DannyBoy

Mighty Car Mods fitted these to their ****-take cheap ricer civic. They looked like they belonged there. That is all. DB

I recently used Event Tyres after a recommendation on here, and whilst they were a bit more than £180 each (It was about £780 for all 4 corners) their price does include fitting at your home/workplace so it seems very good value to me. Also I have to say their customer service is excellent, as I was called away on a work emergency on the day I was supposed to be having the tyres fitted and went off on the train with my car keys in my pocket and the locking nut inside the car. The guy took payment from my dad (with my card), who was home, and dropped the tyres off, and then re-arranged fitting for the following day free of charge. All pretty hassle free for what could have been a nightmare. DB

So true. A few weeks ago I parked my zed right over the back of the Tesco car park all on its own with no other cars within 20m. I come back to find that there are still no cars within 20m except the boxster in the space to my left and the clio 182 in the space to my right I have no problem with that though, as they were both parked properly and the condition of the cars suggested they were as anal as I am DB

Have to agree with what's been said, I've tried the incartec pioneer fascia too and couldn't get it to fit at all. A neat gap is probably the best you can hope for without fabricating a custom fascia. DB

I've heard that while laser-cutting carbon fibre is perfectly do-able, it does usually leave some charring and possibly fraying on the cut edges. Never tried it (don't have a 1000w Co2 laser kicking around right now) but that's from pretty reliable sources. DB

Something like this would be good for that: http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/products/structural-adhesives/semi-flexible-15min-epoxy-adhesive.aspx. For something that small you could just superglue it, but this stuff wont crack under flexing like bogo adhesives. I'm not saying buy it from these guys either, but it's the sort of thing you want. As far as the cutting goes, if you use a dremel make sure to cut slow and keep the RPM high to avoid cracking. It depends on how the carbon fibre was made as well; if it was wet-lay then it'll be more prone to cracking than resin-infused or pre-preg material. Also remember to wear a mask and cover your skin when doing the cutting, carbon fibre lets off a fair amount of EXTREMEMLY itchy dust. I don't know if it's especially bad for your lungs but I never fancied taking the chance. DB Edit: I wouldn't recommend screwing through carbon fibre unless you know it's a high-quality part, as resin-heavy stuff could crack if you over do it.

Perma-grit do a range of dremel attachments specifically for composites, and they work a treat. For the sticking, any two-part epoxy should work on a keyed surface, although it depends if you want it to be structural or not. Can you tell us what it's for exactly? because then I could probably advise more specifically. DB

Personally, I wouldn't put this in the advert; It's negative and it reads like you think the car is too expensive yourself. The price is the price, people can see it along with the extensive pictures and spec list. Be confident in the price and the car if thats what you think it's worth. Just my opinion. I dunno, I read that as honesty, and demonstrating that the car is intentionally priced to reflect the condition and not just clueless overpricing. I see where you're coming from with the possible negativity though. DB

I'm currently using the Swissvax non-shiny stuff which comes in a spray bottle and applying it with their special (rebranded paintbrush) applicator brush. I was fairly sceptical but it actually works really well, you just spray a bit onto the tyre and then work it around with the brush. You hardly need to use any of the stuff either so zero mess DB

This is how to write a car ad DB

Good spot, but £700 bonnet for £100 and a pic straight off the Seibon website wouldn't fill me with confidence... If it's really off a part-ex as stated the guy probably won't even cover the cost of getting a stock bonnet on the car for £100. DB

Mine certainly doesn't work like that, at least not on the low setting. Every now and then if I have been known to drive around with the heated seats on and the aircon on like 18deg. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it DB

Certainly sounds like a slipping clutch. The clutch for your car (assuming it's not a freakishly early-registered MY07 car) is the same as for all Zeds up to MY06 so not a problem to get hold of. As suggested .... DB

The other fix is to get an Up-Rev remap and get the sensor turned off at the same time. You'll be making barely any extra power from the HFCs without a remap anyway so it's a good idea to get your money's worth DB

On your landing? DB

Surely you've answered your own question there? If you don't want it to be firmer then don't lower it, especially by fitting shorter springs. Lowering springs can't magically provide the same spring rate with 25mm less travel, so they have to be slightly firmer to compensate or they'd bottom out all the time. Fully adjustable true coilovers could probably be tweaked to give a lower stance with almost OEM ride quality, but your into the thousands for those. DB

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Any exhaust part can rattle if you get resonance issues. Depending on what other exhaust parts are fitted you can create a situation where you get exhaust gas pulses at the harmonic frequency of a particular part of the exhaust which will cause it to vibrate. It's what causes some HFCs to 'rasp' over a short rev range, it's just a high frequency vibration caused by resonance. there's nothing in a de-cat to rattle though, so I'd guess it is hitting something. DB

Can't quite put my finger on it but just not getting a good impression with that advert. For a start it doesn't have 312bhp (but lying about BHP seems to be some sort of unwritten rule in Zed adverts these days), and not a fan of the wrapped spoiler or the tacky-looking aftermarket shifter knob. Also it could be the photos but that doesn't look like ultra yellow to me (Edit: I can see I'm not the only one). Really not sure why you'd cover the gorgeous GT4 alloys in matte paint either unless you'd trashed them. Not saying don't go and look at it, because it's certainly priced about right, but I'd go in with your head screwed on because I just get the impression it might have had a hard life. DB

Good plan Most of my driving at the moment is motorway trudging, so it's on the rare occasions that I end up in the middle of nowhere at 1am that I remember why I bought the Zed in the first place, and fall in love with it all over again. DB

No worries, good luck with the search DB

I'll PM you and we can sort it out DB

Feltham is actually about 5 mins down the road from me, so if you want someone to go have a butchers I'd be happy to DB

I suppose a twin turbo with the same power output with a single turbo will have more resistance, but the engine will have the same duration ... I was talking about the new GTM twin supercharger system (370Z only I believe), superchargers differ from turbos - a turbo is driven by the exhaust where as a SC is driven by the engine itself so you lose power when not on boost. I would have thought having twin SCs instead of a single would increase the amount of BHP lost. Agreed, I can see two main reasons why two might be better than one. Reason on would be if you were going to put two whacking great blowers on it to get to power levels you just couldn't achieve with one. The second reason would be to use two smaller units instead of one big one, as smaller superchargers (from looking at compressor maps) tend to have a wider working rev range, i.e they start to produce significant boost sooner and they can rev higher, but of course move less air overall. Really big superchargers (talking about the Rotrex ones mainly here) can have compressor maps that look almost turbo-like, with not a lot of boost low down, but with quite a low RPM limit as well so you have to choose between low boost low down, or over-revving the compressor. Two small superchargers would give you a system where you were getting serious boost lower down in the rev range but without maxing out the compressor or flatlining at 4kRPM, whilst still moving a decent amont of air in total. Would seem like a lot of extra plumbing to solve a relatively small problem, but each to their own. DB I shall now wait for Mark et. al. to tell me everything I just posted is wrong...

Nope, the HR boxes have a concentric slave cylinder, DE one have external. The latest box for the DE engines is the CD009 DB