Nug's trackable street car

[Nugs]

I sold all my fun cars a while back as they weren’t getting used but late 2021 I got the itch to have something fun again for weekend drives and track days.

Looked into a few options but decided to branch out from my usual BMWs and, after confirming I can just barely fit in it, I bought a Supra.

Previous owner sold it with lowering springs, downpipe and tune and the body kit. I was a bit hesitant about the body kit, but it looked good in person.

I took it to my local track, Wanneroo raceway, for a tuning session about three hours after picking it up.
1524kgs with a full tank is about what I expected. Not light for such a smal car, but that is modern cars.

I was pretty impressed with the performance on stock tyres, pads and suspension and saw the potential for some quick times.
So I thought I would see how fast it can go with the minimal number of parts thrown at it.
So far I've been very impressed with the quality of all the parts I've used.

The current mod list is;
Catless Downpipe
Off the shelf MHD e30 tune
AMS Intake Manifold (for cooling)
Mfactory Coilovers and camber plates
Apex EC7RS forged wheels 18x11 et40
295/35/18 Advan A052 tyres
Circo race pads

and how it sits now (actually raised it from the HKS lowering springs as it scraped on too many things for my liking).

I also threw it on the dyno as I was getting questions at the track about how much power it had.
It suprised me putting down 500hp on a hub dyno with just the DP, AMS manifold and an OTS tune. Stock intake, chargepipe and exhaust.

RIght now I'm very happy with the performance and not sure what I could do to improve it without ruining it as a true street car. I've done a 7 hour country road drive in it and also use it for school drop off sometimes lol.

On the track it is a beast. Best time around Wanneroo is currently 60.9 seconds and there is more in it with better driving.
I'm sure they exist but I struggled to find times from a true street car faster than that. Best I could find was a 991 GT3RS doing a 60.5.

This is a video of the current best lap


and some pics from the track

and bonus video of me getting to know the car at a little driver training track not long after I bought it.

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[Octane]

Those bumpers look so much better without the side markers we have. Even the paint matched ones don't always look great.

&& those track pictures look so good. Awesome build

 

[SD_MK]

These two are my official favorite photos. That rotor glow, jesus christ

 

[Nugs]

Thanks mate, night events are good for glow shots.
I have a decent collection of them from previous cars.

This is one of my favourites (M140i with Alcon BBK)

Not much glow in this but I loved this car (e36 M3)

and this one (135i with Stoptech BBK)

 

[rwense]

Looks awesome! Pretty much the build I'm going for, something I can take on long trips, and with a few clicks of adjustment, go to the track.

If you're looking for other things to do, check out Verus's turbo heatshield, brake master brace, and diff scoop. That and a front swaybar. I've heard from a number of people that simply the front is all thats needed and makes a huge difference. Not to mention its a 10min install. I should be getting mine later today.

Congrats on joining the club!

 

[nibble]

mod list you have.. sounds more like street-able track car.. some track will benefit by stiffer anti-roll bar.

 

[Nugs]

Looks awesome! Pretty much the build I'm going for, something I can take on long trips, and with a few clicks of adjustment, go to the track.

If you're looking for other things to do, check out Verus's turbo heatshield, brake master brace, and diff scoop. That and a front swaybar. I've heard from a number of people that simply the front is all thats needed and makes a huge difference. Not to mention its a 10min install. I should be getting mine later today.

Congrats on joining the club!

That was the idea.
I do have the turbo heatshield already. Heat management is a priority as it get's pretty hot here in Western Australia. I was having issue with IATs causing power to drop on track, but the AMS manifold seems to have fixed it but I guess I will find out properly in Summer.

It also just got it's first proper detail since I bought it.
They said they had to use a fair bit of tar remover and iron remover to remove the track debris but they managed to do it without ruining the PPF and gave it a full machine polish. Scrubbed up alright.

 

[blackoutz]

great writeup!!! I just got my 2020 Launch Edition with 4000 miles and already have it full bolt on. My next mod is the AMS intake manifold and flex fuel sensor. Its makes around the same 500whp and now want to do a aggressive alignment and front sway bar.

Blaine

 

[Blue]

Did you have issues with the AMS manifold on it during the summer @Nugs ?

 

[Nugs]

Nope.

Car is now in the shop for a bunch of upgrades
Swaybars and braces, PWR heat exchanger, Verus brake duct kit with steering limters.
And the bigs ones are an AMS Alpha 8 turbo kit and full CSG spec fuel system with surge tank and port injection.

Zach from CSG is going to be doing a flex tune with ECUtek.
Curious to see how it goes on e85. Thinking a transmission upgrade will be required soon.

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