Thunder Hill with Norcal Racing Club

Were you running just the axle back? I ran just the axle back at first too, it was awesome. I remember a significant difference the day I put the midpipe in as well. I have a video of me short shifting to 60 on the track, I'll have to upload it.

Here is my exhaust note:

Nice manual 8th gen. You guys still active out in Colorado as much? I remember when you deebs, cuztom, and vortex used to run your own significant corner around here.

I hear zero exhaust in both of those videos. Just thought I'd share that.

Try turning on your volume.

I ended up blowing my front passenger Tokico after 4 track days and 15K of DDing, so I took this opportunity to put on the KSports. Just got the fronts on for now.

I got these from Legit and decided to roll with his settings for a while. It is a good 2.5" lower than my H&R setup, so I had lots of toe in when I finished. Ended up almost running out of time and did a 10 minute eyeball alignment before I had to leave for work. It is close enough that I can drive the car and enjoy the upgrade.

Thoughts:
- Linear springs, wow! I have rolled on progressives for the last 10 years and these 7.5 kg/mm springs feel great!
- High quality dampers! These are an order of magnitude higher quality than both the KYB GR2 and Tokico Blue struts that I have used in the past.
- With the same stiff front swaybar, cornering is much better than the H&R/Tokico combo. The car loads up and turns instantaneously now.
- I will probably raise it up 1 cm or 2 cm, and realign it with Milky's method when I install the rears. Shooting for zero toe at all four corners, -3 degrees of camber up front and -1 degree of camber in the rear. If anyone has any performance alignment settings to share for AE92, AE10x, AE11X, or ZZE110, please share!

Upgrade Parts:


In this picture you can see how much oil pooled under the near tokico in the 15 minutes it had been there. KSports are much lower, and also match my engine stand.


I put the coil with more preload on the driver's side.



That's right, my spare is a steel grey version of the same wheel.


Compared to stock from the front. The lens is fish eyed here, I didn't fuck up the install. Can see how close it is to tucking in wheel well in this pic.

Hopefully more to update soon.

Fuck yea bro! I wanna go for a ride in your car

Come to Buttonwillow next time and we can do it on the track. Family friendly too, if you can convince your wife!
Added: Mar 8, 2013 at 1:05 AM

Hopefully starting in May or June. I have an agreement with a buddy to do 10 track days this year.....

late as usual.

No need to convince her, she's been to a track day at Laguna Seca. Plus Buttonwillow is practically my backyard!

Then it's a bromantic mandate.

Totally gay!

That's how the Norcal crew likes it!

I still consider myself SoCal

I know, but you also have strong "Norcal" tendencies!

I am gonna go for a rake like your car with the final spec I think. Even more then!

OK, looks like I just signed up for Toyotafest with these guise.
Lots of things going through my head but I kind of want to do these things:
- Not replica Wheels, +35mm or +30mm offset
- Supercharger Install
- ***Rear Coilover Install
- ***Alignment
- ***Full Detail
- ***Reinstall Nitrous Kit
- ***cBass Session
- Gauge Pod and (Boost, AFR, ???) Gauges if S/C is completed
- CF Hood install (this is the one with the TRDForums Decal in the front.
- Projector Retrofit

It's highly likely that my performance only and not giving a shit characteristics will lead to coils and alignment and car wash only. Sorry in advance.

Next week? Week after that? During the week, right?

My plans are to tint the windows, get a real paint job, reinstall my wink mirror, redo my headliner, wire up my high beams, redo all my exhaust. And money allowing, coilovers.

I never do my taxes until April 15.