List of mods

[Manand38]

Hi all

as I'm a CSL virgin

What are the recommended modifications to the car and which order would you do them in?

[m12_nathan]

Geo and brakes first, then cats and mid section of exhaust, then suspension I guess, then roll cage and seats?

[Manand38]

What are the recommended cats and mid section to go for?

[m12_nathan]

Supersprint or Miltek (cats are HJS 100 cell in both cases).

DoctorD has that exhaust set up and his car sounds great without looking non standard from the back and doesn't upset the trackday noise police.

[Manand38]

Just looked at Thorney's site, it says that the CSL should come with 100 cell cats as standard?

[m12_nathan]

Yeah, it should, in theory. Many people have found 200 cell cats though and certainly people with the 100 cell sports cats claim an increase in mid range urgency? I dunno, worth speaking to Thorney or Simpson about?

[Manand38]

Thanks, Nathan

[RS Patrik]

How about a drivers course to start with?...

[m12_nathan]

Driver training is a given (can recommend carlimits.com )

[manand38]

Will do training when the tyres are worn

[adamb]

I went:

1) Front APs
2) Geo + KW3 adjustable suspension
3) Rear APs
4) Race cats/centre section/remap

Very happy with the results!

[manand38]

What power was achieved before / after exhaust / mapping?

[houlbt]

Just to stir up the debate... So on what basis would you view KW suspension as superior to say Intraxx or Moton?

Personally for me the most noticable modification you can make to the car is the suspension. Sure brakes are awesome (I have some) but so far as sheer performance modifications go the Suspension makes the biggest difference. If the car didn't already run cup tyres I would have said tyres.

Exhaust releases some ponies and sounds fabulous but is secondary in my mind.

Yes nothing beats driving lessons and experience on track... thanks wise guy

[adamb]

Re: KW3 v. Intrax - I can't comment on which is better since I've never tried Intrax... I'm certainly very pleased with the KW3 stuff though, and it seems competitively priced.

Re: power before/after cats/remap - I believe mine went from around 355 to 372 according to Thorney. I kept the standard backbox which saps a few bhp apparently. The difference is certainly noticeable.

[m12_nathan]

I think it is regarded that Intrax and Moton are brilliant, however KW are half the price and still better than stock?

I'm still on the standard stuff so can't comment too much more?

[ferrari355gtb]

Manand38 said:

Just looked at Thorney's site, it says that the CSL should come with 100 cell cats as standard?

Definately better performance (& noise) with the 100 cell race cats.

Rick

[oola]

Probably unfair to compare the KW3's with intrax as the KW3 is a fast road occasional track kit (intrax is twice the price) .... the KW clubsport or competition maybe a fairer comparison.

Although some well known CSL tuning co's do recommend KW3's and some recommend you dont fit them ...

[houlbt]

oola said:

Although some well known CSL tuning co's do recommend KW3's and some recommend you dont fit them ...

Indeed.. hence the reason i thought I would spark the debate.

[houlbt]

adamb said:

Re: power before/after cats/remap - I believe mine went from around 355 to 372 according to Thorney. I kept the standard backbox which saps a few bhp apparently. The difference is certainly noticeable.

Not saying the power isn't noticable... just saying it's not for me the most important modification.

[adamb]

houlbt said:

adamb said:

Re: power before/after cats/remap - I believe mine went from around 355 to 372 according to Thorney. I kept the standard backbox which saps a few bhp apparently. The difference is certainly noticeable.

Not saying the power isn't noticable... just saying it's not for me the most important modification.

Agreed - that's why it was the last thing I did