RisingPower

What do you mean until?

 

I'm offering hair cuts at Japfest

Can you do extensions and my nails? Always wanted them in hot pink

I haven't got one yet, but the 350z is certainly hot a hairdressers car!!!

 

People were comparing the 350 to an S2000 which i definately think is a hairdressers car

 

The V6 in a 350z makes it a man's car

Ey hang on a minute, you're after a spoiler and you don't even have a zed to put it on yet?

 

Peter is an idiot, I'd ditch him and get a new friend

Go on, admit it, you had some curling tongs until you bought the r34

Personally I have a room, with only haircare products and nail glitter.

First one seems to be on forums and has proper contact info so i'm guessing fairly safe.

Second, a quick google reveals they're in dunstable and also on forums so fairly safe.

Or you could ask these guys when they might get one in stock.

http://www.blitz-uk.co.uk/contactus.aspx

It is the only spoiler I like and evo-r on my350z did good replicas, just they didn't have such a good rep iirc.

http://shop.edoperformance.co.uk/blitz- ... -3231.html

Maybe that? Or this, but i don't see any contact details.

http://www.amber-performance.co.uk/sect ... 22&xPage=1

Rubbish that

Damn you Ian, looks really nice and titanium too, is the r34 going on a diet?

Need video though

Good thing that it's not a nismo backbox going by the images in the exhaust tips thread then

Seen nearly 40mpg on the zed, down a hill and not touching the gas. You just have to never go near the gas pedal is all

Realistically, you can get 30ish down straight nsls, a roads and motorways.

nespresso .... absolutely fantastic... you WONT be dissapointed!

I would

Does it have to be a bean to cup machine or are you interested in getting fresher/better coffee?

as you say, the best in a domestic situation

Something like a gaggia classic or rancilio silvia for the machine, and a mazzer super jolly for the grinding (from the bay of e) would be the best bet for a domestic situation

Tamping is also quite important, so a heavy metal tamper is a good idea.

Grinders = more important than machine

Of course fresh beans are a must too, from somewhere like hasbean.

Does it have to be a bean to cup machine or are you interested in getting fresher/better coffee?

yeah tuneability should probably be compared on a non invasive operation as chipping etc. not engine work.

But when it's been mapped, what else has significant potential? I'd rather start with something that is NA and then whack a turbo on it.

It's not exactly a big engine in the first place.

The vette stew has posted looks . I can't see a gtrs bay being anything but plastic.

Yanks also don't seem to have that nonsense about pedestrian collision, another pc stupidity.

Exactly. I couldn't care less if the GT-R had 800bhp and the Vette was a stock C6 with just 400bhp, I'd still have the Yank. Better noise, more character, and styled on the thighs of a virgin rather than carved from a solid lump of brick.

Here I was thinking porsche drivers had no soul

One thing the GTR certainly doesn't lack is tuneability!

 

Passenger collision system is a EU rules stipulation, and is nothing to do with the build quality.

 

The GTR is also a brand new car, unlike the Vette, which has the same basic design from (insert decade here).

What tuneability? The corvette gets another 100-150 horses just with cams and exhaust. Stick a tt kit on and thousands of horses.

It's all about build quality, they made a device which is one off use. It's stupid.

Vette is also a brand new car, they're still making them. The carbon one with carbon ceramic brakes.

May be a basic design, but it clearly works, gtr didn't compete at the ring, then comes the viper (yet another ancient design), which again whoops everything else.

Don't buy this newest tech is best tech argument.

The GTR isn't made from Lego though.

 

NSX anyone??

Maybe not, but it appears to be a completely stupid car and imho lacks the character and gorgeous sound of the vette. Not to mention the tuneability.

Ekona, presumably they don't have to import parts too often and besides I end up importing most parts from the usa anyways already

People would rather have silly cars like the gtr under the pretence they're built well, how that can be the case with the passenger collision system and transmission issues it had i'm not sure.

Agreed. The relatively "budget" cost of a car with super car beating performance is a big draw, and the running costs will have caught many out I'm sure.

Corvette z06 doesn't look too expensive to run, there was a lingenfelter too on ph which looked quite tasty.

Nissan gtr is a false budget supercar beater, but I bet the vette isn't.

I think that's a little high. 2 years of F430 ownership including all the above and a ridiculously expensive extended warranty comes in at £1350 ish a month. That's factoring in about 5 times the mileage that I've done too.

You don't only drive it on rollers do you?

On sensible driving you think not? My brothers has 10k on it at the moment with original tyres, granted that's 5k short and they do need changing but it's not been 10k of driving miss daisy.

I guess it depends on the compound and how you define sensible.

The m3 had vreds and they lasted maybe 8k of sensible driving, the r35 has a huge amount of power and not that wide wheels iirc, surely it couldn't last much longer even with the power being split?

MOT, tax, insurance, servicing, 1 set of tyres, depreciation of around 2k/year (i.e. everything it costs you to use the car on the road for 12 months), works out at £450 a month for me. I do a lot of miles (about 450->500mile a month), so the remaining £450 is fuel for me to get to work/back each month. Obviously if its just a w/end car the petrol costs would be less. In your example, £300.

i'm glad you don't do sums for my bank

Depreciation and tyres, tax, yeah, that would put the equivalent on the 350z as like maybe 1/5 or less?

No, I'd have a corvette and i'd bet it would be more reliable and cheaper to run.

Then again, I wouldn't be stupid enough to take out that size a loan on a car with such high running costs.

well its not the rasp , i get that at high revs, this 'whoosh' can happen at any any part of the rev range, soon as you take the foot off the gas...is this the thing you're on about? i dont think its a bad sound, just worried there was gas escaping!

 

cheers

Yes, it's normal. More like a sucking sound.

Typical woman saying something is smaller than it actually is

 

Its the angle if the photo and the tape DEFINITELY 58mm

It's definitely smaller

Still haven't found it Though I wasn't keen on nismo with berks, still may want motordyne shockwave though.

 

I was looking at the Motordyne Shockwave the other day, I currently have the ART pipes and XYZ with HFC... I find it strange that, unless you go full decatted, you have to use the stock cats or non-Motordyne HFCs as the XYZ+HFC won't fit with the y-pipe back parts of the Shockwave. A bit annoying really considering the front, y-pipe part, of the Shockwave is the same as the XYZ.

 

What the eckin peck, that's crazy. I thought the whole point was that the modules were interchangeable and all their stuff actually worked together.

 

Doh. Well, if you do get it, i'd love a listen.

 

Tell me about it! If you compare the middle section of the Shockwave vs the XYZ pipes below it in the following link you'll see that the x-pipe section of the Shockwave is in the same location as their race cat and the exhaust is dual after that so I can't see how you can use the Shockwave without normal cats or berks or something!

 

http://www.motordyneengineering.com/ind ... a944dac94e

It's strange though, could've sworn I saw another design for the shockwave without that resonator next to the xyz pipe. Would be interesting to get mark's input.

You also can see the shockwave on youtube vs the shockwave tdx v2, both true duals supposedly but imo the shockwave true dual sounds better than the tdx v2 shockwave, what's the difference?

Still haven't found it Though I wasn't keen on nismo with berks, still may want motordyne shockwave though.

 

I was looking at the Motordyne Shockwave the other day, I currently have the ART pipes and XYZ with HFC... I find it strange that, unless you go full decatted, you have to use the stock cats or non-Motordyne HFCs as the XYZ+HFC won't fit with the y-pipe back parts of the Shockwave. A bit annoying really considering the front, y-pipe part, of the Shockwave is the same as the XYZ.

What the eckin peck, that's crazy. I thought the whole point was that the modules were interchangeable and all their stuff actually worked together.

Doh. Well, if you do get it, i'd love a listen.

Fight !!!!!!!

 

I prefer to say It took me a while to find the perfect combo...

Still haven't found it Though I wasn't keen on nismo with berks, still may want motordyne shockwave though.