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Gonna do it and I'll get a video up soon. Getting midsilencers out on 14th April and if I get my hfc I'll get the exhaust place to fit them at the same time

I would like one too. Can I pay after pay day??

M135i were going for a fantastic price on gateway2lease website. Apparently they sold a shed load! Was around £250 a month. Guys at my work got them on a 4 year contact

Hey mate

I also had to decide between the cayman S and the 370z.

If you get a cayman after 2009 it will have the engine problem fixed plus a lot of other stuff (gen 2) Therefore I would not consider a car older than 2009. The gen 2 is how the cayman should have been when it first came out.

If you get a gen one and the engine breaks it's £17k to fix from Porsche or £10k from an independent. Therefore you will notice that post 2009 models are around 8-10k more in price since the sellers know people will pay 10k more for a 2009 car vs late 2008.

Secondly is that there isn't much of a modding scene with Porsches. The owners seem a bit like "keep it as it came" therefore there's no advice here in the uk. Most forums talk about servicing and that's it. There's more to a car than when you next are gonna service it!

Lastly was I reckon people at my work place would get really jealous if I turned up in a Porsche even though it would have new. 6 years old. I hate that but it's true.

So that's all the reasons why I didn't go for the porsche. But the Porsche is the better drivers car.

370z is a grand tourer. Not a sports car but it's a great car. Keep an eye out for noisy gearboxes and clutches. This is currently on all years. Although I've heard if you've had a 350z you'll be used to the noisy gearbox and clutch.

For the money I spent I'm able to make my 370z tactfully modified with a lot more cash left over than I was vs buying a stock 2009 cayman S

As in it was epic or when you applied the brakes it just wouldn't stop?? I'm not sure if your meaning unstoppable in a good way! Lol

Just bought the winter tyres. If anyone else is looking for some nows the time to buy and keep in the garage since it's the end of the season so there's plenty of stock. If you wait till middle of summer there will be no stock lol

I bought 265/35/19 and 235/40/19. 265 is from tyre leader. Fallen euro winters for £122 a tyre. Very cheap. Other winter tyres are around £200-£300 a tyre. The front I got part worn off eBay- Pirelli with 5mm tread. £50 a wheel. So all in I'm

Ready for winter for £340. Not bad at all considering the massive tyres sizes the 370 has!

It took me a while but I got used to it.

Will- your description beyond 5k revs is EXACTLY how I feel- feel like your straining the car like a hire car not wanting to be ragged!

The celica was like....5k....here wee go! And it went mental. Great fun. 370z I was thinking oh...poor car didn't like anything beyond 5k!

I'm gonna have to get an uprev I think. Anyone done it on a stock car? Any graphs? I would actually be very interested to see a stock graph and maybe work out what's happening beyond 5k revs

Oh and I have still kept my celica so I get the best if both!

elminate the bogging down at start or improve torque after 5k?

Octet i dont think its sold because of the cost. Im after an amuse kit and i will buy one but im not a fan of the creepy smile the black part on the front of the bumpermakes so i will get the whole front painted in one colour. therefore i wont make use of the CF parts unfortunately.

geoff - is it realy carbon fibre or have the parts been skinned in cf? also is there any cf in the side skirts? like i said i am interested and come the end of May I will be buying an amuse kit (maybe not the front bumper though- may find an alternative) from RT Performance for £800 or around £500 i think for rear and side skirts.

pm me and tell me what your selling so i can get first dibs lol!

Its not like the car is dead after 5k....just doesnt pull like it does low down.

yes my celica was vvtli and i had a stage 2 cam upgrade. when lift kicked in it pulled like a train and the car loved being revved.

dont get the wrong the low down power in the zed is awesome and more usable its just that i want it to pull like that all the way to the redline.

also blipping the throttle isnt a blip....the flywheels so heavy it stays at the 'blipped' rev for at least a second. where as the celica was in comparison instant. this is something ive found on all 370z and is very evident onthe youtube videos when people are showing off their new exhausts.

I think I would quite like a lighter flywheel. i can imagine it would make the car so much more fun.

lighte flywheel, exhaust, sports cat and an uprev = smiles all around!

Hey

Going from a celica GT to a 370z, i have found that the celica is so much more freely revving than the 370z. i know the 370z has a heavier flywheel but why? will changing it affect the Synchro mode?

After 5k revs, it seems like the zed slows down on its pulling ability and therefore i never seem to redline it. in comparison, my celica loved being beyind 5200 rpm up until 7500rpm.

I also noted that another member said that after getting an up rev the car behaved itself after 5000rpm.

so does anyone else find this issue and what can be done to resolve it so that its pulling at its best when revved hard.....like a NA jap carshould be!

Can't see any prices for armytrix though

any kits for 370z?also isyour reversing camera kitfor 370 applicable to 2009 models?

I can't open the ww2 video for sine reason

That armytrix one sounds insane! Love it though. Think I need an exhaust with a variable valve. Beat if both worlds but they will cost a lot!!

AJR we should meet! I wanna listen to your car

thanks for the replies.

Theaim to describing the tone was that when I have been to custom exhaust places, they have asked how much rasp or deepness i want and its pretty subjective. So thats why i wanted to see what the average description of this exhaust would be. ive also heard people describe exausts with an'open' tone....i think that means a ferrari how the tone suddenly changes when you get beyond 4k revs. it sounds like a completely different exhaust. Kind of like how this f type exhaust sounds. so is an exhaust note like this described as 'open'?

Jay, your exahust onstart up was very loud but when it cammed down i didnt notice it as much. i would probably like something a little bit quieter when cruising on the motorway. i noticed a little bit of drone.

Lastly the reason i put up this video was that car manufacturers manage to make exhausts which sound great and exotic but also dont have any drone at motorway speeds....why cant aftermarket exhausts achieve the same thing? The standard F Type is a good example. in the flesh the exhaust sounds excellent and no drone. i would love for the zed to sound like the stock F type (3.5l NA vs 3.7l NA...should be possible)

are these the same size that fit onto the 370z? im getting some for my car and managed to get a decent price. maybe i can arrange a GB but he is not a trader on here (yet).

do traders need to pay to post on here? i can ask him about becoming a member?

Maybe a long shot but are there any exhausts out there that will make the zed have a similar tone albeit a bit quieter?

Problem I'm finding is that exhaust tones are so subjective when people describe them in a forum. Also when people take videos the mic quality really makes a massive difference. I've heard a lot of the same exhausts recorded by different people and they sound different.

So if I can't get this tone how would I describe it? Is it raspy?

Just to warn you this is a 5l supercharged jag! A 3.7l NA will struggle but I also like the tone of the NA 3.5l f type. The exhaust tones at the beginning of the review.

Please describe the tone to me and what exhausts are known to give this tone. Thanks

It must just be a hack since the navigation DVD drive is behind the drivers seat. Try put a DVD in and see what happens lol

oooh i was hoping for a lower price

what is special about the Y section? is there anything in it that changes the tone or is it just stainless steel pipe? maybe i can just look at centre and rear section.

also are these sports cat much better than berks since they are almost double in price.

I'm after a raspier tone and I was thinking of removing mid silencer and changing to berks hfc but this is another alternative.

thanks

omfg. i am interested. Im getting my mid silencer taken out in 2 weeks and i want to see how the car sounds. if it's not loud enough i will be getting these berk hfc

what size? the 265 size?

Just a bump to ask if I should also drop the fronts to 235/40/19 if I'm going for the rears at 265/35/19. The reason is the rears will be 7mm less in diameter than stock. Should I also drop the fronts by a similarly amount so the car doesn't thibk my rears spinning faster and therefore I'm skidding? 235 in the front will drop my diameter by 8mm so it will be 1mm off

Lol

I've checked the American forums and apparently it's the ecu. The yanks get a 8 year warranty on the ecu so people have been getting them replaced. Apparently it's a technical service bulletin too but since not everyone can hear this frequency it's not a recall.

How long is the warranty on our uk cars? I know standard is 3 years but if they have 8 years or 60k for ecu across the pond surely we must too?