Pritchard

whats wrong with 350bhp? didnt you read the description - it has a crosworth panel fitted. they are rare! they are like the Cosworth ones, but angrier. adds BHP

hey MrE004, do you still have the spoiler? i might be down Southampton again in the coming weeks.

aha got it, found the answer on the G35 forums http://g35driver.com/forums/brakes-suspension/106056-oem-sway-bar-specs.html

hey chaps, i am looking for a thread on this website that i have seen a long time ago (which was probably years old in itself anyway) but i cant find it with searches, or searches on google. mainly because i cant remember any key words. What im after, is the difference in size of anti-roll bar between the earlier DE model and i *think* the HR model. i recall reading this thread and some posts into it someone came up with the useful nugget that a later model Z had uprated ARBS as stock, and that they were capable of being swapped. from memory, this size was comparable with the aftermarket options for the DE, so the HR(?) was stubstanially thicker. does anyone else remember this thread, or what it was called? im having no luck but im 100% it did exist Cheers Pritchard

I wouldn't even use the Iphone app as a bench mark dude. We've used them in the past and they are miles off. fair enough. any alternatives, aside from driving to track and finding out?

i am looking to book up BrandsHatch myself in the coming weeks, im doing a noise test this evening so will let you know - albeit on an iphone app. (cobra non-res with sports cats.) drop a PM to Joker (Kyle) i know he was recently turned away for his setup, but it was borderline but having heard his in the flesh it was alot louder than my cobra setup so im not too worried.

ive done nearly 20,000 miles in my Z, never put a drop of oil in there (aside from oil changes of course).its been good as gold. soi tend ot check once a month when i do my tyres. however i did a check just last week. and it was right on the min-line. slight panic! now im checking every tank of fuel (so every couple of days lol) to see where its at. its stable s i think on this occasion it probably didnt get a full top up after its last service, and nothing to worry about. but its important you do check regulary the gaugue on the dash is only oil pressure, not oil level. with very low oil you will still register oil pressure. think of it as a big cup of McDonalds milkshake: you can fill it up to a litre, and it requires 0.5litres as a safe minimum. but when you are sucking the straw there is no difference beteween 1ltre and 0.1litre. its only when you start to suck up air through the straw that the pressure drops. and its at this point damage can occur. (*or before. but this is when the oil light will come on anyway)

without wanting to sound daft.... how much english is inside?

i've seen air suspension in the flesh. spoke to Mr VeilsideZ at a couple of meets. i dont think its for me. im afraid its not the approach, the sides of the bumper are lower than the center so by taking it at a sideways angle what you gain in a shorter distance between bumper and leading wheel you loose with height anyway ... in better english, still scraps. but if you saw this drive, its steep. but, i still havent had a single suggestion of an alternative front bumper - discounting nismo as its a different car (quiet on the n/a side? read post 1 of this thread, and post 1 of the n/a thread )

hey chaps. i spent a bloody age trying to find a bodykit i liked. finallly decided last xmas that i wanted the Do-Luck, and went ahead with it. however, i measured my ground clearance all round before and after, and the front bumper cost me an inch of clearance (4" to 3"). this ruled me out of many speed bump locations in my area. fast forward a few months, and i now scrap everytime i reverse onto my driveway... my driveway is flat. but with a small 'dip' at the drop curb. at first i thought i was getting fat. but turns out i now have just 2" of ground clearance !! my front suspension bushes are worn, and are already booked in for replacement. i assume thats where the additional right height has been lost. but, i have just bought a new house (wooo yayy cheer) which has an awesome driveway... but not for anyone in a wheelchair, let alone a lowered car. its a bit steep. so looking ahead its a new driveway, or new bumper... bumper will be cheaper. But i do love my do-luck soooo much. what to replace it with, i wonder. What are peoples favorites? outside of the OEM + lip options please, im looking for a 'full' replacement, plus i dont have an OEM bumper anymore lol.

Im no Mystic Meg, but my crystal ball predicts this is either Kwik Fit or Halfords ''mechanics'' I would quite simply refuse to drive it out of their garage until its resolved. its no different (in terms of process) to putting in Diesel in your tank: dont drive anywhere. get it fixed first. otherwise, your return trip on thursday will be via AA Recovery!! Make a note of EVERY phone call you have with them. if (when!) your gearbox fails they will no doubt try to deny it was any fault of theirs. it might get messy. (been in similar situations myself).

RESULTS OF RETURN if anyone cares, i did 70mh on cruise on the return leg. finished at 36.6mpg with 195 miles travelled. also to note, based on both of my results, the 'average mph' on the trip computer under reads by about 10mph. cruised literally the whole way at 70, with no traffic and only a handful of miles at 50mph. and it read 61mph average. simila result to my first run. i'll go back to SmilesPerGallon now (well done whomever above coined that). but a little taste of whats possible - 36mpg without risk of speeding tickets, and while overtaking lorries not bad for a car rated 27mpg extra urban.

your welcome - im glad you found the answer to The Best Colour: Orange, of course.

i have the bladder of a pregnat woman. Guilty.

correct, i meant 41.4 good spot with the sarcasm

why would i get pulled? is it an offence to travel at 70mph in 3rd gear?

The Leaf forum expelled me for being too extreme! i set it at 60 to make sure that i overtook, and was not overtaken, by any lorries i saw. im tempted to set it to 50mph on the way home, just for shts n giggles. ... althought im sure ill get abuse my motorists pointing and saying to their wives ''look over there Julie, that man cant affoard fuel for his car'' anyway its all for a laugh. i usualy take the diesel on the work trips to make the most f the 45p/litre. thought id see what happens.

lol, no wasnt being towed. i had a 'test run' to new forest last week, whereby i actually reset the trip every few miles to see what difference the mph made. (all on cruise, and left for a few miles to try and cancel out hill gradients) but, the difference between 60mph and 70mph is huge, about 8mpg (roughly 40 to roughly 32 is what i saw). and again, stick it on 50mph and i saw 46mpg pop up after a couple of miles! those average speed cameras are your friends

im sure many others have had small victories. but after Abbey recently sorted out an issue, my MPG was back to the normal realms of happynes. well i had to travel to Cardiff today (from Kent) for work. so, as it was in works time i stuck cruise control to 60mph and plodded away. traffic was good. i had 3 service stops (which brought down the mpg and indicated average speed), and also lost 0.5 points at the Wales bridge tolls thingy. (along with £6.50! jesus. surprised i didnt need a passport too). then once in wales traffic got bad as it was rush hour, and i lost my peak of 41.4mpg, but not before i got a picture of it at the tolls. yes its easy to reset the counter on the go, and take a quick picture. but this was actually my run. also check out the odometer and the fuel gauge for further evidence. happy bunny. final 'score' when i arrived at the hotel was 39.7, over 201 miles. Miles to next tank - indicated 390miles !! now that would be some awesome tank range.

compression arms arnt cheap. mine have also recently turned to chocolate. subscribing to thread.

i like the Orange one.

ive had an old astra befor that its offical vauxhal colour was 'champagne'. to me it looked silver. maybe even wth a tint of green. it was metalic. log book said grey. to me grey is grey. grey with metalic paint is silver. it hadnt had a colour change. but grey and silver (and champagne in this case!) are similar colours. i wouldnt worry. personally. grey on the log book, and your looking at a red car - i would worry.

brilliant

Sigs been there for ages. but it works both ways.

sorry, must have missed that. but you're probably going to ridicule my answer. (and its probably going to spark a war!) i've always gone NA in previous projects. so its a little of sticking to what i know. and its a little of a personal dislike to the notion of forced induction - i regard it as cheating. NA tuning is about the pursuit of 100% volumetric efficency, the closer you get the better and the greater the sense of acheivement. with FI, VE is completely disregarded. you double or triple the VE with ease. You want more power - new pulley and a remap later - POOF like magic, more power wheres the fun in that? Only my opinion. im sure it conflicts greatly with other peoples. Andy, yea that Denmark build was one of the references i made in the opening post, but i couldnt find dynos for it. but again, this is a reference of both a cosworth head, and headwork, that hasnt yielded great results. when ive seen the word 'Cosworth' or the word 'headwork' on a dyno plot, its followed with an owner in tears over his results (with one single exception i have found, out of 5)