Lauren

Event Title: NW Curry night with special guest Tue 15th Oct Event Author: Lauren Event Date: 15.10.2019 Our good friend, Ross is coming to Cheadle for a few days, so it would be rude not to catch up and give him the northern curry experience. It is a new restaurant and I've been itching to give it a try. What more could you want, plenty of car talk and a decent curry to go with it. I'm going to try and book a table for 8pm: https://jathra.co.uk Jathra Restaurant 90 Wilmslow Rd, Handforth SK9 3ES There is some parking out front and round the side, but plenty of alternative parking on the surrounding roads. Let me know if you are coming as I will look to finalise the booking by Sunday, Monday at the latest. 1. Ross 2. Lauren 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. NW Curry night with special guest Tue 15th Oct

I've heard this on mine. Seems to be what they do, don't worry about it.

Well, yes, maybe they ordered a new sticker when they ordered the new bonnet. Fair point.

It was expensive a few years ago, but R1234yf is not expensive now.

You lucked in as pretty much every car has used R1234yf for a fair few years now so it will be getting cheaper than R134A as the price of that goes up.

It was but now may well be more expensive while the other one is getting a lot cheaper about the same as what R134A was. So YMMV. R134A was only used fleetingly in the GT86 around 2013-14, for about six months. Everything beyond that and before that if you have a 2012 build will be R1234YF. A new bonnet would not come with a sticker, so it can only be the original one unless it was a second hand bonnet?

Three days if they've done a few.

Whiteline adjustable top mounts are best avoided. Too many issues.

Well, it was pretty specific. Maybe if you widen your search? Or axle stands?

It'll get a bit louder with the supercharger.

Welcome aboard, Jay.

I just do the tax by the month now with direct debit, avoids all that. 👍 I get what you mean though, absolutely hate cheques. Got a tax refund of £6.11 from the HMRC, just chucked it in the bin, not worth the effort. If they'd just taken it off my tax then that would have been a whole lot easier, like they do if you've underpaid. 😡

Welcome aboard.

Just use the stock one. It's what I do. Then you can put it back in the boot afterwards and don't have to drive around with one in all the time.

You could contact @Riceburner i,e., Richard at RRG Macc he should be able to help.

Welcome aboard. Check out the social meets for stuff local to you. There are meets arranged in the West Midlands round Birmingham area as a rule. Any plans for it? Enjoy.

I totally get that you are right and this is I guess the point that @Deacon is making they are not necessary if you are doing a few trackdays a year and as Jeff pointed out track orientated pads with matching discs will be up for the job if you are. So yes, not worth it for the majority of owners who go and have a play. Even in the sprint series the stock calipers with different pads will do the job and won't hold you back from being competitive. Look at Rob Dowsett competing in my class in a stock car bar PS4's. He's not far off. I would concur with @Ade for the reason for going BBK as I do at lot of miles on the road.

It's lack of use which is certainly the issue. I had my first 45Ah battery fail at 70K miles and three years. Replaced under warranty with 65Ah and is still fine at 137K miles and three and a half years later. Recently went on holiday for a week, no problems. Whilst the alarm will draw current, I think is more the case that a lot of owners simply don't use their cars that much which is what seems to cause the problems. Maybe there are other cars out there that don't suffer this issue. The UK alarm system is installed at Portbury Docks and the way to define whether this is the issue is to see if the problem still occurs in other markets which don't have an alarm fitted.

@Deacon didn't realise that Oulton was your first track day? Thought you'd been doing it longer than that? Well the bottom line is there is no way I'd go back to stock calipers and different discs and pads. More than happy with my setup. Just seems a no brainer for me.

I run DS2500s. Great for road and track and because my brakes have the thermal capacity for track. We did tried this with measuring caliper temperatures at Blyton Park with Will's car and he never got them that hot. Mine are quieter than stock pads or the incredibly noisy Project Mu's I ran historically. I CBA to dick around changing pads when I simply don't need to.

It's obvious, they can take more heat. My setup will outperform yours all day long. You don't push as hard as I do on track, I've been out on track the same time as you before, so I've seen the evidence for that and we had the same pads I believe. So it may be fine for you, but I compete in my car, I don't just cruise round the track. Even on a sprint the extra thermal capacity is useful as you have to be the last of the late brakers as every hundredth of a second counts.

But the reality is I'm not going to mess about changing pads just to go on track. I just want something that does both very well. My setup does that and will out perform whatever pad/disc combination you have on the stock calipers. It's also just as good on the road. I've had over 30K miles out of them now.

They were, yes. I'm not convinced properly capable pads would have given me the confidence in consistency of braking that I have now though.

Depends upon what you mean by 'decent' tyres. Even with decent road tyres you will over come what the stock brakes are capable of after a few laps. It's about sustaining feel and keeping the consistency of it lap after lap. Even in a sprint which is only one lap I get the advantage of a BBK. It inspires confidence and the brakes simply consistent and don't fade. On a sprint I struggle with stock calipers. Uprated pads offer only a slight improvement. The other point you and most are missing is that if you trail brake the modulation of pressure and consistency of feel is key to being able to adjust the angle of the car when turning into a corner. I admit these are advanced techniques that I don't expect your average driver to thoroughly grasp, but having a BBK even using road tyres has possibly been one of the best modifications I've done to my car.