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Decent fuel is all you need - VPower or similar.

Snake Oil. I'd rather piss in the tank.

Mid 12's at best IMO. Cheers, Brian.

They can launch but I think you're doing Supras an injustice there - I managed a 1.64 sec 60ft on the same DR's with my piddly 400bhp.

Nice time Jurgen! That terminal shows a very healthy dose of power - perhaps not as conservative as you were originally gonna go this time? Interested to hear your 60ft / launch control used / tyres used info? Sounds like these R35's are excellent at getting great launches out of normalish tyres with their top 4wd setups.

Good going Jamie - does sound a sweet high power setup you have there

Didn't you have a blue Subaru Legacy with Gold wheels??

Looking good Jamie - hopefully a good fun / hassle free setup for you

Yeah, start a new thread as a number of us have gone TRAC-less in the past so you'd get more input. On paper, you're harder on the autobox yeah - the main issue is heat so depends how much you do it, how much torque you're producing and whether you have cooler(s) to help. Personally, I dragged a stock TT auto all day at Crail with the TRAC fuse pulled - about 20 runs in all - and had no issues with the car after. Refreshing the ATF helps, if you know you're giving it more than standard abuse then service it well and with decent fluids etc.

Just pull the TRAC fuse to see the difference (fuse box under bonnet). You will get a warning light on the dash to ignore this way though.

The short answer - the stock TC system still does 'stuff' even though you've turned it off with the switch, like throttle retardation on autobox shift using it's own butterfly inside the throttle body - hence the stepper motor you can see bolted to the side of the throttle body just ahead of the intake plenum as well as a whole separate TC ECU located beside the main ECU in the passenger footwell which works in unison with it. You will find that you won't be able to get a dyno power reading for your car if you ditch the TC ECU as your car will always want to kick down and jump out the dyno during a power run. I could never get a power reading from mine and when at the dyno with ryang, this was the reason he gave for it. As a side note, I ran Amsoil 'Fully Synthetic' TypeIV ATF rather than the Toyota stuff.

Hi Shane, I've not owned the car for a couple of years now but I ran it with no trans temp gauge (ignorance is best when you're chasing times! ) for a couple of years including a snowy winter and can't say I noticed a difference - it always shifted firm but was tolerable, I had no stock TC butterfly either so didn't get any shift retard. I'm also still in touch with the new owner who asks me about stuff / for advice now and again and he's never mentioned the shifting either and that's through two harsh snowy winters with him. Cheers, Brian.

Very tasty - one of my favourite red ones. A nice clean facelift with a few tasteful mods always looks very up to date, nice job! Cheers, Brian.

I ran 3x trans Coolers with my BL trans, plumbed in series with no stat - never had a problem then but did break a BL trans when running only 1x trans Cooler. I was also running a PI 3,800 stall TC. My car is still going strong thousands of miles on with that setup, now owned by DekJZA80. Cheers, Brian.

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Hi and welcome - from Bathgate here. My old car may be for sale shortly (road car facelift '97 TT auto non-VVTi at BPU+ level with a drag focus spec wise, holds the 1/4m records for the class) - PM DekJZA80 if interested, he told me recently he was likely selling as heading off travelling. Cheers, Brian.

The spec screams drift car - how has it been at the job?

PreSales Technical Account Manager working for a Software Vendor in the Data Management space. Always busy but field based and people facing putting technical concepts into English through presentations, whiteboarding etc. during sales cycles and when giving updates to existing customers - all of which I enjoy. There's a more boring side involving Proposal writing and responding to Tenders as well as pricing activities but it's all fulfilling when you win new customers or have existing customers licensing more - I've always been competitive so always love beating the other players in the market. Cheers, Brian.

2.95 secs for a BPU Auto

Really not worth it. The fastest stock or hybrid twins car - as per the drag times thread - has stock jap spec ceramic twins and the time was ran running 1.1 bar boost. Have a search for some previous posts I've made on hybrids for further insight

And the moral of the story folks.... quit Smoking!!

Happy Birthday Geo

I'd barely call that a country road, just some normal A road type overtaking really. Needs bends!

Congrats on the purchase Jamesy - very nice car! Would love something like that as my next. Cheers, Brian.

Ouch! Glad you're OK Stu, shame about the car