RisingPower

Carvery was yum as usual

I hate you You've already rubbed it in enough The buggers said that there was no spaces for carvery

Those pictures don't do KJ's Z the credit it deserves, that matte black wrap looked stunning

looks

Thanks mike

Honestly, on my way home last year, I pulled into a service station for a toilet break.

Car park was covered in snow and I had a hard time getting out.

Thank god for some friendly lorry drivers that offered to sit in my open rear hatch so I had traction.

I also had my boot filled with bags and stuff, so in real terms, the Zed doesn't have enough weight over the rear axle when it's faced with snow sadly.

Hmm, so maybe bags of sand for winter?

To be fair, I live at near the bottom of a hill, if it can't make it up that, I won't be going any further, or trying.

I've had both, spun the zed once and got stuck in Malvern in the snow. The M3 wasn't great in the snow but the zed was near impossible..............

Hmm... I still find it difficult to see how massively different it'll be in the snow, but I haven't seen it in the snow yet.

TBH I found the M3 was perfectly fine in the snow aside from trying to get it up a very steep slope in a parking area which had quite a deep covering of snow. If I could get the M3 up a reasonable hill and park in the snow, is it really going to be much more difficult in the Z?

Your mistaken if you think the zed is going to be easier to drive in the snow than the M3.................

It will probably be just as bad, but at least it has some weight over the rear axle.

I honestly don't think the Z will be any worse in the winter than an M3 with a broken RTAB in very heavy rain.

Yeah the carbon v2 skirts would look good teamed with the bumper with the carbon lip.

Sorted then Or at least when I have the moolah

That top pic has the US Nismo skirts with bigger bulges.

 

Before

 

After

Hrmmf, maybe it just isn't any lower... In which case.... I'd be copying you (not that this is a bad thing)

See, ryanmac on my350z had carbon v2 side skirts, almost toying with that and the nismo v2 front w/carbon.....

Thanks for that though, that pretty clearly shows they are the same height

See here, it doesn't look any lower:

But here it does, using the oem side skirts part in the centre as a basis for guesstimating:

Shame the amuse ones are definitely lower:

I can have a look tomorrow to see whether I have any more clearance with the volks, should do.

From that link i still think it does not look finished without a set of skirts.

 

Hmm, I may consider skirts at some point in the future, but I still think they'd only end up being a nightmare around here.

 

I don't think the Nismo skirts on mine are any lower than oem just come out further.My Varis lip clears the 2 speed bumps onto our estate with no probs and my car is lowered.

If they're not lower I may consider them. I know the amuse sides which were the ones I was looking at certainly looked lower.

Last time I checked there was literally maybe 0.5-1cm clearance max with the current skirts.

If anyone has any before/after pics of the nismo side skirts.....

From that link i still think it does not look finished without a set of skirts.

Hmm, I may consider skirts at some point in the future, but I still think they'd only end up being a nightmare around here.

Came off a slip road on the "skinnier" Rays and span out heading towards a ditch, not the fun kind of sliding at all.

Indeed, but I had massive understeer trying to get onto a slip road, 30mph, nope no traction, 20mph still no traction, 15mph, wahey traction.

I have considered winter tyres and the stockers, but I never needed them in the M3, which has precisely no weight over the rear wheels whatsoever.

I think you could have an incident in winter no matter what tyres you're on, however, it would be less painful driving into a curb with the oems.

Also, bear in mind, I've been driving on budget tyres for the last... 8 months Those are... interesting in the wet

If you don't wanna take them off now, at least promise us that they come off at the first sight of snow laying.

Think of the increased surface area you now have to slide out of control on......

The only thing that scares me is salt

Besides, I thought the z was meant for sliding? Doesn't also feel like so much of a lardass when it does as the M3 did

I also enjoyed sliding in the M3 when it was snowy, twas fun trying to park in a whole new way up a hill

I switched the Bridgie RE040's off my RX8 (before they actually killed me) for Toyo Proxis T1 (I think???) and they were in my humble.......ace.

 

I lost the jacksie on the RX so many times with the RE040's and never lost it once with the Toyos.

RE050's are very much a different kettle of fish, IMHO both toyos and bridgestones re040's aren't brilliant in the wet.

Nice.

 

Needs dropping now though.Are you just doing the rear bumper,think it will look odd without some sort of side skirt aswell.

Roads are really cack round here, doubt I can drop it. The Y pipe was scraping at stock height

Well, I was thinking rear bumper, nismo v2 replica front.

You'd also be surprised, I've seen the chargespeed w/out sides and it looks not bad at all imo.

With sides, currently they're very low as is, I just have this picture in my head of the Z being beached on a bump, rocking back and forwards

Here we go, chargespeed rear, stock sides:

http://my350z.com/forum/exterior-and-in ... nyone.html

Nice, but why would you put them on now????? They'll be ruined by next summer

We'll see I'm hoping gtechniq c5 and plenty of care should see them through fine

Urrr, no, you don't need runflats, unless you prefer them. You could, but within limits, dunno whether there's falken fk452s in those. I'm not sure I'd bother, I'd probably go with the uniroyals, but it's up to you.

http://www.kouki.co.uk/utilities/visual ... calculator

Had toyos r1s and px4's aaages back on the ctr, were great in the dry with no real feeling through them (very soft sidewall), not so good in the wet. Don't see why you'd need runflats either?

225/60 sounds way out on any axle? Stock sizes are 225/45 and 245/45 on 18"s.

Yeah, 350z wiki says 225/50 r17 and 235/50 r17.

Shame falken fk452s don't come in that size, aren't uniroyal supposed to be reasonable?

http://www.camskill.co.uk/products.php? ... s555p60682

Looking very smart there.

 

Now take them off for the winter

Oh shush you, big girls blouse With gtechniq and regular care I'm sure they'll be fine

Very cool! Have u done a bumper tuck?

Nope, guess I could do, but since it's going to be chargespeed next, dunno how much point there is

These are the things wheel dreams are made of!

 

Where did you purchase these from buddy?

Sarah @ chillired

Minus centre caps currently, put some of the SF Challenge centres that I have on

Excuse the rear dink (that's been there since I got it, next mod is planned to be chargespeed rear )

If you guys will have me, I am from surrey if that counts Hopefully have the volks on by then

1. SunGodRA

2. James B

3. The Chillies - Maybe

4. S77 CRV

5. Darren B

6. glrnet

7. HaydnH ?

8. SpursMadDave -Doubtful

9. Will350z ?

10. KJ (Kieran)

11. muffinman2k6

12. Rob-Hughes

13. PT370z

14. Mark from Abbey

15. Ebized

16. chippychip123

17. Jerry3167

18. RisingPower

Top right for me, but top left is ok. The rest imho are

Awesome wheels dude ...

Cheers mate. I'm looking forward to seeing your varrstoens, was thinking about that look for mine also