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No-one minds showing off their exhausts dude I wouldn't want to run with an exhaust leak for much more than maybe 30 mins tops, you don't know what damage the heat would do to other stuff down there plus the risk of CO poisoning in the cabin. Tbh everyone already knows that the 350 can easily take a louder exhaust than stock regardless of who you are, as it's not a quiet car anyway due to road noise. The difference comes between whether you want a Milltek or a BuddyClub at the extremes, or anywhere in between. That's not something you'll determine from a year running around with an exhaust leak.

You leave my Jaffa Barge alone

Tone is vital though, much more vital than simple volume. If you have two exhausts of equal volume but one sounds rough as hell or drones at certain revs, you'll absolutely hate it. It's why companies spend a fortune in sound tuning, not just volume. You would have a much more useful comparison if you arranged a mini meet of 4 or 5 cars and spent 10 mins passengering in each. Let's assume you do like it louder, which exhaust would you go for? How would you make that decision?

Two weeks salary then

Can we leave for a second until he's answered the last bit of my last post please? Promise to keep it civil.

A Corsa with a 6" exhaust is louder than a stock 350z, but which sounds better? Do you see where we're going here? Yes, your test will be louder, it also won't give anything like a real-world idea of what a new exhaust will sound like. Let's pretend for one second it does though: So what? Let's assume you're happy with a louder exhaust, how do you propose to translate that into buying a new setup?

It won't sound anything like how a louder exhaust will though. It'll sound like a blowing exhaust, which is 100% different in tone. How many times do we have to state this before it sinks in?

Excellent vid, thanks mate. Plenty to think about there. I realised yesterday that now the 720 is out, McLaren make some really ugly cars. Fast, fun, but ugly. True, but they're all designed for 19" wheels I think I did some more research on this, and it appears that the easy upgrade for most BMW guys is to fit Porsche calipers as the bracketry is easy. This might be a good option, however it looks like I'll need the 997.2 S calipers at a minimum to contain the disc size, and they're like rocking horse sh*t.

I know, I know! It's a typical Ubisoft game, riddled with faults but underneath a great game trying to get out. Ironically the full release has many more faults than the beta had, and it's terribly optimised for the more powerful cards. My 1080 is barely any better than the 980 before it in terms of maintaining 60fps, and the patch this week made it worse.

I wouldn't snip mine, I'd hook them up and tie them out of the way somewhere I think. Be interested to see how you get on! 300kg is a lot of difference, on the road mine are absolutely fine but I can still make them melt if I'm hammering them. Maybe I will try a set of pads first, on stock discs and see how quickly I can kill them, would just be nice to have a back up plan.

Depending on final cost that may be the route, we'll see. How can a single piston be better than multi though? Weight perhaps, but otherwise I'm struggling to see it.

True though

Only OEM at this point, albeit brand new stuff so I know how it's been used. Trouble is I'm loathe to drop a grand on pads and discs to end up only a fraction better off, I can barely trigger the ABS in this car so I know it's clamping force I'm missing out on too, hence wanting more pistons.

They're ace on track, very light and that engine revs to high heaven. Cheap to run as well, which is good.

I'll give them a shout, cheers fella.

Unless the equipment fails to record the data because of breakdown, then the operator enters a pass or fail manually. Allegedly.

Won't fit sadly And also mega bucks, probably double the value of the car if I fitted them

Mate of mine who has my old VXR220 outbraked himself on that corner once, put it onto the wet grass in a spin and went sailing straight across on the track the other side of the banking... VERY lucky there wasn't anything on that side of the track!

Ooh that could be a good option, thanks Adrian Not sure exactly what specs you'd need, but I'm looking at 355x32 front and rear, four piston front and twin piston rear (OEM is single piston front and rear, anything has to be an improvement on that!). I'm guessing a large part of the cost would be the adaptor bracket which would need to be spot on. Oh, and the rear disc is a handbrake drum setup, just like the 350. You can see why I'm thinking this might be the way to go...

Given the pisspoor brakes on track on the Bummer at the weekend, it would seem a reasonable place to start looking to upgrade. I was going to go for just pads and discs, but tbh I may as well look and see if I can do a BBK for sensible money. Unfortunately the only sensible money option is Stoptech, which would be fine but you need a 19" wheel to make it fit which I do not want to do. So my brain starts thinking, how hard is it to build a custom setup? Thinking about the Brembo setup on the 350, the cars weigh about the same (mine is 1640 and a roadster is about the same) and I was always happy with the setup on my old car, so why not start there? So what do I need in theory? - Calipers - Brackets - What else? Ignoring any balance issues here for now, as I suspect that more or less the car layout will be fine for this (happy to be proven wrong), is it literally just a case of custom brackets? What other things do I need to take into account? What issues may/will I come up against? The BMW has brake pad wear sensors, I'm assuming I can simply by pass these somehow though and not worry about it. Current calipers are single pot right now, albeit a f*cking great big one. Cooling ducts installed as standard. All theoretical for flow, but I'd love to expand my knowledge on this. Any and all helpful input welcome.

Lucky, lucky man! That corner catches a lot of people out, it's a much later turn in than people give it credit for. Love Anglesey, second favourite track behind Spa.

Darwin in action

Easy answer is to disconnect the dashcam, and see if the problem carries on. If it doesn't then the problem is the battery, if not it's the dsshcam. Although I also have a Blackvue and I've had zero battery issues, even on the Bummer with it's ridiculously complex battery conditioning gumpf.

I was disappointed with that, I didn't enjoy the way the levels rushed you if you wanted to get certain executions. Hitman for me always worked best as a game you could take your time with.

On an aftermarket turbo conversion from a private seller? Would any warranty company even cover that? Genuine question, I've no idea. I rather like that. Very sleeper.