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I have the silenced decats from crapspeed and they put my exhaust under such tension that it tore the cat in half after 3 months and also ripped my flexi-pipe in half too. I had to have them cut at the flages and then rotated to fit them. I also have a K2 backbox which sounds like its made from a box of nails. Now I'm on the hunt for a buddyclub single exit exhaust. Everything japspeed I've seen for the 350's is shocking.

:lol: I think we've all said those words Congrats on your new purchase, great pics too My 350 was going to stay completely standard...then just a panel filter...then a cone filter... You won't regret buying one Enjoy it!

I'd say gunmetal, it looks really classy and quite understated. I'm not a fan of black alloys as when the car is moving, or in pictures it can look like you have steelies on! Red would be cool, but you might spend your whole life keeping them clean to look good. Gunmetal would hide a reasonable amount of dirt, yet still look stunning when clean. What about.... (I know we're not on the early 2000's anymore, but bare with me...) Gunmetal with some red metallic in it? Not the whole I've got glitter over my whole car, more a subtle thing which makes you have to look twice? And only on the alloys it could look quite nice.

The BC racing ones are amazing. I have them and they are the best upgrade I've done. 30 stages (I think!) of adjustability and they have little stalks for reaching through the rear strut to make it easy to change the hardness of ride, just make sure they dont knock on the rear window as its a tad annoying. So long as you have some spring compressors for removing the fronts and a half decent trolley jack you'll be fine fitting them yourself at home. I did it on the road outside my house. They look really smart and go pretty low too. I found on the softest setting the ride is better than standard on the 350, its so much less crashy with potholes etc. On full stiffness its mental, I normally run the fronts on 10 clicks away from stiffest and the rears on 8 clicks away when I'm drifting. Hope this helps, Dedman

To begin with I started with an almost standard car, it was only when I knew I really wanted to do track days and drift days etc that I made the plunge for coilovers. The 350's are so capable you can do a lot before you need to change anything. There's "drift what ya brung" days at santa pod which are £60 if you book in advance and you can go in what they call the playpens, which is a cone and lots of space to start, progressing up to a figure of 8 and then up to two larger tracks. I've never learnt more in terms of driving than at a DWYB day and theres loads of people who will help out. There's also the fueltopia barrel sprint as mentioned above, and theres similar days to santa pod at places like Birmingham wheels. If you want to give it a go without risking your car, there's plenty of experience days around too where you can use other peoples car's including ones in the Silverstone car parks in 350's! If you saw any of the crews vs uk videos last year there was a clip of me obliterating a barrel at one of the Fueltopia rounds when I got it really badly wrong lol

Nothing massive really, as I'm sure you know, it's a really capable car out of the box. I've just put on BC racing coilovers which made a massive difference, I've got a bit of camber on the fronts so that on full lock I still have a decent contact patch with the tarmac. I also have a half decent seat with some 4 point harnesses to pin me down and a switch to completely deactivate the traction control as on the fast long corners it used to reactivate itself and kill everything. Anything else setup wise I'm changing as I get to a point when I need it, I'm doing all my bushings next month to tighten up the front, more as I found out all of mine are dead than needing it done for performance reasons. I feel I will run out of ability LONG before the car does!

Sounds good! I'm a tad broke atm as I found out today my front suspension bushings are knackered! Going to be expensive lol. I'd highly recommend the fueltopia barrel sprint, its £25 for the day and you get a fair amount of time sliding around. There's also some BDC drivers who go down and give advice too, I learn something every time I go down. My biggest issue with the 350's is that I can't carry more than 2 drift tyres!

Thanks guys! I look forward to meeting you all

Oh, must have been thinking of someone else. The before mentioned images! My car is 100% love or hate. It has a big spoiler which always divides opinion but I have a photo somewhere with evidence that it works from the way the tyre smoke is flowing behind the car. I have standard alloys because I can never decide what to get and then spend the money on other parts . Currently I have no stickers on the car (some may say thats GOOD!) but I have a sponsor or two to go on for the next season! Anyway, let me know what you think Oh and there's a short video below, not fantastic but still... I wonder if you can spot me Thanks, Dedman

Name rings a bell, Can't think of the face though! I left about 2-3 years ago. Theres a lot of instructors there now since they started the driving academy. It was a dream job to be honest, it was just freelance and I'm not good at saving, so when it was in the quiet winter months I couldn't handle only working 10 or so days. I'll upload some pics when I get home tonight Thanks for the welcome guys!

Good evening! I'm Matt, I'm 23 and from Woking in Surrey (Starting to sound like alcoholics anonymous here!). I've owned a 350z for 3 years now and have loved the cars for far longer. I use my '50 as a bit of an all rounder, it sits in traffic most days to take me to work, but at the weekends it frequents some of the common drift haunts like Santa Pod or Lydden Hill. I've got petrol in my veins, and have done some cool jobs around cars including working on the track at Mercedes-Benz World at Brooklands for 2 years, however I now work in expatriate tax. If anyone is local(ish) it would be great to meet some of you. Anyway, I'm sure I'll see some of you around. So for now, I'll leave it here. Thanks, - Dedman -