ikarus

Hi Amy and welcome,

I was looking through some old jap car mags today from this year while pretending to work, i saw your car, and again - and then again! You got some good coverage, and well deserved by the looks of it, nice FTO - i'm not normally a fan of them. I'm interested to see what you have in mind with the zed - when can you share?

ikarus

Another cheapo replica to my eye .

first dibs, pm'd

dibs on coil overs? pm'd.

Ikarus - are you sure you dont work in my office? That sounds exactly like here...

 

And Sarnie - i've lost count of how many times my missus has asked me to pick her up from work when im working from home... even though she finished 30mins before i do. FOR GODS SAKE WOMAN, IM WORKING!!

.. and i thought it was just me suffering all this crap everyday! Its like an office stress support group up in here!

I actually work on the same site as a gtr owner so we have a mini meet most lunch times. It's proved to be a worthwile break from office politicas every day.

OK this thread got me thinking, i work in an open plan office so here goes..

1. People who don't realise that a phone transmits there voice accross wires - THERE'S NO NEED TO FRIGGIN SHOUT! (over 100dB! - i measured it)

2. People who insist on bringing a cup of tea or coffee back from the kitchen, with a spoon, AND THEN stirring it for 5 minutes - QUIET DUDE - TRYING TO WORK!

3. People who just assume you must be doing nothing all day except waiting for them to want something. So they just turn around and start asking you questions on the spot - A. I'm doing something - it's rude. B. I wrote a god damn manual for this - RTFM - it's on your desk - i can see it!

4. The 5.00pm stampede for the door. Maybe i could join this one day IF I COULD GET SOME WORK DONE IN WORKING HOURS!

5. A boss who 'doesn't condone flexitime' and jumps on you if you're a minute late back from lunch - Yet he arrives half an hour late EVERY DAY because he has to drop his kid off!

6. People who make out they are experts at everything. Then when thier lack of knowledge lets them down they blame everything and start shouting about how crap it is - NO IT ISN'T - LEARN TO USE IT - EVERYONE ELSE DID! (by repeatedly disturbing me while i was clearly doing nothing else - refer to 3)

.. and breathe, that actually felt a little thereputic

Cheers for the replys guys...seem to be a fair few links to the MR2 owners clubs cropping up here!!

 

Now for a few quick questions regarding these two cars:

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/200945345447120/sort/priceasc/usedcars/make/nissan/model/350_z/radius/40/quicksearch/true/page/1/postcode/ng138sq?previous=%2Fsearch%2Fresults%2Fusedcars%2Fpostcode%2Fng138sq%2Fradius%2F40%2Fmake%2Fnissan%2Fmodel%2F350_z%2Fsort%2Fpriceasc%2Fquicksearch%2Ftrue%2Fpage%2F1&anchor=advert200945345447120&logcode=p

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/SALES/1391732.htm

 

They both say 'Metallic Silver' but I'm pretty sure there's a difference in colour there...is there anywhere I can find PDFs of the old brochures so I can see what colours they came in??

 

Would also help me work out exactly what's in the GT pack, ie. why the second link has controls on both sides of the steering wheel!!

 

Finally, I think I've decided what sort of thing I'm looking for; a 2004, UK GT model in the lighter colour silver (Metallic Silver I believe??) with about 50k max on the clock.

Would a price of between £10k-£11k be reasonable for such a model??

i think this site might help you out with some of the info you're after ..

http://www.350z-tech.com/zwiki/Nissan_350Z

JWT pop charger but the noise/vibration is coming from the rear left (guessing) round about where the spare wheel sits. I've ordered some sound-proofing but if that doesn't work, I'm back to the standard zorst.

What sound proofing have you ordered, this can be an expensive and time consuming mistake if not done right and with the right products.

PS, +1 on what CS said. My K1 sat on the cross brace for a while but i had it adjusted and it's fine now. It's still loud but there is a noticable volume improvement in the cabin. You need to make sure its not contacting with any of the underbody otherwise it sets up very loud vibrations and the whole cabin resonates. Regarding build quality, they are not great, but then they are very good value. My exhaust just needed an extra pair of hands and a little patience and it fits just fine. I drive with bungs in and i have no issues with it's volume, i'm totally used to it, and i love the pitch at high revs - now bungs out is a different matter

Hi and welcome,

I have an mr2 also. I made the same transition. I have had my 350 for since the summer and now completely prefer the zed - even though my mr2 is faster . The zed handles better and is far more comfortable, a much nicer drivers car.

nice 2 by the the way ..

a pic of mine, which will be for sale next year ..

i would post a pic of the zed but its in the body shop currently being painted .

This is the weekend that i should get my zed back from the bodyshop.. Will be difficult to confirm untill nearer the time but i will try and make it..

1. Nurrish - confirmed

2. Ians16

3. Husky - confirmed

4. rich5259 - confirmed +1

5. Rico 350ZGT

6. GT4 Zed- confirmed

7. Fakeindian

8. Bladesgrant - Confirmed

9. BRO-T

10. Ikarus - tbc

11. ZedJohn

12. troublesome - confirmed

13. j19edg

14. T8 JPE - Confirmed

Sorry but I'm going to give this is a miss. Just bought Nurrish SatNav systems so better watch the pennies.

 

1) Rtbiscuit

2) Lamby

3) fatalus

4) Vik54

5) ikarus

6) Husky

7) Spen

..ahhh, now we need 3 more! Any takers??

Sorry to revive an old thread, but i need to source some UK battery terminals for my jdm 350. The possitive appears to have fuses built into it which is a little akward. I have purchased a UK battery and want to get it fitted with minimal pain. Anyone any idea where to get these from and whether they include the fuse arrangement on the possitive side?

thanks..

thanks mate,

 

why do people disconect the rears? i would of thought that would make the sound flat,

With good comps and good speaker placement, as the other posts have said, you can get good staging and hence not need rears. With good staging it would sound anything but flat, infact, quite the oposite. In the ideal world we would plug in our speakers and get a great stage. In reality it is extremly difficult to stage a car correctly - it varies a lot between cars and is different for different speakers. Some people go to extreme lengths ro achieve this (myself included). As we don't live in an ideal world, and if you are using the stock speaker locations you might gain from a little from the rear, but at very low levels (faded almost completely to the front). This will help a poorly staged system balance the sound. I wouldn't rule out rears, but i also wouldn't spend a fortune on them either. Put the money in the front speakers and replace the rears IF needed. I think front and rear sizes in the Zed are both 6.5's but i would check that.

isnt it more speakers the better

No, again quite the oposite. On hard surfaces (like glass and plastics) sound reflects, on softer surfaces (like seats, carpet, head cloth etc.) it may get absorbed. Where sound waves interact you may get sound cancellations if like frequencies meet in phase, and amplified sound if like frequencies out of phase creating horrible 'bright' reactions at certain frequencies. What you end up with is litteraly sound anarchy. Less is usually better. Car audio is a minefield, and there are a lot of people out there with an incredible amount of technical understanding and expience. Take a look over on the talkaudio forum if you aren't familiar with it, plenty of technical Q&A believe me!

ikarus

Oki, just got my first quote....

 

£750!

 

Thats for full bumper to be stripped all the way back, reglassed, repainted etc.

The opinion was that a small repair of the area would only recrack rather rapidly.

 

It cost me less for the bumper, spray and fitment in the first place.

 

so, off to the next bodyshop.

 

(thanks for the help Lee, these comments are in no way a reflection on your brothers place. I just simply cannot afford that kinda repair at the moment, If I could, Id have booked her in today)

Oooch. You should be able to get a much better quote than that! it's not that big a repair, the kit still looks perfectly straight - just needs re-glassing from the back and then blending at the front. It will need to come off for the repair though. Where abouts are you based as i know some good body shops in Staffs area? i paid half that last year for a front end, side skirts, rear spatts and rear spoiler fitted and painted for my mr2.

I'll come along, depending on what day it falls on..?

1. Nurrish

2. Ians16

3. Husky

4. rich5259

5. Rico 350ZGT

6. GT4 Zed

7. Fakeindian

8. Bladesgrant

9. BRO-T

10. Ikarus

Bumpage...

 

Will take £40 + postage...

 

Ross

Dibs? can you send photo's through to confirm product / condition pls.

Thanks.

Hi there I am going to upgrade my system in my zed but just wanted to know if anyone has run new speaker wires to the front door speakers and how difficult is it to do???

I've not done this yet but intend to over the next month or so when i get my zed back from the paint shop . There is a good guide here:

http://www.350z-tech.com/zwiki/Front_Speaker_Wire_Routing

once i learned all the fairlady heritage i got really attached to mine. I love the fact that nobody knows what the hell it is and ALL the zed cars in Japan are fairlady's old and new - the original and real name for a zed!

 

^what he said.. well said that man.

 

ikarus....you do realize that you too are on the infamous "slaplist" for calling nixy a man, lol.

 

Yes, believe it or not, nixy is a woman...

doh.. i once again proved my igorance . My appologies Nixy, should have been suspicious from the whole nemo thing really! With you on the whole fairlady thing though.. not sure if thats enough to gain removal from the slap list though..

once i learned all the fairlady heritage i got really attached to mine. I love the fact that nobody knows what the hell it is and ALL the zed cars in Japan are fairlady's old and new - the original and real name for a zed!

^what he said.. well said that man.

My fairlady (no pun intended) goes in for a full respray in a few weeks time, when it comes out it will have a shiny new fairlady badge.

Keep it!!!!

+1

ok, so i got the kit yesterday from Envy and all is good, ie correct kit and no courier damage . I now have the car booked in to get it all fitted and painted

Someone i was speaking too at JAE this year mensioned that he had fitted an ings bumper to his skyline (infinity 350gt) and that when it was baked to cure the paint, it warped. Something to do with the temp difference between hybrid and standard fibreglass. As the instuctions that came with the kit are in Japanese i can't confirm if there's any truth in this, anybody got any clue about this areo hybrid material or any idea where i can download an English copy of the instructions? - i have scoured the ings+1 website and hammered google both without any luck.

thanks as always.

11) rtbiscuit

12) srobrien

13) DontPanic

14) Kings

15) Lamby

 

16) fatalus

17) Vik54

 

come on we only need another three!

Can i tag on to this or is it too late?

16) fatalus

17) Vik54

18) ikarus ?

pm'd

I have one, i'm in Stafford PM me later for details.

Its going to be worth the wait

Certainly hope so, damn shame winter is fast approaching though!

Sounds good Dave, by the way, I called you this morning just after 9:00...

So you did, i was with jigsaw and drill and didn't hear, my appologies . Will give you a shout back later today once i'm back from lunch with my parents.