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Leonardo da Vinci, he's my engineering hero. If I had a dinner party I'd also invite Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Darwin, Anna friel, bill bailey

I like the contrast, looks very tidy

I just sicked in my mouth; swallowed it and sicked it up again. that's hideous

those stubborn bolts often loosen with a bit of

are you running a sweep stake on how many bits will be left over at the end. you always have the obligatory few bolts left over.....what's that snail shape thing over there.....ummm...I think that's the super charger.......ummm correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't that be in the car???

its not the class room, you're talking to people who already know it. this weekend your the school boy. now go do your homework

just leave the drive belt off the SC if he has all that power he's going to be unbearably annoying for weeks to come

tints are coming off at some point, and the wheels are going to get a refurb, as close up the BBS wheels are a bit untidy

I think I have all 4

Hopefully sorting the exhaust tips on Monday.

I'm looking at the old breadvan type R's in about a years time, yes its fwd, but its a cracking drive, fun and practical.

Thanks guys, think I might do the wheels in a bit.

Roc R has no haldex, its fwd. But a great during car. Guys at vw all said they take the roc R, over the r32

no worries just trying to be honest. how and what you spend your cash on is up to you. but alot of people on here will atest to spending a shed load, then realiseing nothing is useable and spending a shed load more on an SC setup, and then saying i wish i'd just gone SC in the forst place.

- picking your nose will give you brain damage - playing with your belly button will make your whistle fall off - playing with your whistle will make your bum fall off - if you don;t wash your hands you'll get cancer - mums always right - if i don;t behave she'll call the zoo an have me put in the monkey enclosure. (she actually rang them once; or so i thought, many years later she told me it was the speaking clock she dialled)

Breathing In Motodyne basic plenum spacer 5/16ths - http://tinyurl.com/bqmhma3 On the basis that it fits straight in under stock brace and bonnet. I'm a little confused as to what the iso thermal aspect of some spacers is, so any explanation is appreciated. I've also picked up from some threads that the benefit over the basic is negligible, please correct me if I make poor assumptions. nissan had to chage the design of the plenum to make it meet certain regs regarding bonnet clearance; so they shaved down the back chambers and sloped the plenum - this in effect slightly starves the rear cyclinders (plenum spacer restores the spacing.) (or something like that) a possibly tiny gain is achievable Velocity Stack Don't know much here, beyond the fluid dynamics theory. Do they even fit in the 04 air box? If so, anyone on here sell them? the new 06 + boxes have a larger velocity stack the older ones have a tiny one fly boy does a mod to turn the old boxes into somethinng close to the new air boxes. - gains are small but it smooths throttle response. only useable with pre 2006 air boxes. but becomes obselete if you replace with an induction kit. those chasing BHP numbers stick to stock airbox and performance filter and VS. Intake I believe the Cosworth panel is reasonable and other intake variants (pop charger, ram) on the stock airbox are more aligned with making a better sound, not necessarily better performance. I'm not after much louder, but interested in good airflow with proper levels of filtration. basically make the car louder. will suffer heat soak at slow speeds but will be fine at speed. more likely to see gains from long ram kits and sealed airbox kits. but basically the difference on power + or - is almost unoticable in real world figures. but might affect pub bragging rights on a dyno. Breathing Out Y-Pipe - http://tinyurl.com/d9pod4n The cobra seems to be a popular choice round these parts and reasonably priced. A decent choice? Again, not after super loud and motorway drone is a no no. HFCs - http://tinyurl.com/cgphbxu An area I've read a lot but learned not so much, other than the Berk HFCs seem popular. Where do these fall in terms of legality and current MOT regulations? I'm not keen on anything that the Feds will be even remotely interested in, even if the likelihood of them checking is only 1%. I don't have a friendly MOT mechanic, or any desire for my insurance company to get the hump if the worst happens. Does this mean I'm stuck with OEM and will that ruin my plan? HFC's are road legal and will see small gains, decat pipes see biggest gains but arent MOT legal. HFC's should pass an MOT but might need a spirited drive pre MOT test. Misc Belt and lightweight pulleys - http://tinyurl.com/cb7j66z Another are with plenty of theory, not much practical. I get reducing pulley weight drops load, I've also read a few bits about undercranking, which I think I'm happy enough to live without. Any comments on this are appreciated. No idea about belt - please help! basically improve throttle responce but not a massive gain in actual performance Uprated Radiator Caps Seems too easy & cheap to me to make any big gains, but happy to be disproved. Also are there any risks of increasing pressures in there? If so, what's the sort of max pressure rated cap you'd want before risking leaks? snake oil Grounding Kits I've read a few back on forths on the benefits or not of these, performance wise there's plenty of opinions, but nearly everyone agrees it's beneficial if you run quality ICE and will at least smooth idle. snake oil to give you the short answer if you want to eventually go supercharged, then save up and do it from the start, if you do lots of NA mods and then go have an uprev you'll have spent about 2/3 of the cost of an SC install in the first place. personally speaking; i'd just get what you want for making the noise you want i.e. filter and exhaust, then get it uprev'd at somewhere like horsham. and enjoy the car for what it is. SC'd zeds are great but its not a cheap route. and once you have something likea DIY build its never a fit and forget item, you will need to be checking it and tampering it on a regualr basis. if you want an FI car, save the money and spend it on buying a factory fit FI'd when you come to change from the zed in a few years.

its a bit of a trek but there is team afm in martlesham near ipswich which is my local performance specialist. they did all the work on my 350z and others, as well as my s2000 and my XKR

yep need to know early as possible

thanks leon, i can't wait to get the new colour on it, but as i have no where to spray at the moment its going to have to wait.

its worth a quick read http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=27522 but basiucally a huge jap recall on cars built between 2000 and 2004 so this would include early 350Z's and this recall was for nissan mazda toyota and honda

i can get it to you via courier on saturday before 1pm for about £25 or before 9.30 am for £45 thats just the courier costs, and not the vinyl. Rich

For those of you who don't know this is what my XKR looked like when i first got her about 2 years ago. When I bought there car she was bought as a project car knowing full well there was a lot of work to be done. admittedly when i bought it i think iwas wearing very heavily tinted new car syndrome glasses and i did kind of mute down the work that might be needed. she is what i call a crossroad car. when i got her i was either going to run her into the ground till she died or restore her. well i went with the restore route. so this is the car 2 years ago Now these photos are a little bit of a lie as this was just after a full machine polish and doesn t show how bad the paint was (still is) swirls galore, its like it had been cleaned repeatedly with a brillo pad. and it also doesnt show all the rust either. in particular behind the rear bumper and in the rear arches. and under the car. I have sincew sorted the underside, its all been stripped and cleaned and specially painted and waxoiled. but i hadn't got round to sorting the rust at the rear of the car. and to be honest i was planning on leaving it for another 12 months as i knew how much work was needed and the cost involved. well the car forced my hand shall we say as about 3 months ago it did this to me.... It decided to finish rotting out the rear bumper mounts, which decided to let go of the bumper thankfully in my wifes work carpark and not at speed on the dual carriageway 2 minutes earlier. but it didn;t tell me and i dalso reversed over said bumper. rendering bumper now useless. you'll be pleased to know it fits in the jag boot, as i folded it in 3 you also can;t see the 2 very large rust holes on either rear quater, or the state of the arches. so while i deliberated about what to do i dorve the car around for a month with no rear bumper. and then i decided to bite the bullet. so i ordered a new style rear that could be used in rebuilding the rear bumper. and as i'd bought the rear i thought i might as well buy the sides as well....and then the guy about a fortnight later offered me a cracking deal on the front i bought the dront as well. so the next job was rust removal and i think at this point the pictures say more... as you can see there was alot of reconstruction work carried out and basically new arches built and welded. Now you may ask why change the front, well on mine the paint was heavily spidere webbed, the badge had been nicked and the grille was falling out. and the cost of the new grille was not far off what i managed to get the whole bumper and new grilles for. so i did it any way. this is my original nose my car with no nose my car with new nose now at this point my mates and other peolpe had been laughing at me, i had a primered nose. a rear bumper that was temporarily riveted on for transporting it. and rust, lots of rust. i think i had created the first rat look jag. sadly i have no pictures of this embarrising phase. now at this point i don't have the fitting and blending pictures to hand. so i will skip ahead to the current stage of completion so this is where the car is up too now. i have to add at this point that this isn't the finished article. i still need to fit arch extenders at the front, the lower grille needs adding, and the under tray fitting, also need to complete the front with the upper bumper mounts to push the top edge inline with the bonnet. as well as the rear grille and the exhaust tips adding (originals had to be cut off as the new bumper had round holes and the old exhaust was oval and now too long for the new shorter rear) the guys at the body shop also gave the car a quick burst of a mix of primer and tp coat to seal it all in. the reason i've not had a full paint job is i'm planning on repainting the whole car. but for now my wallet needed a breather and i want to sort a few other things out. so this is by no means a finished paint job. now the plan was that iwas going to do most of the work myself, but because the winter has gone on so long i haven't been able to work outside. and my garage isn;t wide enough to get the XKR in and still work on it. so a big thanks has to go out to tony at paragon design who let me use his work spoace for the front and for sorting the parts out and o be fair doing most of the front fitting as he was quicker than me and another big thanks goes to the guys at Ipswich Accident and repair who did all the welding and fitting at the rear. great set of guys and top work.

You're complaining they gave you wheels. I've just spent 2 weeks in a proton savvy. Have to say it was a right little hooner. Turns out its a Clio underneath the body shell. At the end of the day it meant I still had transport and didn't have to claim for lifts.

Yep I think both those comments merit one, but you might have a chance to redeem yourself Ok point taken.... I would only go for the GT86 if I wasn't getting a Jag made me giggle