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Can vouch for the guys at Revolution they did my P1 service recently. Top guys and top service

I like those (mmmm gives me more ideas to think about)

I'll be there Mark but I'm part of the Autoglym competition.

Thanks for the comments again guys, much appreciated. Almost forgot in my original post ot thank everyone who helped me build my dream Zed So.......... Big thanks go to Kev & Gareth @ Envy Performance - Supplied almost all the carbon and wheels. We finally got everything together just in time Adam @ z1 auto - excellent service and fast delivery on Bride seats and invidia exhaust Chris @ JDM performance - excellent service - supplied the Jic magic carbon strut brace, depo rear lights, polished washer bottle cap Glenn & Keith @ Revolution - excllent service - supplied the eibach ARB's, whiteline droplinks and steering wheel - also set up geometery Dan @ SRB Power - for the Chargespeed bodykit - almost convinced me to go with the super gt kit - but I wouldn't of been able to get the car in the garage Rob @ R&Rauotrefinishing in Lincoln - spent hours on refining bodykit to fit properly and painted - helped with all carbon stuff. Paul & Lee @ Source - superb service for an audio novice like me - supplied the best equipment available within my budget - built door pods and tuned system. (can't wait to get chatting to them again for a phase 2 on the audio) Signmyrideuk.com for suppliying my graphics at such short notice All the help and support from the members of 350z-uk forum especially R35Lee and Zmanalex

Motorgrade roof came from Envy Performance. And yes it was hard to fit.

Nice write up Rob.

Paul I've got a washer cap like Mark's but with a Z engraved on it. Came from Chris @ JDM Performance, I'm sure it came from stock.

Ok , back from a very long weekend, I'm knackered. Unfortuntatley I didn't win anything The long and short of it was I was head to head with a Subaru for Best of Show, the Subaru won. So even though i was 2nd best car in the competition I didn't pick up any of the category awards either??? Bit gutted as this one was the only one I haven't won. Never mind there's always the next show. The Subaru was a worthy winner though and did get my vote from the start. Next one is Modified Live in 2 weeks.

Thanks Rob you were my inspiration for the install I'll get some better install pics up when I get 5 minutes tomorrow

What swirls?? LOL Paul @ Source is a top bloke and really eased me into all this ICE malarky. The Hertz is awesome to listen too and even though we have put rear speakers in (It's a show car) it does sound amazing. Tips on keeping the car in true show winning condition. Don't drive it!!!! No seriously, I think getting the car to a high degree of cleanliness from the beginning means it becomes far easier to clean when it gets dirty. As the dirt is just surface and superficial not old and ingrained. (Make sense??) For shows it different for me, if it's a big one like this weekend I take a support car and have all my cleaning stuff in there. It rained on my way down on Friday. No problem, I jacked the car up, removed all wheels, cleaned all wheels, cleaned all arches, cleaned under rear of car, cleaned underneath of engine and then started on the polishing etc. For a normal show I'd wash and dry with an Autoglm chamios, I find that the paint is a little soft on mine (And on many other zed's) so a waffle weave may be a bit too tough for it. If the car just gets a little dusty say in summer I'd refrain from washing it?? Maybe just do the wheels. The moer you wash and dry the moer chance you have of damaging the paint work. If it's just summer dust then maybe clean it every 2 weeks instead of everyweek?? That's what i do anyway Bu**er have I just given away my trade secrets there

Yep no problem, we jsut need to be in the same place at the same time at somepoint Saw Dan from SRB today for a short time, nice chap

Criticism on board. Yes the car is an out and out show car hence no AP's. Cost I had a budget so for a little more than Front AP's only I could get front AND rear callipers and discs. You'd be surprised how many track based cars (MLR super sprint, Time attack etc ) run with K-sport brakes with no problems. TD was for bling and sound only, however I did my research and the Invidia had great reports in the States.

Passenger air bag is not disabled. As far as I'm aware the resin will not hold the panel in place on explosion. I'd rather not tell you who did the flocking as, he was an a*seh"le and some of the stuff was not done properly so had to be re-done. Basically what should have taken no longer than 2 weeks took 3 months and cost me dearly. Harness are fixed to x2 new locations I drilled in the rear footwell. I can't say that it would be a problem yes it is steep but they are functional and I'd probably use them as proper harnesses anyway at sometime.

Thanks for all the kind comments and the constructive critisism too ) It's all appreciated. If I'm honest the pics don't do the car justice, I'm very happy with the final outcome. It's what i had in my head, so that can only be good. Been at Donington Park all day, hence no reply until now. Unfortunately for me this years turn out in the Best in Britain comp is possibly the best turn out for the last 3-4 years. Typical!!! here's me thinking it would be a bit dead what with the credit crunch. Anyway don't think I'll get top prize but I do hope I'll come away with a category trophy. But I'll be competing all this year at as many shows as I can, so hopefully catch up with some of you and I'll be happy to show you around the car and talk about various bits.

Good question, after being in the Subaru community for 9 years, especially being part of the club that long and being a committee member it was a very hard decision to make. I had obviously owned Subaru's for 9 years and I had achieved every dream possible with the last car, I felt a change was in order. And for the last 2 years I've had a soft spot for the Z hence why I chose one to show.

PS. i think that should be the bloody understatement of the year LOL - I was just being polite for the forum.

The "Z" is red

Thanks for all the comments guys, much appreciated The website is now live: http://www.project350z.co.uk The blog makes interesting reading. The site does need a bit of touching up and I will add some better pictures later. I will also update and write the blog up in a bit more depth. Thanks again, off to bed soon for an early rise and yet more polishing tomorrow. Getting judged at 11:15am Craig

Just dropped off the car at Donington Park for the Autoglym Best in Britain Competition. So as promised here’s the long awaited launch of my new show car – project350z. As some of you may know I’ve been secretly building a show car for this years show season. It may not be to everyone’s taste, but I’m sure a couple of you may like it. For those that don’t know me I was a Subaru owner for 9 years, of which I was a committee member of the SIDC for 4 years. In this time I had two Subaru’s (Both red) both of which were show cars. The last one being one of the most successful Japanese winning show cars in the UK. Anyway that was sold in September ’08 and so the hunt was on for a 350Z. Red is my trade mark colour so for obvious reasons I needed a red ‘Z’. These are like rocking horse poo, but I eventually got my hands on a UK 2004 model in October. Within a few days I began stripping it out, starting with the boot area, and commencing stripping the plastics and building a false floor for the new ICE. Over the coming months of hardship, worry, stress and good ole’ graft, the car was finally finished this week. As you can see from the spec list almost everything has been changed. As it’s a show car I’ve created a theme – project350z. You can see the day by day blog here as well as pictures. http://www.project350z.co.uk will go live in the next hour or 2. So here’s the spec ----------If you like carbon then you might like this…….. Engine: K&N Typhoon Air Induction Polished with Carbon cover Asi-performance aluminium radiator Motordyne 5/16th plenum Spacer Invidia G200 True Dual Exhaust- Titanium tipped. Polished Aluminium Power steering tank Polished Aluminium Coolant overflow tank Polished Washer Cap Samco Red Coolant and Ancillary hoses HKS Radiator Cap HKS Oil Filler Cap Carbon Battery and Fluid Covers Carbon Slam Panel Cover Carbon Engine Cover Stillen Engine damper Red Grounding kit. Suspension: KW Variant 2 Coilovers Lowered 40mm Front and Rear Jic Magic Carbon Front Strut Brace Eibach adj Front Anti roll bar Eibach adj Rear Anti roll bar Ischiba Front Camber arms Ischiba Rear Camber arms Whiteline Front drop links Whiteline rear drop links Revolution race geometry set-up Brakes: K-sport Black 8 pot front Caliper with 356mm rotors on bells K-sport Sport Pads Stainless Steel Brake lines K-sport Black 6 pot Rear Caliper with 330mm rotors on bells K-sport sport pads Stainless Steel Brake lines Wheels: Racing Hart RS521 19"x9" front +28 Racing Hart RS521 19"x10" rear +28 235/35/19 front Tyres 265/30/19 rear Tyres Kei Black wheel Nuts Exterior: Chargespeed Gekisoku Type-1 Front bumper Chargespeed Gekisoku rear bumper Chargespeed Gekisoku side skirts Chargespeed Gekisoku Carbon Rear Diffuser Chargespeed Gekisoku carbon Lower front canard Chargespeed Gekisoku carbon upper front canard Motorgrade carbon roof overlay Motorgrade carbon a pillar replacements Varis Carbon Bonnet Varis Carbon B pillars Seibon Carbon Hatch Craftsquare style carbon TC/N-1 Racing Mirrors Custom made carbon fibre fuel cap Custom black handles Smoothed rear quarter (Aerial removed) Depo rear crystal indicators/reverse/fog lights Custom Graphics Interior: Custom flocked black interior Bride Ergo II red Bucket seats with Bride logograph (c/w bride seat rails) OMP Suede Steering wheel Snap off quick release hub Sparco Black 4 point harnesses Sparco Foot Pedals Nismo black aluminium shift knob Black Colour Coded Trim RSW Carbon Centre Console RSW Carbon Gear surround RSW Carbon Door switches RSW Carbon Door Inserts RSW Carbon vent Covers Carbon Instrument Cluster Carbon Sill plates Custom red leather gear gaiter Custom black strut cover with red z badge CAR-PC & ICE: JVC AVX-810 7" Touchscreen Dvd Receiver Hertz EP200 8" Subwoofer x2 Hertz HKS165 High Energy Component Speakers c/w HS25 tweeters Hertz HCX165 High Energy Coaxial Speakers Hertx HP5 High Power AB Class 980watt 5-channel Amplifier Source Custom door builds - flocked Custom Subwoofer enclosures - flocked Custom boot build 15" TFT screen 7" TFT screen x2 7" TFT touchScreen in centre console (CarPC ready) Audison Competition cables. And the pictures taken this evening: Hope you like... And if your at ISTS this weekend come over and have a chat Craig (Quite pleased it's now all finished)

Come over and have a chat James if your coming Saturday

Yep, been subjected to hearing this on Radio one's newsbeat all day. It really did get me wuite angry. Agree with most comments above. Most of the time it's the driver at fault and not the car. The car doesn't do 70mph on it's own in a 30mph limit it's the driver that does that!!!!

and if you don't go you won't see the new Muddy machine

to the forum

to the forum

Horn is on opposite side to any CAI (It's on left hand side of bonnet catch) , so doubt that you have interrupted it while fitting. The horn does operate on an earth return so maybe there is a wiring fault somewhere, either at the horns themselves or at your steering wheel (Sprung loaded metal bracket). You may well have disturbed the main earths in the engine bay when you've fitted your grounding kit. Might be worth while, checking it over again.