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Had the same fault and car failed it's MoT altho engine managment light wasn't on at the time. changing the rear sensor made no difference. moved the new one to the front as they are identical and that made no difference either. each time the lambda reading was 0.40 or so. I have a cat back...

I've had the same prob several times under warranty. The brake pedal switch was replaced and when it came back it was put down to the actual adjustment of the switch (2 different dealers). Hasn't come back since:D

You might find the info on the website for the RS192 exhaust of some interest. In it's development they ran a number of trials using a sports cat, decat and cat-back system and only found a 1.5bhp difference between a cat-back and decat system (de-cat being the higher). They didn't even bother...

Car looks damn clean, reminds me of the good old days when I 1st got mine. What will make it look better (in my opinion) is some chrome number plate surrounds. Fitted them on mine (black-gold as well, just had my GSXR-750K7 sprayed the same and it looks the dogs, like the John Player Special of...

The system does need to be balanced. It makes sense that you have to let whatever is going in one end to get out the other as efficiently as poss. Must admit, not too sure where back-pressure fits into the equation although I must say I just re-mapped my ECU week-end before last via fastchip.nl...

I also run a couple of motorbikes and changing the exhaust and re-jetting my 1200 Bandit gave me a 20% increase in power. The exhaust was strangling the poor thing! Exhausts have to be designed by the manufacturers to pass noise limtis as well as emissions, both of which restrict the engine...