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But why an ’86? Well, the seed of the idea was planted a
few years back on a family holiday to the States. Kiran had
seen videos online of Ryan Tuerck drifting his 2JZ-powered
Scion FRS through the streets of New York (the FRS, GT
and Subaru BRZ being essentially the same car with different
badges), and he was just blown away by the drama of it all.
Couple this with the fact that the FRS scene in the US has
blown up and gone insane, and before long our man’s fate
was sealed. He knew unequivocally what he must do. There
was no doubt in his mind.
“I noticed that at the time there was next to no ’86 scene
in the UK, other than the older Levins and Truenos,” he
recalls. “Not one to follow the crowd, I thought ‘Why not?’,
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platform in the UK.”
This car was found in the usual way, scrolling through
Pistonheads for weeks on end until the right one presented
itself; interestingly, this particular one was markedly more
expensive than all the other examples of similar vintage,
which piqued Kiran’s interest. On clicking through, he
discovered that it was running a Stage 1 turbo conversion,
pushing out over 300bhp instead of the factory 197bhp,
and also had bucket seats, coilovers and a rollcage. He was
immediately smitten and snapped it up. But of course, this
would turn out to be more involved than a tale of someone
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foolproof that anyone can buy a bunch of off-the-shelf parts
and put together a decent car, but there’s a certain special
something within the chosen few that delivers real results; an
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with an inherent and uncanny ability to build jaw-dropping,
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necessary to have a bit of a sit down and wipe the double-
takes from our eyes. “I previously had an Audi TT TDI which
I put some RS4 wheels on, but that was about the extent of
it,” he grins, clearly amused by how much he’s shocked us.
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