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that looks awesome! welcome to the forum, sure you will love the 370z!

Agree about the performance increases. I'd like Abbey to get hold of one and see if there anything more to get out of it with an UpRev. Iirc mark said it essentially has an uprev already when someone asked about their nismo Maybe some mods and live mapping could release a bit more ?? Maybe a TURBO could release a LOT more

Willis Tower! I can only apologise for my shoddy workmanship, hard to get decent contractors...

Racecar pornography This is the direction the 2015 370z Nismo should have gone in my opinion

I like the mark 1 370z Nismo, looks like a Super GT car, which is what I want if I buy a Japanese sports coupe styled by their in house motorsport arm! The mk 2 370z Nismo looks a lot more sophisticated, all fancy aero work and cooling ducts. Looks more like a high end European car, like a Ferrari or an Aston. Its a nice look don't get me wrong, but its moving away from the Japanese BGW and bodykit styling ethos.

short journeys and cold engines are the killer for mpg. A zed loves a run out, even an enthusiastic 100mile run round wales will average 27mpg, a 100 mile cruise up the motorway will average 33mpg.

4 grand sounds a bit steep to me... looks like it needs a fair amount of work, to then be left with an 07 car with 65k on the clock.

that was bizarre... you'd think it hard to miss a big yellow 370z zooming up your inside! prhaps mister corsa driver should have committed to the turn in a bit more, he just bounced off then crashed also. Aron Smith on Jason plato at knockhill shows how he should have done it...

i think i drive the two completely differently - track car gets revved to the redline every gear change, brakes at 100% almost all the time, tyres are squealing, etc etc. I dont think i could ever drive my zed in the same way, just because i dont want to put that mush stress on the engine, gearbox, brakes, tyres, and so on. its not nice to a car to drive it as quickly as possible - but its so liberating to have a car you dont mind pushing that bit harder knowing your pride and joy is staying safely at home. That said, even though i drive our bmw hard i always try and drive smoothly... smooth application of throttle and brakes, controlled steering inputs and accurate gearchanges and heel and toe downshifts.

wow i've driven two of the circuits on here! well ok one. i crossed the start line of the top gear test track in a van... quite a few more to go then. also makes you realise how ginormously massive the IoM TT course is compared to, well, anything else!

will give that a go, after all, it cant get any worse (now watch me accidentally drill a hole through my rear quarterpanel!)

oh yeah of course! will pm him now. as for routing around under the boot trim, have found the service Manuel for such things, sure he'll help me out.

So i've done the right thing and finally purchased a RDX aerial from Steve, go to remove the old cheap stubby that *someone* >ahem< had put on previously, but due to its cheap ill fitting nature, water has got into the thread and rusted it on. fair enough, pliers come out to get some decent purchase, but surprise surprise, the poor quality thread sheared, leaving me with most of the screw still firmly screwed into the base I'm guessing theres no easy way to remove a snapped, rusted aerial thread? i'm thinking that i'll need a replacement aerial base, then route around under the boot trim plastic to get the old one off and the new one in... anyone breaking a zed who might have an aerial base kicking around?

quality is terrible, but it was series one of new top gear!

I do believe top gear did a test some speeds ago, at 120mph or so the camera had no problem - same at 140 or so. I believe they needed a TVR doing 170mph ish to beat the second flash.

LOVE: 3.5 Litre V6 HATE: Naturally aspirated

If it was for track work, it would have to be the P1 - don't think the other two would even come close. However, for day to day (ie a roadtrip down to the south of france to cruise along the Riviera) I think the P1 would b uncomfortable and tiring, so it would be the 918 for me... to be honest I think the LaF looks rather ugly, although saying that the 918 looks too much like any other Porsche... i'll have a 918, but have it painted GT3 orange!

any more for any more? 3 and a half weeks to go! We're also doing Cadwell Park next sunday 8th June if anyones interested in that as well.

+1000000 to this, road is no place to be attempting to drift... ended up parking my first RWD car backwards on a verge thinking I could drift, and that was with half the power of the zed. if you want to go sideways get it on a drift day, oulton park up north, Santa Pod in the midlands or Snetterton in the east.

LOVE the noise my Cobra exhaust makes, HATE the squeaks, rattles and clunks the rest of the car makes!

lol, whack it in 6th anywhere after about 45... plenty of torque to cruise in 6th at that speed. in fact, a cruise controlled 50mph in 6th (through roadworks average speed camera section, for example) is good for about 35mpg

so, the 'standard' tyre is one that has a profile of 82? ie 225/82/R18? yeah right... standard tyre for a 4x4 maybe will get up to an 80 profile, even my fiancé's boggo standard 206 runs on a 70 profile tyre! I always thought anything above a 50 profile is high profile, 50 is average and anything lower than 50 profile I class as 'low profile' Mr Pedantic can say what he likes, as he'd be wrong. In your example, a 275/35/20 sidewall is indeed 96mm. Profile is always related directly to the width, which is why it's used as an aspect calculator. It would be useless otherwise, as who decides what a 'standard' tyre is? Dunlop do a pretty good guide to all tyre marking here. My rears on the 911 are 305/30, which makes them 91.5mm tall. The fronts are 235/35, which makes them 82.25mm tall. don't forget that sidewall height is the total height, ie top and bottom... so a 275/35/20 tyre with a sidewall of 96mm has 48mm at the top of the tyre, and 48mm at the bottom - ie there is 48mm (just under 2 inches) of rubber between the tarmac and the wheel rim.

so, mostly A road, 50-60 mph, 6th gear? sounds about right. Also zeds seem to like warm weather, get an extra 2-3mpg over the same journey undertaken in winter.

I always think Monaco is more about the glamour and history than the actual racing, its far too tight for any real wheel to wheel racing. that said, there were a few cheeky moves down the inside of hairpins which was quite entertaining. Next few rounds on proper circuits should certainly be interesting, red bull seem to be making progress in leaps and bounds now, solid 3rd and 4th in quali, solid 3rd in the race. Ricciardo is by far the most likeable character on the grid at the moment, really good to see him doing well. hopefully the Mercedes civil war will continue all the way to the final race, then we'll start seeing some real racing (although Bahrain shows they're both already hungry to one up each other!)