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Made a start today! Does not look like much but my god was this a pain in the a** to remove! LOL.... Started by using my spot weld remover drill bit and worked along the rear of the top speaker box. Nearly out! LOL... Its out! Also got on with removing the rear brace on the driver side. All in all a good 3 hours of drilling cutting and shouting and im about 1/3 the way there! LOL.... Spot welds come out easy now ive had a few hundred to practice on! Normal tack welds how ever are a major pain in the a** to remove! More work tomorow if its dry outside and my back feels better haha...

The suspension tweaking worked! LOL... Beat my previous 1/4 mile record today! Best run was 12.63 @ 119.60mph! Made up... Few pic's of the "falcon" on the strip! LOL.. And my time slips from today....

Been mad busy today but managed to get time to set the rear end up a little better for dragging (I hope! LOL)... Good old english weather (PISSING DOWN) but oh well! Whipped the car up on the Diff jacking point and pulled both rear wheels off. This is what my KW's looked like! Nice and dirty.... On the jack. Dirty shocks. Even though I was very tight for time I could not stop myself from spraying a little GUNK cleaner on them and gave them a quick wipe! ha. This is how you set the low speed compression on the KW V3's. There were set 2 1/4 turns from full hard, I have now set these at 6 1/4 turns from full hard (about 50%). Swapped out the old steel wheel nuts to my new open ended spline drives too! Forgot to get a pic of the new nuts fitted though Right guys have to pack my overnight bag for tomorrow! See you guys soon!! (or tonight Paul/Rich)!

EPIC BUILD!!!

Or this ???? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Suspension-Control-Arm-and-Ball-Joint-Assembly-Front-Left-Lower-Dorman-521-601-/351068406769?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item51bd4ec3f1

Its that dipped?? Looks great!

Looking great man! Cant wait to see the cage painted! Also what wing you running? Looks like a drift works one but bigger??

You sir are a ****ing champion. 18x11 man's wheels

Dam out of pic bandwidth...

Guys any tips on how to undo the ball joint bolts?? I have removed the cotter pins but the nut just spins This is what Im after .... [/url]

Sweet footage. I can feel my wallet bricking it when I ask this, but what camera did you shoot that with? Sweet footage. I can feel my wallet bricking it when I ask this, but what camera did you shoot that with? Hi mate, this was filming on a Sony nex 7 with a vintage canon 70-200fd manual lens. First time shooting with this so not great with pulling focus yet.

Hey guys, I popped over today about 1pm but no one was around Cars looked sweet though Weather was shite so didn't really do much filming TBH. Little RAW drift edit from today mind you Tim.

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Little more work today! Got round to removing some more trim and parts of the bose system. Stuff that came out the boot area. Parts removed from inside the car. Bose sub and speakers removed + lots of bolts and metal plates etc. Boot area with extra trim removed. Stiffening plate that will be removed after the cage goes in. Any one know what this sensor is? May be an air bag sensor for rear end crash? Seat belt system that will be removed after the cage goes in as Ill be fitting 4/5 point harnesses. This thing has some good weight in it (few Kg's so good weight saving here) I would say another circa 5KG's removed today, the bose sub and rear speaker will more than likely be going back in after the cage is fitted. The speakers will need some little custom mounts/boxes and the sub might fit under the driver seat to be hidden. Untill next time!

Had a more productive day than yesterday roof "fitting" joke! LOL... I went down to layton fasteners a local fixing supplier and picked up a few M12 high strength bolts and nyloc nuts and washers to match. I set about removing the bumper to fit my TRS racing tow strap. I've seen a few cars with soft tow strap fitted but most seem to just fix them to what ever is close to the spot they want so if they ever needed to be used they would just pull off in two seconds! LOL... Started off by jacking the car up. On the jack stands. Had to removed the power steering fluid cooler to make sure it did not get damaged while drilling. Next job was to drill though the crash brace, I've gone for a spot that is right at the end of the chassis leg so should be one of the strongest place to fasten to. I hope! Fitted two washers to make sure the strap does not get damaged while being fastened down. Bolt stacked out with some washers and the nyloc nut. Strap fitted. Next job was to line up and cut the bumper where the strap needed to come through it.... I measured the mounting point and then marked it out onto the front of the bumper. Cut the bumper with a stanley knife. And the bumper back on.. Don't mind the car its just hanging about trying to look hard holding his axe! haha.... Job done! Until next time!

After the roof "fitting" I though I needed a little mechanical therapy to calm me down. Did a little more stripping out on the rear end. I think the little bit of trim and glove box + sound matting I have removed must be about 5KG's or so which I was quite amazed as the glove box was bolted in with 14 10mm bolts! I think a little over the top for a plastic glove box! ha.. I Need another geo set up soon so I was thinking another drop on the coilovers would be nice, Just 10mm lower would have been good but..... Im a little close to the floor while getting on and off the drive as it is! haha... I think ill have to get the kerb dropped more so I can go lower! LOL...

Got a little treat for the zed through the post today! Its a TRS MSA approved 5000KG soft towing strap. Im looking to cut the front bumper and bolt this to the cross member at the front. This can be left in all the time then and I dont have to worry about getting stopped by the police for having the OEM fixed tow hook in place! LOL..Oh and its lighter too! Every little bit helps!

I have also been doing a little more work on stripping the rear end out in pre for a rear half cage. Im just looking where the main hoop will sit at the moment. More bloody tar sound deadening for me to remove! LOL.. Sound deadening over the fuel tank area and pump access window. The rear end as it stands for now! Thats it for today!

Spotted a few pic's of the car that the SXOC boys took!

Alittle more prep work done today! Got to use my new vaccum brake bleeder, this thing is awesome value and made the job of bleeding the brake system really easy! Getting set up to do the brakes. Vaccum bleeder hooked up. Bled all the brakes and gave the callipers a little clean up. Next job was to sort out the temporary fixings fir the bonnet. Ive not had time to make the custom clips yet so I've gone for a wire set up just for safety for tomorrow. The wire goes through the engine bay and is bolted to the steel under tray, the wires rated to 155kg so the bonnet would brake before these gave out! LOL. I've also developed an oil leak which I have tracked down to my ftont timing cover! The pics above show the leak, I know its hard to see! LOL. Ive tightened the cover bolts bacj up as 4 had worked lose! Fingers crossed thsts it for that leak.... Any way thats it, I'm ready for tomorrow! :-)

Pre-TOTB wash this afternoon along with an oil and filter change! And a few art shots while doing the oil change! ha...

Finished the 2nd catch today, A little harder to fit than the fist as this one had to be measure many times to ensure it was at the same angles as the other side! I dont want one being wonky! LOL.. No fitted pic's yet as its started raining! ha..

Took the plunge and made a start on the areocatches today. Started by covering the engine bay as carbon dust will go every where! LOL.. Masked off where the catch was to be fitted. Place the bonnet catch on and added some butter to the top and closed the bonnet to see where it touched! ha. Marked it and rilled a 8mm hole from under the bonnet though to the top skin. Fitted the aerocatch template. Made my first cuts with the dremel! Took a lot of balls to cut into my CF bonnet! LOL.. Cut out. Test fitted the catch and it touched the under skin so that needed to be removed. Chain drilled the under skin, and refitted. Point where I have drilled the slam panel for the catch clip to sit. Clip fitted. I've got a small problem that the pin that the top clip locks onto does not fit well at all. Im looking to make a new custom clip from 2mm stainless steel plate tomorrow. If I dont get the 2nd catch fitted ill end up finding some way to wire the bonnet shut for TOTB and sort it out after? Anyway thats it for today! LOL..

Just doing a little bit of maths while bored in work! LOL....Ive been using my data from the 1/4 trying to plot a graph to extrapolate it to give me a goal time for a 0-150mph run for TOTB on saturday! I know thats very geeky but when you got 12 hours at night you do some silly things! ha.. Just some ruff figures from my times, under 100 mph the car looks to gain approx 10.88mph per second average 0-100. Above 100mph it slows to around 7.54mph per second. messing about with my graph paper I was suprised at how little the acceleration tails off, I think I have some false data for the 0-60 area due to wheel spin etc. Im thinking the car will do 0-150mph in the 23-24sec range? Ive tried finding figures online and the only thing of note was a stock HR motor 350z timed by road and track in the US did 0-150mph in 53.?? seconds. This makes my projected time seem a little unrealistic but oh well! Im sure were gonna find out this weekend! Now back to my graph paper! EDIT: Video's a few posts down show a 20sec run 0-150mph! Made up!

Hi Paul, yeah the house is doing fine! Just doing the basic stuff at the moment. Need time to think about what were gonna do with the rest of the place!! Well I got round to a job I have been wanting to do for a while now, The zed's engine bay is very tight for space and anything metal gets very badly heat soaked when you not moving (or moving slowly). I have been following a thread on the US forums about how when the car is heat soaked the ECU thinks the charge air temp has risen alot and changes the fuelling, timing etc.. This is ok but the air going into the engine can be a lot colder than what the ECU thinks and can cause funny AFR's ect. Sooooo..... I heat wrapped my last K&N cold air intake so I have gone and done it too my intake on my APS kit! But with the better gold heat film. Anyway on to the dirty bits! LOL... Removed the strut brace and intake pipe. Set it down on the towel and soaked it with GUNK degreaser for a little bit. Once it was clean and dry I moved into the house for the tricky parts! Did the top bend in a wrap style but made a template from wall paper for the straight sections so It fit well around the BOV and supports on the intake pipe. Does not look hard but its sticky as hell the backing glue and took hours messing about with the template to get it to fit correctly! LOL. Oh and got my little hose joiner through from ebay! This little brass badboy is to replace the little poo plastic one that snapped! Thats is again for today people!