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Hi, and congratulations - you'll be grinning from ear to ear when the car is finally on the drive As Mike says there are various differences between the 06 and 07 engine, and any modifictaions done to the 06 will be counteracted by the ECU, any real HP gains should only be seen if the ECU is piggybacked.

We got caught in a hailstorm on the way over to Millau on a mountain road. When I say hailstorm, it was actually as though someone had opened the cargo bay doors of some plane transporting golf balls. We thought that the car was going to be dented all over due to the size and force of the things. My advice would be that if you see the first signs of a hail storm, get under a bridge sharpish, as any bigger and I think the car would have been in the panel beaters for a month! Lovely scenery though, and it should be a great trip!

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We popped across to San Remo whilst on the Europe tour, neither myself or Tracy were that impressed with the cities we visited in the South of France, compared to the scenery and relaxed nature of the Loire Valley. If you do travel along the south of France toward Italy, you can take in Monaco and Monte Carlo along the way which are nice though. A drive round the Grand Prix circuit at Monaco is good. The stands round near the swimming pool were still in place when we went round, as were the starting grid lines

Having seen the paintwork, it looks immacualte. The sun sadly did not come out until toward the end of the day, so it was never seen in its full pearlescent glory.

He said it only takes 10 minutes to clean it - I suppose dirt has a hard time finding a way in! One other chap did mention to the owner that he was waiting for the day that some part of the engine needed work or replacement Fair play though, it certainly blings! I darent use the flash when taking the pics! For fear of being sued for sending onlookers blind.

At least we made the effort to turn up, sadly missed Tim who also popped along on Sunday, but left before I popped back over in the afternoon. Maybe the result would have been the same had others turned up? Suppose we will never know the answer now...

350z pictures from the day..... Click to enlarge

Paul, you spent WAY too much time looking under Mr Blings bonnet on Saturday, and its starting to show.

You'll get asked what it is from time to time. One Z owner who shall remain nameless confessed to almost asking me why I had a map of Australia in my window but thought it wasnt quite the right shape...

Heres a few of the photos I took (trigger happy again and got about 200+)- also posted these on the Z Club, great bunch of people as always Will post up all the 350Z ones once I return later tonight Click to enlarge:

Excellent pics and write up, it is a brilliant experience. I was nevous as hell when going to the entrance gate for the first time, I really do want to go back. Great town, great atmosphere, great sightseeing, and Lots of non ring related activities and places to visit too. Yes - you should get yourself one of these:

Yes - I delivered Jonathans trophy last night, he was quite chuffed! At least an UY got Highly commended Yes - wax, two buckets, speed detailer, glass cleaner, autosol and whole host of microfibre cloths on the shopping list eh Paul? Ive just cut all my photos to DVD to take over to the Z club today. Ill spend this evening resizing a selection for posting up.

I think its open all day, as people are camping over - yesterday was great, and Im hoping to get over again today 12:30 or 1pm ish, will be recording the GP to watch later!

Fits directly over the top of the existing lip spoiler on the Z too. There will be one adorning my Z eventually

As part of my previous employment I actually visited the Parcelforce main depot at Coventry. Im sorry to say, if its gone missing there, it could take some finding. The place is absolutely massive. And I do mean massive. Here is an aerial shot of the place.. The hundreds of long rectangular objects round the outside are articulated lorries. http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/12/07 ... -coventry/ The area for missing/address unknown items is "sizeable" to say the least.

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Good luck with future motoring Dave, and good job on the sale Im sure we will all be here for advice in the future should you feel like stopping by every now and then

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Thats gone - but FA57 ZZZ is still there for anyone who wants it... £999

There has to be some banter allowed, thread locking is only used to prevent deterioration of topics because of a minority of people who just seem to have less self control than others.

It would of been locked regardless of my post once Digsy saw it The point is, what if the OP or anyone else, has something to add to that topic? A new thread is started and then immediately locked with a link to the original one? So lets say the threads are left open - what do we do with the innevitable spam that gets posted on the unlocked/dormant topic?

Im still running on the Bridgestones, had a few slips, but I think when I had those the tyres wouldnt have made much of a difference (sheet ice for example). Some tyres are invariably better than others, but if Im honest I think the only time you will notice this difference is when driving the car hard, bearing in mind I havent driven on anything other than the RE040's on the Z, I have no experience on which to base that though.

I think its just our concious efforts to try and prevent rubbish being posted. Im sure we all agree the banter makes things fun, and we certainly wouldnt want to prevent the banter and chat from taking place. Though there have been numerous examples of threads where they have deteriorated to such an extent they border on drivel. I believe the general policy on for sale items etc is to lock the topics after the item is sold or removed from sale etc, and on other threads, once they have reached a natural conclusion, perhaps they should be locked? Ongoing issues that people suffer from perhaps shouldnt be locked, but if the additions to the topic for some time are pointless, then there is often little option, (other than to remove the offending indivisual posts, but then we get cries of censorship). We have tried several methods of trying to remove the unnecessary (very off topic or ott) posts from threads, daily chat, chat rooms etc, but none seem to work. Preventing threads from becoming a mess in the forst place is just one more option that can be used, and clearly this appears to raise eyebrows too.

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