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I can't see it making a massive difference to be honest. But if i do some stuff and its going to be remaped anyway it could be worth doing! Scorpion exhaust seems good value. Will have to find some vids on youtube when i get home.

So, standard it has a Y-pipe. And whats needed to improve it then? besides Cats?

thats what neil said above ^ so im a little confused now....

So you put Ypeice onto the manifolds then you either have the option to put a single sports cat on or just extend to exhaust to leave decat? Or can you re-use the standard cats and keep a performance gain?

What is the standard set up before the 'Y' replacement? I can imagine the manifolds are fairly well designed. The only reason its a good upgrade on the Fiesta is because the Cat is housed directly on the standard manifold.

With regards to power a few mods: Plenum Spacer Panel filter Exhaust Sports/de-cats Ypipe And then a remap with either Abbey or RSTuning will have the older 276 cars up near the 290/300bhp mark. Some people have graphs up around here. Great info thanks. I was looking at a thread earlier to do with these Ypipes. Whats this about as i am unfarmiliar?

Do we get club discount on every trader in there?? And i noticed scorpion exhaust for around £300. Thats great value for what i was thinking. I had a £800+ full system on my fiesta! lol but not looking to go down a manifold, decat and catback route this time. Just a backbox.

Excellent, I shall have a gander and get some price ideas on visuals (inc susp) ect. as i don't think the power is something i should worry about yet considering i have a lucky to be 100bhp hatch.

Is there a trader area that i cannot see without donation? Im only familia with Forums membership payment and the extra access it gets to the site im on. And my old man has an Xtrail. Its a great car and gives me the confidence to park a nissan sports car next to it!

Thanks mate! I get that, a forum with a more expensive price tag to the cars is going to attract an older audience ect. And by no means calling anyone on here old haha! Im about to turn 21 my self and the insurance quotations are feeling good at the moment so im pushed towards a more performance based inpractical car while im still living at home with a steady income ect. haha. The wheels should be getting replaced whichever a car i find comes with but thanks for the recormendation. Oh and im from a town called Yarm, in the North east! y0!

27mpg is very respectable!!!!

Yeah thats great! I got to say it seems a nice bunch on here. Im on many forums, main one being ZSOC (Zetec-S Owners Clubs) Where i am well known and a forum Representative. Usually stepping onto another forum your not used it is daunting, especially after being so comfortable on your own. This one seems a great place. I travelled over 200 miles to pick up my Fiesta. Making sure it was the right one ect. I don't know if i'd be as hard pushed to fetch a brill 350z, but after all its not a ford this time so everything should be working.... I've had a look around, Pistonheads/AutoTrader ect. seen some 03, GT, >50k hard tops for around £7500-£8500s. That is just around my price bracket tbh.

Well i knew i was in the right ball park with the tax stuff anyway. I will be looking for an earlier one for that reason aswell as their lower value. Does age of car affect the engine spec options. GT seems to be the most common spec? What does this have that others don't or vice versa?

Haha, my area isn't toooo bad for bumps and speed-humps. I get around in my car like so... I might not go for as low as in that picture as it could be come to impractical. But something similar. Im not looking forward to forking out on 18-20inch or so alloys and tyres mind haha! But feel i will save money and just go for lower springs rather than coilovers... Will have to see.

Ahhh i see. I've only just began looking and researching so all this is good info. I know too, that pre 05 are £230ish tax where as post 05 are £400something??? Back this up? Something like this would be my aim, so i will need to know the sort of wheel offset and width wheels these cars take. And do you recognise the front bumper splitter?

Visually i prefer the Hardtop. What are the figure differences between the imports? 280bhp isn't the Uk spec one? Insurance may also be hit by the fact its an import.

Thanks guys. Yeah MPG is an issue but not as big a one as i feel its going to be. How do they sound as standard? Hard also trying to decide if i can live with a 2-seater.

Hi, I've recently been thinking about an upgrade in car. The 350z has caught my eye very nicely. It would need to do the daily commute aswell as probably being used in the winters (which recently have meant snow). So just need to know what they're like to live with. How expensive they are for parts (Suspension/exhausts/wheels and fitments). I have a stupidly low Fiesta Zetec-s. But i want to wiggle my way into the more jap scene/flush ect. Any info would be great thanks.