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I agree, as you say the market just doesn't seem to be there for modified cars regardless of how much work has gone into them. A chap I know has supercharged his Golf R, it is a work of art under the bonnet and he has spent a fortune on it but will never see his money back. This car looks superb and if I were in the market for one would snap it up. I have to admit I've toyed with the idea of supercharging the RCF but on my current form I'd probably put it up for sale a few months after doing it and that would be really stupid.

Looks nicely done.

Got it now, you did state this earlier and I din't take that in, got there in the end.

I also read that if you run the pads too low you need to replace the sender which I guess makes sense if they are damaged by the disc.

Pity the pedestrians ruined that, for the bit you did it certainly sounded nice.

I've bought a secondhand Quicksilver and it sounds pretty good, I imagine this is another step up.

These cars sound so much better with the aftermarket exhausts.

Here are the figures hopefully someone who knows about these things can confirm if this is correct. I did take it straight from the USA forum. Front brake pads Standard Thickness: 9.75 mm (0.384 in.) Minimum Thickness: 1.0 mm (0.0394 in.) Front rotors Standard Thickness: 34.0 mm (1.339 in.) Minimum Thickness: 31.0 mm (1.220 in.) Rear brake pads Standard Thickness: 11.68 mm (0.460 in.) Minimum Thickness: 1.0 mm (0.0394 in.) Rear rotors Standard Thickness: 28.0 mm (1.102 in.) Minimum Thickness: 26.0 mm (1.024 in.)

If you have a micrometer handy It'll be interesting to see what thickness remains on the discs. I did have some figures of the original thickness listed on the USA website somewhere.

Thanks good to know, reading through some of the threads on the USA forum it would appear that the pad material is so hard it's the discs that wear and created the dust. I'm no expert so don't know how factual this is

I've just done a bit of searching on the USA based forum and it appears Nengun distribute Endless MX72 pads for both the RCF and GSF. There are some mixed reports but it looks like very little brake dust. They are a bout £200+

How many miles have you recorded on them?

In all honesty these cars cost b*gger all to maintain properly so I don't think I'd bother going elsewhere. I admit that some aftermarket parts are better than originals and some are better suited to specific tasks but for everyday road use I'll stick to OEM. Try running a V12 twin turbo AMG they eat front pads and discs too, I was quoted £2800 from Brooklands Mercedes for them that was the proper AMG items.

How much are the Lexus pads then?

I think these suit the car better. One, because as far as I can tell the discs don't seem to be that big on the LC500. So putting an open design wheel just highlights smaller discs and looks wrong in my opinion. But these cover that up.

That's very good, I'll have to try it sometime.

The one big thing going for carbon ceramics is there is no brake dust so you can have fancy difficult to clean wheels. Also when you wash your car be very careful, I live on a hill and I washed the car and came out my drive went down the hill braked at the bottom and nothing much happened, I actually landed up about two feet into the main road, fortunately it's fairly quiet where I live so no accident occurred. Didn't do that again.

There's also a problem with carbon ceramics for track cars. I had them on my Porsche and they were brilliant for the track, you could brake harder and later and unlike all of my track days never boiled my brakes. But the really big drawback is that if you go into the kitty litter and who doesn't you can ruin them by getting a stone chip. Most of the hardened trackday guys i met who had Porsches with them as standard take them off and replace them with steels. I once had a go at a Porsche garage where my friend was buying a Cayman, when the salesman said do you want the optional carbon ceramics in case you go on track? I said to the salesman have you ever done a track day, anyway I put him right in no uncertain terms. You have to be a driving God to appreciate the lesser unsprung weight advantage. Rant over.

By all accounts chose the RCF over the new Supra

I think I'd have to try one first, I like the look of the car but don't like the wheels and of course it would have to be the V8. Just to add on principle I don't buy new cars due to loosing so much money, much better to buy nearly new with anything apart from vans of course.

I guess if you were doing a long run to get that, what does it say for your average though? mine was 22 but has gone down to 20 since fitting the new exhaust. It's not the exhaust but the driver hooning around slightly higher up the rev band.

Interesting how opinion differs on colour, as soon as I saw a red RCF I thought that looks great and the reason I bought one, everybody I meet say they love the colour too. I did look at a silver one which I thought brought out the lines/curves of the car. The only colour I did dislike was white way too domestic appliance in appearance for my taste and made all the worse with the carbon edition😉

According to the Men in Black film the black ones can fly too.

I agree the standard car is far too muted and all the Quicksilver does is bring it to life. After all AMG have been doing it for years with their N/A engines and the 470 BHP from 5 litres sounds every bit as good as the AMG's 525 BHP (PP) from 6.3 litres.

I guess Eco mode would be, I don't think I've ever used it to be honest. But I have noticed since fitting the exhaust in Sport+ mode it seems more eager but that could be just the noise it makes making me feel I'm going faster.