GT86 5000 Mile Review

[Lauren]

Well, I've got it on now and yesterday I spent a day down at Fensport having my geo corrected from how the dealer set it up which was a bit out.

I met up with Yukiko again who is the manager from Tein UK and we went through a setup where I changed speed parameter settings and picked a preset G-force setup. It's looking good for a factory tour of Tein when we go to Japan in the summer.

I just love how enthusiastic everyone is to get this working well for the car. I have two other friends who now have it as well and we'll all be sharing settings with each other which will aid development.

I did a bit of tweaking along the M6. I have to say I'm really impressed with how it functions. You can be cruising down an A road with a comfortable ride, then boot it and chuck it into a corner and it stiffens up making the outside dampers stiffer for lateral G, come out of the bend and straighten up and it goes back to a softer setting. The same logic applies to acceleration and braking. All very clever. I noticed today that slackening off the rear compared to the front makes a big difference to ride quality.

for 90% of the time I reckon it rides a lot smoother than standard. A really bumpy road will catch it out, but that's no different than stock really. It also comes into it's own when pushing on giving much better damper control. I can't wait to try some track setups.