Keith D

You might not be trying but you come across as one. No wonder this place is dying on it's arse. Its pretty obvious a slick is better than a semi slick is better than a road tyre. No 5hit Sherlock.

350z on 2nd episode

Continental ContactSport 7s. Fitted them in the summer, incredible in the dry, mental levels of grip. No idea about the wet, the car doesn't leave the garage if its raining.

Doesn't appear to impact Zed's, no DPF, no GPF (as it's port injection) no EGR, Adblue, and if you delete the cat you wouldn't get through an MOT legally anyway 90s JDM fine But if your toy of choice is a modified BMW M2/3/4, Audi RS2/3/4 etc though, with GPF delete and you like a pop and bang...

What's first on the plan?

Sorry are you saying you swapped the coil packs over and the misfire went away?

Nissan have, or had in the 00s, 3 engineering centres, one in UK (Cranfield) one in Japan, one in the US. Development was a collaboration but each NTC tailored the models to their markets (as well as handling things like regional regulations). I'm going to guess that's still how they work.

You can visibly see the suspension is soft and floaty before he even gets to the first corner. My 370z with stock suspension was way better than that, the air ride it's on now with adjustable bound rebound is on a different planet. Like I say, when I worked for PAG, BMW etc in the 90s and 00s it was standard to soften the US vehicles in comparison to UK/EU vehicles.

He's driving a US spec car and complains it feels sloppy. US 370s were tuned to be softer than UK/EU cars, softer bound/rebound, softer anti roll bars, didn't get VLSD for base models, basic brakes not 4 pots etc. Same deal with 400z. He's a moron.

Steered wheels don't follow a true turning circle and they can skip-slide on full lock. My wife's Rav does it, the tyres squeal like buggery. If its more like a slipping belt noise, could be PS pump belt?

I'd get just the one wheel refurbed, pros can match the paint closer than you can. No idea on touch up paint, you could try wurth silver of hyper silver and see how well they match. The darker alloys like mine are gun metallic. I suspect you'll end up spraying and lacquering the wheel though.

Eclectic mix of cars at Refuel Cullompton yesterday, including a young guy who pulled in driving a 1923 model T, with a black lab sitting on the seat. How cool is that! 🤣

You're in the borderlands 🤣

Saw a widebody 350z at Refuel @ Cullompton tonight and chatted to the owner for a while, nice guy, also a really clean pink wrapped G35, utterly immaculate inside and out

I reckon mine is easily good enough for the paddock. Next year. Agree about coffee, bit pretentious, all I really wanted was a cuppa and a bacon and egg bap.

Can't match gazillion pound porkies, but one of my favourites at Haynes yesterday... how much fun must blasting down the road in this be 🤣

There wasn't a meet to speak of, but the breakfast club was utterly heaving and over spilled several rows deep in the field at the back. 600+ cars my guess. A top morning browsing and speaking to a few owners.

Z1 Motorsports Nissan 350Z (03-09) / Infiniti G35 (03-08) Front Bash Bar ?

AI posts on a forum... humanity really has reached rock bottom 🤣

Somerset and Devon I've only ever seen mine and 1 other. Law of averages says there must be several hundred. Quite a lot of 350s.

Whereabouts in the south west?

What does everyone want to do? Pre meet drive in and park up together or just do our own thing? I'm easy

TBH I like my auto, I drive it in manual shift mode almost the whole time. Shifts are super quick (220ms) it has a launch specific shift map (kind of passive launch control) 7 speeds keeps the engine in the power band, and it also has rev match on downshift. Not starting a manual v auto argument 🤣🤣 just buy what you like

Spotless, very low mileage, I'd buy it if I were looking for a zed

Glad you sorted it