Azurez33

Yay! Good man!

@Monkey1983 send some pictures in you poser!

excellent! 😂😂

Fruit bearing or not?

How far in are you stu? do we need to start posing naked with fruits?

Now that it’s different and pretty cool! Welcome!

After fitting the single exit and the v3 spoiler a nice member introduced to the bumper tuck or even a diffuser, at the time I didn’t have the money for one of the pretty ones and also the bumper tuck was very much a style I quite liked! So removed the bumper stays and the tabs and tech screws straight into the rear crash bar to hold it! looked good to me! cheap and easy to do plus added a lot more aggression too! My colleague had also ordered a cheapo universal diffuser from wish for £20 but it would actually fit onto and funnily enough it was a perfect fit to my bit of tucked bumper! so a fair few holes drilled, bolts and nylocks painted and a neat bead of silicone to make a watertight seal to the bumper and you wouldn’t believe it doesn’t look dreadful! doubt I’ll be seeing many of these on these Z’s. think the rear looks pretty bloody good now!

Price just made my wallet cry 😂

I’d have to say the z is a pretty expensive car to modify if I’m honest mate but can understand the 240 even more so! but yes bet the YouTube tutorials Defintely make it so much easier! and wait to see what’s next!

Come on guys let’s get this moving!

It’s already been sold mate To @RyanT

You got moving fast! FairPlay looking god mate

Funnily enough I have some atr seats for sale too atm! I sent the rails back in the end mate as they just didn’t fit and for £123 per frame I wanted them to fit properly! I will say the recaros would most likely be too tall with rails but if you were to just bolt into a frame they should be fine! yeah they just bolt into the normal holes

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Following on. tyres were getting pretty low on the rear so had to replace them, not before a good spirited drive! had to do the research on what tyres were currently rated in the 18” category, I used tyrereviews.com- at the time 275/40/r18 falken azenis 510s were rated 7th I believe so I decided to go for them as mps4s were too much money for me at the time and I’m a firm believer to go for the best tyres you can afford! couldn’t resist painting the logos on them either! always sets them off a bit!

The unscheduled continuation…. sorry guys I have so much extra bits to add but constantly having a million things to do, I blame @Monkey1983 for getting me to go car shows most weeks 😂 either that or continuing with the restoration of my prelude but anyway- back for a few! Working in a garage I see so many nice ads which from the outside look well defined and moulded and then inside you can tell the money ran out or it just wasn’t important- unfortunately the z Definitely fell into this category, with the fact there was only a few models available in the uk you would have though some more effort would have gone into the seats from oem even a logo would have been nice and the interior was just meh, I like the accents here and there but the steering wheels not even very special, I usually like to do everything in order but this was a cheaper alternative to new wheels so out comes the paint! The Bose system has been doing it’s famous “I don’t want to listen to this bit” skipping every so often and tbh it looked dated anyway so decided I was going to bin it replace with my nice double din JVC out the prelude which wasn’t been used. After doing copius amounts of research and failed information from halfrauds iso harness I order a very expensive harness “thanks Bose” from the Internet! trying to also keep function of steering wheel controls! after following the blokes instructions of what I needed and which wires I need to join and solder, admittedly I did join the wrong wire once so the skip button turned the volume up so had a quick switcheroo! but compared to my old Ep3 removing the stereo in the z was way easier and slightly enjoyable! must admit the HVAC unit and all the wires were Defintely a squeeze behind but made it sort of fit! I then wanted to address the orange peel facia and boring gear knob surround that had its fair share of wear, ideally in the future I will sand it all down because I think the textured look is pretty naff but it’ll do for now! cleaned it all up using some spirits then dried it all up with some sort of old t shirt, primed the bugger then hit it with some bmw sparkle graphite which is pretty subtle but Defintely gives it a new lease of life! I then saw the gauge surround and though, I might aswell as some colour here too along with the gear knob surround! so after cutting the Melt joins on the pod gauges I removed them cleaned them up primed and sprayed with what Honda like to call “sparkle yellow” also known as gold 😂 after a few coats and some swearing later due to the cat knocking them off where they were sat i lacquered it all waited for it to dry then reinstalled it with some dots of super glue where the old melt joins were! Much better look I’d say for a bit of paint and some swearing! Next: wheels if I remember rightly! If I can afford them, if not I’ll just have to go on X factor with some really catchy hook

Myself and @Monkey1983 and one of my colleagues are heading to caffeine and machine for the afternoon session on the 28th of November if anyone else wants to join 👍🏼 Be great to see some Zs there and not be surrounded by Subaru’s my colleague is bringing 😂

Yeah just to see if there’s metal flakes/ teeth in the oil mate, sounds like you’re going the right route if the props turning must be further done the driveline

Could be as Alex says a diff problem, know if you’ve had the oil changed and if it has been changed is it the correct vlsd oil? usually intervals are 40k I believe or atleast that’s what I change mine at, it was just the fact you mentioned the biting point was weak, could be wrong but just check everything over, clutch slave for leaks, drive shaft, and then depends how practical you are, would be worth dropping diff oil after crossing out the other points, clutch will be hard to rock off but has the biting point changed? if so again check slave cylinder- if slave is okay? Could be clutch if it’s not replace slave then check again, the fact a drop curb is an issue sounds like clutch to me but that’s just an idea

What mileage you on? and have you had a clutch/ slave replaced at all? without doing online diagnostics could stand a chance your clutch slave has imploded or maybe the clutch itself

Welcome chap! Looks like a good start can’t wait to see you progress!

What he said 😂 Stratford is such a lovely place

Also taking a rain check today as someone’s not feeling great so hope it goes okay!

Glad you managed okay in the end! God it sucks when that happens and you wished y oh took it all off anyway!

Yes mate usually a pain to turn as you can only get two fingers in (pahh) the little o rings get stiff (ffs how dodgy) so spray it with some lube on the way back in and shouldn’t be so bad! I’ve had these purple led ones for about 8 years now!