Andy75

Might bring the canoe instead! Was planning on wash and wax this morning - plan now scuppered. I'll be there but my ginger beastie will be filthy

No food for me ta. Yes Fish Hill is better up than down imho - but the bigger problem is the tarmac over the top onto the Wolds. Gloucester council have still not repaired a lot of roads from the big snow fall 2 years ago

Well, I would post it, but I'll be buggered if I can get a map to embed like what you have, even using the gmaps tags.

Either date good for me, especially as it passes through my village (Bidford).

Would recommend a slight detour further south onto the A44 and up Fish Hill - a great road that.

If you hold the "next track" button up or down on the steering wheel controls for more than 3 seconds, the disc changer loads the next (if up) or previous (if down) disc from the changer. Might be common knowledge, but I stumbled onto it after nearly a year of ownership

My damn Scorpion rattles on a cross member somewhere when cold

 

Mine did too mate - just not fitted properly.

 

Get under it or take it to your local friendly tyre garage - large jubilee clip on the middle hanger tight as you can and it sorts it right out

Oh to be fair was fitted by previous owner - will get this sorted now. Thanks!

Yeah she was pretty big Good fun through the Elan Valley...not!

Also, sounds like you're going for "motorcaravan" status when you say about the table and the cooker. it's a bit more involved than just those two unfortunately - have a look at http://sbmcc.co.uk/forum/ for the full skinny on what's needed for the DVLA to re-classify.

My definition of a shed would be the coolest car (or van) u can find for under a grand that meets ur requirements

My old Dodge Ram B250 cost me £880 to buy - 5.9 litre V8. Is that cool enough? Sold off to some chaps going to leMans last year unfortunately - don't know if they made it or not!

Could fit my 16 foot Apache Canadian canoe in it front to back no probs

Just stuck a 6970 into mine, plays nicely. Can't remember my nick, I think it's Vertigo. or V3rtigo. Getting pee'd off tho with the constant tank base rape

Spacers, some LED side and numberplate lights, new rubber, plenum spacer & uprev.

Hmm...or save my money and buy a bigger motorhome!

Hiya - can you email me a pic of the engine cover please? Whatever hosting you have used is blocked by the IT Nazis

andymeade@gmail.com

Cheers!

My Sprocker Spaniel Bramble loves the fireworks - always go to the local fireworks show where he sits with his ears pricked up watching the whizz-bangs Being my gun dog all his life probably helps!

Been using SolidWorks at work now since 2001, so fairly good with it! (SWCP level ) It's a very good system, I have the full "simulation" (used to be COSMOS) FEA, and the rendering packages.

Depends on how legit you want to be when using it - we pay £3,500 a seat per year. Ooh look at the weather - the rain is TORRENTial out there...

No bites anywhere as yet, looking at different funding method and keeping my Ginger Baby (which would please me no end!)

Yeah me too mate - bought her for £8100 in February

You ought to see the offers I've been getting on eBay! nutters.

to my epic aerial of POWA!

hmmm always forget something!

Well, the time has come (unfortunately) to let my little Ginger baby go. I've had great fun with her this year, and she has been only really used as a third car. I looked for more than a year before going for this one - the right colour, the right spec, the right interior. Well for me it was anyway!

Usual fantastic UK GT spec :

• Rays forged alloys (good tyres all round)
  Brembo calipers all-round
  Full orange leather interior (heated, electrically adjustable seats)
  6 speed gearbox
  Bose 6 speaker system, 6 CD in-dash changer
  Built-in bluetooth phone control (steering wheel controls)
  Cruise control (steering wheel controls)
  Climate control / Aircon (lovely and chilly!)
  Limited slip differential

It's just not worth going for the cheaper non-GT models - they are cheaper for a reason - no one wants them! GT is the only way, and as mentioned in the title - this is a UK, non-imported car.

She has been upgraded slightly with minimal enhancements :

• DBA front discs
  EBC rear discs
  DS2500 pads all round
  Scorpion stainless backbox & centre pipe
  K&N high flow oil filter
  Fuchs Engine oil
  Later revision velocity stack reproduction

She has done 67,000 miles, and has a full Nissan service history, though I have changed the oil since her last service to something that's a bit more specialist (Fuchs Race Pro). The gearbox is perfect and not notchy or grinding like a lot of others - the clutch is also fine. She is also washed and waxed once a fortnight, if she has been driven or not.

In case you didn't know -350Z's are 3.5 litre V6 powered, through a 6 speed manual gearbox (in my case, not auto obviously), and rear wheel drive through a limited slip diff.

Ginger comes with original Nissan Z floor mats in the front and an original vertical tonneau that divides the boot in two under the rear strut brace.

The ONLY "bad" bits on this car are :

Clicky CV's when in reverse - a very common fault (check the forums), easy fix (as per Nissan) or buy a reconditioning kit from someone on the forum

2 small areas of missing paint - one on front corner of the bonnet (its aluminium so it doesn't rust) and on the pointy bit on the front OSF wing, which is very small and hardly noticeable. Both blemishes are smaller than 5mm across, but I like to mention it now rather than later.

The handbrake cable could do with tightening a bit - I slackened off the adjuster a tad too much when fitting the rear discs, so could do with being wound back out to give a better handbrake feel.

This car will be sorely missed, but I need to bump my deposit for our house move up a bit, so a quick (CASH ONLY!) sale is preferred. Tax and MOT in place until January 2012.

I'm located nicely for M40 / M5 / M6 / M42 travel, in south Warwickshire.

All paperwork including manuals are with the car, as well as ALL THREE KEYS! So that's two ignition keys, plus the valet key - as supplied when she left the dealership. Not many Zed's around these days with all 3 original keys still!

She is for sale on Pistonheads and eBay, but a 350Z forum buyer will get the brand new and as yet unfitted ZSpeed aluminium undertray for free

Price is £6950 - sorry for forgetting that first time around!

64 players on the PC version = win Still not as good as ye olde days of Joint Ops - 100 players per team

I mostly get "hairdresser".

ORLY...

That's OK Stu, was just interested in seeing it come apart

Pics and guide going into how-to section?

Nice where'd you go? I need to arrange a 2 or 3 week break doing the same in May for my 10th anniversary!

Never been a huge Apple fan (enough sheeple out there already), but you cannot underestimate the huge positive effect his creations have had on the technological world. Above all, he was a family man - someone's son, someone's father, someone's husband, and more of a great loss to them than anyone else.

I worry about some of the macolytes though, some of them do take things a bit far!