GR Yaris What did you do to your GR Yaris today?

Spirited said:
They were the exact same make & model, but both faulty.

Third time lucky!

Just joking @Omen & @GRgrampa
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LOL - I wish.

Simply, I suffer from tinnitus so I am very particular about my hearing when it comes to noise. For instance it took me a while to work out which Motorcycle helmet works for my condition but now that I have found it it all is fine (Shoei GT Air 2).

Its the same for this little pocket rocket.

My first exhast was an HKS Hi Power Spec 2 - this was a good light weight stainless steel exhaust which had a central silent chamber & was well made by HKS. It unfortunately didn't work for me as around 2,500 / 3,000 rpm the noise emanating from it would trigger my tinnitus. I would say for 70% of the time it was absolutely perfect but then for cruising around it just didn't work for me plus I guess at higher rpm's too.

My second exhaust was a speical order item in the form of a Garage Whifbitz Titanium exhaust with extra central resonator. It had to be titanium as in Colin Chapman's words, just add lighteness.

I was fairly confident this would work for me and after installing it following a 3 month + wait I was at first very happy with it. It was a lot quieter and for day to day driving perfect really and sounded real good too. It would only get progressively louder when hard on the power from 5000rpm plus. Unfortunately for me, at around 5000 rpm plus it would trigger my tinnitus. I did a recent track day at Brands Hatch wearing my ear plugs due to being on it all the time. This didn't bother me at all as I am quite used to wearing ear plugs from riding my motorcycle but realised this wasn't the solution for me.

This brings me onto my third & final exhaust purchase, which is actually the one I originally wanted to buy in the first instance but due to the cost talked myself out of it. For me it ticks a lot of boxes, it is lightweight titanium, beautifully made, is I hope like an OEM+ sounding exhaust if the few Yashio Factory video's on Youtube are anything to go by. I also reached out to an owner in Australia about this exchaust as I am not aware anyone here in the UK has one yet so feel reasonably confident it should work for me & my condition. I am very much now looking forward to getting it installed tomorrow and hopefully, fingers crossed, it will work for me. The test being the drive up to Silverstone in it for Jap Fest.

Please don't get me wrong regarding the first 2 exhausts, they are both well made & good exhausts if you have normal hearing with the HKS being louder especially low down compared to the Special Order Garage Whifbitz Titanium exhaust. However, given my condition I have to fine tune and work out what works for me at my cost...

Hope this explains my logic ;-)

D.
 
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I get you. Some frequencies cause a horrible buzzing in my ear, I'm all about the quietness!
 
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Omen said:
LOL - I wish.

Simply, I suffer from tinnitus so I am very particular about my hearing when it comes to noise. For instance it took me a while to work out which Motorcycle helmet works for my condition but now that I have found it it all is fine (Shoei GT Air 2).

Its the same for this little pocket rocket.

My first exhast was an HKS Hi Power Spec 2 - this was a good light weight stainless steel exhaust which had a central silent chamber & was well made by HKS. It unfortunately didn't work for me as around 2,500 / 3,000 rpm the noise emanating from it would trigger my tinnitus. I would say for 70% of the time it was absolutely perfect but then for cruising around it just didn't work for me plus I guess at higher rpm's too.

My second exhaust was a speical order item in the form of a Garage Whifbitz Titanium exhaust with extra central resonator. It had to be titanium as in Colin Chapman's words, just add lighteness.

I was fairly confident this would work for me and after installing it following a 3 month + wait I was at first very happy with it. It was a lot quieter and for day to day driving perfect really and sounded real good too. It would only get progressively louder when hard on the power from 5000rpm plus. Unfortunately for me, at around 5000 rpm plus it would trigger my tinnitus. I did a recent track day at Brands Hatch wearing my ear plugs due to being on it all the time. This didn't bother me at all as I am quite used to wearing ear plugs from riding my motorcycle but realised this wasn't the solution for me.

This brings me onto my third & final exhaust purchase, which is actually the one I originally wanted to buy in the first instance but due to the cost talked myself out of it. For me it ticks a lot of boxes, it is lightweight titanium, beautifully made, is I hope like an OEM+ sounding exhaust if the few Yashio Factory video's on Youtube are anything to go by. I also reached out to an owner in Australia about this exchaust as I am not aware anyone here in the UK has one yet so feel reasonably confident it should work for me & my condition. I am very much now looking forward to getting it installed tomorrow and hopefully, fingers crossed, it will work for me. The test being the drive up to Silverstone in it for Jap Fest.

Please don't get me wrong regarding the first 2 exhausts, they are both well made & good exhausts if you have normal hearing with the HKS being louder especially low down compared to the Special Order Garage Whifbitz Titanium exhaust. However, given my condition I have to fine tune and work out what works for me at my cost...

Hope this explains my logic ;-)

D.
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I also disliked low rev loudness of Hi Power spec II, until i turned off ANC and ESE. Now i love it through whole rev range!
 
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Omen said:
LOL - I wish.

Simply, I suffer from tinnitus so I am very particular about my hearing when it comes to noise. For instance it took me a while to work out which Motorcycle helmet works for my condition but now that I have found it it all is fine (Shoei GT Air 2).

Its the same for this little pocket rocket.

My first exhast was an HKS Hi Power Spec 2 - this was a good light weight stainless steel exhaust which had a central silent chamber & was well made by HKS. It unfortunately didn't work for me as around 2,500 / 3,000 rpm the noise emanating from it would trigger my tinnitus. I would say for 70% of the time it was absolutely perfect but then for cruising around it just didn't work for me plus I guess at higher rpm's too.

My second exhaust was a speical order item in the form of a Garage Whifbitz Titanium exhaust with extra central resonator. It had to be titanium as in Colin Chapman's words, just add lighteness.

I was fairly confident this would work for me and after installing it following a 3 month + wait I was at first very happy with it. It was a lot quieter and for day to day driving perfect really and sounded real good too. It would only get progressively louder when hard on the power from 5000rpm plus. Unfortunately for me, at around 5000 rpm plus it would trigger my tinnitus. I did a recent track day at Brands Hatch wearing my ear plugs due to being on it all the time. This didn't bother me at all as I am quite used to wearing ear plugs from riding my motorcycle but realised this wasn't the solution for me.

This brings me onto my third & final exhaust purchase, which is actually the one I originally wanted to buy in the first instance but due to the cost talked myself out of it. For me it ticks a lot of boxes, it is lightweight titanium, beautifully made, is I hope like an OEM+ sounding exhaust if the few Yashio Factory video's on Youtube are anything to go by. I also reached out to an owner in Australia about this exchaust as I am not aware anyone here in the UK has one yet so feel reasonably confident it should work for me & my condition. I am very much now looking forward to getting it installed tomorrow and hopefully, fingers crossed, it will work for me. The test being the drive up to Silverstone in it for Jap Fest.

Please don't get me wrong regarding the first 2 exhausts, they are both well made & good exhausts if you have normal hearing with the HKS being louder especially low down compared to the Special Order Garage Whifbitz Titanium exhaust. However, given my condition I have to fine tune and work out what works for me at my cost...

Hope this explains my logic ;-)

D.
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I found this very interesting as I also suffer from tinnitus. Fortunately, although constant, very little makes it worse and that includes exhausts.

I currently have an HKS spec L II and like @MarcoS says, the low rev boom is starting to grate. I am therefore considering another system and although have yet to decide on a specific one, I found your experiences very helpful.
 
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Dodged birds with it.

F'ing wood pigeons.

Honestly not more than 100m after dodging one that flew from the curb into the road, two more got spooked by an oncoming car and missed by at best a foot and whilst avoiding them I totally missed another one sitting in the gutter that decided to take off and fly at my car.

They really are the stupidest mofos alive.

Fortunately I missed all of them

I seem to be unlucky with the avian variety, nearly had a Swan land on my old Megane once!
 
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corroded said:
Dodged birds with it.

F'ing wood pigeons.

Honestly not more than 100m after dodging one that flew from the curb into the road, two more got spooked by an oncoming car and missed by at best a foot and whilst avoiding them I totally missed another one sitting in the gutter that decided to take off and fly at my car.

They really are the stupidest mofos alive.

Fortunately I missed all of them

I seem to be unlucky with the avian variety, nearly had a Swan land on my old Megane once!
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Lucky miss.

Be glad you don't live in Wales - we have dozy sheep here to dodge.
 
Yeah I'm glad I don't have those but they were really out for me today. As I set back off from lunch one landed and gave me the evils, and as I pulled back into my street three more popped out from nowhere and wandered into the road.

I am starting to think they are following me.
 
corroded said:
Yeah I'm glad I don't have those but they were really out for me today. As I set back off from lunch one landed and gave me the evils, and as I pulled back into my street three more popped out from nowhere and wandered into the road.

I am starting to think they are following me.
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Do you also find they wait until you've washed the car before they crap all over it.
 
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This week saw some parts from my last GRY and some new ones find their way onto my '23 model.
  • 9.5 x 18 Bola B1s
  • Eibach lowering springs
  • Powerflex torque mount insert
  • Powerflex front and rear camber bolts
  • Hunter alignment for the fast road set up
  • TRD front strut brace
  • Eventuri intake
  • Akrapovic exhaust and link pipe
I think I'll leave it there for now, unless I can find a deal on the TRD splitter and skirts.
GRY 2.webp
 
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workpermit said:
This week saw some parts from my last GRY and some new ones find their way onto my '23 model.
  • 9.5 x 18 Bola B1s
  • Eibach lowering springs
  • Powerflex torque mount insert
  • Powerflex front and rear camber bolts
  • Hunter alignment for the fast road set up
  • TRD front strut brace
  • Eventuri intake
  • Akrapovic exhaust and link pipe
I think I'll leave it there for now, unless I can find a deal on the TRD splitter and skirts.
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Really like those wheels
 
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workpermit said:
This week saw some parts from my last GRY and some new ones find their way onto my '23 model.
  • 9.5 x 18 Bola B1s
  • Eibach lowering springs
  • Powerflex torque mount insert
  • Powerflex front and rear camber bolts
  • Hunter alignment for the fast road set up
  • TRD front strut brace
  • Eventuri intake
  • Akrapovic exhaust and link pipe
I think I'll leave it there for now, unless I can find a deal on the TRD splitter and skirts.
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Looks great. How much time/£ was it to install the lowering springs, please? Presumably geometry would need to be adjusted too? Thanks
 
mjw_s61 said:
Looks great. How much time/£ was it to install the lowering springs, please? Presumably geometry would need to be adjusted too? Thanks
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Not sure exactly, as I had so much done as one job. I think it's about 2hrs for the springs, but not certain. The alignment was an hour on it's own. I had it done at Abbey Motorsport, who charge £100ph.
 
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Had the girl on the track yesterday. Not only first track day with this car, but first track day, period. Had a blast. Spent a whole tank of petrol on track. We were 6 cars on total and had the course for ourselves for 4 hours. Went on and off the course as we wanted taking breaks for toilet, coffee, cooling the car and I also deflated the tyres back to 2,2/2,0 at one point. Instructor told me to :)

The other cars was a 911, Focus ST, Golf GTI TCR, BMW M2 and a Mercedes AMG GT R.

As a novice driver I started out as the slowest driver I think, but after three hours I started to catch up and ended up being quicker then the Focus ST, GTI TCR and as quick, if not quicker, then the M2 (not on the straights). Had som epic battles and great fun for all parties.

Car was unbelievable in terms of solidity, handling and agility. I must say I feel really privileged to own a car that can performe and hehave on track like this. Its a real pleasure to drive home in the toy you had so much fun with.
 
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