View Poll Results: Will you buy an FT-86

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Thread: FT-86, Who's actually going to buy one?

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    my thoughts have changed on it

    all great sports cars have great engines

    I dont think an NA EJ20 in a toyota is a great engine. Especially not in 2012!

    I like it, but I cant LOVE it
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    Its not a fucking EJ20

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    Not EJ20 it is a FA20 engine (correct of im wrong) reworked and re-engineered by Yamaha/Toyota and Subaru etc, same engine mounts thou as a ej20 but the rest has had the magic wand passed over it.

    147kw is not all that great by today's standards but i feel with 12.5CR & open ecu there is room to improve that somewhat.
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    toyota did not build this to be a powerhouse. they tried to stay to the roots of what the sprinter was, cheap, light, rwd, n/a. look at our cars. people are stoked with like 80hp
    stroked 2L ca18-ae86 in the build...eta xmas 2012?

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    I stand corrected about the engine name, but my point remains the same

    12.5 is too high to turbo properly

    and no one has ever done good things NA with the EJ series.

    They will be swapped out for wrx motors and the car will be loved in the US and once again people will lose sight of what the car is about or represents

    Its the first car born in the 'internet age' and japan dont necessarily have a head start in parts either. (ie. Japan was making S13 aftermarket stuff for 15 years before china really caught on)

    Guess time will tell
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    They are also trying to make it at an affordable entry price...

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    just read that it is using the subaru pcd of 5x100 which is a shame
    stroked 2L ca18-ae86 in the build...eta xmas 2012?

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    So what PCD should they be using?

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    post #86 LOL

    4x114.3 of course

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    Then we shall label them as out cast's and stone them to DEATH (achmed)

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