The Chubby Ninja

hahahaha what a complete fool. if hed of hit my car and tried to get away id of pulled him off the bike by the throat

Oh no. Doesnt sound good

Thanks bennet. I cant wait til its done. It just starts getting good at 4k rpm then i need to change up a gear. Im desperate for some high revving high boost. Where have you been lately? Youve been quite quiet on the forum and all these rumours of your twin charged blown engine lol. What stage is the car at now?

another thing I forgot to add was that it failed an MOT due to a worn bush so got the full front of the car poly bushed and it wasn't cheap. unfortunately no pics of this though Also bought a mishimoto racing thermostat from bennet (gt4zed) and fitted that just before the charger. I keep forgetting things so il add them as i go. I think my brain deliveratly forgets so as not to add up the cost

I really would like the charge pipe but im absolutely skint the now. ive got a few hundred pound cash for fuel to abbey and the mappings going on the credit card . unless you would trade me it for a live haggis and some magic beans

cheers mate. I got a few different grades of flappy sanding wheels that go in a drill to get the worst of the cast off, then an orbital sander to get it all smooth and a dremel to get the more awkward bits. then wet and dry sanding paper working my way from rough right up to very fine. then blue and brown metal polish and polishing wheels on a drill and finished it off with some meguiars metal polish by hand. it must of took me about 20 hours of work and its not perfect yet so eventually il take it off and start again . wasso on here does an exchange service where you give him your plenum and he gives you a polished one back. his are exceptional and look awesome and for what he charges is an absolute steal as hes basicly robbing himself with the amount of time he puts into them

thanks for the comments guys, its a great sense of achievement to do all this work myself and with some help from my mate. if I were to do it again id order through tarmac (or if it was right now id just buy octets ) as its seriously not worth the stress dealing with assaultech. I considered making a big post on my350z.com slating them and how bad they are but ive just decided to learn from my mistakes and put the word on here and hopefully no one else on the forum falls for these useless conmen. I took a couple lol but not as much as I really should of. once I get working I get in the zone and forget to take pics . were just trying to get the base map near perfect for driving down via an Osiris uprev cable and mark making changes to the map for me. its running perfect around town but at 70mph its too rich running at 10 on the AFR but marks editing the map today for me and once all is well ill get booked up. probably be a couple of weeks yet as I want to wait til vlads back from mother Russia as im meeting him on the way back from mapping and staying at a hotel near leamington spa and were going to have a little meet and maybe a few drinks. anyones welcome if they are in the area. il put a topic up for it when I know dates etc

it was an absolute nightmare. I would definitely recommend them to people I don't like

nice looking zed. the wheels are nice too

its awesome. the sounds is brilliant. im currently on a base map limited to 4000 rpm so not got the speed but the sounds great

I sent my ecu away to mark at abbey motorsport to get a base map put on it and get a GT MAF sensor sent back aswell. hopefully in a couple of weeks il be taking the long drive down from Scotland to abbey in surrey for a mapping session and il put up some figures when I get them

I don't have any pics of me doing the fuel system but there was a good bit of work involved there and a few leaks at first . I also fitted an AEM wideband AFR gauge and motor meter boost gauge in a pod in the cubby made by myself

some of the build pics..... day 1 day 2 day 3

well I thought I better start a build thread, ive been meaning to do it since last year but never seem to have the time and its been a VERY stressful time for me. by leaving it this long im sure I will miss things out so if theres any questions please ask away .well I had an evo 8 FQ300 running 390hp before the zed and I owned it for 3 1/2 years. it was very fast but somewhat unrefined, its hard to explain but when pushing it felt like it was on edge and you always had the feeling that you were going to be killed! . the main reason I sold it was because the sheer cost of keeping it on the road was unbelievable and when buying a house then loosing my job the next week, times were hard so decided id sell it and buy my first ever sensible car and get an audi A4 diesel estate. well while on autotrader I got bored looking at audis and thought its just not me so started looking at different options and ended up with the zed last minute . my plan was that its a nice car and it would be the first car I ever kept standard .here she is when I first took her to crail. surprisingly it got a lot of looks and people taking photos . I had the car about a month and I had the cats ripped off and a set of japspeed decats put on and fitted by myself. my first real job id really done on a car. then I bought and fitted a japspeed k1 exhaust and hated it from the second I started the car(infact I hated it while fitting it as it didn't line up with the decats properly and the tailpipes rested on the bumper. totally crap quality and far too loud for my liking. Then the decats cracked after being on the car for about two months so I got them replaced and then bought silenced ones aswell (3rd and final mistake!) I also bought a megan racing y pipe from America and that rattled from day 1 and had the hissing rattle at 2k revs. I fitted the silenced decats and they lasted 3 months before they started rattling so I took them off and the silencers had melted, all the baffles had blown out and there was little bits of metal stuck in the silencers. so I fitted the replacement unsilenced decats from japspeed and they are a different design now and still holding up. I also heat wrapped them but that's whats probably holding them together . The megan y pipe finally blew out the flexis after 6 months so I got a cobra y pipe from tarmac and its fitted great, the quality is brilliant and it still looks new today . I was starting to feel that the car needed something in the looks department so I decided to source some wheels. I ended up buying a set of ROTA fighters off rare rims finished in titanium chrome, at first they looked a lot shinier than they did in the photos but they quickly grew on me. I fancied a little project so I tried my first attempt at polishing metal and done my plenum and strut brace. Its not perfect but im quite happy with it for now. I also got a custom wasso plenum spacer at the same time and fitted that. got it in gold and it looks awesome, great quality too. After 6 months the japspeed k1 snapped in half! they wanted to send me a new one but I insisted on a refund and bought a cobra resonated instead and love it. ive heard people saying that the resonated cobra is quiet but fitted with the y pipe and un silenced decats it pretty damn loud! So after getting used to that sound I wanted a little extra noise so went online to look at air filter options one night and that's where it all went downhill from there!! after trailing through different sections on websites I came to the conclusion that my zed was going to be CHARGED!!!! After doing a good bit of research I jumped in and placed my order with an American company called Assaultech (biggest mistake!) I ordered a vortech V-3 Sci tuner kit,smaller pulley for more boost, Deatschwerks 600cc injectors, Walbro 255L/Hr fuel pump, AAM stage 0 fuel return system, and some other bits and bobs. They told me my order would take 3-4 weeks to get from vortech to them then a week from them to me. Well, 7 1/2 months of stress with them not replying to my emails, or when they did it was blatant lies, and they never answered their phone. the usual excuse was to blame vortech for messing them about. but after all that time this finally arrived! I was told all my fuelling stuff was a day or two away so I got the car stripped and started fitting the charger. well a week went by and still no fuelling stuff, they had sent it to my address in Scotland, Ireland??? so it was stuck in irish customs for another month it finally got re sent to me. so a month later my felling stuff arrived BRILLIANT!!! I thought, until I realised the fuel return system was missing! assaultech yet again blamed their distributors. after another 5 weeks of getting messed about and having to borrow a car from my parents and pay monthly insurance on top of my own it finally arrived so got right to work

Are you in?

I thought you could get it cheaper aswell.... And boy i was wrong! Once youve got tax and duties, everything else like injectors are 700 GT maf is 350 fuel return is another big bill then fuel pumps like 100 and spark plugs 100+ and thats not everything. Its an absolute fortune and theres plenty of other things i forgot about and once youve bought some of the things your in the deep and need to fork out for the rest. At least this kit has everything from the start. Headache free install. Win win

was it really bennetts car that went bang? I thought they were just taking the pi55

I know I was thinking that aswell. if this had been up for sale a few months back id of taken it. its a lot cheaper than buying brand new I can vouch for that! you should of "lost" vlads so hed have to buy yours

Back off topic..... whats your new Avatar Just looked at your profile Non animated Avatars suck the llamas a$$

Yeah, the cars nice, but definitely not worth all that hard work. you said it was your first time, but it was like swinging a stick in the Albert Hall.

arrans that desperate hes wrote it twice! oh and if there is a group buy im in

haha that's better. BBK are you enjoying that model car

Im on my phone so cant see it. I need to go get the laptop. Hope its better than the last one!

i dont think il bother then. And if i couldnt see what the idiots are writing, i couldnt argue with them

A handjob for 65p? You need to PM me a number!