Daryl

Started to get a squeak from my belts a few weeks ago,and this has now turned into a full on high pitch screech when i fire the car up for the first time,and last a few minutes before it stops. The belts are only a year old,(Gates from Alex). Its started to do it on fire up even when the car is warm now too,and is pretty annoying,especially for the road i live in at 5.30 when i sometimes go to work. Iv got a set of AMS LW pulleys on there,which were fitted at the same time as the belts. Is it worth getting the belts tightened up,or should i replace with new ones now that the current ones are obviously stretched abit? Also,someone mentioned to me the other day that they had heard of super sticky belts being fitted to cars with ally pulleys,is this just rubbish,or do such things exist?

Never tried Yellow Stuff pads, always has Ferodo DS2500,but its an easy job to do. Takes longer to get the wheel off and on than it does to change the pads. Just take your time the first time you do it. You will need a small pin punch or similar to push the retaining pin out the caliper,as they can sometimes get stuck with all the gunk that gets around them. When you put the pins back in,give them a quick rub with some abrasive paper,and smear with copper slip,this helps the next time you replace them.

Yeah sorry,it hasnt been washed for a month or so now,wife to be's car is the same,its disgraceful really. Would have washed it Friday evening,but had to fit some bungs into a mates Elise,which was a waste of time as it still was over the noise limit. They are getting really strict on the noise now,they actually had a guy leaning in the cockpit watching your revs as another guy held the machine at the back of the car. Atleast in most of the shots you can see im pushing the car.

Had a chat with John Palmer too,very nice guy. He said he would very much like to do a race series with 350Z's,he ran a few as experience cars a few years back,and he always rated them. That would be very interesting. I said to him id spun at the last corner,and said about the ginger crash,i was lucky as i went onto the grass. I think i just got too much kerb on the entry to it. I feel the seats could be alot better. My friend with the 370 has nice very nice Recaro's and harnesses,which were immense,really held you in place,so maybe worth a look at some point.

Either Bedford or Anglesey. Bedford is very safe as there's masses of runoff everywhere because it's purpose built, sadly that does make it a bit lacking in excitement at times. The first half of the GT circuit up to the long straight is good fun though, as is the final corner that Daryl mentioned above. I'm tempted to drag the '5 back there again at the start of December, depends on whether funds allow or not right now. Thanks for the info! I am looking at doing Saturday 15th December: http://www.clubmsv.c...?productid=1623 Seems great value for £99 for a whole day. It is a very safe circuit yes,and although as has already been said,its laking in excitement,the GT circuit is pretty cool. There are points that test how brave you are,which if the answer is very,then its very rewarding. The £99 is a very good price if its for the whole day,and for the GT circuit,there are 3 different ones at Bedford. It was very crowded on Saturday,with around 90 cars,but they only allow 40 on track at any one time. For a beginners track day,its brilliant,the long back straight will see you touching 125-130.

Went to Bedford on Saturday,and what a day. We lost around 2 hours running first thing,as some bloke ran out of talent (not sure he had it to start with) and put his Pug on its roof,glass everywhere,mass clean up,ambulance etc etc. Then I had a massive off at the last turn,i think i grabbed too much kerb on the way in,but had a abit of a drift on,sorted that out,then all of a sudden i had no control,abit of a tank slapper,and ended up on the grass infield at the other end of the pit lane facing the track. That really shook me up,no damage to the car luckily,only my pride! Lunch was mainly spent putting the cat back in my mates S1 Elise,with no ramps or jack,so that was fun. (He failed the noise test at the start of the day,and had to go home and get the cat) Then in the afternoon i got taken for a few hot laps in my mates dads MP4-12C,which was epic,and my mate took me out in his Nismo kitted 370Z with P Zero Rosso tyres. I managed to get into a nice rhythm in the afternoon,though i never trusted the last turn again. I followed a 996 C4S with its front end twitching through there,so decided not to push though it again. During the down time in the morning,i put the ARB's on their hardest settings,and that really made a difference,and when I was taking out my mate who had the 370,he helped me out loads, pointing out where i could go faster and how to take certain corners. He later ran out of fuel at round 4.30 coming into the pits,and that ended the day. Over all an eventful day,but still brilliant,and the car performed brilliantly. Had the discs skimmed by Marcus at Disc Skimmers a few weeks back, and the brakes felt superb,i could brake really hard and consistently all day, and i always knew where I was with them. Got home about 6.30 and then got showered and changed and went to a party in the evening,got home about 12.30,was up at 6am that day,so was very tired.

Answer is YES,every 350+370 needs an aftermarket exhaust,they sound so much better than the standard ones.

Ah yes,the one on the way to jnc 13,forgot about that one. Me and Allan Zada are MK yes,I live in Middleton. A good friends of mine lives in Aspley Guise,so over that way from time to time.

When i saw that out of control,i closed one eye,if that had ended like all the other Beetles,then it would have had dead people.

Hiya and welcome,where abouts in MK do you live? Are you near the A5 Lexus garage or Ski dome? Cant think of any other BP's in MK.

Why would one need the larger one over the smaller one?

Pretty incredible this, though iv been told it has been delayed a day due to weather. If the guy does it,then he will be a legend.

Exciting race yesterday,good effort Massa and Kamui, hopefully they will keep their seats for next year. Grojean needs to sort his act out,cost us a possible 1-2 today,and pretty much ruled Webber out of the drivers title this year.

Love the 350z Rays on there,looks really good.

Rubbish - I still look at the photos of mine and even share them with the forum to let them know what a lovely clutch I have hiding inside Let us know how it performs and sounds If i was running your clutch then I would be doing the same! Car is on 64k now,and the pedal is very heavy,and getting abit of clutch wiff from time to time now,so figured its time to bite the bullet and get it sorted. Also doing a track day at the end of October,and dont want it to fail there.

You realise that's just a 1A USB port? It's the same as this except it has the words "Apple iPhone 5" in the title and costs 1.5 times as much: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BELKIN-12V-DC ... 2740994%26 I didn't want to say anything but I got 2 doubles free with charger leads. The leads were £3.50 each free packaging You beat me to it Haydn It is also a good idea not to totally rely on these types of chargers as they can overcharge the battery, if this is done on a regular basis then oxidisation will take place within the battery and shorten battery life. Best practice is to only use these types of charger only when you have to i.e. charge on the mains whenever you can and use this type as a "reserve" or emergency charger. Don't just get in the car and plug the phone in to the charger just because there's a charger in the car. I didnt realise that the in car chargers can bugger up the battery. Pretty much every time i get in the car i put my phone on charge,as then i know when i get to my destination,that its fully charged up. Is this bad practice then?

Exeter for the weekend with friends,then 5 nights with Estelle in Cornwall,no where exotic.

Looking forward to a great race later,cant wait. Abit disappointing that we didnt do better in qualifying, but its always an exciting race,and Maldonado is always worth watching. Just followed up on the 'incident' with Mark and Timo,and this line from Autosport made me chuckle. 'Accordingly from the telemetry it is concluded there was no time lost whilst behind WEB - the time loss was before and after the alleged impeding" Basically Timo screwed up his lap and wanted someone to blame.

Not yet,sorry,will be a couple of weeks yet. Im away for a week as of Friday. Aim is to have it fitted before the end of October.

Well after a fair while plucking up the courage to hit the buy button,iv taken the plunge and ordered a new fly wheel from Cougar Store. Ordered it Thursday,and it arrived Friday. Looks nice,though this is irrelevant as it will never be seen again. Weights 6.3 kg,so hopefully will help the engine spin up nicely.

Happy birthday,hope you have a great day

The Total garage 2 minutes form me closed for a week and has opened as a Shell now,its brilliant,dont have to go out my way at all now for V Power.

Or all 3. lol

I think he means Maplins.