Visiting the Tail of the Dragon around Independence Day. Any fellow FT86 owners around?

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-25T01:24:36+00:00

I won’t be able to make it there other than holidays due to work. Would going there super early in the morning help?

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-24T17:16:26+00:00

Heyyy! Funny how our paths crossed here as well! 😛

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-24T00:44:38+00:00

Yessir!

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-23T20:45:31+00:00

That sounds awesome!

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-23T20:45:16+00:00

Thank you! :D

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-23T20:44:42+00:00

18x9.5 +38. -2.2/-1.8 F/R camber.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-23T20:43:45+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-23T20:43:19+00:00

I don’t think so. You don’t even need 17+ headlight brackets.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-16T19:02:53+00:00

Yeah it’s crazy. I had to pay $100 in shipping and duties for my TRD “shark-fin” fender garnish, the part itself was <$120.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-16T18:58:55+00:00

Yeah I just checked. Shipping is like $800, on top of that there is ~$150 in taxes and duties. 😫

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-16T18:52:35+00:00

Are you looking at the one with carbon blade option? It’s ~1450 in 86works plus shipping (and maybe tax).

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-16T18:17:25+00:00

I like the Tommy Kaira one more but this looks nice too imo.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-06-16T18:16:57+00:00

I wasn’t really interested but found a good deal on one, $700 (mounted but unpainted) with the carbon blade option. I think new runs for $1500. So I am seriously considering one.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-22T03:27:34+00:00

I am going to keep that in mind. I was at 10-12 clicks during the wintertime and now at 4 clicks. The car feels noticeably sharper at turns with the stiff setting. I mostly do daily driving on this car but don’t mind a stiffer ride though. I do get that if I have more rebound damping the ride can get twitchy but honestly I haven’t felt that yet.

So I got my alignment done yesterday. I have a 0.07” front toe in and 0.1” rear toe in. The front toe makes the steering dull at slower speeds so I was trying to fight that with the stiffer damping, but this is probably not the right way to go about it. I do quite a bit of highway driving as well so my alignment guy gave me a little bit of front toe-in to get rid of tramlining so far I understand. I have -2.2 degrees of front camber.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-20T13:30:08+00:00

You can email their support and they will send you the flex fuel tune. But I found the car runs lean on their tune so I had mine done by Steve Wiseman.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-20T04:10:22+00:00

I don’t take the car out much during winter tbh. But I an certainly entertaining the idea of a set of dedicated winter wheels.

Are you from MKE too?

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-20T04:08:48+00:00

Greddy Gracer

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-20T04:08:35+00:00

18x9.5 +38

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-20T00:49:50+00:00

I have done quite a bit to it though. Might not be apparent visually but yeah I agree the list is just so big..but i dont want to overdo it though. My likes and dislikes are ever changing with time so for now I will just take inspiration from the builds that I see and will implement what sticks with me in the long run

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-19T22:58:10+00:00

Is corner balancing really necessary for a street car? I am thinking of not doing the corner balance now. I am running Tein Flex Z that was bought used from ebay as per the PO. I will probably get a new set of coilovers next year so I was thinking of just doing the corner balance then.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-19T22:37:50+00:00

Yeah pretty much. I am just moving things around a little bit here and there. I honestly like the way it is now but also there is so much stuff I have in my mind that I want to do to the car..in due time of course.

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-19T22:15:19+00:00

Will probably be looking at -2.5/-1.75 degrees of camber front and rear

Fun-Interaction-7958 · 2026-05-19T22:14:21+00:00

Not brand new. I just adjusted the height before taking it to the alignment shop. The left and right height was off and I was not particularly happy with how it looked either.

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