OWNER PROFILE:
Name: Kiran Halsey (@lord_halsey on
Instagram)
Age: 23
Occupation: Entrepreneur
First car: My sister’s hand-me-down
SEAT Ibiza
Favourite mod on your car: The
engine swap
Favourite show: Players Classic –
fantastic mix of old and new, as well as
track/show cars
Track day or show-and-shine? Both
Lessons learned from this project:
Be careful who you give your money to- some companies may seem like your
friends and have your best interests at
heart, but sometimes they’re aiming for
a quick buck and their work is not what
you thought it would be.
What’s next? I’m hoping to do a full
rollcage with front and rear crash bars
during the winter this year, and maybe
some new wheels.
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straight-six was always there in the back of his mind. This is,
amusingly, anathema to the purists who insist that the whole
point of a GT86 is to have the low-down weight package
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at Toyota UK HQ about this project, they shook their heads
in disbelief. But that is really the point. The aim here was to
build the UK’s most outrageous ’86, and whacking a 2JZ in
there is a great way to do that.
As you might have deduced by now, this was never
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and throwing it into the GT86 to say ‘Yeah, I’ve done that’.
Kiran wanted to do this properly. And that meant not just
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overarching brief. When he tells us that it’s been built with
1,000bhp potential on pump fuel, it all starts to make sense.
Let’s take a look at this astonishing two-jay-zed then, shall
we? All of the engine conversion and build work, fabrication,
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monster. The 3.0-litre straight-six, most commonly associated
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packing a huge single turbo – a BorgWarner S362 SXE T
twin-scroll, with twin Turbosmart wastegates exiting their
screamer pipes right through the bonnet. The all-important
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Bridgeway conrods, and it’s all governed by a Link G4+ Fury
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with the fully tucked engine and body wiring looms and fresh
custom engine loom, the car has full CANBUS integration
to retain all the factory functions and keep the instrument
cluster working properly. It also offers anti-lag, launch control,
switchable boost, on-board lambda, e-throttle, closed-loop
boost control, closed-loop fuelling on idle and cruise, the