Drive’s Tuned channel is back for the 2013 season and for its first web-episode, Matt Farah drove a Scion FR-S tuned by Canada’s VCMC and Shift Autosport for the U.S. northern neighbors’ Scion Tuner Challenge.
Everyone who has reviewed the FR-S/Toyota GT86 has so far agreed that, while it handles well, it is underpowered. A turbocharger that ups power to 350-horses, 320 of which allegedly make it to the rear wheels, fixes that issue while a lighter flywheel improves the engine’s willingness to rev.
Apart from the front splitter and the huge rear wing, the FR-S received minor modifications, as the tuner's original goal was to keep the stock car’s driving dynamics intact.
So they replaced the stock suspension with a KW coilover kit and the front brake discs with AP Racing units and fitted 17x9-inch alloys wrapped in 245mm-wide tires all around – and that’s about it.
Despite the modest tuning, the modifications add $20k to the stock Scion coupe's US$25,000 price. Depending on your point of view, $45k may be over the top or a reasonable price for a 350hp track car that can also be driven every day.
You can watch the tuned FR-S tested on the track in the video after the jump.
By Andrew Tsaousis
1 Comments:
Great, week finally we get a powerful version of this car on the track, and the person driving doesn't know anything about driving. He runs his mouth the whole time, and tells us absolutely nothing about how the car handles and behaves, at least nothing that is of any interest to any real driver. Why do these car magazines hire guys who don't know how to do anything but run their mouth incessantly, feeding us the technical drivel that we can read. What we want is a real driver behind the wheel who knows how to push the cars limits and give us some useful feedback on how it behaves at the limit, you know like a racecar driver.
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