brillomaster

no problem at all imo, fuel gauge and dte are shockinging inaccurate. could probably do work and back for the rest of the week, then fill up!

ps only 4 350zs on there running 18x12 rears - http://rimtuck.com/search/thumbnails&make=Nissan&model=350Z&diameterr=18&widthr=12

I'll post what i always post when someones looking for advice with wheel fitment... http://rimtuck.com/ All the specs and pics you could ever need

yep i actually quite like the look lol but would say you have to have a heavily modified car to pull it off.

if i had the option, probably white... or failing that, black with colour coded stitching to match the exterior colours.

well millteks are £900 new, so i'd maybe offer £400 and see what he says... although i suspect he might want more depending on how many miles the exhaust has done...

worth a watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7x2YDgXzss

just cut a tiny hole in the mid pipe before the back box - that will then a) be a lot louder than stock, and be good incentive to get a proper system!

crikey it would be considerably cheaper to get a secondhand engine - or maybe buy another car!

you'll be lucky to gain any bhp with any exhaust... but speak to 14N, pretty sure he replaced just the mid pipe with a straight 3" pipe, didnt really make a lot of difference if i remember correctly. save your money and get a y pipe back exhaust

hmmm, i havent declared my stubby aerial... i'm pretty sure normal road tyres dont need to be declared... track tyres probably should. and possibly uprated brake pads and fluid doesnt need to be declared - although increased disc size or calipers i do think need to be declared. however, a decent set of road michelins and some decent pads and fluid will make a car a lot faster round a track

just noticed this this morning.... if you have headlights and rear fog light on, when you turn the headlights off, the fog light also clicks off at the same time. similarly if you just turn the fogs on without turning the headlights on, it will automatically click on the side lights - however you then need to use the headlight control to switch on dipped beams. Never noticed this on any of the other 6 cars i've owned! useful way of preventing you from forgetting to turn off your foglight, but i'm yet to see a use for having rear fog light and just side lights on... probably cos its too difficult to make one turn of foglight toggle automatically do two turns of headlight toggle.

Didn't they put the vq into the espace too? seems they did, but we already know that renault used to be mental... a mid engined rwd clio sees to that! however, i'd rather some proper JDM styling than a boggo espace, even if both can be had with a VQ35 engine!

had two today... strange how often your spidey sense is right, you can just sense the bad egg which is going to pull out in three... two... one... yep, there he goes. No please, after you, just pull out on me! didnt have time to beep the first guy, but i think my 70% emergency stop before ploughing into the side of him probably portrayed my dislike.

certainly cooler than this...

hell yes, that looks very cool IMO. and a bit mental, honestly, who puts a 3.5 litre V6 in a people carrier! Welcome to the forum!

mmm 551 WHP on crappy 93RON fuel... imagine what some decent 98 can do

yeah i think 2012 pips it for me... annoyingly the number of songs i recognise means i'll have to admit defeat and say i quite like pop music

hmmm welll i hope mine is undervalued... £5,300 for a 53 plate UK GT car with 57k on the clock seems a little cheap to me... although encouragingly i can do another 40,000 miles and the value only drops by £200...

heel and toe is a method to rev match whilst maintaining pressure on the brakes - ie, approach corner start braking with ball/left side of right foot, clutch in, downshift, blip throttle with heel/right side of right foot whilst still maintaining brake pressure, clutch out again. at this point you can still be on the brakes. nomally when approaching a hairpin from a 4th gear straight i would brake - heel and toe into third - heel and toe into second - release brakes - turn in to corner. rev matching is just making sure the engine speed matches the wheel speed of the new gear - this can simply be downshifting from 5th to 3rd for an overtake for example, one would blip the throttle whilst changing gear so as not to make the car lurch when you engage 3rd gear. with practice it doesnt even need a blip - say you're accelerating in 5th, but want to downshift to 3rd - once you dip the clutch the continued pressure on the throttle will make the revs rise, then you can just engage the lower gear when the revs are high enough. double declutching is largely redundant on any modern car as all have syncromeshes on the gears - and can be done up or down the gears, whereas heel and toe is only used on downshifts. and clutchless shifts are really only necessary if your clutch wont release - but its pretty straightforward, especially upshifts - just pull the stick out of gear, then as the revs drop, gentle pressure on the stick towards the next gear should see it slot in when the revs match. dont force it otherwise you'll get a horrible grinding noise! for downshifts a blip on the throttle is definitely required as above. One way i like to think about driving is imagine a nearly full glass of water on the passenger seat - if anything you do causes the water to slosh around so mush it spills over, be it accelerating, braking or cornering, you're not driving smoothly.

Congrats Jonathan, your car and Oulton Park video have both made it onto Pistonheads Carpool

always play petrol gauge roulette - mainly because i know the gauge is rubbish. quite happy doing 40-50 miles on the dashes if the mpg readout for the tank is good - very rarely need to fill up before 400 miles. if i do fill up when the dte says empty, i only fit 60 litres in! also, my car frequently panics about petrol just after i start driving - about 5 minutes into a drive it will panic and give me a range of 20 miles, but then 10 miles later it finds some more petrol and dte goes back up to 60

All the best! get it cleaned up and take a tripod so you can get some pics under the illuminations!

reminds me of Jeremy Foleys crash at Pikes peak last year - driver walked away, copilot had a dislocated shoulder. Absolutely unbelievable how much abuse a rollcage can withstand.

Nice purchase, our mate has an MR2 same as yours for track use. has a great sounding engine, but a bit down on power IMO - and also he cant seem to stop spinning it, so might take a bit more practice before you'reas happy chucking it around as you were the MX5.