billdingo

Knew I recognised the Zed on the welcome post over the way. The Ark is all packed up, hope it sorts the unfortunate blow on your exhaust.

I second considering the Toyobaru. I went from a 350 to one. I get 35mpg on my commute of 20 miles, 3 of them crawling through town then the rest down a not normally awful motorway.

Many people do say they are too slow, but I'd suggest driving one. They feel so much lighter and more agile than the zed (I had both for a few months, 350 felt massive after the 86) and when you do get time to a proper blast you just have to keep it above 4k rpm with the added bonus that I find it is in it's element a more much sensible speed than a zed.

They can be had for around 12/13k for a 2012. But those older ones will start going out of warranty early next year so I suspect the prices will fall a bit more then.

Airbox now sold.

Mods please lock

Dibs on some black nuts. PM sent

Not been on for a while, all sold apart from the airbox.

Car now sold, so I've got a few more bits I may put up depending upon what the guy taking the zed wants.

Any idea how the exhaust compares to my japspeed k1

I still have cats and the k1 is way to loud

No idea I'm afraid, can only compare it to OEM or Milltek and HFC, as that's all I've had fitted.

Hey guys.

Sorry been away for a long weekend with the missus, did sneak on with Tapatalk to reply but didn't get very far. Replying to PMs now.

Any chance of postage on the air box ?

I'd rather collection, as work is really busy at the moment so it's a pain to get somewhere to post it. But if I don't get any interest by next weekend then sure.

Wasso spacer gone?

Speaking to Mj86 on PM at the mo, will let you know if it falls through. I assume you'd be after postage as it's quite a trek down here?

First round of selling some bits in prep for sale of the Zed.

To start with these are collection only from Portsmouth. Or if it's easier Hedge End weekdays.

2006 Air box with BMC panel filter, bought off Kaveney in March this year and never fitted. £60

Red Wasso plenum spacer, never fitted. SOLD

KW V1 with some top mounts SOLD

I bought these with the intention of refurbishing the springs. As you can see they could do with a wire brush and a repaint.

No leaks on the dampers as far as I can tell. More photos available here: http://s723.photobuc...s?sort=3&page=1

Magnaflow exhaust SOLD

Pretty good fitment, was bloody loud around town when I had Berk HFC fitted so I swapped it off for a Milltek.

Bit grubby here but would polish up nicely

Looks like this fitted:

its only really the new hyper hatches that'll crack 60mph in less than 6 seconds.......

Oh, not looked at the numbers on them, but assumed there would be loads under 6 secs by now, it's 15 years since an EP3 Civic could do it in 6.5. Guess they've been getting a lot more bloated.

They must all have a shed load of torque down low with their miniature blown engines tho, so might not be that quick off a line but imagine they would be pretty rapid in gear / out of a roundabout etc.

I'm not sure my 350 could do it in 6 either tho, have to be quite patient with the gearbox...

This is all chat on a forum where people mod their cars tho, I would imagine adding power is a whole lot easier (tho not that cheap) than fixing handling, the cars balance or removing weight without sacrificing something.

How long have you had it mate? Are you finding the power enough to keep you interested?

Only a week and a half, it's been pretty entertaining so far. I find the lower power means you can "drive it like you stole it" more frequently without doing stupid speeds everywhere.

I don't know if I'll get bored with time, but there seem to be plenty of reliable ways to bump the power a bit.

I've just bought a GT86, it's a great little car. Seating position is so much better than the 350 (not driven a 370, but don't imagine it's much lower).

It's brilliant round corners, stupidly low COG and decently low weight makes sure of that. It's true you can't just get the arse out round every bend, but why would you want to on a public road anyway? Odd bit of sideways action when conditions allow is fine. I also find the gearbox a load nicer than the zed one.

Noise isn't great, it does just seem to get louder as you get through the revs. But that can probably be sorted at the same time as sorting the torque dip at 4k.

It's slower than most current hot hatches, but then so is a stock 350. I'm not a traffic light GPer anyway, so don't remotely care.

You could probably just swap the final drive to a shorter one to give you more torque to the ground, but then you wouldn't be able to get 40+mpg down the motorway.

This can't be far from the truth: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/im-not-fking-driving-that-says-samantha-cameron-20160524109050

I'm a big fan of the white they do, red wouldn't be my first choice but it's growing on me and can look good with a few mods

Yeah, love a white car. Dealer near me has one so may check that out at the weekend if it's not pissing it down. Got a 'white' Integra DC2 tho, and I fear parking an actually white car near it may make it look too beige, like it does when it snows.

I think my favourite colour is the blue BRZ, but no where near as many of them about. And most on the market appear to be 400 miles away from me.

I may have to be patient, but I'm terrible at it, and tend to buy the first car I go to look at.

Very nice, as it happens I'm going to have a look at a red one tomorrow, but still not quite decided on colour.

The yellow ones they released last year look great, not had any depreciation time yet tho.

Saw this one on my travels through the ads, got yourself a bargain.

Yup, love it. Used to run nights down in Portsmouth.

I went to many of the earlier ILT, unfortunately I missed all the outdoor ones.

Tend to be a bit more sensible about things nowadays but used to fly out to Berlin on a Thursday. Pretty much party straight through until Sunday night. (This also happened at home on many a weekend)

Closest we get to that nowadays is a trip to Barcelona for some off-sonar fun, 3/4 nights in a week is plenty now.

Current techno calendar: Heading into London tomorrow for this: https://www.resident...ent.aspx?820532 and am off to Berlin in July to see my mate (Kamikaze Space Programme) play Berghain.

Woo. Finally spotted someone who's on the forum.

I see quite a few around, there was a silver one five or six cars up from me in the traffic by J8 today. Didn't catch up with them though.

Down the road in Pompey, currently commuting to J7 till I get bored and rejoin the train commute to London gang.

7:30am ish, we exchanged a quick wave before you pulled off at J9. See quite a few around, rarely been anyone on here tho.

Nice to see another Zed on the way to work, didn't notice much about your car as I was mostly avoiding rush hour nutters. Exhaust didn't look standard tho.

I'm not sure, I've not tried it myself, but the screenshots show the airflow readings

There's a free lite version probably worth giving that a crack before buying it?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nissandatascan.ndsiilite

Overtook me on slip road Eastbound J12, and head back towards Port Solent at about 5:45. Saw you head into the main car park. Didn't flash, as I wasn't in the zed today.

Looked pretty stock, tho exhaust didn't sound so standard.

I'm a lifer with Windows sadly, never taken the plunge in any other OS as I get frustrated being a noob all over again. If I made this in a Windows environment there's a range of things I could build it in no problem in a lot less time. However that comes with the overhead of an actual PC build on mico ITX; cost goes up, space used goes up and so does power requirement.

Do you know about this? https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/Downloads.htm Not a big windows guy myself, so not sure what you get in it, but may still be enough of the standard OS for your needs.

I've got one of these: http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B00H9S71LW/

Bit more expensive than the £15 knock offs, but has worked in a 350z, a DC2-R, two gen7 Celicas and a Legacy Outback so far.

This is with torque on my phone and android headunits, mostly to reset / read codes, but have played with logging / dash stuff a little bit.

The domain doesn't have any SPF or DKIM records, which help massively with mail deliverability. There may be a way to set them up in whatever control panel your host uses.