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Agreed. Right up there with the one just after Angus got caught playing with naughty ladies, absolutely hysterical!

"GORDON'S ALIVE!" :lol:

Not by much perhaps, but it will alter it for the worse. 45% of 255mm is more than 45% of 245mm.

*EDIT* using this handy site, with 255 tyres on the speedo will read 1.3% too slow.

0-100 times count though!

Not unless you're driving at 100mph in the first 3 gears in a straight line it's not.

@Sarnie: We're on about the 330D, not the 335D.

Yup, the second number is the height of the sidewall expressed as a percentage of the width, which is in mm.

0-whatever times are pretty irrelevant unless you're on the drag strip. In-gear acceleration and torque is what counts after you've started moving, and that's why the 330D is a fantastic cruising car. A well-driven Zed should happily keep up with it all day long, but if you get things wrong then the Beemer is going to walk away.

330Ds are hugely quick when moving, look at the torque they put out. No shame there I reckon.

Nice one, cheers Phil.

And yes, this does mean that those bits I got from you are still sitting in a box in the lounge

As per the title, really.

Any ideas as to how long it should take a reasonably competent garage to do a pad change, fluid change, and fit a set of Goodridge lines on a Brembo'd Zed? Couple of hours tops?

Thanks!

Or you could use Photoshop Express Beta.

Just say you're from the US when signing up, they don't check at all and you get access to all the shiny goodness that Adobe can offer. Whilst it's not exactly CS3, it is very good and the quick tools do work well.

Stolen from Wiki:

In Naturally Aspirated engines powered by octane, maximum power is frequently reached at AFRs ranging from 12.5 - 13.3:1

I'd be expecting to see the lower end of that scale for an OEM tune, but certainly not in the 11s.

LM1

Terrific piece of kit.

They're still sitting in the bags they came in, as a quick test of them in really didn't sound a whole lot different (admittedly this wasn't under load) so I'm going to leave them out for now. I plan to do a noise test just for the laughs really, so I'll get some video of the bungs in when I do that (hopefully next week).

That's what the volume control on your PC is for ;)

The only trouble with the videos of the K1 posted up (mine included) is that they don't convey the bass across properly. That's what really makes it a very special sound.

Videos!

Quite a difference, eh?!

Not really worried about as a sniffer can only detect so much as it's post-cat, but assuming it's close enough to the true reading it's getting dangerously rich at the top end, possibly getting towards bore wash perhaps?

Runs quite rich, doesn't it? 11-11.5 is what I'd expect an FI engine to run, not an NA one. How did they get the AFR? Sniffer at the exhaust tip, or have you had a separate hole for a proper wideband sensor added before the cats?

Wondered what that was, could hear it off Canvey

In all fairness I wouldn't actually be that surprised: I know people have said it's loud on here but I didn't quite believe how loud! Great tone though, and exactly what I was after so no complaints here.

does your old system fit in the boot of the zed ?

Probably, but I left it round my mate's place as it's filthy and I didn't want to get the interior dirty I've got to refit it for a trackday next month anyway, so it might as well stay there for now.

Managed to get the entire ESR exhaust in the Zed including Y-Pipe AND was still able to get the roof back up!

It's on!

Oh. My. Dear. God. It's as if there's a small thermonuclear device somewhere between the V6 and the end of the exhaust, and every time you stamp on the accelerator a small part of it is unleashed! It's loud, very loud, and yet it retains a beautiful tone that truly sings when you want it to (one of the the slip roads that joins the A10 is now a favourite of mine, as booting it down there and redlining in 1st and 2nd was simply amazing!).

I'll be honest: It is a tad boomy on partial throttle at times, but then that's exactly what Phil said to expect and it should settle down nicely in a few hundred miles once there's a good build up of soot throughout the system. Bear in mind though that I'm running this sans inserts for now, as the tone when under load is just too nice to ignore. I also can no longer do subtle at all, as my return journey via Braintree town centre proved

I love it. It's a real quality piece of kit and there were absolutely no fitment issues at all, which you rarely get from small suppliers/manufacturers. Pleasure doing business with you Phil, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this exhaust to the attention whores amongst us out there

PS: For sh*ts and giggles, when we were halfway through the process with the stock backbox and mid-pipe removed and just the y-pipe and cats left on, we thought it'd be fun to fire it up in my mate's garage where we were doing the install, because we're childish like that Not only was it a glorious sound, but even putting the rest of the exhaust on didn't really sound like it was any quieter!

Got mine today!

Fitting it Saturday, so will be sure to get loads of before + after footage and sort some clips out. Beautiful piece of kit too, seriously impressed with the quality of it.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to drive it, just wouldn't own it

I paid over the top for mine by a long way I reckon (£25K, 5000 miles, rev-up MY06), but everytime I drive the thing I simply don't care. It's the exact spec I wanted and came from a NMGB dealer with low miles which ticked every box on my wanted list. I could've had a much faster car for what I paid, or a better looking one, or something with a bigger engine in, but that's not what I wanted.

There'll always be something better/cheaper out there if you look, but with car purchases we always tend to follow our hearts and not our heads. Best way I reckon

Very high spec and probably goes like the proverbial - lot of money for a 6 year old evo though.

+1

That car has been superseded by 3 generations now, so there's no chance I'd be paying anything over maybe £18K for it, and that's on a generous day. Whilst I can admire the work that's gone into creating something like that, unless it's going to live at the drag strip then there's very little fun to be gained from it IMHO. Even as a track toy it's going to be passed by Caterhams all day long on anything other than the very longest straights.

Seeing as the new engine has only done 4K miles, I'm guessing the seller agrees with me

Tigerseal

Cheers Phil

*googles for other pics of said kit*

O. M. F. G! No offence meant personally Kev, but your pics are actually the best I can find of that kit!