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Fett said:
That's not the order I would have had them in my head...maybe it's the box doing it's business, what was your C2S running?
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At its peak it was dyno'd at just a shade over 400 but to be honest I even felt at the time the dyno was optimistic. Probably nearer 385-390 in all honesty. Before I sold it however I took a few of those bits off so it was more around 365-370.

It wasn't quite how I expected it either; I knew the R8 was going to be slower since my .1 saw that off pretty easily and I'm aware the .1 is slower than a DCT M3 however I expected to lose to the C4S PDK. Maybe it was all the weight of the Makassar wood he had in it :p. He did edge ahead of me but it was closer than anticipated. As you said, it's probably just the gearbox doing its thing vs the R8/.1 manuals.

DiamondMark said:
Was your C4s tuned as well? i never saw the point in tuning Porsches to be honest, sort of good to go as they are i saw them.
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My (family's) C4S is in the UK and no it hasn't been tuned. The C4S you saw in my garage belongs to a good friend over here and no it hasn't been tuned, just a PSE.

In hindsight I'm with you 100% on this. Unless I buy a Turbo next time, I'm not going to bother tuning them again, they're very expensive for very little gain. An exhaust does really help the audio though :)

Kenai said:
I think he means the way it's just a seamless change in noise, whereas with a manual you get a pause in between gears as you change which sounds (to me anyway) much more pleasing.
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Fair point but to be honest all I hear on the inside is the chirp of the tyres between 1st 2nd and 3rd and the DCT banging the gears in one after another. If you want to hear a fast shifting box, check out the 458, the gearbox is immense, there's almost no gap what so ever in the acceleration/shifting.
 
Some better pics now that it has been properly detailed and paint corrected :)

Also an Akraprovic exhaust is on its way!

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sigma said:
$6k for an exhaust system!?!?!?!?!?!

Surely a custom exhaust is the way to go if you're spending that much?
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Full titanium systems aren't cheap. I thought the price was mad too but it seems most M3 exhausts are in the $3.5k-6k range, some like Kreisseig are almost $10k!! M3's are more expensive to tune than my 911 it seems.
 
MrLOL said:
to be fair the Akrapovic system is a work of art.

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=271334
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357003
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=349945

Made from full titanium, and a special alloy of titanium of which is exclusive to Akrapovic apparently.

The Akrapovic titanium exhaust costs the same for other models such as the Porsche GT3 etc.. as well.

Oh and if you apply a bit of heat they look like the titanium you see on the Akrapovic bike cans

http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283728

Lots of pictures here too

http://www.thorneymotorsport.co.uk/e92/akrapovic.shtml
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You're correct, they are just as expensive for the 911 but at least with the 911 you had other systems that only cost $1500. Not the case with M3's it seems.

I love the burnt Ti look but there's something in my head that says taking a blow torch to my $6k exhaust isn't the wisest move!!
 
DiamondMark said:
Them burnt ones look chav, get the shiney exhaust tips.
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They're a matte finish stock since they're titanium but yes I'll keep them that way unless the heat from driving changes the colour at all.

I'm going to put the wheels on hold, I'd prefer the exhaust over the wheels anyway. It would be foolish to drop $6k on wheels as well as an exhaust given what I was trying to achieve with this car.
 
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