350Butcher

Yeah just the front, rears are fine as are just might have to paint them to de-gold the car My front brembos have been destroyed by the heat on track, dust seals cooked and crumbled and when I rebuilt them the caliper or pistons are all distorted and don’t slide freely any more. The 3.7 build will be through the year........how’s your car getting on? Did you start a build yourself?

The new discs and pads arrived today..... should get it all to the machine shop during the week to make up the bells and brackets...........looking forward to trying these out now!

Yeah it puts some scale on them! No way......I waited 5 years for my set of 18's to come up for sale...... Ap racing template inside my wheel Pic of an Evo running 362mm CP5555 kit under 18" wheel

New vs Old............looking forward to getting these installed!

Sorry, thought you planned to do full days on circuit. I've not tried them but if it was me I would try a set of the Performance Friction Z-rated fast road/track pads......only just over budget! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PFC-1001-11-Z-Rated-Front-Brake-Pads-Mitsubishi-Evo-5-9-Impreza-WRX-STi-350Z/192337445611?hash=item2cc83482eb:g:YYQAAOSwH2VZ50F3

Jeez mate, if you're tracking the car get them pads out! The DS2500's are awful pads so standard street stuff is even worse! I guessed at Ferodo as the vibration you get from pad material transferring on to the disc is a Ferodo trait. They are the worst culprits for this. 10mins on track and they are finished!!

Are you using Ferodo 2500 pads?

Been a bit slow on updates but.........I have one, albeit a small one! These have just landed with me to start the brake kit They are the AP Racing CP5555, which after turning into some what of a caliper nerd over the last month or so, I chose to use over the newer CP9040 caliper (which does look more shiney and nice) to build my kit with for a number of reasons! They weigh nearly a Kg less per caliper, they use a pad that is nearly 4cm2 larger (so x4) and 1.2mm thicker. They are effectively the race pro series CP5060 caliper with dust seals machined into steel pistons instead on alli items, to make them suitable for road and track use. I'll be mounting these using custom brakets and bells using AP's 362 x 32mm semi floating discs and ,as always, the Pagid RSL29 pads

I would've said it'd be better to increase plenum volume on each side but feed each bank separately. Also the air flow meters are reading values going to each bank that way I guess looks are individual..............form follows function though

I'd stick with a plate type lsd for a rear wheel drive car, you can change ramp angles and pre-loads etc if you wanted to at a later date. quaife is great but I'd use that in front wheel drive though (as I did in my old astra gte) My car gets used for track days and road trips as far as south of France for holidays, I have the os giken super lock in my car and its a great, silent in operation and gives loads more traction out the corners on road and track. I also have a 3.9 FD fitted and again great on track but not too short for road use or cruising very long distance either. Think the 3.9 would be great if you do go super charged later too

Fair play to you for putting the time and work into this! Can I ask why you have linked the 2 inlets (via the horse shoe) and not gone with separate intakes for each bank?

My 350z and my Brothers VXR220 live on these CTEK charger/conditioners, a must if your car sits for a while between usage and over winter Just seen on the first page you have a gear shifter extension, I wanted to try one of these but wasn't sure about the quality as I don't want it snapping off on track while keenly pulling gears! Where did you buy yours assuming its not snapped off that it and does it work well with the short shift fitted?!

An R34 GTR in the £30k's!? Have a search, the prices have gone insane!!

Cheers Davey!! Of course I do select what I post up though.............but on the whole I like to think I'm quick, safe and considerate

Cheers Stu! Glad the info in my thread is helpful, it was my motivation for doing it as when I started planning things there was so little on forums about anything. There's a few bits coming in the next couple of months but nothing too major like last winter. Can't really comment too much on the gen 3's as I changed so much at the same time, which contributed far more to the gains, but the reason I went for them was because the engine was going to breath so much more I didn't want the std air boxes to be a restriction and hold it back. The std air boxes are actually really good and unless you go down cams, head work and manifold route I probably would leave them in. For reference and comparison when you're doing some homework for your own car, there is a dyno comparison that was shown to me. The results of my 285 wheel hp (on Dyno Dynamics dyno) shown below 285 rwhp for a Dyno Dynamics dyno, or 339 rwhp for a Dynojet dyno, or 343 rwhp for a Dynapack dyno, or 291 rwhp for a DynoTorque dyno, or 310 rwhp for a DynoTorque (Torque Performance) dyno, or 285 rwhp for a Mustang dyno, or 320 rwhp for a Mustang (Sound Performance) dyno, or 310 rwhp for a Rototest dyno, or 288 rwhp for a Superflow dyno

So many haters!! True its not going to trouble a F355 in a beauty contest but I have been reading the reviews and these cars have been seriously impressing the journo's with a truly sorted chassis that is up for the task.......mated to a decent engine and the more and more rare manual box (I salute Honda for not even offering a paddle shift!), I say fair play to you sir for signing up to enjoying something that's not from the safe (and slower, less interesting) options And anything that laps the mighty Nordschleife in under 7m44 has some skills worth owning!!

As title really......anyone know of and can recommend somewhere that does decent stainless steel fabrication work? I have googled it but that doesn't tend to find the good ol boys in a shed somewhere who does the best work!!

Think that’s the new 488......know what you mean though, other colours are working on Ferrari’s these days Ekona......you say that like everyone has driven one! I definitely haven’t nor am I ever expecting to drive any Ferrari......that said I would love to!

That F12 is incredible.........would be in my dream garage! Big heavy sprung German doors in car parks always makes me nervous!!

Top job!! I must go and run this route again this year when I can get back down at some point. Over Stoner Hill is like an alpine pass............for about 100meters anyway! Re seats.....my brothers car has the same as the Exige seat and I'm always surprised how unsupported they are so if you do change them I'd go for something a bit more hardcore. They aren't comfy either, we took it on the circuit days alpine adventure a few years back and I couldn't walk pain free for days after that!!

I do like them with the hard top on..........my bro likes to get the roof off as much as poss though so he'll never do it! Just re read a bit of this and saw you mention the A339.....what a road!! That used to be my go to for a blast very early on a Sunday morning to get a fully clear run through from A31 to M3 bridge. Do you do the loop down the A32 across to Petersfield on the A272 then up Bell Hill (past Steep/ Stoner Hill) back to the A32? Was always a nice add on

Go and drive one and form your own opinion, everyone is different and picks up on different things when it comes to cars. I thought about getting a big Monaro before my Zed. Evo's John Barker spent 10months and 15000miles in one and rated it http://www.evo.co.uk/vauxhall/monaro/7637/vauxhall-monaro-vxr-60 Id say his opinion on performance cars is better than most and (sorry Dan) but the old 6 series could be the best car in the world, when its that ugly I just couldn't do it! and huge wings bolted to them dont help either! (just not my bag......each to their own though) I'm sure the door shuts with a good thud and the materials are a higher grade in the BM but for fun I doubt the BM comes close to the Holden. Read any review of these type cars on evo and they rate them (Jethro with the long-termer VXR8 is another example) Go for it...........and when was the last time you saw one? Quite nice to not be a sheep sometimes

Glad you're enjoying the new VX! They are great cars My brother has owned his VXR220 since 2006, its no.10 and the only one they did in Moonland Grey which might make it the best Vx220 in the world!! I've done quite a bit of work with it over the years and also had the privilege of driving it quite a bit too from track days to apine passes and there is nothing quite like these little cars...its always a buzz and a thrill to open one up and attack some tarmac. His benefits from Ap 4 pots, Nitron 3-ways. 300ish HP featuring charge cooler, chris tullett 3" exhaust (gained 20HP from swapping to this from Milltek alone!!), C20LEH turbo etc etc so its quite a weapon! This winter I'm rebushing the entire cars/ full brakes over haul and possible if I can talk him into it....full engine rebuild to free up a bit more power/response. I'll keep an eye on this thread with interest, if you want any advice on the way drop me a PM any time Couple of pics from trip to Wales on our way to Anglesey Track day

Good write up Rob I know I've banged on about them in the past but all of the above are why I use the Pagid RS29 pads, you only need one set of pads for everything. They are low noise, work from cold and give incredible stopping power when up to temp on track, good pedal feel and can deal with all the track work you can throw at them......until they are around half worn then they begin to tail off in performance I've found. They've never transferred pad material to disc as you had here with the CL's DS2500's are the most over rated pad EVER, not surprised you lost them on the roads. I wouldn't even fit them to my transit let alone a performance car. They came with my Alcon kit I had on my Evo and after one very quick session on track the disc had huge black blobs of material all round them and the most horrific vibration as a result! Ended my day and took a few hundred road miles to slowly remove it all and then they came straight out and in the bin! That was about 10 years ago and I've used nothing else other than the Pagids since.

Yeah would be a higher miler Csl but in a way that means using it feels better. My mate has a Csl and it is a proper event going out in at, the gearbox to be fair feels very dated but that noise at 8,000rpm soon makes you forgive it! If you fancy a Porsche...... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-ULTIMATE-Porsche-Cayman-S-3-4-Faster-than-a-GT3/222740959543?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D7960bd91db1643dfa6ac08a643a81a9a%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D322922310745&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A325a2fee-db99-11e7-8e54-74dbd1804b8f%7Cparentrq%3A32f901a21600a860f8da9b6fffef11d7%7Ciid%3A1