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i know a bloke who used to make the scim bodyshells he know lives out in NZ but i sort parts out for his XK every so often and send him care packages of car parts.

if its a performance part and its made for porsche its 3 or 4 times the price of what it should be. its the same with jaguar, and i'd bet its the same with all prestige performance cars. general aftermarket consensus is if you can afford a prestige car you can afford to pay presitige prices

Lol yeh and I will prob be about 2k lighter aswell acropovic do porsche exhausts as well if you have a spare £4k

i go to a specialist for my 20" BBS wheels, they have a special BBS wheel attatchement to allow them to do the wheels upside down in owder to protect the chrome ring or something like that. but it doesn;t require putting any marks on the wheels. glad you have found a place for future reference; sorry to see the damage. my advice is to source it through tarmac sports, he can get most things state side but be charged by a UK company as a UK company. i.e. if the wheel place are buying the replacement they can deal with tarmac.

Just had a quick browse in your price band, just quickly picked the well knowns, must admit there is a lot of choice; but if it was me and only a weekend toy for the next 2 years, i'd be looking at the noble m12 or the TVR cerbera or Tuscan. didn't put them up but an exige would possibly go ont there as well. Aston DB7 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p Ferrari 328 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p Jaguar XKR http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p Maserati Gransport http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p Noble M12 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p TVR cerbera http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p TVR T350 http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p TVR tamora http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p TVR tuscan http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p But if you like the porsche and it ticks the boxes and gives you the safety net your looking for then its up to you. but i wonder if the same thing will happen to it as has with the 370. nice car but i wish it was more type thing. as you i too have a porsche itch, i also have an alfa itch and a TVR itch. i'm currently happily sratching my V8 intch and my supercharger itch both at the same time. but i don't know what i'll do next. i'm seriously contemplating a 2 car setup where i do the alfa as a daily car and get a caterham or similiar for track fun and weekend hooning.

looks like a beefed up MR2 roadster

i've done it to my car as a temp mod till i sort new lights

have to agree with sarnie on this, if its only a weekend toy i'd be looking in the TVR cupboard; if i had the cash spare for a toy i'd want it to be something that makes me smile when i go for a blast. the M3 and the cayman are great daily's but for a weekend toy i;d want more.

Love both cars, if its just me and Lucy, it would be the Cayman, if we are lucky and have kids it would be the M3. Just as a left field choice have you looked at the x150 jag, that's the new shape Xkr. Easily in budget, its not as much of a barge as the old x100 shape like mine. Plus the supercharged 5 litre v8 is very good. Loads of creature comforts. Even nicer place comfort wise than the Cayman. And you can get 1 mate in sideways along the back. The convertible version is even more fun.

Theoretically the turbo does better mpg, but it depends on how you drive it on a commute. If you stay off the boost it should be pretty frugal like a normal 1.8. But if you drive hard it will drink lots if the turbo is always spoiling up. You might get slightly better out of the 3.2 if you drive hard but there won't be a lot in it. I would have thought the 3.2 would be about the same as the 350z

you want the lowest unsprung mass that clears the brakes. get a set of scales out and go weight those wheels then come back and ask us. general consensus on here is 18"s for go; 19"s for show. but they have to be leightweight to really make a difference, and even then i don;t thnik most on here would notice the differewnce between the 2.

well done

we have tried lots, and i'm sorry but their does seem to be a high amount of ineptness in the industry. to the point we do our own letting now. every profession has its tar brush according to the tar brush; as a teacher i'm theortically a kiddy touching retard who couldn't make it in the real world. the old those who can't; teach; those that can't teach; teach PE like with anything i'm sure if your wife is good, she will always be busy and well regarded by the people who come to see her.

use HPI

get rid of the chav pipes and put some HFC's in if you want thicjer oil try 10w30 or 10w40 could possibly go thicker ask jez at horsham what he changed too

was going to say thats Attakz old car, but he's already been on hugh knows the car well so can give you a run down if you need it

my posts seem to keep disappearing *EDIT* no they don't my brain stopped working

but if you add all those extras on the zed it doesn;t make it as accurate comparison price wise to the gt86 as that lot would put the zed over the 30k mark. and the porsche they used was half that at 15k. i'd save the 15k over the zed and go 2nd hand cayman S with all the trimmings. you could put 5k in the bank for repair work and still save 10k on the zed.

In what way? cats tend to catch/filter alot of stuff coming out that you wouldn't normally see, you sometimes get small bits of smoke whith new exhaust parts as they bed in and coke up. depends on how much smoke he is getting. if its continous and heavy then yes i'd put it down to oil burning. but if it was the odd whisp i'd say its exhaust parts bedding in.

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