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and spend the rest of the time on the PS3 Or on the forum

Thats a really good price for someone. My car is worth sod all nowadays, reckon I've lost about £6 in a year and a bit Oh well look on the bright side, no point in selling it, may as well get some turbos

Shhhh! We need to keep this to ourselves. Tell everyone to get LPG and diesel! We can just wait for them to get bored of petrol and stop taxing it when everyone is LPG and diesel

Yes and no. From my limited knowledge on the subject, the chip you are talking about will be a piggy back ECU. This will take what you tell it at the throttle and modify it to tell the ECU to give more fuel/air than it normally would at that throttle/rpm. However, the 350z has a learning ECU. So it will say "woooah there, you cant have that much sh*t, I'm going to cut back on it cos I know better then you". So the piggy back ECU can tell it all it likes to give a certain air/fuel, but the ECU will eventually tell it to feck off. The only way to get around this is something like a Utec (sp?) which truely controls the system rather than its inputs, but costs big bucks - around the £1500 region to buy and map properly - and gives very little bang for buck.

+1 - I was down at an MLR rolling road on Sunday and 80% of the guys seem dissapointed with the results. They all base their expected output to be OEM figures plus whatever the mod manufacurer quotes, so say 305+10(intake)+10(decat) and then wonder why it comes in at little over 300BHP (with 24% fudge) rather than 325BHP. All you can realisitically do with a dyno is get a baseline and then run it again after each mod in similar conditions and see if its gone up. Never base it on OEM figures, they're a load of bull

Me too. Theiving gets will have anything away these days, so anything to deterr them is good!!

Nice pics. What did you use to stitch the pano? I use a little prog called Autostitch, give it a google, its excellent. It looks like your pano came out a bit weird, did you use manual mode for it? I tip I picked up a while ago is to use full manual mode on the camera and keep the f-stop and shutter speed the same throughout so that you dont get variations in exposure and this makes it a much nicer stitch. On the motion shots (god their hard arent they!) try a slower shutter (say 1/60th or longer) with an IS lense to help with the shake.

I think its the old single one that used to sit in the bumper and that needed cutting. The dual is more like the popcharger in that it sits in the engine bay and no cutting as Phil has said

Full plenum replacement is pointless unless you are going FI, wether you tune for it or not. Going FI, I think the results are still dubious. Save ya money and splash it on something that will make a difference like brakes or suspension

None of the cars had any running issues but felt noticeably smoother after the change, just took ours out this morning and again gaps all well over what it should be this, after 36k miles. Bah, why do you have to be soooo far away, I'd run it in tomorrow if you were round the corner. Will see what the local muppets quote me for having it done, otherwise I'll leave it for the next service where Dan Perkins generally do good prices

Looks quite good, certainly original from what I've seen most go for CF. I think if I were to have one colour coded though, I would get the front part of it shaved so its flush with the bumper, that way the duct would look OEM

Interesting, mine is now on 51k. I have a P2 due at 54k miles in a few months. Phil would you say to get them changed now or wait and have it done at the service? Car seems to run fine, now CEL lights or any funny business going on.

How could I forget the humpy bonnet

I'd go with that too. Just tell them its an new air filter but doesnt effect performance

Excellent photos. Networking is key, in any business. I've done far better for myself working half as hard as my colleagues and talking to all sorts of people all over the business all the time rather than just head down working as hard as I can all day every day. Work smart, not hard my old man used to say. Its all about getting your name out there and then the work will come to you, and with shoots like that I can see you being in demand

It means exactly that. There are a few MY for 350z and they are all different in some ways, some slight and some major like new engines. MY03-05 were the first batch MY06 was a slight uprated version of the MY03-05 (engine and cabin tweaks) MY07 was a new engine (well 80% or so new, more torque) When people refer to these, it is because you need to know which year it is as to which parts etc to recommend. For instance the MY03 dash cubby (satnav or cubby bin) are slightly different to the MY04. When you install a carpc the MY03 is a better choice. However these dont fit MY06 onwards. Hence you need to know which year exactly the car is. Also remember that MY isnt always equal to the year of purchase/ first registration (i.e. you could have an MY03 registered in 04 - especially if its an import) HTH

Very doubtfull they will be able to do the Z. +1 - the guys in the states and to a lesser extent the guys here have tried and failed to release any sort of extra power from the stock car. It really is custom built for the power it has and being NA there isnt much more to be had. Unless these Chippeduk guys have real gains from a car they've done personally, I'd take what they say with a pinch of salt.

Looks very I need to badger the boss for a pay rise

I was going to get one for the Zed after good writeups on the Cupra Net forums but Phil informed me the flow rates werent very good def the weapon of choice on vee dubs and got good results over standard on our dyno days Yeah ditto with Seat Leons/Ibiza. I can only imagine that the Zed pulls more air and although it flows enough for VAG cars, its not enough for 350z. I guess that makes sense as the highest power Leons I saw using them were 270BHP at which point it flows better than standard but maybe not as good as a pop charger or Nismo.

From what I know the only problem that may stump you is if there are properly seized bolts in there. If thats the case then just get someone who knows how to shift them to give you a hand My mates Evo had seized bolts when he came to do a decat so we had to take it to the local exhuast chap who heated them up and off they popped

I was going to get one for the Zed after good writeups on the Cupra Net forums but Phil informed me the flow rates werent very good

same spoiler £200 unpainted or £300 painted. £600 vs £200! Quite a difference there! Amazed at the prices some places manage to charge

No worries, that was why I asked if you really wanted to shorten the throw. I was in the same boat and just got a Nismo gear knob to shorten the throw a bit but really cos they look cool

Sounds good, I'll give it a go on Amanda's Ixus when I find it

I take it thats yours? Would put up a real photo if you want a better sale as I for one never bid on stuff without a proper real photo