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if it looks like it can feature on the next f&f movie then it has reached some element of chav.

mine has boost from the sc as low as 2k rpm. i'm not having to wait for boost at all.

SC but i'm biased. plus on the zed its more cost effective

down hill slope and a prevailling wind. brummie cops should start sending up an apache helicopter, any sign of street racing it just lets loose some hellfire rockets job done.

have got it on my hands before, but not delibertly dipped my whole hand.

may well be just need to do a match up in daylight to see if it works properly Currently running carbon airbox, Bigger super charger pulley, High flow cats, and a sports exhaust, next job is fix the rust Its never fixed, its the law of jaguar, when one thing is fixed, something else breaks. but yes it has re instilled confidence in the engine now the tensioners have been done. its run fine most of the time, just have different issues. at differnet times, but with the new pulley in place apparently it renders sport mode unneccassary. so i'm excited to find out what sport mode is going to be like, as i might need some baby wipes; for when i follow through. i'll let you know when i get back from york. its not as bad as it looks, and its about the third time i've stripped it back that far, so i'm getting good at it, but it makes a huge difference with the likes of tony doing it as he knows the cars insideout. For such a big engine bay, you'd think there would be loads of room round the engine. but its been shoe horned in. you basically need the hands of a small child to work on the car. lots of extender bars, and flexi joints on tools.

For the last 2 months the engine hasn't bee running as smooth as i'd like, added to that the fact that the timing chains and tensioners had never been replaced it was about time the engine saw some TLC and a bit of an upgrade. and it was making some noises it shouldn't have been,. she was also pissing oil on to the manifolds, had a hissing noise, and no power under 2k revs. some of these i already knew the cause to but others i was not so sure. so this was the engine bay at the startof the job; not into bad a shape but not as clean as it could have been So the first job was to strip down the engine so all parts were accessable and work could commence. first job was the spark covers coolant hoses and air filter and pipe next was all 8 of the coil packs and the rocker covers, at the same time Tony was also removing the belts and chains you can see he old lower SC pulley as well as where all the belts and pulleys were once that was all off the supercharger came out, its an absolute pig as the inductionelbow at the back of the engine has to come off but its an arse of a job, so i was glad tony was doing that. once off i could check the standard of the Supercharger, and thankfully it was all looking good. if a little oily with those off it was time to take the charge coolers off, which are very easy, compared to everything else. Tony then re fitted the new tensions and chains in record time. (he's done it so often i think he can do it with his eyes shut. basically i had the version 2 set. which were part plastic and part metal. the plastic degrades over time and bang it all comes apart. i now have the new version 4 set in there. which are actually off the new 2012 XK and they are all metal. they aren't supposed to fit, but the jag guys have modified them for the older engine. this should mean the engine is good for many more miles now. so before we put the engine back together i decided it was a great time to paint stuff so it was time to strip the old paint off and thats basically where i go to with the guys at paragon design before i had to go and catch my train home. and left the car in their capable hands. PART 2 So thursday comes around and i get a call from tony, i can;t collect today as we need some new parts that we weren;t expecting. but on the good side we worked out where the annoying hissng was coming from. basically they had refitted it all, took it for a test run, and the charge coolers weren;'t cooling, in fact they were very hot, which is not good. it turns out the coolant ump for the super charger wasn;t working properly. but thankfully tony took his uprated performance one off his car and fitted it to mine. next issue was it seems the MAF had failed and not the HO2 that i thought. so when i got up their on friday, tony and i were ringing round our contacts to see if we could get one in ASAP. sadly we couldn't get one today, so i had to drive very gently home on my dodgy maf. but tony has sorted a new MAF for collection from Jaguar tomorrow morning for on my way up to york.. so happy days. so on to the good news my engine was back together and it looked something like this. This is my new ally dipstick my new oil cap my new water cap and the real carbon and the fake carbon don;t look bad sat next to each other either Now i got home as the light was failing so these aren;t the best phone pictures, but it gives a good idea. but the guys have used jaguar Amaranth purple paint which is very high in metallic content so in the light it looks very nice. I still need to add in the lettering to the coil pack covers, i need to cut them first, just got to decide if i use silver or chrome. and i also forgot to take a picture of my new hood lining, i know it sounds sad, but i think you guys would really like it. its quite special. anyways, i know its not Zed related, but i thought you lot might enjoy all the pictures. and i'll try and add some more when i get my good camera out and some decent light

I have both, originally started on rainx got the PIAA stuff, still have alot of it, but went back to rainx, i think it was better. I'm actually looking at getting duxback. which looks even better

i don't mind that. can;t say i'd do it myself, but i don't mind it.

They built a toll road to bypass the place, why not just add a 50ft wall as well. i would say nuke the place as well, but there are quiet a few people from the area i actually like. as for the road racers, it was interesting them saying its not kids, but middle aged men. midlife crisis anyone. actually thinking about it, its the original F&F generation from the first film, just got to a point where they have the cash to race now for real lol.

looks like i might have to invest

yeah i need to get illustrator ithink its more what i need than PS plus my cutting software has an illustrator add in. converting illustrator into the cutting software.

its ended up in the car where i am now listening to the music, and yet to down loaded it back on to ocmputer

i bought a new player 2nd hand on ebay, so that i can download on long play off the discs and onto my computer some music i want.

i still do

yep full CS5

they are one of the most restrictive parts on the car, them and the manifolds. the rest of the exhaust is alright for performance, bu the cats are a choke point. as well as the plenum.

it sounds more NA as its connnected up to a bigger V8. to kill the turbo noise in the exhaust, i suspect your looking at smaller exits, possibly several, like 2 sets of twin exits. (jag Style) smaller diameter pipe. maybe some resonance chambers. like on the motordyne exhaust HFC's. but all that will affect performance, you'd sacrifice performance for noise. and even then i don;t think it will help i think it will just be quieter. i think you have to quieten the engine down. less intrusive waste gates etc. or maybe look at adding an electronic exhaustvalve fitted near the manifold side of the exhaust, that gives the better noise. to be honest the zed engine even with a decent exhaust never sounded as good as i'd hoped, and thats cos its missing 2 cylinders, the zed was a m ore racey noise if that makes sense, a bit raspy higher reving etc. tuned to run smooth and not with a lumpy idle.

tape deck stayed all the way till the end of production on the 350Z

you must be about 30 i reckon as i was minidiscing it up when i was at college

as for the BOSE/Clarion down sides, i found it was the sub, it was a bit like some peoples driving style, it was either off or on. and the bass was too boomy, and not complimentary to the audio. great if your 17 and you like to show people how much testosterone you have by how much your car vibrates with bass. its not a bad system, and its better than singing yourself. personally i like tape decks, i use a tape converter and run my minidisc through it. i haven't reached MP3 yet in my life lol

yes rip it out and put something else in alternatively it can be repaired, speak to R35LEE

do you know how big the bribe was that we all scraped together for the canadians to keep you? a celion dion album

its alright i did it, well not the right way, i drew it by hand in my cutting software but all is good, i'll just stick with what i know

i think we just found jimmy savilles mates