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People do it to "let hot air out of the under bonnet area" however it actually messes up the carefully designed under bonnet airflow and raises your engine temps. It also looks like you've had a crash and not repaired the car. Oh and it also lifts the bonnet out of line of the hooks which are designed to catch each other in the event of a crash and puts it in a direct line of your face. The number of high performance cars I've seen it done on? None. The number of chavtastic cars I've seen it done on? Lots.

One of the most common jobs on the Z, very easy to do with off the shelf parts

I've thought of getting harnesses at a later date, mainly for show, but then I can to the conclusion that they'd **** me off. Many times I have to lean forward to see better out of a junction or twist my body to see behind me whilst reversing, neither of these things I can do with harnesses. A few times when trying to lean forward the seatbelt has locked, not just in the Zed, but quite a few cars and it's quite difficult to describe how angry and frustrated that makes me Is there a way to keep the seatbelt and have harnesses fitted? Yeah, I've done it. Lap belt is secured to the same point as the standard seatbelt on the outside just with a longer bolt to hold them both and into the floor via one of those threaded plates. Edit: and my bucket seat mount has a fixing point for the lap belt too

Simple fix, get harnesses!

Copy and paste over from another forum: And when the 'caged car is crashed, the cage spreads the energy of the collision around the chassis resulting in more damage, therefore increased repair costs to the insurer, not to mention PI claims from body parts connecting with the cage. Now you say that it makes perfect sense! A head on a steel support will do a LOT of damage!

True but on the other hand, a modified car is more likely to be owned by an enthusiast who loves his car more than his wife and will take painstaking care to treat it well, never park it anywhere dodgy and look after it. I forgot to mention before, it might also be because insurance companies make little sense haha.

It's also that a modified car is more likely to be stolen, as the parts will have a higher resale value than standard. A rollcage in a mini would suggest that the car is faster than it is, a thief isn't going to know that you've put the rollcage in for looks and not because its your road car that you take to a small race series at the weekend. A couple of months ago there were loads of drift cars being stolen, the thieves were even turning up with keys for the battery cut-off as they knew they would have been removed. If you had the option of two 350z's; one with several grand spent on it and one completely standard - both for "free" and you were going to break the car to sell in bits. The one with the possibly rare after-market bits would be the one to choose.

Haven't watched the video, but in all honesty if I witnessed a murder I'd probably freeze in shock, stand there and cry after it was over and then never forgive myself for not doing anything to try and stop it.

I'm no expert, but I'd say it looks like something like a crosswind got under the car. At those speeds a small bit of lift can be a huge issue. Whatever happened, that car is toast!

Personally I don't bother with 1st, it just runs out of revs too quickly. Give it beans and you can light them up from a standstill in 2nd

This story is a prime example of what I good roll cage can do. This Honda Insight flipped at 190MPH! it rolled over 15 times! The driver survived with a cut to his leg and a collapsed lung. Lets hope his cage designer got a big thank you present! http://www.carthrottle.com/this-roll-cage-saved-a-guy-from-a-190mph-honda-barrel-roll-of-death/

Only reason I read this was because I saw the title and that you'd commented I wasn't disappointed

It's not technically off when you press the button. It will still kick in as and when it decides. For example on the big bend at Lydden Hill at a BDC licensing day. Instead of drifting the corner you just lose the front end, and nearly go into the gravel pit. Having a switch put into the yaw sensor means it is completely deactivated and won't try to kill you at a moments notice.

Ditto the late entry I'll fill in any months lacking

If someone goes missing and I get done for their murder, they then turn up 15 years later after I've been released from prison and I murder them for getting me put away for so long. Do I go back to prison? As technically I've already done the sentence for it? Oh sorry, thought we were just making up pointless what if's. You've modified the ecu, it's that simple. Your ecu isn't standard and the insurers can find that out very easily, you need to tell them. You can go through all the "but the power has just been returned to normal" and they can judge it how they like, at the end of the day you've had the engine map changed from standard.

I didn't know they did it in orange? To be fair, they actually do! They'll do any colour you want if you pre order it

Does the regulations not say something about anything that restricts the light output from lights is a fail? I comes with a booklet details why it doesn't affect the light output and why it is legal. I tried it about 3 years ago, you need to be careful when you start as unlike vinyl you can't stretch it and the headlights do curve quite a bit. I'm sure if you line it up properly it could be ok though When I did it I got wrinkles in it and couldn't get them out so I gave up. Good luck!

Never drive with it on! Likewise! Every drive starts with engine on, TC off. Trying to work out how to turn it off permanently. Get a switch put into a yaw sensor. You'll need to be able to activate it for the mot. A toggle switch would keep it off all year and then you'd be able to turn it on for the mot. You've also completely deactivated it then too unlike just pressing the button when it stays partially on. I've been meaning to research this. Is there a guide anywhere? Where is this sensor and what exactly needs to be done? To be honest, I got jez at Horsham developments to do it, whilst they changed my belts over so I didn't actually see it being done. I'm sure a pm to him would reveal the answer as he's always been really helpful when I've asked stupid questions

Never drive with it on! Likewise! Every drive starts with engine on, TC off. Trying to work out how to turn it off permanently. Get a switch put into a yaw sensor. You'll need to be able to activate it for the mot. A toggle switch would keep it off all year and then you'd be able to turn it on for the mot. You've also completely deactivated it then too unlike just pressing the button when it stays partially on.

Needs lowering and maybe spacers And some bubble arches!

The welds you produce could be a good entry, although they might push it into the "pornography calendar" band

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2JZ? Please say 2JZ

No in yours Nightmares... I'm a change manager / consultant trying to help companies develop & progress without breaking their IT environments. Sometimes feel a bit like that chap in Tiananmen Square. Like I'm stood in front of a column of projects and programmes saying "But have you tested this, where's the evidence, what about the risk, how much is it going to cost, what if it goes wrong, why is it so urgent ......it's not your infrastructure, it belongs to the company, stop trying to break it..." etc. Nothing of any real value though, like a nurse, teacher etc Jesus, sounds just like one of my days. Trying to hold back the tide of brilliant ideas from people "who know about IT" but can't use excel. I love excel! I organise my work so that I can have whole days only on excel A lot of what I do involves Excel, DBA & code.... currently working on a 700 store multi product, multi drop delivery schedule for 1.8m items a week, 250 motive units and over 300 drivers..... The spreadsheet is around 1,400,000 cells and counting That sounds awesome, I used to work in 1st and 2nd line support for a card fraud prevention company and used SQL every day, had access to several million card transactions and SQL was the best way to interrogate the bad transactions as you can see the raw data. These days it's just formulae and macro's etc.