Greddy-Matt

Hi from another southampton owner, quite a few of us i think, we should arrange a mini meet somewhere soon leisure word or somewhere like that?

I'm getting my wheels refurbed soon ...

Can I ask where you're getting them done?, just noticed you're down the road from me (I'm in Ashurst).

For me there is only one tyre I will ever put on the z now, having had the Michelin pilot super sports fitted recently they are head and shoulders above anything else I've had on it, for the extra £50 a tyre it's a no brainer

You can clean the jets by using a pin however I found that there is a non return valve in the line between centre of the engine bay and brake fluid cover, it's white and mine was shot so I drilled mine out and all good now

Evening I have a few spare, pm me your address and I'll put one in the post for you

Well since fitting Meisters, camber and toe adjustment, Super Pro bushes and Eibach ARB's I've never loved my setup so much. And I am running spacers.

 

Car drives fantastic and after Jez took my car out for a spin last week he loved it too.

 

Works perfect for me. Maybe it's because I'm still running 18's and might be different once 19's are fitted

Hi wasso

I would put money on the coilovers sorting out the issue, I bet the damping / rebound control combined with the shorter travel of the suspension dial the weird wobble out, the car feels under damped at the front at the moment.

Running without the front spacers for a bit, looks like top fuel dragster

Handles much better although I am in dire need of some new front tyres now

Spacers cause issues with the KPI on the front of a Zed, these cars are always more "nervous" after fitting spacers. The move the pivot point of the front suspension indie the centre of the tyre ,so causing the steering to be more nervous.

 

Fitting spacers will make no difference to the 4 wheel alignment figure as your only increasing the track width.

 

But you car's alignment may not be in spec and the fitting of the spacers may have enhanced the issues.

 

Get the car 4 wheel aligned then try the car then refit the spacers and see if the handling deteriorates.

 

Mark

Thanks mark, I did wonder if I was going mad, its definitely the spacers had them off and all back to pretty much how it was, I'm going to get an alignment done, but if that doesn't solve it would a wider front wheel (to fill out the arches) with an offset to keep the suspension centred be the solution?

I guess about a hundred miles, did a fair b road jaunt to scrub them in tyres were changed last Sunday and been fine up till I put the spacers on the front, they're coming off tomorrow so we shall see!

Interesting as I have new rears but not fronts snd have the oposite issue......

The grip levels don't seem to have changed just that the front isn't as as snappy

I also HATED the handling of the zed after fitting spacers - I just did not feel that she was still on her tippytoes and really noticed the difference - I got rid of them very quickly !

So you went back to stock or did you change rims altogether?

Greddy Matt, is yours an import by chance? Only reason I ask is that I found spacers blunted the handling of the car as well, I know the Jap cars have a different geo setup.

 

Someone once tried to tell me that it was down to the centreline of the wheel having been moved, but having driven other cars with up to 50mm spacers and not found any issues Im not so sure. Its a weird one though, as no-one else seems to suffer.

Hi it's a u GT, off to dabble with the tyre pressures to see if that helps

Thanks for the replies guys I had new tyres last weekend but was handling great on the way home from work (before front spacers) will check pressures tomorrow, going to be out of action for a few weeks but sure my lady won't mind booking in for a check. Are we talking 4 wheel lazer alignment?

Maybe the shocks haven't settled after being jacked up, I'll run it through the local forest twisty bits as well and see what happens

Hi

I fitted the fronts tonight, I'm going to do a back to back with them on / off tomorrow night, I'm running Tein lowering springs if it makes difference, lowered circa 20mm all round. It may be geometry based, I know the fronts are running a fair amount of negative camber.

I like the 18's, so if I replace the rims I'd go 18's again I think, plus I just forked out for new Michelin super sports, looking at the Rota Boost if I can get them in a good offsets

Hi all

Excuse the long post but I don't want to c**k this up....

I've got the standard Rays on my 350, and after deciding I couldn't put up with the wheels being tucked so far in the arches anymore, I went with 25mm Eibach spacers rear and 20mm up front after looking at the multitudes of threads on here, and looks wise the set up is perfect, however the handling is now horrific...

I was running 20mm spacers on the rear and none on the front whilst the 25mm spacers were on the way and the turn in on the car was great, nice and tight, very stable, almost darty, now I've taken the 20's off the rear and gone for the more usual 25 rear 20 up front, the front end feels wallowy and un-responsive with the added negative of feeling skitish at higher speed, you can feel the weight transfering side to side with steering wheel input without the front changing direction much, i.e. you can feel the front suspension working hard.

Long and short of it I cant believe a 20mm spacer has such an effect on the car and I just can't live with it so the rays and spacers will be going ASAP, but I'm concerned that by changing wheels I'll end up with the same issue going for rims with an offset that gives me a flush to arch look?

Could anyone confirm the issue is moving the whole of the rim width out 20mm, i.e. could I solve the issue by running a rim an inch wider on front with a 20mm lower offset? I don't want to spend a fortune on wheels to be disappointed

Apologies for the long post, I've read thread after thread but none the wiser, any advice would be welcome.

Appletons for me was converted when we went to the rum factory in Jamaica

I still have a bottle of Appleton blue mist (hint of blue mountain coffee ) and a bottle of rumona (rum and honey) YUM!

Why not go different and go white or pearl white with a few little polished bits in the bay? Would look the absolute nuts with your body colour

 

you mean like this

 

 

was tempted by the white, but not sure it looks as good as i thought it would, maybe a cream instead of a white? interior leather is cream.

Gotta have faith! Doesn't look awesome in that pic maybe, BUT just think white and carbon, throw in some wasso'd parts and got to be a winner

Why not go different and go white or pearl white with a few little polished bits in the bay? Would look the absolute nuts with your body colour

These are my two Z's from an ever growing collection of Autoart 1:18's, pics not great but:

Calsonic Z

Motul Pitwork Z

Are these the same guys that do paintwork too?

Happy days

Beaten by two quid Boo Come on then who's the lucky winner

Are we nearly there yet, Are we nearly there yet, Are we nearly there yet, Are we nearly there yet.....

enjoy the drive back

Pm'd

Looking good

Additions look good, nice and menacing! The wing was an interesting choice' but I recon it looks good.

A set or nismo rear spats would really finish the ar$e of a treat.