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Does anyone else already have this fitted to a standard cat setup? I have heard the Miltek and highflow cat setup, and really like it. Anyone know how the Nismo cat back may compare?

And here was me thinking I had bought something rare! Welcome aboard! We will need our own local meet organiser if we get many more in Chesterfield!

Yup - I spotted loads in Vegas too. Lots of Infiniti Coupes too.

And for this tidy sum what kind of "pub" figure can we expect? I assume this base would provide a sturdy platform to go down a serious 450+ bhp forced induction route if someone were so inclined?

Would a small thin strip of draught excluder (the sort put round door frames) make the fit a little tighter and soften/stop any rattles?

Yes. But it may be a little missleading. Example: I tested my head for durability this morning. I dropped a brick on it from a height of seven feet, and it didn't break the skin, nor did it even hurt a bit! How hard am I! Note: Brick was from lego set no B8421, a little yellow one.

Thats a bargain! Sadly, Ive got other projects on both in the house and for the car, if I was a little more flush right now Id snap your arm off.

With service like that its almost worth a drive down there! Touch wood I havent needed any assistance from Nissan yet, but good service from a dealer is one of the most important items on any car ownership list. Glad you have received great service - it is very rare in this day, from any company!

I defy anyone at Nissan to perform this "firing a diamond at 100mph" test on my car and it not leave a chip. I have chips half way up my bonnet - how? If this paint can take direct hits from diamonds at 100mph, then how does it chip so easily. The front of my Roadster is starting to become a joke. I have a VW Golf, and although the paint on that is water based, and also chips relatively easily, it has covered almost 40,000 miles half of which on motorways or dual carriage ways, and it has just the same ammount of chips as the 350, which has barely covered 5,000 miles. In my personal opinion the paint on the Z is the worst of any car I have ever owned in terms of durability. I believe there are minimum standards that paint should meet (thats what I was led to believe by a paint expert at a recent show) - so many microns of primer, so many colour and so many lacquer. It would be interesting to find those numbers and also find someone with access to the gear to measure it on the Z and see how the paint thickness compares to other marques. I have to say, looking at the chipped areas on the Z compared to the Golf, the paint on the Z appears, to me, to be considerably thinner. NOTE: The views above are entirely my own, and not necissarily that of 350z-uk.com. No conclusions should be drawn from my opinions, nor should these opinions be used by other parties in any future action concering the matter

Depends where the speedo gets its reading from. Anyone know? If it is the rears, then the speedo will be reading fast by about 4.4% or when your speedo says 70mph, you will actually be doing about 66.9mph You can use this tool here: http://www.rochfordtyres.co.uk/tyrecalc.asp Standard tyres on rear 245/45 R18 = rolling radius of 2129.06mm New tyres on rear 275/30 R19 = rolling radius of 2034.49 At least you will be safe at speed cameras as you will be going slower than your speedo says (if it reads from the rear wheels).

Nick, Ive not had call to purchase any just yet, but we do have a discount of 5% with blackcircles.com, they seem to have quite reasonable prices by all accounts. As I say, Ive not purchased any yet, so cant say Ive done a massive ammount of research - Im sure someone will be along shortly to advise.

I think we need to make a download section for all the various items. Flyers, spotted cards, spec sheets, etc etc. Ill get one set up.

Now that sounds like some nice head unit. Very interested indeed.!

Im hoping mine will be seen as a "backup" if yours get "too expensive" - LOL. Probably started formulating my advert before you actually - its just that its the first thing Ive ever sold, so it took me AGES to work it out! LOL. Good luck with yours too - seem to be going well.

Well, a set went on ebay recently for £720, and the only difference between mine and those is a £50 repair job (if really wanted) round one of the lug holes. So I reckon £200 less than that other set would be a fair ish price. And Ive not even set my reserve at that! The auctions only half a day old though, so Im not too bothered. Im new to this ebay lark, so dont really know what to expect, but Ive got a garage full of junk to practice with!

Very funny. Got a bit of stif competition with those GT4 wheels! Ive let the SX OC know about my wheels too, but it seems the £50 repair job needed for one wheel may be putting people off. The bloody tyres would be £500 new. Some people want the moon on a stick.

Cant remember putting my name down for this - LOL. Glad I did though! Is it £20 per car for the whole weekend, or £20 per car per day?

I will ceratinly be interested in the outcome of those discussions - in my opinion the chances of the Z's paint standing up to that is about zero. A full "glass out" respray with thicker, harder paint under warranty would be nice.

May be worth a good look around the window rubber, just to see if there are any signs of foul play. Fingers crossed its just a case of draging it in on your shoe last time.

Spotted these on ebay: CLICKY

If the installation is good, and it would be top notch if done at their HQ, this stuff is all but invisible. You can see the edges if you look closely, but a very fine line of an edge of film is far better than a smattering of stone chips over the front end. Val (TheMinel) has had a full front end installation (the whole bonnet rather than just the front half) and due to the nature of the lines on the front of the Z, the film joins in the bottom of the creases in the bonnet - making the joins even less obvious. Ive not seen it in the flesh yet, but knowing how particular Val is about his car, if he says its a good job, its good! I wish mine had been done from new, but I bought the car 5 months old, and too late - along with a bodykit, the tidying up of the stonechips and aplication of paintshield is on my list of things to do.

Agree - some light t-cutting should hopefuly do the trick. If not then a bodyshop may be able to use a polisher to help out. A colour match polish may also help fill any more serious damage without the need for spraying. Makes me bloody mad that society today breeds the kind of brainless shits that will do this to other peoples property.

As per title. Anyone in need of an empty street today?

Having seen the front end of mine after only 5000 miles, not a great deal of it on the motorways either - I would say yes, without a doubt. Im hoping to get the chips done on mine and the front end protected afterward.

I think I'll pass for now, as I cant decide which, and the bill for the kitchen has landed this month anyway. Ill probably have made my mind up bythe timethe next one is set up LOL.