Arran

Well today is a good day after seeing my boys beat man united at the bridge i thought il carry on the blue theme for the day and clean the blue beast, cleaned and protected the interior on saturday so that was one job out the way. Snow foamed the car first, followed by washing with wool mitt and 2bm using chemical guys glossworkz shampoo, wheels and calipers cleaned with bilberry wheel cleaner and 1" detailing brush, car dried with finishkare 425 as an aid and wooly mammoth towel, exhaust tips polished with megs metal polysh then polished and sealed again with belgom alu, tyres dressed with bmw tyre dress and paintwork sealed with zaino z8. Leaving said finish Not the most exciting update ever but after all this shite weather it was due a spring clean Comments welcome as usual Arran

These are the TP38 tips on mine for referance, got mine from CS Nicely polished up today, still look brand new after nearly a 1000 miles

The rays are 18" with 225/45/18 and 245/45/18. Autogrip tyres are real budget jobbies, if you can't afford to spend big bucks on tyres then my suggestion would be to save up a couple months for some Falken FK452 or 453 and change all 4 at once then sell the others to recoup a little of the cost. The Falkens are a good tyre at a very good price

Wouldn't get non resonated personally, I chose resonated and that's great on its own, even better with the motordyne art pipes though

You reckon il be able to get rid of most of the arch gap without getting camber arms? I've heard only need them after 25-30mm so an inch really. Don't even think the stock suspension is an inch from the arch!

Jordan whats the specs of your wheels/tyres and how much you got it dropped by? I've ordered my Eibach spacers 20mm front and 25mm rear, keeping the rays and ordering HSD DTs on Monday but I want to lower it a tad without having to buy camber arms etc. Yours looks quite low from the pics!

I'm going for the invidia gemini yeah, Sounds lethal with art pipes when opened up

I have the cobra resonated and motordyne art pipes with stock y sounds wonderful. Will be even better when I get the invidia on

Not much faster really, certainly not in the real world. Testament to the Z while still modern can still mix it with much newer performance technology. An interesting race would be between a remapped 335i and a remapped 335d, the diesel version is extremely punchy while the petrol likes to hang on to the revs. Would be a close call I reckon

I find the Z a nicer place to be in terms of comfort, driving position and layout but the materials in the BMW are slightly better, not a million miles away though imo trims and leather are scratched very easily in the modem bmws whereas the Z's leather doesn't seem to be quite so fragile but the plastics do seem a little easy to scratch

Told you you'd love that setup Adam really is a fantastic sound. For an even better sound id suggest the motordyne art pipes like I'm now running Glad everything got fitted fine, went on mine perfectly and was really happy with the quality

A standard 335i isn't much quicker than a DE Z, once remapped and few other supporting mods however and you'll breeze past an E9x M3 Boring cars though tbh, get good kicks out of it when you first get it then the novelty soon wears off. For a eventful drive it would be the Z or something similiar everytime over the BMW for me

Is that easy to wrap buster? Really keep meaning to buy some wrap just to get rid of the silver inside but think il **** it up

Now I've seen it, that is some properly stupid driving. That's the sort of ****wit that gets people injured or worse killed. I mean 100+ on a single carriageway, what if someone was crossing the road, it's game over for the pedestrian and that prick of a driver. Please tell me the police have seen this?

The one on the Zonda are Ross Corsa variant I believe, available for the 350 aswell if I remember correctly when looking

P Zeros are a great tyre, don't think they are the best overall but they are up there for sure in some of the variants. Wouldn't be the OE tyre of a Zonda if they were shite Pete can you supervise me then

Better than P Zero I highly doubt

Cheers guys Certainly getting it to the way I want it done, not long now til it's finished (he says)

Where's the rear number plate camera from? Is it that simple to fit, just plug and play no splicing? Want one of those!

Lol I do change parts on my cars often, especially exhausts. Just try different ones to see what each setup feels/looks and sounds like Sarah the cobra is a great bit of kit, sounds absolutely wonderful as you can see from the videos fits great, and looks great with the TP38 tips nice and polished up. For the price or certainly keeps up with the bigger brands. Even with the Motordyne ART pipes it's perfectly acceptable for everyday use I find, I'm just swapping to the invidia because its a true dual setup and those titanium tips with look great on my azure Just waiting for my mate to take his stock exhaust off so I can borrow that for a bit while I sell the cobra and order the invidia, so if anyone's interested in it when it's off let me know. It's only done about 1000 miles

Ive just purchased front and rear Yellowstuff pads from CS, Standard discs will be okay on a track provided you cool them down properly etc Cold bite from Yellows is superb and once beeded in and warmed up i found from previous experience that they are excellent

If it was me I'd be spending some money on your 350Z, get some lovely exterior bits, decats instead of berks, nice exhaust and cai and an uprev, coilovers and some spacers. Then you'll see that changing car was just a thought

You can get extended adjusters from HSD for 15 quid which is what I'm going to do, going to abbey Saturday so will have a word with mark see what he advises on the rear coilover situation, once I've made my mind up il order them this coming Monday

Blue would be your best bet, then do your calipers blue and get an exhaust with titanium tips Then finish the car of with some blue tommy k badges

They were originally HRs before they switched to Monopro now The one thing I don't want is a crashy ride and I'm wondering because your quite low and haven't played much with the settings that that could be the reason it's quite choppy? The only thing putting me of the monopro is the rear coilover design as the strut tower isn't designed to take that sort of load which pulls me back to the DTs, I can afford either and will do a few track days plus the nurburgring this year I know both will be good enough it's just wether I want to risk putting true coilovers on the rear as the monopro sound like they ride better with obviously better performance