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Get some pics up then, chop chop TAGL

Mine are an inch thick, weigh an absolute ton but significantly increased the audio quality from both fronts and the sub stopped reverberating when putting out certain frequencies. For £100 or so, it was a no brainer. @Topcop: He can just buy one for the sub then.

Get some giant slabs of marble to put the speakers on, soaks up all the bad frequencies and stops the sub rumbling too much and annoying next door. Me and Mark got ours from eBay I think, he sorted it so prob best to give him a shout.

Supra = bargetastic A modern-day one would be a great GT, especially as Tarmac says with the snug cockpit. It's such a shame that every man and his dog feels the need to throw oversized bodykits on them though

Perhaps, but only because it wasn't cutting the power. Assuming every other input was the same, then you'd have been slipping the wheels to do so (actually the correct technique on track, to get the car into a slight four wheel drift is pretty hard to do consistently but when you get it right it feels immense).

More value? Interesting, not a way I'd actually thought about it. Depends on the value of the car you're buying I guess: Brand new for brand new, the 911 trumps it. Bottom of the market, 911 again, but somewhere in the middle (£40K vs £10K say) then you may well have a point. The 911 costs me exactly the same to run as the 350Z, if not a bit cheaper as I've no need to modify it.

Agreed. It's why I keep saying that if the light keeps coming on, then you're not driving the car correctly.

Overall, very reliable cars as you would expect from Porsche. Two well-documented weak points: 1. Rear main seal, or RMS. Big gasket between 'box and engine, can leak and let oil out. Never usually a major issue, some live with it or some get it done with the clutch. Nowhere near as common on the 997 as the 996 cars though, but possible. 2. Intermediate main shaft failure, or IMS. In short, the two halves of the engine are connected together by this shaft which has a bearing on the end that can fail, causing your engine to pretty much self-destruct. Porsche upgraded the bearing many times over the life of the engine from 996 to 997.1, but the issue can still occur regardless with an OEM part. There are companies in the US who can sell you the parts to convert to a bearing that cannot fail, however as you can imagine it's not a cheap job to do (mostly labour to be fair). Lots of horror stories about IMS, but truth is it's only about 5% of cars that have ever been made that failed at a very worst case scenario. Engine rebuild is about £3K to £7K depending on what needs doing if it does go pop, or you can get a warranty. Aftermarket warranties will only cover a certain amount of labour and parts, OPC warranty will cover everything but you have to stay with OEM parts for everything, i.e. probably no good for you. If it were me and I was buying at that end of the market, I wouldn't bother with a warranty but instead I'd put £1K away a year to cover myself if anything happened, same price as a warranty and you'd be better off long term I reckon. Again, we're only talking a 5% risk here. There really is nothing else major to go wrong. Engines are otherwise bulletproof, gearboxes the same, all parts are equivalent to Zed prices if you go like for like. C2 may be the baby of the range but we're still talking about a 325bhp 911 here, it's not going to be slow and the chassis engineering is second only to Lotus IMHO. Takes a while to learn the balance of the car, but ultimately it's incredibly rewarding to drive fast when you get it right. Spec is everything, and that car is right at the bottom as fair as I can tell. Sound pack might mean Bose, but it's @*!# so don't worry about that. The sat nav is equally crap, and changing the whole head unit over to something decent requires approx £500 of parts to convert the MOST before you get to buying anything. That said, that car looks immaculate and more toys = more things to go wrong. C2 cars did not have PASM (adjustable suspension) and on 19"s the ride is going to be very firm, you'd really either want to change the suspension or change the wheels to 18"s. You may find high mileage C2S cars in your price range (just!), and if the condition is good then I would consider one of those instead. PASM as standard, more power, lowered, and a higher mileage car is less likely to have IMS issues as the weak point is between about 30K to 80K. Buy on condition, not on mileage. That's the most important thing with any 911, right back to the really early ones. Any other specifics you want to know, just shout.

Possibly, but it would be easier (and cheaper!) just to get the paperwork from Nissan proving the work was done and keep that with the car instead. I wouldn't buy a car if the clocks had been fiddled with, even if it was for the correct reasons.

All you need here, I would think Stopped for newbies as from March last year, then dropping by 50% for two years for existing employees. That's the national one though, individual trusts now set it locally so it'll be lower in the north but higher in the south. Massive PDF here from *spit* Unite detailing their findings

A Hawkeye and older Impreza has no TCS at all. 4WD does naff all if the driver does something daft. It's all about the driver, and nothing to do with the TCS.

Are they not two different things? What's the issue, others who are not NHS may still be able to help

Jay, not sure if you're aware but if it's big power you're after then you don't want a PDK tubby, as the gearbox will not take anything over 600bhp before cutting out and leaving you in limp mode. No-one has figured out a way around this yet, which is why all the big power 997.2 cars are manuals. It's not exactly a slouch with 'just' 525bhp, but just so you know. I know you're about the show as much as the go, but worth bearing in mind. Keep an eye on the cost of PCCB replacements too, as they're absolutely daft money... Also, I'm fricking jealous. I would love a Turbo S, utterly stunning cars that will annihilate just about anything they come across. When I did Vmax at Brunters a guy had one there and it didn't exactly do bad against the 599 GTO in the head to head. Immense.

I'm sick of races being decided after the race. We had all this crap last year and the year before, we really don't need it again. The FIA need to come out quick and say the result stands, stop this nonsense.

You could be gaining power more than anything, but don't forget the ECU adapts so it will cancel itself out. That's an awfully big discrepency in your miles to a tank. How many litres are you getting into the tank when filling up? And is your MPG calculation based on what the car is telling you or what you've worked out yourself?

Six posts in a row. Wow, that has to be some kind of record.

I'd have said otherwise, I must admit. Yes, it will effect the gasflow, but we are talking fractions here and certainly no more than would change if you fitted a freer-flowing exhaust that was backbox-less (like the K1), and we all know the Zed ECU will adapt to stop any power increases. Any difference a broken midpipe to backbox would make to the MPG of the car is negligable, IMHO.

Looks like anywhere between 35-40K secondhand. Getting hold of one is more the issue. Terrific cars, especially in the orange.

Dance also tells you the code before you reset it.

No more than heel and toe in any other vehicle. Any additional fuel cost will be far outweighed by the benefits of reducing wear on the drivetrain, as you correctly say. Plus it sounds cool!

Best bit? The 2.5TD isn't even a V6, it's an I4!

1M, not M1

Boo, I was expecting this:

That is dErz's car I think. Correct It's the same as my old car, still looks awesome!

Who has the blue ragtop with the black Rays?