Digsy

OK, now that I've got a TG Zed I've decided I need anthracite rims. I'm thinking the Renaultsport colour. Now I have a number of choices. I could change the colour of my Enkei's, which I never got round to repairing after I kerbed the front. I could get them painted at a very reasonable price by the guys who did Liam's Z's Volks refurb. My concern is that Liam said there was some flaking to the paint at the back as if they had given the back less coats and my concern is the quality of the job. Alternatively, I could take them over to Diamond wheels in Stockport who will powder coat them for £100 more. Powder coating should be more durable but there is always this rumour going round about it weakening some alloy wheels - however, like many of these stories I'm yet to find anyone who has actually had a problem but know plenty who haven't. Finally, I could sell the wheels and get some anthracite ones but that's a whole lot more messing and I could only spend what I got back on mine. Votes and comments welcome.

Welcome aboard, mate!

PM Ming - his mate powdercoated some OEM wheels in an anthracite colour for an ex-member.

Got mine today. Looks great (if a little bent...) and I think my car may have made the front cover! Martin, you are a star!

Can anyone see Nissan doing this? http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... 3&t=488049

Ah, Sally's dad? Get her to introduce herself - her new Zed warrants a thread of its own!

To Mark, what would the £100k watch be worth after, say, 2 years?

We have a set of used but as new Fujitsubu pipes in stock for £100, alternatively we have new Kinetic ones as well both resonated and straight through. Sorry, mate. Didn't know you did these....

There are - I had mine for 3 years with no problems.

Been reading some of Sarnie's posts then! Welcome aboard, mate!

Try Envy.

Looking promising. Keep us updated!

Spot on!

Price looks a bit optimistic...

Only 2 weeks behind everyone else!

How many manufacturers use NOS?

cant wait to see it, how are you tackling the ecu issue? Strictly speeaking we don't need to do anything with the ECU as ours is a 2003 JDM but we will be fitting the F-con to maximise everything and fine tune it. Who'll do the tuning, Phil?

Clearly you drive like a granny then!

No you don't. Increasing the bhp will increase the MAX speed of you car. The difference in real life will be that you will be hitting 70mph faster than previously, not that you will all of the sudden drive 140mph all the time, followed by a full stop for traffic lights. Read your post twice seems to me you contradicting your opening line it's not because your car CAN run faster that you WILL run it faster. I guess nobody here who installed a turbo kit installed it to get a higher max speed out of his car. With that line of thinking all cars from Fiestas to Ferraris sold in the UK only require basic brakes suitable for hauling them down gently from 70 mph every now and again. If you upgrade performance, it must follow that on a long stretch of country road your average speed and probably your peak speed will be greater i.e. you will achieve greater velocity between corners and therefore your brakes will take more abuse. Brake upgrades will not only haul you down from high speed quicker but will reduce fade over concerted hard driving such as this. That's of course without even mentioning track use....

Disappointed with this thread. From the title I though you were donating £2500 to the team....

If you have to let the ZED go the 200SX looks a good shout - have you seen the latest EV0 that found when they purchased a standard one (for some thrash around against other teams) it was pushing out about 20bhp more than Nissan claimed when new + they found their buy a very tidy one...................just my two pennies worth went to a rolling road session on sunday (@tdi north). One guy put his 17year old bog standard CRX on there. came out the factory with 150bhp and made 165bhp on the rollers. Now thats impressive, especially as its N/A. MK2? Loved the CRX until it went all girly and floppy-toppy! Yeah i think its the MK2 square looking one with the clear panel at the back. j plate i think. Apart from the seats that were slightly torn (stitched with CRX looked nice) Engine was super quiet and bodywork looked pretty decent. Ahhhh. I had the Civic from the same generation and I wanted one of them more than life itself.

+1

dont pay Nissan to fit it if you are going to buy a OEM one. Go to TDI North in warrington. Labour is half of what it is at Nissan. Should cost £49 to fit do you recomend TDI to do the p 1...2...3 servicing.......... Outside of warranty I'd say yes.

When Jay thinks something is tacky you're in trouble!

If you have to let the ZED go the 200SX looks a good shout - have you seen the latest EV0 that found when they purchased a standard one (for some thrash around against other teams) it was pushing out about 20bhp more than Nissan claimed when new + they found their buy a very tidy one...................just my two pennies worth went to a rolling road session on sunday (@tdi north). One guy put his 17year old bog standard CRX on there. came out the factory with 150bhp and made 165bhp on the rollers. Now thats impressive, especially as its N/A. MK2? Loved the CRX until it went all girly and floppy-toppy!