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FR-S / BRZ /AE86 owners! It's here again!

We are back at Willow Springs Raceway "Balcony" for more fun learning to control your car. (might move to Stadium course as well)

This venue will feature an open area for 20 cars, taking turns on 2 or 3 exercises, with a few instructors available to help you advance as a performance driver.

It's fun, safe, and this is one of the smaller scale events where we can concentrate with less crowds.

We cater to novice and intermediate level drivers, and there is no pressure, as this is not a race but a car control clinic. Did oyu want to learn the basics of drifting? Did you want to learn the dynamics of control? Did you want tips on tuning? Tips on maintenance to what to buy.

Don't worry too much about equipment/tune/mods as we are not chasing lap-times or racing, this is understanding driver relationship with the car, the ART of PERFORMANCE DRIVING and SETUP. So whatever that is reliable and cheap is fine.

ONLY 20 SPOTS OPEN. Come out and have FUN with us!!

Date: March 15th, 2014 (SUNDAY)
Time: 7:00am - 3:30pm
Registration Required: YES
$95 PER DRIVER/ PER CAR

Requirements:
- A safe car, with minimum standard street safety equipment such as seatbelts.
- A SNELL 2000 or later certified Motorbike/Automobile helmet
- A Good Happy Attitude
- Willingness to have fun

Suggested Equipment: But not Mandatory
- Set of tools
- Two spare tires of normal size (if your tires are low on tread)
- Air Pressure Gauge
- Lunch / Snacks Drinks

Presented by FT86 Cup, and Winmax USA, RSR USA, Cusco USA, Operated by Club4AG and Friends.

For anyone that wants to come just hang out and see what this is like, that's OK too!
$10 Venue admission for every visitor.

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— at Diamond Jamboree Center- Irvine, CA.

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Bob Strangarone's RS-R Scion FR-S

Bob Strangarone, who stated autocross shortly after he got his Scion FR-S in 2012, has been consistently building his car and participating in grassroots events.
This year for 2015, the third season, he is lifted into high spirits, lowered on RS-R's custom tuned Sports-i Club Racer.
Winning already two of the three autocross already, we are off to a great start of the season.
Like last year, due to the Supercharger by Innovate/Sprintex, he is now classed in Street Modified and suspension has been re-calibrated accordingly with Club4AG and RS-R Staff to meet Bob's unique driving preference.
Equipped also with Cusco Limited Slip Type RS at 55/20 ramp and 100% clutch pack setup at full initial torque spring setting for immediate low speed action to negotiate small corners quickly and immediately.
Select Cusco braces are used but not all according to legality in Solo2 rules.
Suspension linkages consist of parts from Whiteline, RS-R, Raceseng, and SP, and we're still tweaking it for more competitive setup.
Winmax W3 brake pads on stock calipers comprise enough stopping control and efficacy with Hoosier A7 tires and Enkei RPF1.
Since supercharger mapping was originally street tune, the car was re-tuned by Delicous Tuning, where it was characterized to fit Bob's driving and autocross better.

Of course all these parts added simply doesn't make a race car fast. And to complete the fine calibrations are some of us at Club4AG, everyone at RS-R, and always in conjunction with Counterspace Garage who's quickly becoming a grassroots racing central for FRS users and complete and superb maintenance by Infinite Motion, and fabrication work by the renowned Bluemoon Performance.

Still, there are awesome challenges ahead, as the FRS platform is new to Street Modified class where there are formidable custom rigs from all walks of automotive racing.
We hope to get Robert to more podium and trophy positions this year!

Watch his activities at his facebook page!
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Old Friends of Club4AG

Testing Taka's retuned ex-Formula D AE86 to Lap Time Attack AE86, and shaking down with Shingo Yugami assisting as the works pro engineer, from Bluemoon Performance.
Despite the status of shakedown, he whips out the top time of day with a lightning fast 1:22 flat on Streets of Willow Springs Raceway.

Also present were some of the best buddies and competitors from the long past, Ryosuke and Tetsu Fukui. Visiting from SD was the seasoned SCCA National Champ Jonathan Lugod. Several other good friends to make the day complete too.
Tony Kim and I were just having a casual lap attack shaking down our daily driver, both of us setting near our own best records for the respective cars too, breaking well below 1:30.

Mild cool, windless day was PERFECT too! Yoshie Shuyama was inside the heated trailer all day hibernating as she always does in the winter season.
We thank ‪#‎Extreme‬ Speed Track Events, Chris Willard, and Joel Perez, Amir Bentatou and staff, especially the course workers and flag officials, for hosting even during Christmas Weekend!

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Winmax 86 CUP FINAL ROUND 2014

For many the 2nd week of December means college and high school finals week. But for some of the most dedicated Toyota fans, the week was spent in preparation and racing of the Winmax 86 Cup final event.

Over 16 cars participated out of the 30+ cars that have come and gone for this series, and final event was just full of heated runs, as well as lots of smiling participants. The wind was calm but cold, and provided lots of cooling even for boosted modified varieties of the NZ/NC6 platform cars that all sorted thier smoothest lines on the track.

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Scion FR-S, Tour of Southwest

November 15th~ 17th, 2014

1177 miles, from Los Angeles, to Phoenix, Sedona, to Flagstaff, a round trip tour of Scion FR-S through the Southwest's most scenic routes. The sky, the horizon and all the events and things in between.  Our stops included Joshua Tree National Park, a day at the Earnhardt Toyota of Mesa, AZ for a wonderful welcome with 100 other cars in the AZ86Bash2 Celebration, a day in Sedona’s valley of monumental natural spectacles, and some of the best roads that California and Arizona had to offer.

We were all reminded that cars like these were are all about taking it for a spin, preferably a very, very long drive.  Friends gathered with other friends of friends, making new ones along the way.

The Scion FR-S. It really is a neat car, in many more ways than just the surface, specs, and character, but for the world it brings to the owners in the form of friends all over the world.

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Dissecting the TOYOTA 86 14R-60 Limited Production
Yes, it is a production car, though very exclusive and limited...

I guess Japan listened to all of the enthusiast voices that understand the "concept" of the FT86 from the inception, a lightweight sports car.

This car has EVERYTHING we would do to this car to prepare it for a raceway tuner challenge, except a turbo. (still a big question for future models as Toyota works out how they relate to FHI who builds these cars)
It's rather a very expensive limited run model becausae of this, since all of these 14R60's are made by hand, off-line away from the assembly line, and fitted with these exclusive TRD Technocraft parts.

Read this list, and tell me what you think.

It's derived from the Griffon Concept
Production Limited to just 100 cars. (Japan ONLY)
While the engine stays close to normal production engine, there are unique features that set this car apart, and here are some of the attributes:

TRD Intake system,
manifold cover,
center output muffler,
air core engine oil cooler,
stiffer bushing engine mount,
mechanical 4 pinion 1.5 way differential,
triple puck TRD clutch disk, and lightened flywheel,
close ratio 14R-60 original transmission gear set,
quick-shift lever mechanism.

revised front performance rods
rear V-brace
adjustable height coil-over monotube suspension
revised rear trailing arms
front / rear lower arm revision
front toe control arms
lightened front window

front canards
carbon fiber roof
rear diffuser
rear wing
side skirt
front wide fender
lower arm air deflectors
4/2 pot Mono-block caliper brakes 2-piece rotor
Alloy magnesium ultralight wheels
Bridgestone "Spec 14R60" Tire
EPS-CAN Engine computer box

Full Bucket Seats (TRD by BRIDE)
Carbon interior Panels
Steering wheel (Alcantara)
Rear seat-delete panels
Alcantara shift lever knob
Scuff plates
Takata "TRD" 4 Point Harness.
Titanium license plate bolt.
Radio and AC delete
Transmission Scuff Plate
Green tint side glass
Revised Quick ratio electric power steering.

Did you catch the color code?  The original new paint too for this car, a white called Crystal Pearl and coded not the usual J37 but K1X (and it's the only color available)

And you want to know how much this costs to the lucky 100 buyers?

It's a reasonable Y 6,300,000 Japanese Yen. (Approximately $60,000)
Before you gawk and throw a fit, you must understand that I have half of this done by custom fab or with aftermarket parts, and at MSRP for the parts, it's at $55,000 plus. So with lots of further development, and several things I can't even replicate, I think it's totally reasonable. (keep in mind, I never said 'affordable")

Just released from Toyota Technocraft and announced on Toyota Japan website below.

http://toyota.jp/customize/86/14r-60/

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Club4AG Gauge Cluster Toyota 86 by Cyberstork, Custom Made to Order.

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Willow Springs Raceway with Scion FR-S

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