@cobb Did your team do any ethanol testing on the FL5? Was wondering if a protune could take advantage or some E30 with the stock fuel system. Right now I use JR tuning, I'm sure he can whip something up if the platform is capable.
Is that all of the hardware in the picture? The tomei has springs to attach the pipes, rubber to wrap the muffler, and a piece that attaches the mufflers together.
I sold my 23 Amg Cla 45 for my 24 FL5. The hand build 4 cylinder in the 45s is an engineering masterpiece, draggy confirmed 0-60 in 3.9. It's a rocket. However being it's an automatic and has 4matic+ it takes the rawness out of the drive. It's very quiet inside, ride quality is great. Like...
The Pittsburgh car scene was a lot better in 2016. Cars and coffee is pretty good in the summer. Local shops do pop up meets for charity in station square. I haven't been out with the R a whole lot this season.
What part of Pittsburgh? Green Apple Auto in glenshaw races an FK8 and do excellent work. 6 Star Performance in mckees rocks has also been doing great work for a long time; They specialize in JDM.
Awesome! Been waiting for the FL5 release, I'll be ordering from your website :) I had mike tune my 15 Sti and heard he was heading to Cobb (2015-2016 I think) only reason I ask. Thank you Cobb team
Alcantara cleaner and an interior brush. I clean my seats, armrest, center console every week. Had a nismo z with alcantara and did the same thing, never had a problem.
Not BMW but I come from the AMG world and in terms of comfort they are probably the softest out of M and RS. I ended up selling my M139 Amg Cla 45 because it wasn't raw enough. Very very fast but the 4matic+ mixed with the amg speed shift made it basically a driving simulator. Seats were...
It falls within the viscosity range of honda mtf, excellent pour point and not overly viscous when cold. So far it has greatly improved shifting for me.
You won't be able to see a true trend until after 20k miles due to residual wear metals. Seeing a downward trend in that time is what you are looking for.
I'd be curious if we all measured our gap what they would be. It's also possible a slight increase is given to the left and evens out when the driver is sitting in the vehicle. If you corner balance a vehicle for the track on coils things like that are accounted for.
If you haven't replaced the fluid don't expect a shifter to be buttery smooth. I have done early fluid swaps in all of my manuals (370z nismo, focus rs) and have always seen an improvement in shifter feel. The R is no exception, after swapping to Ravenol 75w80 2nd gear is butter.