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OMG someone who doesnt know who Sam Fox is! I am getting old...

Great guide

...with him - Lotus all the way, a better car from what I have read by some distance and just as much kudos.

so fitting the spacer and having a remap is more of a placebo effect? and dont get me wrong ...now im used to the zed i much prefer the extra v6 torque over reving the t1ts off my previous car to extract power . im just really asking why the newer 350s have a bigger rev range and would it benefit my older DE having this extra range or would it just rev higher while making no extra power in doing so? Not placebo at all, but you can easily spend £2000 on an exhaust, HFCs, spacer, remap and then find you get 5%-10% more power and a slight increase in rev range - it wont ever bring you back to the free revving Honda space, the dynamics just wont and cannot change on the V6 in that way...

I think it has a role as a short range run around - which many cars are used for. For me there is no infrastructure, car manufacturers are relying on the government to sort that out.

The blinking light is the shift change light, this can be changed to different levels (its in the handbook) Yes the engine characteristics are different, but its a V6, its likely to rev differently although not likely to be any quicker across the ground. Its just the way engines are I am afraid, I would not go spending big money on parts and remap just to rev it a bit more. The flip does apply, many people driving these sorts of cars find the high revving Hondas shouty and lacking punch where you have to rev the pants off them to get them to do anything exciting - it really comes down to what you like.

I have not read or seen a single good review of the 4C...

I agree! Makes sense for your boring A-B family wagons to replace with something like this if you live outside of any major city (which is ironic as surely in the city is where you want ownership of these types of cars). They certainly seem to be up there now on distance and starting to come close to cost levels (although Kias and the like are still a fair bit cheaper) The major issue which no one is taking responsibility for as far as I can see is charge points, there simply is not an infrastructure to charge them unless you have your own driveway. I know we have seen some solutions in Scandinavia of charging 'posts' on the street but the countries are chalk and cheese, they have huge national tax levels of a minimum 50% income tax, whereas here that's literally the maximum. We cannot afford to fix potholes in the roads these cars drive on let alone install 20 million charging posts across the country. I would also imagine the era of free charging at service stations and the like will soon end as demand increases, the tax taken in VED still needs to be covered when people switch over, as EV becomes more popular there will be a charge made against them. It wont be called VED, something like battery disposal tax or something, but cost of ownership will go up. So is the era of the combustion engine at an end? I don't think so, not by some distance. It will end at some point but not because a company makes an EV that can do 200 miles on a single charge. Just MHO.

Service and remap is less than a day I would have thought...

I actually bought a torque wrench for this exact purpose, that was about 5 years ago now, used it loads since so got my moneys worth. If you ask kindly, you might be closeby to another member on here who has done it before who might help out for beer tokens or the like - people on here tend to be good like that

Berks HFCs are quite raspy, but I liked the sound. They took a hell of a lot of warming up to pass the MoT, they did pass though, eventually. Other option is to buy decats and keep your cats for MoT time and switch them over. If thats your objective.

Im a bit of a numpty when it comes to spanners, I managed to put the plenum spacer in myself with a basic tool kit. Its quite do-able for the amateur and I am sure there are guides online (google motordyne) if you really want to shave a few quid off the costs.

Roof will be £1k+ I would have thought? Few owners on here have had the roof done, check with search on the site.

No problem - only mention it as months after I spent £8k on a car I was on the PM to Zmanalex getting a clutch and flywheel delivered next day causing some severe open wallet surgery!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/consumer-news/90106/cat-d-and-cat-c-cars-insurance-write-offs-explained I am not against Cat D or Cat C cars, but if going that way would definitely want as much info as possible. Assuming its front end damage because of the bodykit is not really getting all the info. You should try find out the repairer, see if you can get details of what work was done, receipts, photos etc. What I would avoid is trying to buy the cheapest Z you can which is still stretching your budget then find £000s of repairs further down the line, that goes for non-cat cars too - a new clutch and flywheel on a Zed could be £800-£1000 including labour, do you have a slush fund you can call on for repairs to cars which generally cost a lot more than your average warm-hatch? Ultimately, go in with your eyes open.

Thats really odd, have you tried copying the full link text that Stu posted up and put that into your link box? Just copy paste CTRL C and CTRL V as usual. Assuming same problem happens have you tried a different browser? Are you doing it on a touch device?

I was Mitz's first 350z UK customer of Black Diamond brakes I drive at reasonable pace, worked absolutely fine for my needs.

Exactly play each part of the whole process on its merits and whats important to you and your prospective partner. My wife is a very independent person who set off and traveled and worked around the world at the age of 18 but she appreciates that I did it because her Dad would have appreciated it and he did. She is adult enough not to get 'insulted' by the idea I did it, clearly I had to do it without checking in with her first but I knew her and her father well enough to know that was the right thing to do. I think most women I know of various ages are grown up enough not to get insulted by something like that. I think what is even less insightful is not realising that this applies to the whole process, from buying a ring, asking, venues, who you invite, even what things are said at the ceremony. Its all old fashioned and out of date. But just do what works for you and the people who you deem important.

Use the link button on the toolbar, it looks like a chain and a green circle with a white + sign and paste the link in. For ebay links, you need to take all the text up to the end of the ad text/number, there will be a load of other text after that which if you copy makes the link fail.

No expert but apparently a VERY capable car - if you want a read of something though buy this months Evo which puts it up against all the current 'hyper hatches'

Reading this, its interesting on reflection thinking back I didn't actually ask for permission I rang up and informed them I was going to ask her - but given I know her parents thought I am great etc. it was a safe call to make. In terms of people thinking its 'old fashioned' I think its a bit way off the mark, really it depends on what you deem important I think. Getting married is actually an old fashioned concept. Giving a diamond ring is old fashioned (although the idea it has to be worth 3 months wages isn't - thanks De Beers marketing department for that one). Getting married in a church is an old fashioned notion. The guy even asking is old fashioned in its idea it has to be the guy who asks. You could go on and on. The whole process is old fashioned, but really I think you take on board and do whats important for you I think. For me, speaking to her dad was a good thing to do and on my list of values. But to call it 'old fashioned' when everything else you are doing in the process is old fashioned is just a bit naive imho.

I bought some wireless headphones for my phone a while back - they were 'ok' sometimes they would lose connection, battery life was not bad about 2 hours of constant use. Tucked away at the back of the drawer now, got fed up charging them. I don't mind change and embrace it (I am in charge of product development in my team so always looking at new tech) but I like necessary and impactful change, not change for the sake of releasing a new product which unfortunately I have found Apple doing of late.

Difference between what you put them up for sale for and what they sell for 😉 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Exactly as Brian said, its not old fashioned, showing respect for people never goes out of date

Asked my future father-in-law, very good move in my eyes. I don't think it's old fashioned at all, parents are naturally protective of their children and fathers seem to have this over-bearing protection of their daughters, by asking you are including them in the process, I know my now father-in-law was absolutely dead chuffed I asked his permission first and very thankful. They also got very excited in the lead up to when I was going to ask, all big positives all around really.