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Hi All,
A new item has been added to the store  
Leather Keyrings - @nikndel sold these well (forced people to buy them) at Japfest and now they are available online also!
£7.50 Base Price, Premium members of course get the usual discount making them £6 (Postage Included)
T-Shirts will also be back in stock shortly and as such these are now available after being asked a lot about them!
£17.50 Base price, Premium members get these for £15!
Don't forget all the other merchandise is available, polo shirts can take up to two weeks due to being bespoke to the member. Any questions just shout.

@Ztox I know I just didn't actually see him in the show itself.

Just sold them, I'm sure it won't be the last set I have from BC though! So keep your eyes peeled in July, August and September 
Mods pls close  

The boot area with the back seats dropped down is completely flat so it opens up in to a very large boot that you can fit 4 standard wheels with tyres in to. That should give you an idea of boot space.
It's let down a bit by the size of the boot opening but it's nothing that generally can't be worked around.

I've heard rumours that Miltek are changing their name to 'Willcrack' 😁

I was about to say exactly what @Ade said. I guess it depends on your goals here. If you're likely to add further bits that would benefit from a tweak later down the line such as a manifold etc then arguably your best option is to go ECUtek. Slightly more expensive from the offset but likely the better and more supported option.

@Stutopia yes you can change the default stream. Hover over the Activity tab then click on my activity streams, select the one you want, which I presume in this case is Unread Content so just click the below link  
http://www.gt86.org.uk/forums/discover/unread/
Then click on the tick to make it the default and change to green rather than greyed out.
 

Looks good, a heat gun also works wonders. Sounds a bit crazy but if you heat it up enough it will turn darker restoring it's finish.
Just make sure you don't overheat it otherwise you're stuffed and it'll bubble 😂

Looks good, a heat gun also works wonders. Sounds a bit crazy but if you heat it up enough it will turn darker restoring it's finish.
Just make sure you don't overheat it otherwise you're stuffed and it'll bubble 😂

He's gone rogue and put it live without my approval, there might be bits that are broken. Nothing that I've done, mind 

New year, new theme (a bit late admittedly) 
let me know if you have any issues. Or just tell @Ztox

personally I wouldn't bother til next year. You're only going to kerb it again. It's sods law

take the whole car, enter it for me  

All of your guide's seem to have little helpers in them, where can I purchase?

Well i'm pleased to announce that @DanJ has offered to take the reigns as regional organiser for the MK and surrounding area. Those of you around the area know he's been arranging meets anyway so not a lot will change  

Well i'm pleased to announce that @DanJ has offered to take the reigns as regional organiser for the MK and surrounding area. Those of you around the area know he's been arranging meets anyway so not a lot will change  

As some of you know I acquired a BBK kit from TAROX late last year for evaluation purposes. A stint of illnesses and other bits and bobs mean't that I got the kit fitted on just before the new year. Now that I've had it on for some time and have a trackday under my belt with them I can provide a well enough review to you all on the brakes and rotors.
So the kit they gave me was the 328mm Sport Compact brake kit which consists of the following
Red 6 pot TAROX Calipers, discs, pads and hardware to mount to the car. Braided hoses and all the nuts & bolts and boring bits!
Packaging was well enough! The box came with a dent in it but nothing was damaged and the whole kit was packed well enough to prevent and scratches or chips to the calipers. Being in one large box it obviously weighed a fair bit! Also came with a complimentary lanyard of course and a small booklet of all their kits.

 

Disc used is their F2000 single piece, obviously many think the grooves are pointless but lets not get in to a debate about them here!

 
Their website states that their Sport Compact kit comes with the B280-6 or B30-6 Calipers usually. However the below suggests otherwise with the B32-6 Calipers instead. 
The one thing I do need to clarify with TAROX is what pad is used in the kit and I will post that up shortly when I get a response
Drawings of the Caliper can be found here: http://en.tarox.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/B32-6.pdf
Piston number
Disc Ø (min-max)
Disc thickness (min-max)
Disc Depth
Weight
Mounting Type
Lug offset
Minimum internal wheel Ø
Lug PCD
Knockoff Piston
Mounting Centres
Piston Layout (Diameter in mm)
Total area (both sides) cm²
Piston Layout (Diameter in mm)
Total area (both sides) cm²
Piston Layout (Diameter in mm)
Total area (both sides) cm²
Pad Code
Pad Area
Pad Choice
Pad Thickness
Pad Depth
6
290-330mm
10-30mm
60mm
2.2 kg
Lug
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
89mm
26/31/26
363
26/34/26
394
31/34/31
483
SP0239
80 cm²
.114/.501./116/.601
17mm
60mm

Daily Driving Usage
As a daily driver, I was sceptical about putting a BBK on as I didn't want all brake and nothing else, I didn't want the Girlfriends head flying through the windscreen whenever I approached a set of lights!
Safe to say that in these respects the brakes are probably somewhat tamer than the brakes they replaced which were DIXCEL ES Discs & Z Type Pads. The TAROX has a lesser initial bite and seem more progressive, i'm guessing these pads work better with a bit of heat in them (more on that later). The pedal feel however is improved with the braided lines and overall braking performance is definitely not decreased. They stop well in day to day traffic and handle fast road work just fine. Do not squeak which is an advantage. Dusting on the brakes is probably somewhat less than the DIXCEL pads but ultimately this isn't something that i particularly factor in when looking at a kit, if some of you do, they will dust more than stock but I guess lesser than some pads out there. 
Track Use
Hopefully one of many trackdays to test the brakes out I was at brands hatch in January to give them a better test, slightly hampered by both the weather and the black flag I incurred (not through my poor driving I might add) but never the less a good day.
As suspected the lesser initial bite was seemingly due to the pads working once they had a bit of heat in them. Probably more for the track biased then, but by no means a death trap on the road. It's worth noting i'm not 100% sure what pad it is. I shall find out for all though. 
They stopped well enough, it's all I can really say as they didn't particularly feel any better than my old discs and pads as the ABS would just kick in as it was an extremely wet and greasy track. I need to pencil myself in for a dry day clearly to compare properly. Brake fade was non existent, it wasn't on my previous discs and pads either but what I can say is they are an improvement over stock.
I'll give them another test in May and see how they do for now though, overall i'm happy with the performance of the kit and would recommend it, it's not the cheapest of BBK out there, but it's certainly not the most expensive.


 

Welcome to the club  Not quite the right colour car, but at least it's not ginger.

Welcome to the club  Not quite the right colour car, but at least it's not ginger.

A slight protrusion isn't an MOT failure. Ignore him he doesn't know what he's talking about, perhaps someone else should fit the coilovers that knows what they are talking about?  

A slight protrusion isn't an MOT failure. Ignore him he doesn't know what he's talking about, perhaps someone else should fit the coilovers that knows what they are talking about?  

A slight protrusion isn't an MOT failure. Ignore him he doesn't know what he's talking about, perhaps someone else should fit the coilovers that knows what they are talking about?  

Update 2 
I've not done much driving since, or nothing significant to warrant an update but the weather forecast was so good this weekend just gone that I felt the need to give the car a much needed wash and took a drive out to portsdown hill, squeezing in a few B roads of course as the A3 is dull as hell . Portsdown hill was busy given the weather and the fact it was mothers day contributing. I was deprived of awesome photography opportunity but made do with the space I had. 
Perhaps if the Mrs got her arse out of bed earlier the day would have worked out better on that front and the sun would have been facing the right way!! 


Safe to say that the brakes are great, they saved my bacon on the way down after hitting standstill traffic from xxx mph the car came to a perfect halt in what seemed like mere seconds  Clearly a bit of warmer weather and dry tarmac is what was required to make them shine! Despite me not really being able to afford it, having driven the hybrid for a couple of weeks and going back to this yesterday for a drive it's got me all excited and i'm becoming increasingly vulnerable to the IABTSS (I Accidentally Booked TSS). Though I will only be going 
But over the course of the day braking was great, a lot more progressive than my previous brakes which is nicer for road driving but they still stop when putting your foot down that little bit harder.
Think i'll also be taking the car out for a trip to wales at some point in the coming months, I also wouldn't mind getting more pictures of the car without the stripe, it's growing on me! I think I prefer it?
Obligatory edit below to show off the brakes  Though the spokes get in the way, when I get the rays on they will show better.

This is pretty good stuff http://www.meguiars.co.uk/product/404/Perfect-Clarity-Glass-Cleaner/ doesn't smear, use a microfibre to apply and microfibre to dry