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There's always an alternative: Both clubs have separate stands with separate flags and whatnot, but both stands are next to each other. This increases exposure both for the car and for both clubs involved, and also leads to a bit of healthy competition on who can have the nicest layout etc. Obviously that's simply not going to work at all if the people in charge of the clubs can't even be civil to each other, but in time it can work. All it takes is someone to make the first move, and I'm not pointing fingers or saying that it must be someone from here, I'm just stating an opinion. FWIW I can see exactly where this all comes from, and having helped run a car club before and had 'issues' with rival clubs I can appreciate that the sentiments can run deep, but the one thing that has to be remembered above all else is that the clubs should always work for the benefit of its members. IMHO, anyway.

More importantly, why where you reading the crap that is Redline?

Speak to the guys at Plans Motorsport, they're based at Dunsfold airfield and often have track days there so owners can drive the Top Gear layout

That's the thing with car forums: The people that run them go to incredible lengths to make things nice and easy for newcomers to find, and yet you still end up with the same air filter/lowering springs/chipping questions being posted almost every single day without fail.

Not entirely sure it's worth the effort when all the answers are already here in the database, it's just that people are too bloody lazy to bother using the search function so I'm not sure they'll even look for a FAQ. [/pessimistic]

A K1 isn't that loud really in terms of dBs, it just sounds loud due to the resonance. It's certainly louder than just about any other Zed exhaust, and I definitely wouldn't want the car to be any louder, but it's really not going to deafen you either. I've done Anglesey to Essex a couple of times now with the roof down all the way

If you're going slowly enough that you can smell cigarette smoke from other cars, then I'd be more irritated by the smell of exhaust gas personally.

RE050s are indeed a very good tyre and shouldn't be compared ever with the RE040s. They're almost the match for my PS2s in the dry and just a tad worse in the wet, and it's only the price of them that means I'd never buy them: They're only a few quid less than the PS2s!

Good, I hope they nail them to the wall. It's no difference than if loads of foreigners came over here and started speeding like crazy, we'd expect our police to crack down on them as well. And that's from someone who got left 750EU lighter after an encounter with the Gendarmes two months ago.

Some Jap cars need a special OBDII reader to read codes and stuff, but the 350Z isn't one of them. You can buy any old thing and it'll work.

So you've never even heard a K1 in person, yet you think you want it louder anyway? No offence, but that's ridiculous.

Depends if you ever fancy going back to France ever again after getting one. If you don't, then don't pay it.

Not a problem for me, I'm still banned from driving over there anyway!

It's not really going to effect torque that much either way, and with K1 + decat you're not going to be allowed within about a mile of a track anyway. Have you been in a Zed with 'normal' K1 setup at full chat yet?

Not worth it IMHO. The fact remains that that setup will simply be too loud when you have the exhaust on bypass, so you'd be constantly leaving it switched on to avoid the headache you'd get/ballache from everyone else. Not trying to sound like a broken record here, but you really REALLY do not want a decat with a K1. Put it another way, there's no reason you can't go and get the setup you want and then add the ECV in afterwards, but I believe they've stopped making the electronic version so you'd have to use the manual cable driven one. I'd give it a week before you gave up and popped the cats back in.

Those lap times mean nothing. Different drivers on different days will give wildly different lap times.

Do you want the absolute best, money no object? If so then get the PS2s. If budget is limited then get either the T1Rs or the 452s, they're so close in feel that it really doesn't matter which one you pick. Sorted. 8)

Working on the gearbox ratios, these are the max speeds in each gear: 1st Gear = 38 mph 2nd Gear = 62 mph 3rd Gear = 89 mph 4th Gear = 114 mph 5th Gear = 145 mph 6th Gear = 184 mph All speeds rounded up/down to nearest mph, and calculated using data from here and calculator from here. Obviously drag and power will come into it at some point, but you can always add more power and to a certain extent effect the drag (although 0.30Cd is pretty good anyway) so your limit is the mechanicals of the gearbox.

What mileage? Must be stratospheric for the car to be for sale at £30K. The running costs on a £100K+ car are going to be insane, warranty or not. Service has got to be around £1000 for starters, then there's pads and discs and all the other bits that'll need doing... If you need to ask the question, then you probably can't afford it. Personally I'd rather have a 996 C2S than a turbo for the more involving drive, or even better a 993.

Mocking the interior of another car when you own a Zed? Glass houses, stone throwing and all that I'd happily live with an Audi interior over a BMW or Merc one any day. Those latter two just leave me utterly cold (new Z4 excluded, I really like the inside of that).

Ah, the infamous TMS dyno. Probably was about 17bhp in reality, given how notoriously dodgy their dyno is (strapping down of the VX tubbies and all that!)

:bye: Ex-owner of VXR no.20 here, used to post over on VX220.org too and even went to the National meet at Anglesey a couple of weekends ago and drove my old car round the track, thanks to the current owner who I sold the car to! TMS stage 2, few other bits and pieces but nothing else really outrageous, loved the car to pieces at the time but could never go back now.

I really like the Corsa VXR as it does exactly what it's supposed to: Look like it's doing a million miles per hour whilst standing still, be more than quick enough for the kind of person who's going to buy it, be cheap enough to buy and run that it won't bleed you dry, and be solid enough that it won't fall apart. It's a pretty decent drive too. It's just a shame that the Meriva and Zafira absolutely killed the VXR brand dead in the water, as it had such a promising start and could've become Vauxhall's RS/Nismo/AMG. /bitter ex-VXR220 owner

In all honesty it's unlikely most of us will keep the Zed long enough for the tiny differences in fuel to make any difference to our cars whatsoever. Put in whatever you want, drive as hard/soft as you like and revel in the fact you're driving one of the finest sports cars of the last decade

Waaaaaay down in Essex so couldn't be much further really