July 2019
After owning my M3 for nearly 7 years it was time to move on. Had so much fun in that car and have definitely learnt a thing or two along the journey of taking a nice base stock car all the way to a full retard road legal track car.
It sold and went all the way to Barbados were it's still being beaten on
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* It even made PH Readers car of the week back in April 2018 ... and if you read the link below the Wavetrac ATB diff was a total pile of w@nk! Completely ruined the car, good marketing... bad product. Swapped out for a 12 plated Gripper LSD and the car was totally transformed... in a good way
https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ger...the-week/37827
Before the M3 had even been collected I'd found and put a deposit down on my ideal spec M2
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My tick list was :
Long Beach Blue
Dual Clutch Transmission
Chrome grills
Non tinted windows
Out of the box it's such a good car! Now I'm not one for driving like a YouTube tool on the road so the first thing I done was booked a track day at Bedford GT so I could see what the M2 had to offer.
I wanted to do a day in the car with it completely stock so could set a benchmark.
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First time using flapy paddles on track I was slightly worried I wouldn't get on with them, but took to them like a duck-to-water, sounds sad but it was just like a driving sim. Gearbox really is an awesome addition and this is coming from a heal & toe manual box lover.
Chassis even in standard form and geo is also very capable... things kind of go downhill from there.
I didn't want to believe everything you read/hear about the brakes but they’re pretty shocking, fade quick and really don't scrub off that much speed if you want to jump on them late. Thinking partly to blame was myself after coming from the BTCC setup had on the M3, that felt like your eyes were going to pop out.
But the biggest problem I faced was trying to stay in the standard seat, maybe again not being use to leather after the luxury of a bucket seat, it really held my pace back as was literally hanging off the steering wheel at times.
Set a 2:52 (9 seconds off my M3 best) so we'll see how I do in the future, after mods.