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Make that the pair of us mate

Saw this today from one of the mods on the 911 forum. It's in reference to a bloke who has a 997TT, took it in for some warranty work and got a normal 997 C2S with sports exhaust on as a courtesy car. Remarking over how ihe preferred to have a slower car that made a great noise over the faster one that was quieter, he said this: "I prefer a symphony: the horizon can wait." It's not very often I find great quotes like that on the internet: At least, not ones that are serious rather than amusing, but I thought that was a cracking turn of phrase. Certainly sums up how I feel about cars too, and why I chose my 911 over a GTR. Cue the starry bra pics, but I just thought that was worth sharing.

It's not picking on you, but you have to admit that it is very distracting and it is larger than many of your posts. A sig should be a subtle personal touch, not a naked fat bloke in the street yelling at the top of his voice.

Should sound amazing To be fair, we'd probably be less arsey about your sig if wasn't the same size as most of your posts. Any chance you could do the forum a favour and reduce it to normal size? Not necessarily as small as mine, but even just to standard size but keeping the caps and blue would make the forum a much easier on the eye place to browse.

Sorry, I think in retrospect I've come across as a bit negative on my posts here, really didn't mean to. It is a great exhaust and if you snaffled it for a bargain, then that's great

No, you're right. It's a quality exhaust, however this one appears to have missed the QA a bit.

That's some hand job if it's worth £50!

And you still bought the 3.0?! Fair play, it's your cash. 3.0 is going to lose money quicker than the Z4M though which negates a fair bit of any cost benefits, but as long as you're happy that's all that matters. See you again in September when you buy the next BMW then?

How so? It came with the wrong gaskets and had a split weld: I don't care what the brand name is, that's crap quality.

If you send me £50, sure

No probs, I really should take my own advice at some point and buy my own meter!

Must admit that if you really want a Z4M, then why settle for a 3.0? And especially after they mucked you around.

No man should ever talk about failing a semi.

No phone will be sensitive enough to give you a realistic dB figure, and it's no good for today but you can hire one for £8 from BaT or buy one for £30 for the future.

they're okay. Better than most budget stuff, but the PS3 are lower down the quality range than the PS2 or the PSS, despite carrying a solid price tag. Better than RE040s though.

Sounds like a quality bit of gear you're fitting there.

If you mean Thorney, then I wouldn't bother. He got a great rep very quickly for big reliable power, but then it all fell apart when one M3 owner showed the pictures of TMS's 'handywork' and John threatened to sue the arse off him if he didn't remove the pics. Then there was the infamous NA-dyno-gate of 2007, where apparantly the NA VX220s didn't make the required power on other dynos because they kept slipping on the TMS one when the power run was done, despite the NAs making a fraction of the power of a tubby. Whilst I'm sure that the garage you mention are fine, the Thorney brand as a whole should be treated with a little contempt IMHO.

It's only 7.5L officially, but some folks have ended up putting over 8L depending on how much drains out. The semi dry sump has many baffles that oil can hide behind, apparently.

Just a random post for anyone wondering how much these things cost to run. I'm doing an annual oil change next week on the car as I don't trust the 24 mth intervals Porsche recommend, so I ordered all the bits today. 10L of Mobil 1 0w-40 = £70 Filter & housing = £33.50 Washer = £1.20 Sump plug = £4.50 Total cost = £109.20 just for parts, no labour at all. Not cheap, but not excessive really.

I run the RE050A on my 911, and they're good. Not as good as the MPSS, and for the price difference I'd much rather use them if I were allowed.

Yeah, it's the horrible PCM2.1 stuff that kills it dead for me as well. I can see what they were trying to do, but it just looks so dated. Much better, IMHO. Apart from the two-tone seats.

TYRES TYRES I'M SURE SOMEONE MENTIONED TYRES If you're on a budget then match the fronts as mixed tyres are not a good idea IMHO (see the Sticky in the sub-forum for more details), however I would suggest that in this case you would be much better off replacing all four with something decent. The MPSS are incredible, as whilst they're both grippy and full of feel they also last ages too, and you will more than claw back the extra cost. That said, if you're happy with the VUS then just get four of those, although they're a dead brand now so you may struggle to replace in the future if you need to (puncture etc).

It's all about design and quality. Personally, I think the 370Z interior is a mess of materials and the mixture of digital and analogue is jarring, and in that respect I find the 350Z much better. Clearly the finish quality is better on the later car, though. On the other hand, whilst the 9x7 cars (assuming you mean that age, judging by the cost) may look a little dull, it's incredibly functional and the quality is bang-on the money. A 100k miler 9x7 interior will look as good as it did the day it rolled out of the factory: Try saying that with a Ford or Nissan. the 9x7.1 cars look dated due to the PCM 2.1 system, but the 9x7.2 cars did improve on this with the PCM3 touchscreen (part of the reason I wanted a 997.2 car!). The 9x6 cars were a shambles, both in quality and aesthetics, but if you go back to the 993 and previous you'll again see that even 30-40 year old cars are holding up superbly, and much better than anything else of that era. Try finding a 355 without sticky buttons or peeling leather and plastics, or trying to find everything first time on a 458. The first is poor quality, the latter poor ergonomics. And they're much more expensive than a 370Z!

Or Stevie Wonder

You can, yes.