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Are you sure there's no way of getting a lower mounted seat? Obv they're pretty much on the floor already, but if you are able to lose the sliding rail and mount directly, you'll get an inch or 2. Just need to weld a mount in the correct place, or you'd be foobarred!

Can you pm me your brake recommendations, I'd find it interesting to see what you consider the best options. Okay, so Ferodo DS2500 - £177 p/set (demon tweeks) I reckon you can lose at least 100k's with seats, inner trim, headlining, boot trim, plastic stuff, some of the centre tunnel and all sound deadening. Especially if you then remove aircon, fit a raceweight battery (£170, driftworks Braille battery) and cut excess brackets out from rear of car and engine bay. If you're really intense, you can single-skin the bonnet too, and possibly remove some metal from the boot. I suspect the front and rear bumper bars can be removed/trimmed too. Do you not agree? Don't believe you with the engine - especially after what others have said. Service car - oil, plugs, filters before 1st track day. Change oil every trackday or two from there on, and make sure it's correctly circulated every time you do an oil change (a mate made a mistake with this and killed his shells once, I'm never doing the same!), warm up and cool the engine down properly, then I suspect it'll last pretty well. R888's are £190 p/tyre on Camskill upto 235 17" and 18". A 235 R888 = pretty frigging sticky! Add the price of a pop charger and a 2nd hand exhaust (or £100 for say, longlife to create a decat pipe (because I have a mate who works for them). I agree there're better track cars out there, but I know Booner, so it's more a case of picking something he likes, and is practical (to a degree).

I want to get involved in this, because I'm the one who put the idea of the 350Z in his head! I suggested the above but got the answer "only if it has a V8 in", and "it's too drifty". I love my RX7 personally, but can kind of understand where he's coming from with the V8 - rotary = witchcraft to most people. I corrected him on the 2nd part though - they're fantastic grip cars! I looked at it like - MX5 = great fun, but he'd not be happy unless it's turbo'd or supercharged. S2000 - I can't be arsed to work on it with him. Doesn't really inspire me, unless it's got FI. 200SX - choice of drifters, hard to find nice ones around now (I'd know, I can and do drift, but not a 200sx) Caterham etc - overpriced. He is tempted by a megablade. The problem in my eyes would be storing it, he'd need full weather gear. Otherwise a very sound idea, and very likely route. 350Z - £5000-£5500. Bucket seats and subframes 2nd hand, £250 (I'm a bargain hunter and within current FIA spec not needed) Stripped out - flog everything back to you guys cheap to make some money! (seats, carpet, trim, headlining, boot lining, rear strutbrace cover, centre console, door cards etc etc.) HSD coilovers - £775 Toyo R888's or similar - £800 p/set Redstuff pads, all round - £130 Oil - toooooo much! That sounds reasonable, tell me what I'm missing? (besides track time and fuel)