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Foz wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 8:31 am

Coaster1 wrote: Wed May 09, 2018 8:19 pm

Foz wrote: Wed May 09, 2018 12:40 pm It's had an absolutely frightening amount of money spent on it over the last few years the highlight being a hartech engine rebuild at about £11.5k

Nice fine

£18k+ in 5000 miles (7 years)


This lot I reckon is upwards of £35k in maintenance

My Boxster had £23k of receipts with it, but that was for 120k miles

Picked up a full Prodrive exhaust last night including sportcat downpipe and 3rd Cat delete. Already have the back box so will move on the duplicate. Will be having this fitted soon and the car will get a remap. Can't decide if I want (and can finance) a new bigger turbo and uprated fuel pump at the same time.
I'll be looking at a max of 290bhp on my current Turbo, where as the bigger unit and fuel pump should get about 325bhp, then the gearbox becomes the limiting factor (as I already have an exedy stage 1 clutch).
It will be going in next week for a new set of ball joints or track rods (need to find out which has failed) and an AC re-gas.
I'm going to fit the Brembo pads I have lying around at the weekend.

Carl.

Decisions decisions

Certainly a decent power hike with the bigger turbot, but £morez.

Wanged one of the alloys on my M3 against a kerb today. Bollocks.

The only downside with the Michelin Super Sports is they don't have as much rim protection compared to Goodyears/Vredesteins.

Oh well, the gouge is only about 1" long, so can probably be repaired, rather than the wheel needing a full refurb.

Marv wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 1:46 pm Wanged one of the alloys on my M3 against a kerb today. Bollocks.

The only downside with the Michelin Super Sports is they don't have as much rim protection compared to Goodyears/Vredesteins.

Oh well, the gouge is only about 1" long, so can probably be repaired, rather than the wheel needing a full refurb.

Did the same on the 420 a couple of days ago. What felt like a light scrape has taken a huge chunk out of the rim, BMW alloys are way too soft!

Foz wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 10:20 am...makes a huge difference to the car

It certainly does ! That's why we assumed it came free with the car....

It was on an absolutely knackered 02 plate with rusty fixings etc.

Foz wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 10:20 am No I picked the plate up last year, doesn't mean anything to me but makes a huge difference to the car

Icey.

I though I was being a JL as I coulnt see the link with anything.

I still dont...

mik wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 3:53 pm

Foz wrote: Thu May 10, 2018 10:20 am No I picked the plate up last year, doesn't mean anything to me but makes a huge difference to the car

Icey.

I though I was being a JL as I coulnt see the link with anything.

Yep - not a clue here, as per.

It doesn’t signify anything

Mik. Bluff. Called.

Huge seagulls near you Foz!

Oh... I thought he'd just got a bit overexcited about his new purchase

I missed getting a photo of the BMW reaching 80,000 miles the other day, but I did manage to catch this significant landmark today:


Heh.

........namely?

Edit - ignore me - very good

Short shift fitted last night.

Foz wrote: Fri May 11, 2018 11:13 am Short shift fitted last night.

How fiddly? I was tempted to stick one on but my neutral to 2nd to 1st shift is already a bit of a pig when cold and I head these make it worse?

Let us know how you get on with it.

Install wasn't bad, maybe about an hour and a half, yes it will make a notchy shift worse, based on previous lotus experience changing out the cables and having a look at the linkage at the gearbox end will do wonders alongside the shifter...

I think the throw in the 997 is already somewhat shorter than the 6s anyway so perhaps not worth it on my car anyway.