Grundy

Yeah we are going to make a section at the back for the 'special' guys? Hope thats cool They're also behind us 350's on track too

1. Grundy225 2. Andy James 3. Buster 4. Tarmac 5. A9H-RX 6. Bizz (Maybe) 7. Panman 8. Humpy 9. Dunks 10. Mouthwash 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

1. Grundy225 2. Andy James 3. Buster 4. Tarmac 5. A9H-RX 6. Bizz (Maybe) 7. Panman 8. Humpy 9. 10.

If you would like Track time, you can do this by going onto Trax's website and booking in your own slot https://flameconcepts-kelseymedia.booking-form.com/booking/new/packageId/514 This event is not to be missed, awesome show with a great atmosphere! http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/90142-trax-2014-pic-heavy/

Announcement - 25/03/2015 Price Update Okay guys, we've been fortunate enough to receive a generous offer from the forum, they are going to pay £10 towards every ticket for the first 30 members who sign up to this event! So this now means you only need to pay £9 each for the remaining tickets! Again this is only valid for the first 30 members who sign up to this event. This offer is only available for forum members. We currently have 20 Tickets purchased, and for all those who have paid me, you will receive a PM from me over the next few days, so I can refund you £10 So as of now we have 4 more spaces up for grabs at the awesome off of £9! You know the drill, get your names down! Just an FYI, once the 30 slots have filled up, we can still get more tickets, they will just be at the original price of £17 (+£2 postage) Any questions, as I know this OP is getting a little messy please feel free to PM me or ask in the thread :thumsb: *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Evening ladies and gentleman I have taken up the throne this year in organising a club stand for us all. So. Ticket Prices - £17 Date - 19th July 2015 Location - Silverstone Unfortunately I wont be organising track time though, as this year they want to sell out entire session - I.e. we'd need to fill 40 slots at £1700! So get your names down, once I have a rough idea of how many people we have coming, I'll book a load of tickets and we can then arrange payment. 1. Grundy225 - Paid 2. Andy James - Paid - Awaiting payment details 3. Buster - Paid 4. Tarmac - Paid 5. A9H-RX - Paid 6. Brummiestormer - Paid - Refunded £10 7. Panman - Paid - Donating back to forum 8. Humpy - Paid 9. Dunks - Paid - Refunded £10 10. Mouthwash - Paid 11. DDay - Paid - Refunded £10 12. Ogman - Paid - Refunded £10 13. Chizzz - Paid - Refunded £10 14. Firemansim - Paid - Donating back to forum 15. 14N - Paid - Donating back to forum 16. Shezza - Paid - - Donating back to forum 17. StevoD - Paid - Refunded £10 18. Mudman - Paid - - Donating back to forum 19. Ozzy225 - Paid - Awaiting payment details 20. Mr P - Paid - Awaiting payment details 21. Elliot350 - Paid - Donating back to forum 22. Swiiftyy - Paid 23. Telboy83 - Paid 24. ap427 - Paid 25 .parello9 - Paid 26. Mason - Paid 27. russgray - Paid 28. Aliveboy - Paid 29. Kingrob - Paid 30. Harryjax - Paid **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Okay, I've booked 20 Tickets guys. If we fill up the 20 and more people want to come, I can contact Trax and ask to get more tickets. So Payment - I've paid for all this on my credit card, i'm hoping you can all pay me back ASAP please Two choices of Paypal or if you prefer Bank Transfer, you can PM me for Details Paypal details - matt_grundy91@hotmail.com Price - £19 ( £17 for Ticket, £2 for recorded 1st class delivery.) If you pay by Paypal - Please include your full name, forum user name, and address, so I can keep track of who's who and where the tickets go As this was paid by myself, I've only booked 20 Event and Club stand tickets - This means you get 1 entrance ticket and 1 Club stand pass. So you will need to purchase on the website any additional passengers you have. As a ticket only per person, NOT PER CAR. Apologies for not ordering +1's on this order, I just didn't want to take the risk of Putting £700+ on the card ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Any Questions, feel free to PM me

arches are next on the list with a new front bumper. Thanks for the comments gang #teamtarmac

I've got a few different ones in the bag it came with. But no idea where to start That's the funny thing. It looks like I can't drive it anywhere. But I get no rub, no knocks or scrapes etc. the front would clear speed bumps but the Tarmac side steps wouldn't #teamtarmac

Looks like it goes Bob, then me, Bob, then me Your turn Bob

As I got the week off, took a trip out with the Camera to get some decent photos - I.e. More pixels, maybe not better photo taking skills Really need to get some photo taking lessons as I'd love to know what the other 1000 settings do Least I can finally say my wheels fit This is at the top of Butser Hill in Petersfield. When the weather nice I'll organise a little meet up here, lovely location!

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1) AmyZed - Paid 2) Grundy - Paid 3) Dunks - Paid 4) DDay - Paid 5) Blaqkaudio - Paid 6) Pritchard 7) kite 350 8) flyn 9) octet (Torqen) - Paid 10) Gumpy000 - Paid 11) glrnet - Paid 12) MadMarky 13) Will370z - Paid 14) Buster + mrs Buster 15) willetts 118 +1 - Paid 16) Andy James + greedy girl - Paid 17) Paddy78 +1 - Paid 18) Humpy - Paid 19)Munton87 + 1 - Paid 20)Terry06 +1 - Paid Updated reserve list: 1)kingrob 2)Keyser - Although apparently I'm already going and gonna eat all the food at the picnic 3) Rs200 I'm OCD with the redness

I can't PM you, hoping this will get through to you, could you drop me a PM please - It's with regards to Trax 2015

Thanks buddy, As everyone else has been saying, as much as a PITA it is doing it your self, it is very satisfying completing it. I'll pass that onto Sly thanks, going to get him to look at all the parts I've installed to safety check them over. I'll have to have a look into them, not heard of them before, thanks. Thanks buddy, was a long and gruesome session, but was totally worth it! Cheers GrahaM Gold 'old Keith! Exactly, very satisfying

haha now you said - i feel quite bad that i didn't think of "crazy f**ker" So we have about same gap then! How many miles have you done so far? I drove my car for around 100miles since new wheels gone on lol may be i will get away with 6mm spacers instead of 5? Hmmmmm Can't hurt to go to a 6mm spacer. I've Maybe 3-5k miles? I've just hit 2k on the new engine. They also survived 2 sessions at Silverstone - The engine didnt....but the wheels did oh, that's quite re-assuring if they survived 2 track days.... as that was my concern if they will be ok after hard breaking etc! Worst case scenario, they just sheer off a few wheel spokes

haha now you said - i feel quite bad that i didn't think of "crazy f**ker" So we have about same gap then! How many miles have you done so far? I drove my car for around 100miles since new wheels gone on lol may be i will get away with 6mm spacers instead of 5? Hmmmmm Can't hurt to go to a 6mm spacer. I've Maybe 3-5k miles? I've just hit 2k on the new engine. They also survived 2 sessions at Silverstone - The engine didnt....but the wheels did

I'm insulted you didn't come to me Vlad Not had any problems yet. Can literally just fit a rizzler paper between mine.

someone can quote me if I'm wrong. But adjustable droplinks are required when lowering below a certain point to either maintain/relief pressure on the arb. (Not sure which) #teamtarmac

Just a heads up, speak to the affendee 1st, if he's happy to pay outside of insurance then don't notify the insurance. I had an incident where someone knocked my car (Minor damage) and he asked to do it outside of insurance, I was happy with this. I then notified my insurance as a backup in case he wouldn't pay. They were happy with this and said they would not do anything without my say so. The guy paid up and that was the end of it. But now my insurance company have put a fault on my policy which basically means I pay and extra £300 for 3 years -.-

We made sure both the fronts were the same. I.e. measured from top ring to the bottom ring. Rears I'm going to get Sly to double check.

Once it's gone to Sly, After doing it ourselves, I now know what holds all my suspension together And I don't like it! So once Sly has given it the all clear, I can push it properly on the roads again. But just driving back home etc, it feels more stiffer, but I can't give a proper report until it's full aligned.

Rear spring height difference Was about 60/70mm Driftworks Camber arms going on, these were pretty straight forward setting up, just lined them up to the OEM ones to get a more or less similar size/setup. And she is complete.... But then it turned out...Tarmacs sidesteps might cause me some trouble.... Basically had to build a train track of wood to get me off the drive. It wouldn't usually happen, it's just because the entrance to his driveway is a bit like...... / \ So it causes it to beach But made it off with no scrapes Thanks for reading gang! It's now booked in with Sly@Kaizer on wednesday. Going for a full alignment, and having Sly double check my installation for peace of mind. For anyone thinking, it's too low, rubs etc. No rubbing what so ever, no scrapping, not had any issues driving around as of yet. Seems to be a perfect stance with complete luck upon installation So there we have it, no more 4x4 stance

Day light and the next day... The front passenger side was finally complete Just a note to the height level, we haven't adjusted etc, just left as it came from BC. We just wanted it all on before we adjust. So, it's sunday, onto the drivers side We deiced that our new weekend goal is to just get the front suspension on... So with that, out came Keith to save us a lot of time. This is what happens when the split pin wont come out Luckily driftworks camber arms supply new bolts On goes the new camber arms An array of colours... Not so many pictures of the drivers side, as we were trying to focus more and just get this job done But the front is complete! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So a week later, and we are back at it again, finishing off the rear suspension. But before we could start that, while installing the front suspension, we noticed the Steering Racks Rubber Shoe had cracked, so I contacted Clarky Motors who sent out a new one the next day - Great service as usual. With modding, can't neglect the important parts that keep the car going For some reason there is a picture of me... Here is the old Shoe - This is where the shoe slides onto There, all better again If you do replace these, make sure you put some grease in there to protect the exposed metal, to stop it from rusting Boom, So time for the rear - Turns out the TS diffuser can be a pain to allow us to jack the diff up Off comes the rear shock bolt. If these bolts don't come out, try jacking up the hub to relief some pressure, DO NOT TRY BANGING OUT, you will knacker the threads. Old shocks and springs off NEW PARTS! So I read online, you could remove the rear ARB, without dropping the exhaust.... This is true.....but it takes a lot of wiggling But....Tada! Once the old one is off, the new one is a piece of cake to get into position. Again, rear ARB fits a treat, and again feels a lot better quality than the OEM one.

.Front Coilovers - So after the front ARB was installed, we decided to leave the rear ARB until a later date, as time was getting on and we wanted to get the front suspension completed today (Saturday) and finish off the rear on Sunday. So car was off the ramps and on to the axle stands. We then decided it was time for a break Off came the top Strut bar These are the 3 bolts for the front suspension arm, these need to be undone to release the arm. Absolutely filthy under here Realised shouldn't of done up the drop link to the lower arm as we had to disconnect that to release the lower arm to allow the suspension to come loose. In the above picture you can see a large pole next to the suspension, she is call the persuader, this is what we used to loosen off the stupidly tight bolts Saved the day many times! Now the passenger side suspension was off, it was time to remove the camber arm Now this little whore caused us soooooo much grief. First issue was removing the corroded split pin. This took up way to much time (as we would later find out on another few pins ) Once the pin was removed we tried undoing the bolt, to only realise we were spinning the entire thread...this stumped us. Luckily in Ians house, lives a mechanic named Keith...he is basically like Batman on a scale of awesomeness! Without him, we'd still be out there We learnt that to remove that bolt, and stop it spinning in the ball joint, you need to place pressure between the arm and the camber arm. Keith had an awesome sandwhich plate tool, which you wedge into place to allow the bolt to remove. After that bolt was removed, we then removed the final two rear bolts FYI - We later found out an easier method, undo the above two bolts first, then bring the camber arm forward to apply the same pressure we did with the sandwich plate. Here is the poxy split pin! We pretty much left the coilovers as they came, we measured them just to double check they are the same - but you can see the difference in size already Here's the old Camber arm, ready to be lined up with the new driftworks arms, so we can scale them roughly the same size. Although the fronts wont be exact to the old ones as we needed some negative camber due to my stupid wheels. Time was pressing on, we had spent a lot of time on this front passenger side, due to a lot of things causing us issues...it started to get dark .....Out came the spot light We were determined to just finish this side before we went indoors. Finally some progress, we fed the new coilover through the top 3 mounting holes. It got quite dark

Okay, so first of all a MASSIVE thank you to Mouthwash for helping me complete this, it took a lot of painful hours to complete the suspension, and he helped out on so many levels! So...It's a bit of a mess this build as pictures are all over the shot Anyway, First up - Anti Roll Bar The new one had such a more sturdy weighty feel to it, compared to the old rusty one. So first of all, the Nismo lip comes off, To allow us to get the car up on ramps Then underneath to start undoing the undertray Yes, that is me under the car, I do actually do things So we started with undoing the drop links from the lower arm. The process of removing the ARB was a PITA! The bolts were rusty and seized on, took a lot of lube and effort to undo these by hand, took a lot longer than planned. Here is the mounting point for the ARB Brackets (Didn't get a shot of the old one on underneath) Ian thought it would be funny to pin me down....heard that's how he gets them... Unwrapping the new ARB We then measured the old Droplinks and adjusted the new ones to match the old ones size. We then connected the Droplinks to the ARB and attatched them to the lower arm. Then double checked the ARB lined up with the old mounting brackets. All lined up perfectly, not rubbing on anything underneath the car.

Just pull it round, will be fine. Heat can help.