SteveW

28 and the K1 has been in residence for the last 15 months Love it with the bungs in, just wish it sounded like it does with the bungs in when they are out and then quieter with them in for the motorway lol.

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Hi mate, Well from past experience Harratts take their MOT cars to the Crigglestone MOT centre. I didn't have the K1 on when I last went their so I can't comment. No it was a place in Huddersfield I used. A large chain, nationwide I think. Or could have been A to Z would have to go check. Hopefully yours will go through OK mate. Thanks for teh tiop about knottingley but its a little too far. I'll give Paul at RS a ring and see who he normally uses. Thanks folks

Well after recently failing my MOT for my exhaust being too loud: "significantly louder than a car of similar type and specification" the advice I've been given is take it a performance centre. However, I don't know of any in the Leeds / Wakefield area at all never mind any with goo dreputations. RS Tuning sprung to mind but they don't do MOT's. Does anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks in advance, Steve

Thats a good point fellas. Thank you. Its not overly loud, or maybe I'm deaf, I've never been turned away from a track with it and its only loud when you give it beans. I suppose why waste the cash on wadding might as well just pay for another MOT and put it down to experience in future don't wait til last minute for an MOT! It was the only place I could get in at such short notice. Onwarsd and upwards as my boss always says.

Door card received very well packaged and in excellent condition. Thank you very much Tony

Well MOT has come round. Sadly I failed because the car is "significantly louder than an equivalent vehicle of the same type" some kind of newish regulation. The MOT tester just said fill the exhaust with wadding and use the bungs to keep it in for the test then take it out. Does anyone know what material I could use? I was thinking a load of wire wool? Its literally for the noise for the MOT test. Stupid K1, lol Has anyone else come across this? Cheers Steve

Please let me know if you have one of these and how much you are after for it. Mine got ripped off on a trackday Thanks Steve

Steve, I have just blown a rather large hole in my exhaust pipe, just before the back box where there is a join Having it welded up today to get me through my up-coming MOT but keen to get a new system and been reading reviews on the K1! It seems there are many varying view points on this system and its noise potential........coming from an actual owner of this system, would you say it is good for a daily user? I use my Zed and love driving my Zed everyday and I do like from previopus motors to have a lively exhaust tone but is the K1 just that little bit too much? You mention the DB ratings with and without bungs but how would these compare to the standard OEM exhaust DB? Any assistance greatly appreciated Hi mate sorry for late reply only just seen this. In my personal opinion the K1 is fine as a day to day with the bungs in. I use mine as the day to day car and have for the last 2 years. At low revs with the bungs in its failry quiet but significantly louder than the OEM exhaust. However, put your foot down and it gets failry loud however I like the noise it makes. The tone is perfect in my opinion. I will howveer agree with everyone else unbunged its way too loud I unbunged mine for two days and then put them back in. All you can hear is exhaust noise it is pretty ridiculous how loud it gets. You do actually get headache! Bunged I love it - Unbunged I hate it Looks wise love it especially with the bungs out

Very nice mate! They look good. I've been considering refurbing my Rays gun metal grey or black and then get the track wheels done slime green!

Thanks for the offer of the tyres mate but I'm flat broke at the moment so I will have to decline. Yeah the Falkens do go off after about 10 mins on track but thats all I spend out on track anyway then come in then to let the car cool down. The RE050's are much better on track but worse on the road having no grip until you get some heat in them. With everything its swings and roundabouts and tradeoffs. Would really love a second set of wheels and some slicks! Now that would be fun.

Thanks very much fellas. I didn't think there was any difference in the skirts but have never actually seen them side by side in the flesh. Thanks for confirming.

Hi Folks, Just wondering what is the difference between the Nismo V1 and V2 sideskirts?? I can't see a difference in pictures. Is there actually a difference, if so does anyone know what it is? Thank you Steve

It just depends on the length and speed of you rdrives mate. I find that if I go to work at normal time and leave at normal time I average in the region of 22mpg, all to do with being sat in queues. So I go to work early and leave late (there is a gym at work) so I miss all the queues and generally get 26.5mpg on that run. A tank average with a bit ofeverything driving work run, spirirted and cruising about I see 25 - 26 mpg. I have been UpRev'd which did help. Before I used to see 22.5 23.5. I'm not suicidal because thats the risk you take going on track. I bought a sports car to drive it the way it was designed and supposed to be driven. You just can't do that on the road well you can but licenses don't last very long. Obviously on track the danger element goes up a fair bit but I enjoy it and accept the potential damage as part of the track day. My parents and GF think I'm mental taking "such a lovely car on a track" its not like I'm rich if I wrote the car off on track I would have no car and still have 2.5 years of my loan to pay off but I love it One of teh unfortunate attendees: It may only be a saxo but it may well have been his pride and joy.

I run a K1, I personally love the look of it and the sound of it but only with the bungs in! Take out the bungs and its like Defcon 5 just way too loud. Bunged up its 93.7Db at 5K and unbunged its 104.2Db!!!! I have been considering getting a middle box put in it so I can take the bungs out and then have a really quiet exhaust for long journeys.

It really is amazing what an earth strap broken or poorly connected can do. Car just behaves very very irratically. I had the same exact issue with an old car. A new earth strap sorted all my problems. Good luck , hope its something simple.

Yes I was very lucky, it could have ended up much worse if I had had someone inexperienced following or I had hit some nasties hidden off the circuit. I checked the front end all seems OK. I'm planning on checking the rear suspesnion this weekend a brief review seems to suggest no issues. I checked all the front end and drive line at Cadwell after going airborn. The drop links have got noisier but that is probably due to the track day in general. They were creaky and had play in them before I went and really do need replacing. I'd been out about 5 minutes on the second and third offs and about 2 minutes on the first off. After the first off they closed the circuit to clean the oil up. It was everywhere! I'm running Falken FK452's I really want to get a second set of wheels and either some slicks or R888's but I just don't have the cash at the moment. The whole trip to cadwell, on the circuit and home was about 290 miles, in total I put in £110 (£80 to start tank was very empty then £30 from the track) of fuel and have just over a quarter of a tank left. The mpg gauge said for the whole journey I averaged 19mpg. The way there was 32.2mpg and the way back similar on track its usually about 10 - 12mpg. I probably did 8 sessions of 5-7 laps each. Cruising at 70 I get approx 35 - 37 mpg.

Well had a great day at Cadwell park yesterday. However, did have 3 very scary moments! 1) Going into the park curve way too fast, some one in front of me had dropped oil, the back end caught the oil sending the car sliding I caught it at about 75 degrees to the track pointing towards the inside of the corner, over corrected and the ended up the other way. But again caught it and carried on, a small 'twitchy' moment. Didn't spin it though 2) Coming out of charlies onto the park straight, I really have no idea what happened........car was gripping no problem slowly fed the power in exiting the corner and i got eaten! Full on tank slapper, sideways about 5 times, at one stage I thought I'm going on the grass but managed to wrestle it back then got it in a straight line again. Said my thank you prayers and carried on. My mate who was following me said at 3 or 4 points he thought I was too far round to pull it back. 3) Again entering park curve too quickly with a BMW 328 right behind me. Over shot the corner and ended up on the grass on the outside (luckily the BMW driver had done a few trackdays and knew anything can happen when a car gets on the grass so backed off completely and kept his distance). Good job, as the car went on to the grass the back end spun round. I then decided the inside of the corner was safer due to no barriers and I was still going about 50mph. So I went back across the track to the inside of the corner but didn't see the large grass mound . . . . hit the mound and flew through the air. The Marshall and BMW driver said I was about 3 - 3.5 feet off the floor. Imagine Petrov from Sunday's GP! Very scary moment, but very lucky, landed on a down slope and the impact wasn't too great. The front bumper got bent under the car but was split anyway and ripped off a wheel arch liner. Managed to pull the bumper out with some brute force but a new wheel arch liner is needed! All in all a fantastic day, even with the scary moments

I love the front but think the back is awful. But each to their own or we would aal drive the same cars

Will try my best mate. Love the Nismo kit by the way......very jealous!!! Cheers mate... the fron tbumper needs a respray so im contemplating getting it debadged and smoothed while im at it... That will look really good I'll look forward to seeing it next time i'm over your way or at a meet. I'm hoping to get to the wales meet this year but we've got a nurburgring trip planned and I'm not sure if I'll be back in time.We were planning on getting back saturday but looks like we may not be now so have to see. Don't say that.....

Cheers Alex for the right order I knew it was a strange one I just started at the wrong wheel D'oh!!!

Thanks folks will get some more RBF 600 and re bleed. I knew I should have got two bottles lol. I thought it was probably still air in but I've never experienced this before do thought best to check. I had my dad helping me as the 'pedal man' but it doesn't seem to have worked will get my usual helper next time ;0) Thanks again :0)

Well I managed to get my slime green HEL lines on today but have now got braking problems . . . Pictures of the lines, they do look cool, shame you can't see them when they are on Basically now when I brake there is a lot of pedal travel before I get any braking effort. If, when driving, I press the brake then quickly press the brake again the brakes work really well. Pedal pumps up rock solid when the engine is off. When I fitted the new lines I bled the system OSR - NSF - NSR - OSF, all in all I've put half a litre of brake fluid through and no air was coming out. I'm really confused now, brakes worked spot on before fitting the HELS. I'm guessing its something I've done as opposed to an issue with the lines. Does this sound like I've still got some air in the system, what else could it be?? Been a rubbish day, found my oil cooler was leaking so thats now off too. Only thing that seems to have gone OK was the oil change..... tempting fate I think there. . . .

Yes always best to sell mods separately and put stock bits back on. If its a genuine Nismo kit I would be interested in the Front bumper and skirts, don't want to come across vulturesque. Good luck whatever you decide to do

Love it, I just don't have any spare cash!!