Just look at what a +50 to +80 turbocompressor kit costs (overall level 10k-ish).

Air intake, remap and a FULL supersprint (engine port to final muffler) adds you roughly those 30-35hp. But a full supersprint costs 5000€.

In NA tuning you can do limited things, you need to burn more fuel and for big gains make more rpm's. In both cases you need to be able to bring in the fresh air, and get the combustion gases through the exhaust. Doing that without blowing up the engine, that's the art ! Getting HP's out is at the end not that difficult, getting then whilst maintaining reliability though ...
Not to mention things like uprating cluch, cooling system, engine bearings, con rods, leightweight flywheel and pulleys, prop shaft, ... and then you can start working on the suspention (... and brakes, and frame, ...).

Heavy engine tuning, you know where you start, but you never know where it'll end. The only thing you know is that it won't be cheap!

But let us know how well the thing works if ever you install it!

[projectXTR]

Originally Posted by remme

Fully agree. Just had a look at that website.
+35hp for 500€ and in 5 minutes time ... if something sounds too good to be true, most of the time it isn't true !
Getting more hp's out of a modern naturally aspired engine isn't that easy.

Just look at what a +50 to +80 turbocompressor kit costs (overall level 10k-ish).

Air intake, remap and a FULL supersprint (engine port to final muffler) adds you roughly those 30-35hp. But a full supersprint costs 5000€.

In NA tuning you can do limited things, you need to burn more fuel and for big gains make more rpm's. In both cases you need to be able to bring in the fresh air, and get the combustion gases through the exhaust. Doing that without blowing up the engine, that's the art ! Getting HP's out is at the end not that difficult, getting then whilst maintaining reliability though ...
Not to mention things like uprating cluch, cooling system, engine bearings, con rods, leightweight flywheel and pulleys, prop shaft, ... and then you can start working on the suspention (... and brakes, and frame, ...).

Heavy engine tuning, you know where you start, but you never know where it'll end. The only thing you know is that it won't be cheap!

But let us know how well the thing works if ever you install it!

Haha, don't worry, I wasn't planning on installing it.
If I ever do mods to my brz it'll be mainly cosmetic.
Performance wise I wouldn't really go further than an exhaust and possibly a tune...I'm already having troubles keeping it under the speed limit and I'm not keen on paying tickets :p

cheers!