rabbitstew

Yep, when cold my 313 is just the same. Start her up, idles at nearly 2k, then soon drops down to about 850(ish) rpm after maybe a minute?

With regards to neighbors... i live in a very quiet cul-de-sac of 28 houses.... 25 of which have retired old pensioners in. They have coffee mornings and church prayer meetings in the week whilst im at work. I can imagine what the topic of discussion has been since I fitted the K1 to my car. I can see them all huddled around a coffee tabling trying to decide who is going to knock on the nasty noisey car owners house and speak to them.

lol, thats quite funny. Didnt realise cats felt that way about 350z`s! Ive noticed a few cat prints on mine also - will have to keep an eye out for dodgy water marks on it.

Guy must be mad to try and get his missus (or soon to be ex) to sell it, im supprised she didnt put it on for £1.

Just been down to London today and got the train from Wellingborough. Apart from the 8 Porsches (common as muck) I saw parked up there I saw a very clean 03 plate red imported 350z coupe parked up on the road outside. Was still there when i got back too.

"I dont like it, make the noise go away!"

 

 

I take it you still had the bungs in then? If you take them out, it will fix the problem..... you wont be able to hear anything she says

yep havent taken them out yet. Cant believe it can be any louder tho! Good idea tho, will try that next time she gets in the car.

OMG what the hell have they done to that car. I think the only way they will ever shift it is if they turn it back to stock. And that interior.. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! esp the steering wheel!!!

Did about 190 miles today... had a cruise upto Birmingham, over to Dudley and back home. Now my ears are ringing. Missus kept screaming "I dont like it, make the noise go away!" lol....

I think its because mines a roadster, that it sounds a lot louder and boomy in the cabin with the K1... at 2000rpm it really does make your ears go funny. Will see how I get on this week then may have to look at other options.

Amazing! Makes my guitar ability seem pretty rubbish in comparison.

Still seem pretty rare around my way. Only seen about 3 in the last 2 weeks!

Awesome!!!!!

sod pulling of the rubbers on the car. I just unbolt the bracket then take the rubbers off when there off the car.

 

K1 is loud, but also IMO a very poor crap quality exhaust.

yeah, i did think about undoing the bracket, but with the rusty bolts i thought id best leave them. Lubed them up and they went on easier than getting off.

your right, the K1 does seem poor quality, rusts easy. Looks like its more like chrome plated steel rather then stainless. But, thats why its cheap compared to other stuff.

not sure i dare take the bungs out yet!

Well im off for a sunday drive out with the missus tomorrow so i`ll see what she says to it. Dont think she will be too impressed tho!

Well thought today id fit the K1 which I bought the other week. Im a very good mechanic and this sort of job normally only takes me an hour on most cars.

But omg what a total nightmare.

First off took me about 30mins to work out how to jack the car up!

The cars 3 years old but ive never seen one so rusty underneath. The cross members looked like they were off a 20 year old car. The exhaust nuts were so rusty they had already started to disintegrate.

So, start off undoing the nuts holding the exhaust sections together. Out of 4 nuts only one undoes. Have to use a nut splitter and and angle grinder on the 2 which join the Y pipe to the mid pipe and yet still one of the studs snapped off the Y pipe. ARGH!! But at least that bits free now. So, on to the rear box. There is no way on earth the 2 nuts joining the mid pipe to the back box will come undo. The one which did come undone turns out actually had 2 nuts on it. Sigh. So, angle grind through one, but the grinder wont reach the other and because of the shape of the flange the nut splitter wont fit. ARGH!

So in the end I had to cut through the actual exhaust pipe instead.

Then came the awkward job of trying to get the box off the rubber mounts. Jesus they make that hard.

So back to the snapped off stud on the Y pipe.... The bolts holding the Y pipe onto the cats looked like they were 100 years old so there was no way i was trying to undo them. So only option was to either try and weld some threaded bar to the Y pipe, or drill out the broken stud. I go for the drill option... 2 hours later I finally manage to drill a hole big enough through it so I can use a nut & bolt.

Actually bolting the system on was nice and easy. Fitted straight on, but the whole job ended up taking me 6 hours and is one I NEVER EVER EVER want to do again. God knows what sort of mess one of these high street fast fit places would have made, as I took my time and was as careful as I could be.

Start the car up once finished and the sound is awesome. It seems to rev much quicker now, but god its loud! And thats with the bungs in! Not tried it with the roof down yet, but with the window down I feel like im a nova boy racer! lol.

Will see how I get on over the next week with it as it settles in. Looking forward to the underground carpark at work too...... i expect it will be setting off car alarms all over the place!

I too was supprised at how much the zed is to insure. I live in a good quiet postcode, am nearly 40 and have 18 years NCB. My quotes came in at around 750->800 fully comp. The "specialist" insurers came in at 1300 and 1400.

Im not sure why they dont like the zed, as a comparison, I had quotes for similar value M3 SMG and they all came in at 480quid!

Id also opt for the hornet 600. I certainly wouldnt go for a bike with fairing on around london as it will get damaged etc.

Id the same thing tho, and used bikes for commuting for years. Very handy, although not so good in winter.

Tough decision really. £300 isnt much for a company car allowance. Last one I had was £600 a month and had the choice for either them to get the car for me, or me just have the allowance and do with it what i wanted. I tried it both ways. Firstly had a brand new lease car for 12 months which the allowance basically paid for. Then, I decided to buy an older golf tdi instead, use that for my business use and pocket the £600 a month. The car cost me about £5k at the time, so was paid for with just 8 or 9 months allowance, which meant the rest of the cash was just "profit" really.

For me it was a toss up between how badly I wanted a "new" car, and how badly id prefer to just have the cash and run my own car.

Really what you could do is get the cash and use that to pay for your ZED. If you find the zed is costing you too much, you can always then sell it and get something more "practical". Dont forget the company will be paying for your fuel, so you wont have to worry too much about that, it will be the other zed running costs like the road tax and tyres etc.

Nice looking car!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome!

1971 850cc Mini (Cost 20quid to buy and £500 to insure)

1984 1000cc Mini

1988 Renault 5 GT Turbo

1988 Renault 5 GT Turbo (completely rebuilt it, 220bhp fast road machine, still got it now)

1988 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9

1989 Peugeot 309 Gti

1988 Renault 5 GT Turbo (yes another one)

1990 Mini Cooper

1996 Peugeot 106 Diesel

2001 Golf GT TDi

2007 350z

Bike Wise

1993 Yamaha RD350R

1994 Kawasaki ZXR750L2 (Still got it)

1998 Kawasaki ZX6R

2000 Ducati 748SPS (Bought it when it was 2 weeks old)

1999 Yamaha R1 (Still got it)

1996 Honda VFR750 (Still got it.... really must sell it)

Think the cheapest car I had to run was the old Mini`s. I used to run them on bits from the scrapyard, and actually made a profit on them when I finally got rid of them. The quickest without a doubt was the 220bhp Renault 5. Twice the power to weight ratio of a lotus elise. Just incredible acceleration. Not practical at all, esp in summer tho.

Cant say what drilled discs are like on the z yet as ive not fitted any. But ive had cross drilled and groved on nearly all my previous cars and not had any problems with them cracking. Granted, ive not taken them around tracks or mega abused them. But they have had some serious braking done, as well as daily use on the roads.

There are ways and means of getting through most locks and getting into any house - even if its resorting to a brick through the window. Picking locks is a bit of a hobby of mine and when I first started many years ago, the first thing I did was to try and pick the front door lock on my old house. Took me about 5 minutes!!! And that was me being a complete novice! Needless to say, i immediately went out and bought a better lock for it. Bump keys, lock picks and such like are freely available on the net and anyone can buy them and spend some time learning how to use them.

But, for the average burgler they will just be an opportunist, who if they see an open window, or know an old person lives there, or you have blatantly left stuff on show, they will just smash & grab.

The key thing is really to use your common sense. It always amazes me when I go for a walk on Boxing Day how many people leave the empty boxes outside their house for the binmen to collect, showing the whole world that they got a 50inch telly for Christmas or a ps3 or an xbox360. If I was a burgler, id know exactly what stuff they had worth nicking just by looking at the boxes piled up outside on the pavement!

Like someone else said, I think my dog should put them off. If someone wants to try and get in the house then good luck to them. lol!!!!

http://uk.autoblog.com/2011/03/23/jake-redshaw-massive-insurance-quote/

Yeah I saw that one yesterday. That kid must have more money than sense. He paid £3000 for the corsa expecting to pay £4000 to insure it. The cheapest quote he had was £5700. So he`s looking at a total outlay of about £9000 to drive a crappy Corsa for 1 year. Is he made of money?!

My first car cost me £20! lol.

HPI clear means absolutely nothing. I used to buy smashed up cars and repair them and the amount of cars id get which were insurance write-offs and yet when I HPi checked them they still came up clear.

As with any damaged car you have to factor in the cost of repair. Insurance repairers seriously rip insurance companies off with their costs, so the insurance company writes the car off - but any non greedy garage or private individual can repair it for cheaper. If you use 2nd hand bits, then its even cheaper still.

The biggest risk is that once you start taking bits off to repair you find other bits which need doing also - and once you get that sump repaired, the engine may show all sorts of problems.... its just the risk you take.

That said you can get some bargains and make a few quid out of it all if you know what you are doing.

lol @ sarnie & captain!

 

Id be lucky if the cat even looked at me atm. Still, this thread has motivated me to get into the share thing. Been eyeing up stuff for a while, so bought a few a couple of days ago and will see how it goes. About 7% down already, but think ive got some good ones, so will see what happens over the next 12 months. Got to be better than the bank!!!

 

Tell all! It's a tip club, not a "I've got some good ones" club..........

Nothing your not already onto. It was quite funny, i was researching AEX and bought some, then the next day you posted that you`d bought into them. Looks like a good bet. Also think BKY which your onto is a good one too. Fingers crossed!!!

lol @ sarnie & captain!

Id be lucky if the cat even looked at me atm. Still, this thread has motivated me to get into the share thing. Been eyeing up stuff for a while, so bought a few a couple of days ago and will see how it goes. About 7% down already, but think ive got some good ones, so will see what happens over the next 12 months. Got to be better than the bank!!!

Road Tax went up by inflation, so i guess thats gone up 4% or so. Fuel gone down by 1p but then again it went up 5p or so with the VAT increase, and my local garage jacked his prices up by 2p yesterday anyway! So, 1p isnt going to make much difference to me.

Will be interesting to see how this "fuel stabliser regulator" thing works if it keeps prices down or not.