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Yeah have been there, that's where the 'horrendous ' bit came in! They had done a replacement a couple of weeks earlier which came to nearly $700! Apparently something to do with the limited exhaust space to work with of the particular model......

Hi Guys, I'm after a replacement rear muffler system for my E34 525, my current one is starting to look like a block of swiss cheese, and my exhaust cement is fighting a losing battle...... The cost to get a new stock system fitted is horrendous, so apart from the obvious trademe, any thoughts or opinions on options? Cheers.

Well it's like that radio ad, we can't discriminate against him.... Eh Ollie....haha! Depends what info you're after! Briefly, we took 2x 2005 6-speed Honda Civic Type-R's (Group N spec) over. There were 220 cars that started the race (about 100 were BMW's!), and after 24 hours we finished 60th overall and first in class, a huge achievement. First was a Porsche 911 GT3-RSR, first BMW was the legendary Hans Stuck in a full race-spec Z4 M-coupe in 5th. We had 4 drivers per car (I qualified my car), and during the race each stint was about 2 hours (that's how long a tank of fuel was lasting), with each lap around 11 minutes long. The front cars were doing about 9 minute laps. Hairiest part of the track = well most of the track was initially, blind brows and jumps, but I guess the Foxhole was the most. Flat out in 6th gear, 200k's (even in our cars), steeply downhill through bumpy esses, with a big left-hand dip at the bottom. Definately no breathing for about 30 secs, and forget your stomach! Best part = all of it really! The Karussell was pretty cool, as was being tapped out (about 245k's in ours) in 6th gear for nearly 4 kilometres down the back straight. And Porsche's and Viper's and Lamborghini's were still flying past you! Racing around it at 3am was awesome too, so many tanked German's just having a party, fireworks, bonfires, flashing lights everywhere! The music around the track was so loud you could hear it in the car, and you could smell the bbq's! Plenty of crashes at night too, it was interesting at one point to come flying over a blind brow and find a BMW in the middle of the track, on fire, with the engine another 100m down the road.... So much more I could go on about, but I've probably bored you enough! The Nurburgring museum next to the track was pretty cool, lots of history and cars, with a BMW section that had F1 cars, engines, the old e30 M-spec German Touring Car, Nelson Piquet's M1 race car, 635CSi race cars etc.....

I wouldn't have minded having that to study on the flight over there last year! By the end of 24-hours you start to get an idea of which direction the track goes! And when one half of the track is torrential rain and the other half bright and sunny, it can be interesting....! One of the best events I've ever raced at though, you definately need to give the track the huge amount of repect it deserves....