Your fleet running reports

[mikeyb]

You can't beat a crate LSA for cheap supercharged goodness.

Or go old-school and get an LSX454 to keep NA or LSX376 and add a blower/couple of turbos.

Either way the car will end up split in half/twisted

[mik]

I never knew you were from Saudi Ste.

[Beany]

Oh, forgot to note I discovered the rear seat squab is loose on the E46. Had a look at it quickly and I guess it's just not quite sitting right. I'll have a proper look this weekend.

It comes out quite easily by pulling the front edge upwards. It's probably not been clipped back in quite right.

Likewise Harry, this is pretty much my suspicion. I had a two minute fiddle at lunchtime - roof down for easier access - and that looked to be the case, but I couldn't quite get it in.

Probably my fault for throwing a toolkit on the back seat a few weeks ago, chances are I popped it off without noticing

[ste]

Either way the car will end up split in half/twisted

[ste]

I never knew you were from Saudi Ste.

Yeah, I'm just one of JL's psuedonyms.

[Jimexpl]

The XFR went off to the new owner last week - the first one to look at the car bought it, after a week of cheeky offers finally got up to the price that I wanted for it.
It cost about £300 a month in depreciation and maintenance over 38 months and 30,000 miles, which I think is pretty good for a 500+hp big saloon car.

The replacement arrived today. Strictly speaking it shouldn't be on the road as it's a 68 plate, but you can't tell and I've got nowhere else to park it!





We need occasional 7 seats and this was the best compromise/least awful choice for us. 240hp petrol with adaptive suspension, which is a non-existent combination on the used market so I've bought new and will suffer the depreciation.

[Foz]

Complete set of new discs, textar pads, well the rear pads anyway, the fronts are wrong so need swapped

New HEL braided lines and some RBF 660 so hopefully the the breaks sorted! (post caliper rebuild and refurb anyway)

[Mito Man]

Update just for JL

Will be adding some girth to her this weekend.

[JLv3.0]

JL don't need no more girth

[JLv3.0]

I never knew you were from Saudi Ste.

Yeah, I'm just one of JL's psuedonyms.

Shit - busted after all these years.

[GG.]

Early start to the day to drop the 911 off at H&S. industrious chaps are so busy they’re in from 6 on a Saturday to catch up!

Turns out they’re positioned right next to a waste processing facility - nothing like the tang of putrifying refuse to assault your nostrils first thing in a morning

Interesting stripped Mk1 Escort outside along with V10 pickup that I’m sure would arouse the interests of Mito’s dad.



Inside is an Aladdin’s cave with fabricated exhaust components dangling from the ceiling like a middle eastern souk. Proper old school workshop

Over in the workshop bay is a very cool stripped out f430 racer in for a full system - fancy a wrap mit stripes Ian?

[JLv3.0]

Save me digging through the thread - what's the reasoning behind the H&S when you have the Sports exhaust already, from memory?

[GG.]

2nd gen PSE has a centre silencer that isn’t there on the 997.1. Basically they were having problems with drive by noise regs and on the 997.1 they had an electronic circuit that automatically closed the valves again at certain speeds and revs. The centre silencer on the .2 is a permanent mechanical solution.

Obviously this takes the edge off the sound so many people fit either x-pipes or non-merged bypass pipes and remove the centre silencer. X pipes smooth the sound but crossovers are less restrictive. Sharkwerks do a very respected version but with FX rates plus import duties it ends up being the think end of a grand for two bits of mandrel bent pipe.

H&S do pretty much exactly the same in the UK for half the price.

[JLv3.0]

H&S have always been very well respected - good skills

I carried a Sharkwerks rear section from the US last year for my mate's GT3 - they don't give that shit away, do they!

[ste]

H&S have always been very well respected - good skills

They have? Maybe they let the Saturday boy free on the bits I’ve seen.

[Mito Man]

One thing which is clear when you start going aftermarket is that respect and quality don’t necessarily go hand in hand - but it’s unlikely that they can fuck up 2 bits of bent pipe. Hopefully.

[Beany]

Topped off the oil on the BMW (it was at the lower mark, yes, I knew, etc). Took about a litre and a half - oil changes will be expensive given the oil it wants

Gave it proper beans with the roof down, gave up around 120 as there was enough wind whipping round the cabin that I thought my jacket - loose in the back - was going to get pulled out

I wasn't actually aiming to do silly speed, I just zipped past a few dawdlers and then looked at the speedo - this thing powers through three figures the way every other car I've owned blows through 70. I could see me getting in trouble with this if I'm not careful....

Also, some bloke in a 335i showed me who's boss at some traffic lights in leeds, but his car sounded like a farting rhino so I still win

[Simon]

Topped off the oil on the BMW (it was at the lower mark, yes, I knew, etc). Took about a litre and a half - oil changes will be expensive given the oil it wants

Peculiar. I've never known a car take more than half to three quarters of a litre to get from min to max. Did you get the engine warm first and allow time for the new added oil to drain down through the block into the sump?

[Beany]

Topped off the oil on the BMW (it was at the lower mark, yes, I knew, etc). Took about a litre and a half - oil changes will be expensive given the oil it wants

Peculiar. I've never known a car take more than half to three quarters of a litre to get from min to max. Did you get the engine warm first and allow time for the new added oil to drain down through the block into the sump?

Yeah, engine was hot and we'd spent 15mins browsing around Halfrauds looking for toot we didn't need.

Gonna have a closer look tomorrow and park somewhere level (why can't I live on a flat road??) and check the level then, too. I deliberaly left it at 'half mast' at topping up time in case there was 'hot engine, cold oil' expansion type stuff kicking off, too.

[Rich B]

Mine takes 1L from min to max. Obviously I can’t check it on a proper dipstick because there isn’t one, but i hadn’t checked it for a while on the digital one the other day and it came up with a message asking me to add 1L of oil (which then took it to max.)