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You have kind of answered it. The 245/275 combo works well and many have run it including myself but the profile ratio needs to be the same on the fronts and rears, ie 30/35/40. 

Got someone who will take both @Stock so let me know by Tomorrow (sunday) night if you want them mate as i offered to you first so only fair. 

Forgot about this, i do not need mine so they are available, as one will be very hard to shift i would prefer to sell as a pair so price wise, 1 for £30 or both for £45

Would be ok for shows but unless you drive without ever touching the brake pedal they will be covered with brake dust and general road spray in no time. 

Great stuff, love those wheels 

Those sizes will be fine for stock wheels, just need TC off. 

Thanks for the link @HEADPHONES Just ordered one. 

Current code of SUN50 makes it just over a fiver. 

Is this our issue @Kieran O'Quick ??

I have the C5 and revolt on the website, used both and can highly recommend them 

+1 for ctek. I have the 5.0 version i think. Lots of good reviews on them. And as said above, they come with both clamp and circular connectors, the latter can be left permanently connected to the terminals like i have done in pic below so all you have to do is connect the cable from the main unit into the orange/black connector block any time you want to use it. 

Welcome along 

To quote my dad,

”you can’t get owt for a quid these days, worlds gone mad i tell thi”

Welcome along 

Gearbox mount received today, thanks

Finally got youtube to play ball

 

 

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lot of car for 3.5k even if it does need a little tlc

Update time you sexy people...

 

Let me start off by saying its been a month of ups and downs for me and the Zed, and like any good relationship we have both come off a little battered and bruised but have made up and are determined to make it work for the sake of the kids. 

 

So going back to start of May, and after Japfest I had another hillclimb round of which things didn't go the way i'd planned. You may have read on other threads about this but allow me fill you in. The weather had been predicting rain all week and sure enough the day before it rained and on the morning it was damp outside so I decided to take 2 spare wheels with the extreme wet tyres on as I could only fit 2 in the car along with everything else. My plan was if it was damp or light rain to put the wets on the rear as that's where I have most problems (traction off line and out of corners) If it was dry/dryish the nankangs would stay on. 2 practice runs in the morning were done in very nice conditions, things were looking good:

 

 

Then whilst breaking for lunch the heavens opened and although it made my car stand out with some good bead action, I decided it was time to put the wets on:

 

 

As it can take quite a while to wait for your timed run after being called in batches, lady luck was not on my side and out came that chinese man I didn't bargain for going by the name of FU King Sun. the track dried and let me tell you, having dry tyres on the front and wets on the back when its dry does not work, the back end losing traction and sliding all over resulting in a poo time of around 70 seconds. back to the paddock and on went the nankangs for the next run. But my weather God have another trick to play and on the way down to the start the heavens opened, I must have run over a cat on the way to the event as this was getting annoying. Because due to the number we were only getting 2 runs I had to push on ( I say had to, its not not formula 1 so I could have just took it easy and settled for 7th out of 15) but No, why do that when you can find out how crap semi-slicks are in the wet and smash into the tyre wall, that's much more fun right.

 

So the day ended with me stuck under the car trying figure out what fluids were pissing out everywhere getting royally soaked because by now hurricane kick you in the bollocks had decided to turn up and have a laugh as well. I drove home steadily scattering gravel all over the roads and parked the Zed in the garage to take a good look at another day.

 

Damage Assesment:

Front Bumper needed: check

 

Power steering Cooler needed: check

 

Washer bottle, pipes needed: check

 

More bumps and scrapes on the car: check

 

Main Radiator front support needed: check

 

Luckily the main radiators and oil cooler were ok, the undertray took a big hit as well but luckily being aluminium z-speed one it could be fettled back into some kind of shape. I managed to strip the front end down in the very limited space in the garage which meant I could do bits each night after work. Double bonus really as I get to learn more about the car and it gets me out of sitting through 2 hours of sh^t telly each night. stripped down I was faced with this:

 

 

Anyhow, I've forgot to mention that I think the reason for coming off lie with the car and not my mastery behind the wheel, I was questioning my ability at one point but like any good F1 driver, if theres anyone else or any thing you can blame then do that as it must be there fault, right?

So all the lights lit up on the dashboard and the wheels seemed to all lock up, I had no braking and no steering which when you combine the two it doesn't need dick dastardly to tell you, you may be in trouble. So I put out the SOS to the forum and decided to install one of @cs2000 fancy turn off assists chips. That way the possible sensors or driver aids at fault could not scupper my Hamilton like skills and if I did come off again, then I would know there was something else to pin the blame on.

 

pic below of the unit, I could not get the connector out so had to unbolt the entire unit and do everything in situ:

 

and managed to put the button in the spare slot I had next to the 2 buttons for the heated seats that don't work because I don't have heated seats.

 

 

Over the last 2 weeks I had to purchase the new bits required to get the car back running and looking respectable, so like any man, I did my man maths and thought why not upgrade while we are at it. Just ask the wife, its unbelievable how cheap some aftermarket parts are, she couldn't believe that to get the car back to normal and for the amount of parcels I got delivered, they only came to £24.95 she said I must be mistaken, to which I had to agree, i'd got it slightly wrong, the parts were £20 and the postage was £4.95!

 

New Main radiator support was purchased from Nissan, and new mishimoto power steering cooler and fluid from demon tweeks:

looks the business next to the oil cooler, just had to fabricate a bracket out of some aluminium angle I had around:

 

 

Bashed the undertray back into shape and did away with the washer bottle and hoses for the headlight washers, who uses them anyway, just bought a couple of plastic plugs and silicone them into where the hoses went in the main washer bottle. Cheap mod and saves weight yo.

Then purchased a KBD Nismo V2 polyurethane bumper from a chap on ebay that had originally purchased it from tarmac sportz and never fitted it, it was still folded up in the box as per pics he sent me, I got it relatively cheap (£10 to the wife) and the extra weight was offset by the mod previous. The polyurethane bumpers are supposed to be virtually indestructible (I will probably at some point test this knowing me)

The fitment I would say is okay, needs work if you have a show car, but perfectly acceptable if its a drift/race/trackday focussed car:

 

 

After it was all back together, I gave the car a good clean ready for next hillclimb event and purchased a square type JDM number plate to finish off. Not had chance to finish bumber, may well get in wrapped in near future rather than painted.

 

 

Fast forward to now, just finished another round of harewood hillclimb championship. Now I was getting De-Ja-Vu during the week as its been forecast showers/rain for Sunday all week but luckily on Saturday it changed to just afternoon so I took the decision to just go on the nankangs and leave the others at home. its was very cloudy on arrival but dry and fairly warm so things were looking ok, heading down for first practice but who turns up, yep, Suzy Showers, nooooooo, I was ready to go cry in a corner but it turned out it was just a brief shower and that set the tone for the day really, warm and humid with the occasion light shower, so onto times. I was conscious I had not really posted any time of note so far this year and in my eagerness to get into the top few positions on the leaderboard I probably overdrove the first run squeeling round every corner and the brakes seem to be "going off" there is plenty of meat left on them but I was having trouble slowing down and I was breaking in the same spots as previous, really pushing the pedal and it just was not stopping quick enough, not locking up either so something I will have to look at moving forward. anyway a 67 second time was posted to put me in 4th. onto run 2, similar conditions and dialled back slightly to record a 66 sec, upto 3rd. still having big trouble at a sharp 120deg right where you brake from 70 to next to nothing. 

For run 3 I increased the tyre pressures to 36 rear, 37 front. I had been reducing them all day to the point of around 32psi but thought what the hell, lets just try upping them as according to nankang, for 1400kg+ cars pressure should be 34-42.

It must have made a difference as last run (albeit with a brief sunny spell as well) was a 65 second effort to get me into 2nd in class. It was by no means a clean run as you could tell from the video below, a few mistakes/corrections and I was coming off power slightly earlier than ideal due to fading brakes so it bodes well for future, its still amazes me how much better the nankangs are when the sun is out or its warm and how relatively poor they are when its cold.

Best not finish without saying that @Kieran O'Quick once again took the win which normally is a given BUT earnt extra brownie points today as he had car issues all day, (fuel pump intermittent) sensors needed changing, had an OFF and hit a pear tree, tried to copy me in wrecking a bumper and generally spent more time under the car than in it), so well done and sitting currently 2nd in the championship.

I am lying around 15th with all the issues but still hoping to get into top 10 come end of year with hopefully some warm sunny days to come.

 

Times from today (my number was 115)

It was basically a battle of JDM Vs the Germans

 

Myself, Kieren (350z) and Andy (MR2 turbo) along with non JDM Terry in his Talbot Subeam vs various BMW M3s, Z3s, Z4s, Minis and Porsches

And I have only just realised now that us 4 took the top 4 spots with all Zi Germans behind us

 

And another trophy to finish the day which goes a little way to making up for the hours and money spent last month, onwards and upwards!

 

 

Video to follow of final run, lots more time available!

Thankyou and Goodnight.

 

 

From a fellow uniformed person, i would say it will matter which clip goes in each connector as the ecu will send the signal down that specific route. Eg when the aircon is turned on it send signal down that wire to turn second fan on. As for one not working, this is a guess but maybe the fans only spin one way (possibly opposite to each other?) and either you have put them back together wrong way round or because the connectors are wrong its trying to spin them backwards? Just thinking outside the box. 

There are members that will know the issue, im sure you will get to bottom of it. 

I will have the transmission mount, send me a pm with details and i will sort payment. 

 

Welcome along 

Yes, i do love the ultra yellow limited edition. 

Welcome 

Welcome along 

Just tell him your best mate also works for armada oil (what a coincidence) and he is going “offshore” tomorrow. You will give him the cash and have arranged for him to pass it on in a black briefcase. All you need is the Rig location and meet up time/point. 

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Not really the type of car you can clone and put false plates on.