This is the opposite to my experience. MHD Stage 3 2 98RON OTS map, manual transmission has been smooth as warm butter. Are we sure this isn't bad fuel? 🤷♂️
EDIT: Stage 2
Looking at Carsales, things continue to look pretty good. Only 23 A90s for sale Australia wide with a number of those being dealer demo/executive cars - only 9 are private sales. And only 9 of all available cars are manuals. Crunching the numbers via an AI overlord, a MY23 manual GTS has a...
Not exactly what you are asking but just to up your baseline: Stage 2, 93OCT (98RON) on MHD+ is perfectly fine on the stock clutch, even when I'm "banging gears off red line and launching."
My only issue is I need stickier tyres as the rear squirms at even the suggestion of acceleration.
The door ones are barely visible and just add a black line to break up the door. I thought adding fake (but more real looking) vents would be a good idea but after all is said and done, I think it's even worse. For starters, they're all still fake and then there's how they tend to let water into...
Also, does anyone know what the process would be to make the carbon fibre glossy so that it matches all my other carbon? Satin will just look out of place.
Can you please post a shot of this at some distance so we can see how it looks across the entire front of the car? A shot of the full front with both headlights visible if you don't mind.
I have no real insight but this very much seems like another "if you have enough money anything is possible" project.. that is essentially not possible.
It replaces a dead section on the manual but in the autos (premium in the US?) that dead section is where the radar is located for the adaptive cruise control.
The older I get, the more I believe that engine break-in is designed for the owner to acclimatize themselves to their new vehicle and has very little to do with the car's actual mechanical needs.
Having said that, spending the first few hundred miles taking it easy isn't going to hurt you or...