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27 degrees here today, that amazingly is the warmest day we've had around here since June 2009 Pete

Details are fairly scarce as I heard this second hand but apparently a Blue Zed Roadster was spotted on the back of a truck with severe damage all down one side over the weekend in Chester. Most likely a 350 as it was describes as "The same as Caroline's". Pete

All the U.K Yellows will be GT4's but there are a small number of yellow non GT4 imports around Pete

Someone recently stripped an electric sub station near here while it was still running Still hasn't been fixed as for some reason it isn't owned by the electric company. We have our problems with the gypsy community too, they have a planning application for a permanent site on a green barrier site about a mile from here which I'm told is very likely to be approved. It's a long story but although the land is owned by one of the gypsies it has been protected from development as The Welsh assembly has earmarked the site for a major road improvent scheme. It seems there's one rule for those who pay their taxes and another for those who don't Pete

Don't see any reason why they shouldn't physically fit, problem is the beams will point in the wrong direction Pete

Driving home from a meeting last night and chatting away to Caroline I noticed a car coming towards to me....on my side of the road . I started slowing down and flashing my lights but he or she just moved further over to my side....had to slam on my brakes and swerve onto the opposite side of the road to avoid a head on, I guess I was doing 40 or so when I passed him. This was on a very wide 2 lane trunk road and when I took a look in my mirror he had stopped right in the middle of the road. The road is dead straight at this point for about a mile, no houses and minimal lighting at this spot. My heart was still pounding when I got home a couple of minutes later . Pete

Tend to park mine well away from where anyone might bump into it so I haven't had very many comments from passing random people. It's usually young kids under 12 that seem most interested in it, plus the occasional delivery driver that we get down our lane. Caroline does get the "what is it question" now and again on the odd occasion she takes out her roadster, something that's only happened to me once. I think silver cars get less attention anyway Pete

Hmm, very nice Pete

Yeah, my first battery lasted about 2 and a half years, just 5.5k on the clock. I left mine standing for a month while I was on holiday and the battery wouldn't hold the charge after that. Pete

Mine's 60 and owns a Zed Pete

Yeah, I got some from him but they aren't cheap... about £7 each. Pete

Tyres should also be run in for about 200 miles, no hard cornering. From what I understand they are coated with some sort of release agent which is quite slippery. Modern engines don't really need running in as they are built to much higher tolerances than engines of yesteryear, but I must admit to running mine in to 3.5k revs for the first 1,000 miles...old habits die hard Pete

I've had quite a few Nissan and other Jap cars, in fact the first ones I had were when the company was called Datsun. I've always found them to be ultra reliable which is for me the most important factor when buying a car that you intend to keep for quite a while. Had the 350Z been made by Ford, TVR, Fiat or Alfa for example then I wouldn't have touched it. I daresay a TT or a BMW would have been a safer option but the unreliability of the TT and Z4 my wife had and the bland looks of the Eurobox BMW's (and they are both so common) meant that The 350Z was what I chose. Pete

Fair enough, the problem I had was that my wheels didn't have the indents for the studs to slot into, I overcame this by fitting a 5mm spacer and then put the 20mm spacer on top of that,(easier than shortening the studs ) yours must be a slightly different version of the wheels. In any case, these are really great wheels at a good price, I paid almost double what you're asking Pete

Just a quick word of warning on these wheels which I have on my 350Z. The good news is that the spacers are not required to clear the brembos . The not so good news is that the wheel studs will have to be shortened by approx 5mm if you want to fit the spacers, that is assuming that the offsets are the same as the Hennesey wheels fitted to mine. Pete

I've built 100 or so custom machines since 2003 but only 2 in the last 18 months and maybe 10 since 2006. My profit margin on each machine was £20-£30 but I wasn't really doing it for the money, just enjoyed the satisfaction of building them TBH. The market for them has now dried up as most people go for laptops and the high end gamers have switched to dedicated gaming machines. Some of the machines I built from 2003-2005 were actually given back to me . Cheaper just to buy a custom made one from E-Bay than build it yourself these days. Pete

Yeah, that would be me, but they did put it right in the end though... Pictures in this thread. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=41841 Pete

A rather unusual place to see a random Zed as this one was running on the back entrance road to Asda so I'm guessing it must be someone local? Second 370Z I've spotted around locally this week. Pete

Saw the V6 one turning off towards Christleton a few months ago. There's also an Azure one in Buckley that I see from time to time. Pete

I still think Arsenal will finish Top 6, Liverpool made a much worse start last season and still ended up in 7th place, although they didn't really lose any games by big margins. The problem at Arsenal is that they haven't replaced (or been able to replace) some of the great players they had in the early to mid 2000's. They also have a strict salary policy so they just aren't going to attract the big name players they need to compete with the big 3 clubs who seem to have infinite resources. The gulf between the have's and the have not's has sadly never been bigger so predicting the teams who will challenge for title and Champions league places has become pretty easy. The EPL is starting to look like The Scottish premier league where just 2 clubs win 95% of the trophies Pete

1 Lack of signals 2 Tailgating 3 Dangerous speeding 4 Using mobile phone 5 Lack of courtesy 6 Amber gamblers The biggest thing that really bugs me at the moment is the complete failure of some drivers to understand traffic lights. At the top of the lane I live in there is a crossroads with the main road, it's on a bit of a bend and was the scene of a few bad accidents a number of which were fatal. So they put traffic lights in a few years ago with filter lights from the main road onto the lane, You wouldn't believe the number of drivers who turn across the red filter lights into the lane or even more dangerously decide to do a U-Turn when the lights are on red . If they ever decided to put cameras on the lights they'd make a grand + a day easily. Pete

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I had a go in an S2000 a few years ago, did about 10 miles on mainly country lanes. At that time I had a Celica 190 and it certainly had a lot more poke than that, although I didn't push it as the owner was sitting next to me . I thought it was a pretty good car, miles better than the 180 Audi TT Caroline used to have. Pete

Just an American thing from what I've read. Interesting thing is that 98 Octane fuel can be difficult to get hold of in many parts of The States especially rural areas, could make a difference to how the engine runs and to the oil consumption but I don't really know From an American Forum Octane ratings are worked out in a different way in The States, 91 Octane is around 95 over here. Pete

The silver one was described as a 350Z S-Tune GT, but unless you can see the plaque inside it then yeah, it could just be a copy. I have a feeling that the version that was very difficult to import into The U.K was in fact the NISMO Type 380RS, I recall a post about this some time ago. I'll see if I can find it Here it is viewtopic.php?f=3&t=38669&hilit=380rs Pete