Ian kindly met up with my on Sunday so I could have a listen to his non-resonated Scorpion cat-back system. Love it from the outside – the noise it makes is pretty much ideal to me. Ian’s video sounds great and I got back out my car as Ian was leaving on Sunday just to listen to him cruise by then pull away. Lovely. Love it from inside the car too above about 50mph, but found it – personally – a bit too intrusive at lower speeds. No boominess, just a tad too much! Given I use the car for family duties too (2 kids under the age of 4) I guess the wife would be less than impressed if I went for one! I guess the extra silencer of the resonated Scorpion system might solve that but I’m not aware of anyone with that system on a R56 MCS so would be a bit of a gamble.

Quite keen to compare a standard MCS exhaust with a JCW backbox to hear the difference inside the cabin, so will try and make it along to this Sunday’s meet if there’s anyone with a R56 JCW going. I’ll post in the meet thread.