glrnet

Don't do anything yet, will pm you later on iPhone and out at present

Bloody hell, now you've really gone and done it i think i hold the record for something like 200 posts in one day

Good luck Don't let Bennett anywhere near your spark plugs though

You wouldn't believe the cr*p they've had to put up with so far I think this is the third attempt

I'm ashamed to say I've never been, I think that will change next year

A little birdie has told me that sp*rsmaddave will have his internet access restored in 2 days time Given the time he has not had proper access to the interweb thingy it might be an idea if we all avoided this place on Friday................ now that would be funny Lookout for the onslaught, I fear he will be like a kid with a new toy

That's brilliant mate, thanks for that, hopefully it won't come to that

Laphroaig Quarter Cask or Caol Ila for me

Thanks matey, that points it more towards the Milltek but we will see on Friday hopefully. Can you remember if the original rear box is interchangeable with the Milltek system? That would be the easier way to prove/disprove the rear box baffles simply by swapping boxes.

PM Lincolnbaggie

Thanks Colin I'm still going to replace it anyway as it doesn't look the same as the other one. Other suggestions have been Cats or exhaust baffles, Paul is fairly sure the noise is from within the exhaust rear box so it might be a case of taking the Milltek off completely and putting the old one back on and see what that produces, if the droning stops then it has to be the Milltek if not then we have another problem, most likely Cats Hopefully it might be the £15.00 hanger but that won't be my kind of luck, I'll change that on Friday and go from there. Has anyone else experienced Cat failure on a 54 Zed and if so what are the symptoms?

Zmanalex or £14.87 inc VAT from the stealership :

Cheers bud, I'll replace it anyway and we'll go from there, at least it will have been eliminated.

Thanks John

So it's not meant to be split like that!!?

That's what I meant, to me it looks split

In November last year I had a new Milltek zorst fitted and it's been absolutely fine, until Wales. After about 60 miles on the Saturday I noticed a loud droning that seemed to transmit itself right through the car especially when changing down and no accelerator applied, the droning is more pronounced when stationary and the engine revved to about 2.5k. After some time while driving the noise stopped. Back at the hotel on Saturday afternoon I put the car up on a trolley jack (thanks Chris S) and could find nothing obviously loose. On the Sunday the droning noise returned just before we did the Evo triangle and at that time it stopped again and then restarted by the time we stopped at Country Cooks. The car stood only for about ten minutes at Country Cooks and the noise did not reappear again on the way back to the hotel!!! It did not occur on the way home on the Monday but did appear again on Saturday this weekend just gone on the way to Port Solent, again after about 60 miles or so. it was still doing it when I arrived at Port Solent and I asked Zugara to have a quick look/listen while I revved the engine, without getting right under under the car he suspected the rear box, possibly baffles. The car stood for a good hour and a half and I dove home which is about 56 miles from Port Solent. You guessed .... NO NOISE!!!. Later that afternoon we drove to Maidenhead, again no noise, however it did appear again later in the evening after about 65 mile so so I think. Again it cooled down and the droning ceased I haven't used the car since but I've crawled underneath today and found what I think might be the problem and I need someone more qualified than me to confirm my theory. Check out the picture below and see what you think, It's the rear box hanger and I don't think it's supposed to look like this, my guess is when it gets hot enough it becomes less stable and causes the drone which transmits itself along the length of the exhaust. Your opinions please gentlemen. Thanks for reading this and thanks in advance for any sensible comments, sp*rsmaddave... leave it

TMI - Too much information

I'd be interested to see a picture of your fascia plate

Indeed, that is correct And cake if available... I think also medication has been sourced on the one occasion

1) doogyrev - milltek 2) zugara - elephant with tuba 3) will350z - milltek and soon to be added berks hfc's 4) spursmaddave - milltek + berks 5) glrnet - milltek - with loose baffles apparently 6) SnailHerder 7) RC182 8) LordGrover - Stock/standard 9) 350 Russ - Rattly old japspeed k2 10) Blacky - Ichiba decats + Nismo 11) Wasso - Motordyne XYZ pipe & Japspeed De-cats (oem back box) 12) sparky350z - scorpion

+1, why not have 2 Zeds? Simples

I've booked 1. Will350z 2. glrnet

Sounds like a plan to me

Smurf it Jim