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And there was me thinking that it was the Germans that liked their big walls.

Depends on pad and disc combination, so impossible to quantify really. Initial bite doesn't actually change that much though, what does change is feel and resistance to fade: They're the main benefits It's all about heat management.

I couldn't lust over any car with 1.7L turbo 4 pot. Drop the V6 into it and yes, it would be far more appealing, but with that crappy little fartcan powering it... Supercar it definitely ain't!

Indeed, this has been an issue going back to the 997.2 GT3. The trouble is that it's only the UK that suffers from this problem, so it's hard to justify commercially to produce a new exhaust when the cars are sold out multiple times over anyway! The law for nuisance noise is a double edged sword, as whilst it protects a great many things unfortunately it does seem to discriminate unfairly against motorsport. When I become Grand Master Overlord Of The Universe, I'll build f*ck-off great big walls around every track and then the NIMBYs can get stuffed.

Just checked, yes they do: http://www.dba.com.au/dba-part-finder/?view=product&make=NISSAN&model=350%20Z&pid=20676 Hope that link works, anyway.

Pretty sure DBA do some as well. The PF discs are fantastic though, I ran them on mine and coupled with the PF pads (01 up front, Z in the rear) they were immense.

Personally, I consider it the responsibility of every track day goer to make their car as quiet as possible before hitting the track. If we don't give the NIMBYs the ammo, then ultimately we win. Besides, you can't hear anything properly with a helmet on anyway, so no point having the nicest sounding car.

Agreed. Button less so, but Alonso definitely knows how to get the best out of a crappy car so will have contributed significantly to the development of the Macca.

I nearly added him to the list, but he's still one of the best drivers on the grid along with Lewis and Seb. For that alone, he can stay. Although staying at McLaren is doing him no favours at all.

Exactly. He's miserable, grumpy, and no longer funny at all. He's taking up a place that another driver who actually enjoys F1 could be taking, thus freeing up another place further down the grid for a youngster to have a go. Kimi, Button, Massa, they're just hanging on serving no purpose. Still, at least two of those three are off next year...

Sorry, not true. There's plenty of adjustment in the OEM setup, and unless you particularly like understeer then there's no need to go with an OEM geo. Teejay, go to somewhere and speak to them about how you like your car to handle. There's no such thing as a single fast road setup that works for everyone, and a good technician should be able to sort the handling out so the car feels right *for you*.

But yes, size matters as I would guess that the 19" ones are longer than the 18" ones.

Watch the video

Ricciardo will bin it somewhere, Kimi is a moaning dullard who I always hope suffers from a mechanical issue or a team mistake. With the current state of Ferrari, both are very likely

Ros - Ham - Ves

ZED

Oh yes, I remember now - no controls on wheel for cabs Mine did. It's the BT phone controls the cabs didn't get.

The width should be stamped on the rear of the wheel.

Just quote the person above, add your name at the bottom, then remove the tags at the start and end.

Finally FINALLY got round to ordering the Pole Position seat this week, which will hopefully arrive in the next couple of weeks if lead time indicators are to be believed. Just a single one for now as I'm going to fit runners to this one, and I want to see how access to the rear is with these new seats before I ditch the pax one too. If access is still okay, then I'll order the 2nd seat. If access is rubbish, then I'll order the 2nd seat along with a custom harness bar and really just make it a strict 2 seater

Yeah, she didn't quite see it that way...

I sent my wife a rather detailed picture of an ejaculating penis earlier (because I'm a proper grown up) which turns out to have been a bad idea as it flashed up during a very important meeting :lol: Needless to say, she was not amused.

I know this car very well, drove it a few times when Evan had it. And he's doing fine, he bought my MR2 from me!

If that is Olympic, then it's a PTS colour and I'd be amazed if anywhere else in the world had one. You'd have more luck finding Riviera or Miami I suspect, or as I say get it wrapped.

And yet, motoring hasn't changed in 100 years. We're still using the same basic principle of suck squeeze bang blow.