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Even if it were faded, every day with a machine polisher since 1998 will make it a nice, shiny red again. fixed that sentance.

There is no way that nova has not been photoshopped. That vauxhall red paint should have faded to a lovely shade of pink back in the 90s. For 16k i just cannot see anyone buying it, get real.

Again, another assumption everyone is making is current cost of electric versus petrol. But the retail cost is not the true cost. The vat on household electric is 5% if i read my quarterly statement correct. The vat on fuel will be 20% and then the Fuel duty of 58p per ltr (equates to over 50% currently.) What i am getting at is the disparity between the nett cost and consumer cost. If everyone went electric tomorrow whats to say the goverment wont up the vat on electric or put a duty on each kw used to claw back the millions they are gonna lose from no petrol/deisel sales. Its like every reply i watch in politics. Someone promises something and someone else replies with, "where is the money coming from?" Its got to come from somewhere. Anyway, rant over. The main point was petrol would not be expensive if it wasnt for those pesky kids (i mean government)

So having just done the Performance driver training with C.A.T I can highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about their car, their driving and how to get more out of both. If you read the dedicated posts you will get a real flavour for whats involved but needless to say, a great day all round and it really did hit it home to me just what a great capable car the 350 is. So capable I had Paul who put up with me all day constantly telling me to slow down and learn the techniques and processes involved rather than gung ho-ing it at every chance. sorry Paul. I did make it upto him by winning the end-of-day shootout dispite leaving half of my rear tyres at the start line. Pics below of the great set of forum guys who were on the day with our cars. In order to ensure a Zed won the day we made the R32 tow the trailer around Other bits I have done recently include a rear wiper delete, sprayed the rear strut brace cover (again) in red, and swapped the crappy rusty exhaust clamps for nice high grade st/steel jobbies, look much better. The dreaded EML light has come on yet again so really need to get to bottom of that although car starts & drives perfect. Someone on forum mentioned the throttle controller might be the issue, I cleaned it last time and the light has stayed off for a month so may do it again but clean the contacts as well and reset it again. Also have a sidelight out so purchased some xenon style osram side bulbs, need to fit those and may, if I get time during my paternity leave (may be wishful thinking) get the car up on the axel stands and give the girl some form of underbody paint/rustproofer/sealer/wax etc. Also, due to the noise of the cobra, and other mods, its not really a GT car anymore so seriously thinking about stripping the interior out and losing some more weight. It would just ruin the overall OEM+ look of the car, but I suppose it can always go back in, in the future.

It seems to have joined me automatically as i was in last year. Can you confirm Stu.

Thats exactly what mine does, I would say its normal. Obviously the revs settle much sooner / instantly from a warm start.

Can anyone post up the link to the video of the "brake now" senario. I cant find it. Purely for educational reasons obviously.

Well, i'm sure I speak for everyone when I say what a great day and a big thank you to Colin and the team. 2 pictures below from the end of the day of the cars and our group. Well done to mouthwash for winning driver of the day and getting to like his R32 a little more. Somehow I managed to win the gymkhana shootout although I may have lost a few thousand miles off my rear tyres

Nice idea Mik. Should hopefully spot you around soon. I saw a silver 05 the other day very close to me as well. To the moderators: could the members profiles be tweaked so we can add in Car details, just something simple like for mine: 350HR Black 08 It would help the spotted section as well if members could click on the map and see who was close and what car it was.

Just from the usual e of bay. Search for suprapro clamp and its the pack of 4 at 63-68mm

When i said gone, i meant i had already removed it, its on a shelf. Just contemplating stripping out the interior plastics/carpet etc but then you go from OEM+ look to stripped out racecar look. Not sure i am ready for that yet but would like to know the rough weight saving you would see.

Yeah, the boot weight had already gone, the spare wheel you can see in the corner of the garage, thats gone. People say dont lose weight from rear end as its needed for traction but i have a mechanical LSD and wide tyres so never had an issue.

Quick little mod done today if you can call it that. As there are many of us with cobra exhausts this may be a common problem. Last time i had a nosey around underneath i noticed the exhaust clamps that secure the tips to the tubing and tubing to the backbox were rusting. I took them off and found the threads were almost rusted solid, the brackets had started to corrode/stain the St./steel exhaust and they looked a mess, all this after just a year on the car. The solution, suprapro st/steel exhaust clamps. You can get them in W2 or W4 grade, the W4 grade are better and cost around £5 each. Its a quick 5 minute job to change them and you can polish the staining off while your under there. I am assuming everyone with a cobra should be same size diameter so I got the 63-68mm option which is the perfect size and fit. See pics below, they look much neater, blend in great with exhaust and you will save a kg or so in weight. Just to note: i have no affiliation with the product, other similar products are available but I think for £20 its a no brainer.

Done. Looks much slicker and only a 5 minute job to put back anyway if needed. Plus its another kilo or 2 off the hips.

Me too, heading down from Pontefract tomorrow evening. Stopping at masden mortaine so i can be nice and fresh for the day.

So putting the mamma jokes aside, am i right in summing this up for the layman as "interstellar wifi?"

The tyre situation will definitely be a factor as one manufacturers 245x40 will be a slightly different width/height/circumference to anothers. Couple that with the difference between "new" tyres and "bald" tyres and you could have say 4mm top and bottom manufactor variance, 5mm top and bottom wear variance multiply by pie to get circumference and you have 56mm of difference for a single wheel rotation, i'm sure thats more than enough to mess with TCS.

Yep, would be amusing to turn the jet 90deg and point it sideways and outwards towards the kerbs. Or point it up, link it to the trottle and do a jetski impression. Or maybe not...

Thinking about doing this myself. Do you need to pull a fuse at all. As in what happens when you try to use the wiper from the cabin after its removed? Also not looked but is the rear washer jet on same system or is that completely independent?

I have the RC6. Fine from cold, still better than most other pads and as said they get even better with heat. Only downside is the squeel so either you slam on a few times to get them warm or put up with it. As i understand it the RC5+ are great for lighter cars, the RC6 for heavier cars and the RC6E are somewhere in the middle performance wise but last much longer than either and aimed at endurance racing. I think they do an 8 compound as well but suppose that will be track only and not suitable for road use.

I dread to think what products some of these places use if they are happy to use a sponge. Even the local £5 hand car wash near me use "woolen" mitts although i still only take the daily there. Just a thought occurred to me. How in the technicolor world we live in have sponges remained yellow?

Seems about right to me on the face of it. You would prob get 5.5 to 6k private sale but a dealer is never gonna give you that as we know.

Well i went for a drive out today, around 50 miles and no EML light so cleaning the throttle sensors may have done the trick. Thanks 88zed. Another save from the forum.

What kyle said. Don't underestimate the road camber. If you have only been on b roads the zed being relatively heavy with wide tyres will always pull to the left. Get on a flat piece of tarmac, even motorways can have camber and test then. Or better still find a quiet road and drive down the wrong side, (rhs) if it pulls to right your ok, if it goes straight or still pulls left you have an issue

Mine are eibach and no the camber arms dont adjust the toe (well they may as everything is connected but it would be uncontrolable) the adj toe bolts in the kits are needed to get back to factory specs when lowered.