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Spent the evening at bedford autodrome yesterday, few new parts on the car since I went there last year. The brakes.....absolutely awesome! Seriously could not ask for any more stopping power, even the instructor commented and said they were the best he'd felt that day and he was scared with...

Few (bad) pics of the exhaust tips on my akrapovic for those who requested them:

Update on the CL6s, they're still fantastic and the stopping power is awesome but oh my god they are noisy!! Quite embarasingly noisy even through traffic, anyone with their windows open looks at me now. Properly noisy at low speed. DS2500 will still be the day to day pads I think, when they...

All depends on the cost of pads and discs though doesn't it. If you have pads which wear discs heavily but the pads are more expensive than the discs then it really doesn't matter!

I've been in a 1 litre ecoboost (120hp) and it's pretty impressive, sure the ST feels good but doubt it's as fun as the 197 especially after a few mods :)

Photo I took a few years back

The bit-one processor linked above is meant to be a great piece of kit, whilst not as good as a high quality processor don't assume they're bad. When chettle was saying about the headunit dumbing down the sound, he's right. Standard fitment headunits attenuate the low frequencies to protect...

From my recent research both get mixed reviews, the yellows get better reviews. However, as deadmau5 said both need heat in them to really work properly. The DS2500 work great from cold, a bit better than standard.

I wrote a guide (drop subframe) and another member wrote a guide with a different method (remove hubs). It seems like some people find it easy and some difficult, the difficulty comes from trying to remove the strut from the hub. There isn't enough room. But, some people say it falls straight...

I did a ridiculous amount of research before buying these pads, I investigated pretty much every option from the big brands (Performance friction, pagid, ferrodo, EBC, mintex etc.) as well as some smaller but still known brands such as carbon lorraine. I really bought them with the intention...

It's a complete pain in the arse and a bitch of a job!! Jonesy, you must have a secret that I don't know

If you have to pump the pedal to get pressure it means there's air in the system, flush it through with new fluid again and you should have a firm pedal again. I don't think you can have fully flushed it through!

To be honest, it's really not a good look with the standard diffuser, they outlets are actually a bit smaller than the standard exhaust tips so they look really lost in the diffuser. But, it works and it won't damage the diffuser so it'll be OK until you sort something out. I just much prefer...

Cheers Gaz, not sure I do really. If I remember I'll get one tomorrow but it's not clean at the moment! The akrapovic is great but you will need some clamp on tips for the 197 as it's designed to fit the 200 diffuser. I bought some on here which were custom made for another member, I think...

But really, when you can lock the tyres at any speed how can you really stop any quicker than that? The tyres are the limit at that point, no matter how big your discs are. But I really rate these RC6 pads, I had DS2500 before and it's night and day difference. The step up from DS2500 to...

So this weekend was spent on the brakes. Stripped them down to the bare parts, replaced the seals and bleed nipples with new parts, repainted and this time lacquered with 2k lacquer so hopefully will last better. New braided lines and carbon lorraine pads are on, the power is absolutely...

Is the ride height the same on both sides? That will confirm if it's spring or not. The only other things to check are shock absorber top mounts and axle bushes

Nice to see some proper data, however I would have liked to see pagid discs with DS3000 pads aswell to really see if the 330mm make any real difference

These used to be very popular on fiesta zetec-s' and I don't remember anyone having big problems, if I remember correctly they're made by KW although not to the same standards

I had a ticking from the belt area of mine, was told it's nothing to worry about. When I got the belts & tensioners changed a year later the noise stopped.