brillomaster

Rimtuck is never useless, theres always a need to look at many an awesome stanced zed! Just wish we had the roads for them over here!

What he said... first thing i'd be looking at is alignment and tyre pressures. if you're running relatively soft sidewalled tyres you may find an extra 2-3psi helps as well.

how little space are we talking about here? as long as a second car is taxed and insured it can be kept on a road - that's what we do with ours, its just parked outside my flat. are there any quiet streets around or are you under proper inner city pressure? I think if you want a car for track work you'd have just as much fun in a £1000 MX5 as you would in a £20,000 BRZ86 - get one with an LSD, and you can drive the nuts off it on road and on track, and parts are dirt cheap. heck parts are so cheap you can get a second set of wheels with winter tyres on and you'll be mobile in winter as well.

MPSS do have very good durability - last a very long time. However if wet weather performance is important id go for Goodyears.

they arent - read most tests and difference between MPSS, GY Eagle F1s, Conti Sport contact 5s and even Hankook Ventus S1 Evo2 is negligable. While MPSSs often win the dry grip test, GY and Hankook frequently perform better in the wet. Personally i went for Hankooks, get excellent reviews but since they're not a 'premium' top 4 brand (Michelin, Bridgestone, Pirelli, Continental) they're a lot cheaper. http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre-Tests/#summer

have you considered a DC Sports true dual? im my opinion sounds a bit meatier than the invidia, and theres a trader on here at the moment (funkypower) who is doing an excellent price on them! EDIT: this one: http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/89841-dc-sports-dual-exhaust-system-with-x-pipe/

haha sounds perfect for me then!

Nice house and new car, you must be over the moon, congratulations good sir

Plus when driving it I wouldn't have to look at it, which is a bonus...

its definitely moving the right direct in terms of weight, lighter is always better. Although even with 165bhp its going to feel a bit on the slow side... A few choice mods should help, supercharger and coilovers for starters!

i can see they've blatantly stolen design cues from the F-type, but to me the new MX5 looks like an elephant has sat on the bonnet, and then someone added some lights with an axe as an afterthought. it looks like a snake at the front, and a startled rabbit at the back. and those have to be the tiniest twin tailpipes i have ever seen... the f-type needs twin exhausts, with the engines the new MX5 is fitted with it barely needs one. Oh, and the wheels are too small

i think it looks awful

sound like an alignment issue to me, or maybe with the wider track and lower profile tyres, they're just tramlining a bit more. check the pressures as well, might be a slow flat on the front left which is pulling the car to the left.

yep, those are the right tyres, the fabled Michelin Pilot Super Sports. standard rays sizes is 225/45/R18 fronts, 245/45/R18 rears. as for 'best for the zed in wet and dry' that's very contentious point, and i'd argue its neither! I will concede its probably the best all rounder though

they are pretty close... I personally wish the gunmetal was a darker shade of grey, as it is its a bit of a 'meh' colour. I actually really like the later 350zs in blade silver - when its clean the paint really shines, looks gorgeous!

no can do, trackday that day! I will be passing through Leicester, but im guessing you wont be at the pub at 6:30 in the morning!

Nice one, sounds like fun even in the rain! Bedford is a very slippy track in the wet, seen a lot of spins on the last corner coming past the pits.

tempting, we did like castle combe when we were there a year back, great track. But its a no from me, our next trackday is two weeks from now at Blyton Park. Get some pics and videos up though - I wanna see the camera mounted high on the rollbar, so we can see just how frantic your steering is with cold tyres!

simple solution to parking across two spaces and buying two tickets... car parks should simply have multiple sizes of space, and charge per square metre. Perhaps the spaces should be colour coded depending on size. That way Maureen can park her picanto in a tiny space next to all the other tiny cars for £1, whereas people with larger/more expensive cars can park in the bigger bays for £1.60. that way all the idiotic door bashers who are often tightwads, can all have an idiotic door bash together, while the nice cars pay a little extra and have a nice big space.

the alternative was leave it for a few months, then take it through the sainsburys automated car wash...

what widths are they? staggered or square setup? cos someone saying that 235 and 245 will fit on them doesn't really say a lot, that could be anywhere from 7.5" to maybe a 9.5" at a stretch. knowing the offset is fairly meaningless without knowing the width.

make it a more enjoyable experience in general? in that case a decent set of tyres, inflated to the correct pressure. will make the car a lot more enjoyable to drive! Oh and an exhaust to free up the glorious V6 sound - highly recommend a resonated cobra exhaust from CS up the road

I just wiped some birdcr*p off with a wet paper towel if that counts as cleaning it?!?

crikey thats not half bad for a twelve year old! keep that inspiration going and you'll have a artistic genius on your hands! next time go out and shoot some moving stuff with him, then it would be really good.

how part worn is part worn? if they've got 4mm, keep them. if they've got 2mm, probably only good for binning.