Ebized

That is a lot of car!

Enjoy, and building the hanger to put it in

So often you see and hear about car 'projects' taken on and for one reason or another they remain dormant - yes some well chosen ones will increase in value without work, sadly most do not and often rot away away.

My ambition was to take on a car project when I retired but the ageing process is never a friend - yes in our heads we still think we can do things like we used to but then reality sets in.....aside from any other family/job/unexpected health issues etc.

I do look back and wish I had done this and done that in my twenites  to forties and yes I put off some opportunities - how I wish I hadn't now even though money was tight at the time and a divorce did not help.  But I was fortunate career wise late in my working life after 2001 and more recently with the passing of my father, so that I can now help my sons do things (and their children) that they could not otherwise afford. 

Moral of this little piece here noting Chris's intro : "I thought as there are a lot of well balanced, sensible and mature people on this forum (sic) I would see what they had to say about my indecision", and then seeing some of the comments being offered.............. as I say to my two sons - enjoy/do things while your body lets you and don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today - you never know what is round the corner and might come out to 'bite' you.

Mrs K still has the 350? If so, sounds as though potentially selling the 370 is the choice between the two...... Just asking if that option has been discussed?

 Otherwise, I would say get the 370 sold as you clearly have an itch for something else and given you don't really have a need for an everyday replacement wait until you see or decide on something that really gets your juicies flowing and can jump in and buy that with your bundle of readies.

Given the mods/FI on the 370 and it looks special as it is but needs a little work on its outer layer (first impressions and all that), get that done and see what interest you get?  You know the likely value of the mods if you strip it back to standard and what a repaint and replacement bits would cost, if that option is going to add more to the replacement car 'pot' 

Good luck 

Here you go:

Oil/filter change is your choice on the Nismo, rather than specified by Nissan?  Modern oils/filters make that unnecessary these days.........took me time to get my head round that even wth the current car pushing out the bhp it does from 2 litres.

If so you are paying out for that as well a relatively high fee for the alignment.

Personally I would be taking the car to a good Zed indy if you want the tracking etc checked - seeing you are in Surrey, Kaizer Motors of Abbey Motorsort would be my choice  as they have the best Hunter systems and know the cars better than most HPC centres that I would just use for scheduled servicing or warranty work.

Really doubt you would get any recompense from Nissan to do an alignment.  

You mention changing tyres and that is where your money might be better spent and take the advice of Kaizer/Abbey on set up.  My current set of tyres (MPSS) on the '45 and which I had on the 370 are brilliant - both fitted etc at Kaizer and for me worth the trip from the sourth coast.  

But, there are always going to be some road surfaces where tramlining might be noticed - certainly more of a trait with the 370s compared to the 350s from the feedback on here.

Have you tried Zmanalex?

Desk Calendar arrived safely day - another quality edition, although this time I can see you struggled for different cars.  Maybe something could be set up when anyone posts decent pics of theirs or other cars/groups they are copied by team members into a different folder for selection and use in next years edition?

 Following the latest cars that have those they do look good, I have to say.

Shame is you don't get to see them yourself on the move. 

Doesn't really matter what the tyre make is but I have driven long enough to know that a relatively powerful rear wheel drive car with tread depths around/below 3mm and standing water is not good news.

Fine if the roads are dry then the legal minimum is more than enough to cope, but sadly in this country that is an all too rare event.

I'd rather be safe than sorry.

9 minutes ago, Paddy78 said:

If you go onto the Horsham Dev website, I'm sure they actually have pics of this car getting the Supercharger? One call would easily confirm this!  

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOHfsnoj80E/

Dyno graphs are the same in the seller's pics and Horshams instagam pics

Seriously getting very tempted........someone buy this please before a divorce hits me

6 minutes ago, docwra said:

And its legit, all work carried out where he said it was, genuine reason for sale, bit of a bargain TBH. Tempting. 

My thoughts too, and as it mentions work carried out Horsham Developments I'm sure Jez would be able to very the legitimacy or otherwise.

1 hour ago, Jetpilot said:

You have more confidence than me, its only ever going to be a regular service engineer that pdi's the car.

I don't believe so and is typical across the industry - we have all seen car manufactures use favourite number plates and those 'press' vehicles will have been prepped in house at Nissan UK to ensure they are as flawless as possible.  Quite understandable when the media reports can make or break a sales success. 

Glad you posted this as it serves a warning to all ZED owners (and like most performance cars) just how important it is to have regular 4 wheel alignments done, given the state of many of our pot-holed roads, and not just in the interests of tyre longevity, but so you can enjoy the cars to their full potential   .

33 minutes ago, Jetpilot said:

 

I am not sure if its been said before, but it also makes you wonder how many journos may have driven these cars with the blocks in situ???

 

I would be commissioning Nissan to do a statutory recall and also let the motoring press know!!

I doubt the journos cars would be affected as you can bet your bottom dollar Nissan UK would make sure the cars were 100%+ before releasing them

The number of reports we have seen about the transport blocks not being removed is staggering and that is only those owners who have signed up on here so God knows how many other 370's are running around the blocks still in situ which clearly affects the handling that should be available. 

Perhaps it's about time the forum drew the issue to the attention of Nissan that there are dealers who are failing to to do the necessary in the PDIs and releasing cars onto the road that have potential safety implications.

From my 370 experience it could be the tyres.  I found the Bridgestones that were fitted new were the worst and then changed to Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta which virtually eliminated the issue (and were great fun ), but the Michelin Pilot Sport were by far the best performance tyre for the car but I did notice road noise on surfaces I was familiar with became more noticeable but tramlining hardly ever manifested itself. 

You might want to try altering the toe-in to see if that helps when you have the alignment done.

Annoying feature and a question asked many times before, but not seen a positive answer yet.

If you come across a way of doing it I'm sure many 370 owners would be grateful

Welcome back, and in answer to your question there are a steady trickle of new owners joining the forum with the current Mark11's - I'm sure a few will be saying hi soon

I was hoping for a bit more seeing the name - guess they were running it in..... 

Looks fun!

That is some sculpture going on there compared to the lines of the 370.

Enjoy

I had some issues that included ballsing up the forum on my Mac using Safari a little while back immediately after a Safari update and my friendly IT crew could not figure it out, but took their advice to change to Firefox and the 'issues' disappeared.

Damn sure they push out these software updates to cure reported issues only to create new ones and happy to let users be the guinea pigs.

Helmet/Dash cameras added by most no doubt as an added 'insurance' but can also 'bite', aggravated by the racing identified in this case.

Tragic, tragic news and fully understand why you and Jo are in bits over the loss of your friend and the impact on his wife, family and all their friends.

Sincere condolences.

A wild guess.

Given you mention the winter tyres being fitted, if the burning smell is since that tyre change (and not knowing what type/size the tyres are), made me think of cars on track when 'wet' tyres become hotter as the track dries out and they can overheat.  If the smells occur when you have been driving perhaps quite vigorously on dry roads, could that be the source??

Do the tyres feel particularly hot after some spirited driving?