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  1. Chaps, unless you've raced one side-by-side with an N/A zed, then please stop reading text books. Real life is quite different to theory.

    The Z4M will kill a stock 350z and an E46 M3. Nowhere near the same speed.

  2. Well theres a huge difference between spending £1000-£4000 on a £6000 car to make it better, as opposed to spending £50k or more to buying a car. If you can afford to spend £80k on a 370z and heavily modifying it then you wouldnt have qualms about buying a Ferrari in the first place or a GTR. Its about what money you have in the first place. 'A £30k car can never be made as good as a £100k car', is the £30k car buying a brand new car, or the original RRP of a car IE a 350z and buying it second hand at £6000 and comparing it to a brand new £100k car? Thats a different ball park too.

     

    But theres a difference between spending a few thousand on a Saxo or Civic when you could buy a 350z for a few grand more, as opposed to bying a second hand 350z and spending a couple of grand on that as opposed to shelling £40k more for a second hand GTR. In that sense, a few grand on a 350z will improve the car in many ways. To the level of a GTR? No. but give yourself a £10k budget and you'll have a supreme vehicle thats not lightyears away from a £50k second hand or £100k new GTR

     

    Are you new to the world of modifying? - There is no such thing as budget my friend.

     

    There is a 'point of no return' when you start modding a car.

     

    The 30k new vs 6k used is all relative. The price of exotics also decrease, maybe not to the same extent.

     

    This is becoming overly complicated debate.

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  3. Thanks for the feedback.

     

    Interesting comments....

     

    For me, it's the love affair that you have with the car. Mines been going on 5 years now. And at today's prices, I could have bought 3 350z's and a chunk of change with the monies I've spent purely on mods alone.

     

    I like the whole process of trial and error and over time making the car better and better, seeing it develop like a small child.

     

    However, it has been a lot of headache and uphill struggle as well. Then when I drive to somewhere like the ring and see GT3s everywhere that are already prepped from the factory zapping past me, I think "why bother?". Seeing that video of the 991 GT3 gave me that same feeling again.

  4. Ok, this I think is quite an interesting topic....

     

    A few friends of mine and I are having a debate about this. We all have different performance cars.

     

    To keep things simple, let's keep the focus on the 350 / 370z.

     

    No matter how much money is thrown at a zed, it can never be as good (overall) as a GT3 / GT-R / Ferrari / whatever, so why do we bother modding them?

     

    Is it not a wiser to save your pennies and wait until you can afford a better car? - Taking into account the fact we all know you will never get the thousands you spend on your zed. Discuss! :)

     

    (I say this while placing some orders on some aftermarket parts I want for the zed lol)

  5. I had a similar problem to this (on a Pioneer pioneer avh-x3500dab)...but mine was that the harness had been snipped off by a previous owner and the audio place is struggling to find the volume wires out of the 30 odd wires there.

     

    Will I need to replace the whole steering wheel to make this work or can I buy the steering wheel volume button harness from somewhere?

     

    Oh and BulletMagnet; how did you guys wire up the call answer to switch between audio sources?

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