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I don't hate anybody And I am very good friends with a lot of 'youths' on here, some of them younger than my own kids I, on the other hand, hate everyone not just the youths. Just to balance things out you understand, it's nothing personal. Isn't it spelt 'yoofs' ?

Milltek=£900, Berks=£300, Plenum=£120, Intake=£125 plus uprev is very much approaching £2k...

Yep cats are restrictive, but looking at the other exhaust components you have which are OEM the Y pipe usually gets swapped out. Tarmac does the very nice Stillen one I believe!

I personally didn't think it was worth two grand for 18bhp or whatever it was, i also don't think 'drivability' is worth £2k either given this is meant to be a sports car, it should 'drive' out the factory in much better shape really. However I did feel it was worth the money on the exhaust and intake for the noise and theatre they bring.

Erm thanks See here, http://www.350z-uk.c...e-from-denmark/ although you may need to pull up a comfy sofa and prepare yourself with a cup of coffee and some biscuits, now on 30 pages. Just wondered...what is the longest thread on the forum? The project thread from the VX220 forum I posted was pretty hefty at 218 pages, any challengers to that on here ?

The Y pipe I believe on the OEM exhaust is meant to not flow well - Wasso had an XYZ motordyne Y pipe and standard back box on his (sounded great) but I am sure also helped with the exhaust gas flow.

You still got the original exhaust on?

Its 'worth' it in terms of making the car drive better but don't expect to get some sort of extra kick up the backside when you drive it out the garage. It is a very expensive route if you are looking for numbers, decent exhaust, sports cats, intake, spacer will cost you easily £1000+ depending on how many components you buy new then you add on the few hundred quid for the up-rev. It could cost you nearly £2k for what people seem to report on average an uplift of about 15-20bhp. As long as you settle that cost in your head and understand its a drivability thing before you go do it all then you will be happy with the result.

+1 to the above, a fair few of my cousins have been in the army over the years. They were in during the Northern Ireland problems, something like 1000 soldiers killed in Northern Ireland over the full period of the fighting. Like Afghanistan it wasn't as if you faced an enemy up on there hill, more that so many injuries and deaths were from bombs and snipers, they rarely actually saw the enemy. The stories he told me chilled to the bone, how they get up in the morning and go outside and deal knowing you could just get shot down and not even know it, incredible courage.

I think its 12 points within 3 years...

Welcome mate, ex VX220 and 350z owner here

'good honest 350z' sounds to me like you want something as cheap as possible but won't be a dog - as Dan said above, usually £6k budget will get you a reasonable 2004 car, nothing fancy but will do the job.

Ha I remember this!

But its not about BHP its about the 'spinability'

Just buy a championship time attack car straight up mate Mike off the VX220 forum is selling up! http://www.vx220.org.uk/forums/topic/133564-race-vx220-championship-winning-car/ Stunning machine! His project thread is a meagre 218 pages long... http://www.vx220.org.uk/forums/topic/109203-cliffie-double-time-attack-201213-champion/

You have a Nissan badge on your car, remove it immediately why advertise Nissan for free Actually I don't.....replaced them with Z burgers Ah so you are now adverting the Zed range of Nissan sports cars instead...I see...

You have a Nissan badge on your car, remove it immediately why advertise Nissan for free I seriously doubt a couple of stickers on a car will dramatically impact the bottom line of what are usually multinational businesses. Do it if you want, at the end of the day Jap cars are probably the only cars that CAN pull of having stickers on and get away with it, especially the common drift cars like the 350z, 200sx's and the like.

I had one of these, look V cool in the engine bay and sound nice.

Freshers week, 1994, first week of uni, get drunk chat to fellow fresher, back to his place with some new mates to get properly drunk. His new housemates are final year students in Vehicle Design, I don't remember much of that night but I do remember his housemates humbly admitting they had 5 A* A-Levels that got them into Cov Uni and they all had jobs (in 1994) that 'paid more than your average CEO' with Yamaha and the like lined up when they finished. Bizarrely I remember now, the only car between the three of them was a Citroen CV2! Don't dis the Cov! Unless its statistics or economics, which was average!

As above, lesson learned. You could have just turned around and said when you went home early you had only taken 10 minutes for lunch etc. 9-5 in a manual labour trade is nonsense as far as I can see, its £x for the job and thats that. You estimate how long it takes and there is some leeway in that as you can never foresee problems or things that speed or slow down the process. Just say actually, when you went home early you had to do extra planning for the job because of <insert some crap here> problems so actually both those days you worked 9-7 so can you will charge more...

Same here! Cov locals are a bit special, but I quiet liked the city, its changed massively even since I went, jaguar have been using the ring roads a test track for years. And the entry/exit junctions are a perfect demo of the chaos theory. Would love the chance to race on the ring road Went back with about 15 of my uni mates in September, its been 20 years since we started our degree's and we got a tour etc. Was amazing they have a Harrier jump jet in the engineering lab along with flight simulators and a wind tunnel used by mercedes benz f1 team, when I was there 20 years ago I got to sit in the Thrust land speed record car (as they built it there) - little do people know its one of the best uni's in Europe for engineering, shame I did economics!

Oi! I did my degree at Coventry Uni! Don't dis the cov!

We almost went this route then just canned it due to the instant expectations - everyone saying 'you HAVE to do this and you HAVE to do that' so we said sod it, close family and some friends and that is it. We thought people might get annoyed but it was fine, most people are in it for the party any way

'earnt my day off today, currently under a duvet on the sofa half asleep with laptop and tv remote on the side deciding whether to watch Top Gear or Sherlock, cup of tea in hand, life is good

It was all in the news recently, people collecting these!