coldel

Like I said, mugs or too much money to know what to do with

You would be a complete mug to pay £1400 for a detail, I would spend the money respraying the car

It was just the car park that was gravelly, we literally drove in at 1mph! Steve350z red zed was coming up nice when I popped over looking forwards to pics!

My final piece on this bizarre thread... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Set-of-Nissan-350z-Rays-Engineering-Forged-18-inch-Alloys-including-Tyres-/320951206619 Offer the guy £400 + courier and be done with it

I think my 5 month old Alfie will have bought one in the meantime...!

Well good luck looking for finding a pre facelift, with Rays, within spitting distance of your house...you have more than enough advice on here from people that faced the same issues as you and overcame them. Let us know how you get on.

Push the boat out for these bad boys! http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/PROD/350z07o/50-3832

I bought my kuro black Zed with 'those alloys' and they actually look quite nice in the flesh, nowt wrong with them really, now I have some 19" Volks and those 18s sat in the garage just in case. The wheels are the easiest things to change on the car, god it takes half hour to change them, loads of options wheel wise on the market, having read through this thread and seen your constant harking on about the wheels, I think you are missing a trick massively by getting obsessed with them. You have probably discounted plenty of very good Zeds simple because of what wheels are on it and like I said are a doddle to change, there are tonnes 114.3 fitment wheels for sale all over the country, and much better ones than these standard 350z Rays you are focusing on.

I didn't want to interrupt the master at work... Our wasso is somewhat pink today

Will leave the work in progress shots to Ian as I really did not partake in the work part so much

As above...was a bit more than a wash

I wouldnt just go out and buy a replacement gearbox though! Could be thats just as noisy and clunky as your current one. Even the fabled CD009 boxes are not as invincible as they are made out to be (although technically they are better), read somewhere about someone changing theirs out to one of these and it was just as clunky. As long as it doesn't interfere with your driving the noise should be something you can live with.

Zed got a wash early morning with Megs Gold Class, Ian then spent some time claying, followed by 6 hours of machine polishing, then on went the Supernatural wax, now looks

Thought I would kick off a thread for people to post Wasso's handywork. Ian spent the day working on my Zed starting at 10 finishing around 7, a photo shoot at Richmond Park followed by pizza and beer - so all round a good day Ian can confirm, 'its hot in Richmond'

That's a freaking bargain!!!! Set of springs and spacers and she's looking stunning! Nismo kit and wheels, stunning example if it drives well for that money

Nissan gearboxes are notorious for being noisy, best thing is some Nissan gear oil from Alex along with some molyslip, will help reduce noise.

I would say there are a fair few things about Zeds that owners will know to look for over a mechanic who has never worked on one - will your mechanic have his head out the window listening for a clicky rear axle for instance...make use of the forum, some good guys on here, they may even know the history of a local Zed having shopped for one in their local area. You can always then if it looks pretty good pay out for an RAC inspection or the like to test the mechanics of the car. At the end of the day if it gets you your Zed, its been worth it.

if you ask nicely some forum members if they have the time and are local to anything might take a look for you...

That's either one damn expensive exhaust or a damn cheap SC setup. It must be an Amuse. Have you seen the price of a basic Vortech setup You can pick up a basic Vortech kit for around £3K new from Assaultech Decent exhaust (Not cheap ebay tat/japscrap/scorpion etc.) £6-700 Decent Y-pipe £150 Set of Berks £400 Poopcharger £120 Your pretty much at £1500 straight away, add in a plenum spacer & your really not far away. £2800 for an additional 100 hp, or £1500 for an additional 15hp But then, what would I know about it 400hp is just about doable NA? Really? If I ever built another Z, I would love a high revving NA motor. But the cost of doing that far outways the cost of going FI. But you can add bits of the NA upgrades as you go along, spent near on a year pulling mine together. Yes could save for a SC but then I am lumbered with stock exhaust, intake and cats which make a crap noise. I would say £3k isnt touching it really on SC costs, what about install and remap with it? Not that I know but would have thought some parts of your Zed would need some upgrades to deal with an extra 100bhp? When I asked abbey about total cost of SC it was more than £3k...

Polished headlights make a massive difference good work

...not condoning it at all either, just making the point that some people who post about road safety on here can often be seen hacking it along public roads, that's the only point I was making.

...because everyone else on this forum is a sensible driver who has never exceeded the speed limit or raced another car

Damn it, another thing on the list...looks great

I was thinking that, given that I got such a nice combo of centre caps and wheels nuts in red at the moment, red calipers would make it look perfect

Was legal last year, wont pass an MOT now though, anything which restricts light is a fail