Hey mate. Just bought the 2.4L kit from SME including over pipe and front pipe and oil cooler. It’s being installed in about 2-3 weeks with other additional mods. Let’s just say it’s not cheap, spent about 18k. Anyways, I wanted to get your thoughts on daily driving a 22 BRZ with the sme turbo kit on it. Not going to lie I’m very scared I’m turning this into a bomb however I am getting the right people to install and tune this (the86shop) so fingers crossed I’m fine.
well I'm not an expert or the guy in the video, and this is only my opinion, but I would recommend not to daily it. Since it's so much easier to just buy a used Camry for a few $k and daily that, and keep the BRZ for weekend / special use (like what modded cars should be used for). That way you won't be stressing, and you'll enjoy it that much more when you do drive it. You'll effectively extend the life of the car by x5 also. A modded car will never be as reliable as a stock car for daily use either, that is just how it goes. If you must daily it, then get low boost / tune setup, and do not use E85. This video is my reasoning to not use E85 for daily. But again it might not apply to your situation. th-cam.com/video/bPcVBc4-5Mk/w-d-xo.html I mention it though since daily's do lots of short trips (to gym, to shops to pick up milk, or you work nearby, etc), so it seems inevitable in a daily. Anyhow, I'm sure others will say other things, maybe even the opposite. So it'll be interesting to hear what others think.
It's horses for courses. E85 isn't great if the car is never getting upto proper operating temperature. There's nothing "Unreliable" as such about dailying an 86/BRZ with forced induction, we have hundreds of customers that do that!
As they say, buy once cry once! We've done 6 of these cars now, most of which are daily drivers and have been faultless so far. A good tune and supporting mods is key and it looks like you're heading in the right direction going and seeing Andrew and his team!
What an awesome outcome for our customer. Absolutely love working with the best in the business!
I have the delicious tuning flex fuel kit in USA and I love it!
What % ethanol was the flexfuel tune dyno’d with? Also, you said it was 176 kW on ethanol, correct?
What sort of gains do you expect without headers and over pipe on Flex. Thanks
Hey mate. Just bought the 2.4L kit from SME including over pipe and front pipe and oil cooler. It’s being installed in about 2-3 weeks with other additional mods. Let’s just say it’s not cheap, spent about 18k. Anyways, I wanted to get your thoughts on daily driving a 22 BRZ with the sme turbo kit on it. Not going to lie I’m very scared I’m turning this into a bomb however I am getting the right people to install and tune this (the86shop) so fingers crossed I’m fine.
well I'm not an expert or the guy in the video, and this is only my opinion, but I would recommend not to daily it. Since it's so much easier to just buy a used Camry for a few $k and daily that, and keep the BRZ for weekend / special use (like what modded cars should be used for). That way you won't be stressing, and you'll enjoy it that much more when you do drive it. You'll effectively extend the life of the car by x5 also. A modded car will never be as reliable as a stock car for daily use either, that is just how it goes.
If you must daily it, then get low boost / tune setup, and do not use E85. This video is my reasoning to not use E85 for daily. But again it might not apply to your situation. th-cam.com/video/bPcVBc4-5Mk/w-d-xo.html I mention it though since daily's do lots of short trips (to gym, to shops to pick up milk, or you work nearby, etc), so it seems inevitable in a daily.
Anyhow, I'm sure others will say other things, maybe even the opposite. So it'll be interesting to hear what others think.
It's horses for courses. E85 isn't great if the car is never getting upto proper operating temperature. There's nothing "Unreliable" as such about dailying an 86/BRZ with forced induction, we have hundreds of customers that do that!
As they say, buy once cry once! We've done 6 of these cars now, most of which are daily drivers and have been faultless so far. A good tune and supporting mods is key and it looks like you're heading in the right direction going and seeing Andrew and his team!
*promo sm*