brillomaster

what!?! No they wont... nobody is going to buy that at the price it will have to be to make up for the level of customisation it will need on each one. I'll eat my hat if they sell any!

I beg to differ... the white roadster with lambo doors looks great on those wheels! And the last sunset orange one looks hilarious!, thats some good PS skills!

Wow that looks insane! Was just the other day thinking how good a 2jz-gte engine would be in a zed As for cooling, i reckon a vented seibon carbon bonnet would set that off nicely, and maybe take a hacksaw to the front bumper - after all, thats a lot of engine to cool through not a particularly big front aperture.

get the wheel off and have a look, sounds like a loose connection to me. just be sure to disconnect the battery and leave it for 10 minutes before doing anything with the airbag.

hmmm loving the wing, and the wrap job is certainly conspicuous! Not sure about the brake ducts, but function over form in this case. However i'd just stylise them ever so slightly so they look like fangs, ie the VXR:

Really? I always thought that type just reduced lift?

Ewwww nah not for me thanks! The Z31 is the poor relation for me... i'd have that 240Z though!

just noticed Viks location - me doing a scotland roadtrip isnt so impressive when zedley will be in scotland anyways! However, we are staying overnight in stirling - he could meet us for the return leg?

very similar to mine - got it repaired and resprayed for £300 all in.

how about the 13th? technically i'm leaving for scotland about 2pm on saturday, so if you sent him along as a 1st class package on friday he should make it on saturday... and i'm sure he wouldnt want to miss a 1000mile roadtrip to fort William and back, via Scotland and Englands highest mountains...

not really... traction control wont like the wheel sizes, and 265 would be rather big on the fronts - probably be ok on the rears though. But even then its quite a drop in profile

I'm with manphibian... £7k might see it stick around for a while, £6.5 would see it sell quickly - there will be low mileage GTs around for £7k.

well, part of the reason i disliked my last Nissan Z car was cos it got 22mpg on a GOOD day - normally hovered around 15! So yeah, i did by my new zed for the MPG! but really, are there any 280bhp+ cars that get better than 33mpg on a cruise? the zed is probably better than most as it has a very long 6th gear, and a very relaxed engine - maybe one the new breed of turbo 4 cylinder engines could make 280bhp but still return 33mpg if you drove it everywhere off boost, but although every man and his dog has a turbo'd 4pot, who actually wants one over a V6?

Jeez, some people really need to get a life... i mean really, yes its a zed, but its also a 9 year old nissan that was only worth £25k when it was new - nowadays they can be picked up for less than a nearly new ford fiesta. makes me sick - if these idiots want a 350z, they should just go and buy one! problem is people see a 2 door, 2 seat sports coupe and think the owner must be a wealthy ****, rather than an the realistic enthusiasts we are! If i was a wealthy ****, i'd have a porsche or an BMW, but im not, hence why i bought the superior Nissan

brilliant line!

As long as i get him by the 12th May the latest then he'll be off on an epic roadtrip with me... thats assuming Vik has had her evil way with him first!

isnt this a repost? im sure that figure was stated about a month ago?

if we're going to play the 'highest mpg figure' game, thats an easy one - i reset at the top of 4 mile downhill section, and coasted with the car in neutral all the way down - trip computer said 99.9 mpg for a good few minutes shame the display only has 'xx.x' format, would have been hilarious to get a pic with the speedo saying 60mph and the mpg reading 140mpg or something ludicrous

Taken from wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating#Regional_variations United Kingdom: 'regular' petrol has an octane rating of 95 RON, with 97 RON fuel being widely available as the Super Unleaded. Tesco and Shell both offer 99 RON fuel. In April 2006, BP started a public trial of the super-high octane petrol BP Ultimate Unleaded 102, which as the name suggests, has an octane rating of 102 RON.[21] Although BP Ultimate Unleaded (with an octane rating of 97 RON) and BP Ultimate Diesel are both widely available throughout the UK, BP Ultimate Unleaded 102 was available throughout the UK in only 10 filling stations, and was priced at about two and half times more than their 97 RON fuel. In March 2010, BP stopped sales of Ultimate Unleaded 102, citing the closure of their specialty fuels manufacturing facility.[22] Shell V-Power is also available, but in a 99 RON octane rating, and Tesco fuel stations also supply the Greenergy produced 99 RON "Tesco 99". For fuel to be classed as 'Super Unleaded in the UK, it has to be at least 97 RON - so any super from the pump is fine. However if you have the means, Shell V-Power is 99 RON and Tesco Momentum is also 99 RON. BP Ultimate, where available, seems to be 97 RON. However, i seem to recall that although a zed prefers a diet of 98 RON or above, it can run fine on 97 because Super unleaded has various additives over normal fuel (?)

pssh, average mpg over a year doesnt mean a great deal to me - i know that when i drive to and from work i'm lucky to see 15mpg, but the other type of driving i do is cross country jaunts, in which case its 27mpg, or long cruises, in which case its 33mpg. if i had an average from the year then the dte would be inaccurate for the type of driving im doing. i normally reset the trip computer whenever i start a different type of driving - doing half a tank round town and then half a tank motorway cruise gives me a meaningless number IMO.

its hard not to worry when the price of petrol goes up by a penny between every fill up. it'll be £2 a litre soon no problems. however, im plenty happy that on a cruise controlled 75mph i can return around 33mpg - any car that does over 30 on a cruise is fine in my book.

ditched cds at home aaaages ago... all music is stored on my laptop and then hooked up to speakers. In the car, it used to be mp3 cds, but then went back to normal cds for the standard cd changer in the zed (all other cars had aftermarket HUs), but since that is worse than terrible i bought an 8gb mp3 player and a cassette adapter, which is working just fine at the moment - and allows me to keep the BOSE amps and the steering wheels without the faff of ripping the dash apart.

Daily Driver - i keep saying to myself we'll use the gf's far more economical 1.1 206 for long journeys at weekends, but since im usually the one driving, i think about how much i'll miss the zed and end up using it instead!

ah ok, but bikes have no torque, just make ludicrous power by having a high redline. 350 bhp probably equates to 350lbft of torque, which is a hell of a lot from a 1.8!

It's owned by a woman. I'm not very sexist but I rest my case. Amazing it was serviced at all imo.