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That sounds a bit suspect!! Now now

Speak to Abbey about UpRev. Watch this space Although where I will do a VMAX run I have no idea From what I've seen posted, and from similar cars, I think the 370z would hit around 170MPH unrestricted. The 350z climbs quite happily and strongly to 145MPH before starting to run out of puff, so expect it would go a fair bit further.

Chains are illegal on UK roads for a very good reason, as soon as you hit a gritted road with chains on it will be like driving on ice Winter tyres are very good, but very expensive. I saw a bit in Evo mag where they had a big Jag on winter tyres vs summer in the snow and they said it was pretty much like driving normally, and their lap time was significantly quicker. I'll say it again though, dont expect Snow Socks to be used for daily driving, they are for emergenices when you get caught out in proper snow and cant move. If you want to DD in snow, you need snow tyres on a Zed.

OK revise my definition of "active" to not logged on in the last 12 months Yes I was going to see if we could get a true "active" count. The forum S/W doesnt give us this by default, but from home I can query the backend database to do the count

+1 - just watch out for the inbalance in grip it causes.

This is true. I think to be classed as a part of the 6000, the member has to have signed up and posted something at some time - so the software does discount those that sign up and dont post. Will see if we can get an "active" count. We did have a peak in the most users online recently which was 113 on Wed Nov 24, 2010

They are only designed to get you out of the snow, and not drive day to day in the snow, slush, tarmac etc. Thats when you need winter tyres. They are meant for when you get stuck on the way home to get you out of the bit of snow and back to tarmac then you take them off

Yeah come on everyone send them back. But wait, he didnt leave an address

Good write up and shows how much better the 370z appreciates mods 2 things to be noted from it - 1. They installed the exhaust first, and as the first "breathing" mod, it has the biggest impact. Its been shown if you install the intakes first you will see ~18WHP which is way more than the 6WHP they saw. As we know you cant simply add up all the individual HP gains to get total HP gain. But on this writeup it makes it look like the exhaust does a lot and the intake not much at all, whereas in reality, they both can add about 20HP in islation and ~30HP when combined. 2. VVEL tuning via UpRev. UpRev have said time and time again that unlocking VVEL can be done, but they dont allow it. The reason is that it is very well controlled out the box and only room for maybe 1-2HP gain by tuning it. However there is a lot of room for someone to truely **** up your car with it, and in their opinion (and quite rightly) they decided that the pros dont outweigh the cons. Cant wait to get my UpRev done, I think maybe I need some high flow cats first though

Its always the first and last 20yrs that are the hardest!

Done

Is it a problem No. I saw on the Beeb this morning that they had closed some road or other in Scotland. Just as the woman reporter was saying how bad it was and that no one could more, a red van went hooning past as if there was no snow anywhere Media over hyping it as always

We have a whole .... wait for it ...... 5mm

You dont need to resize, just upload to Photobucket and copy and paste in the IMG tags (so long as you dont have an upgraded account). Photobucket by defaul limit the file resolution to 1024x1024 which is the limit on this site

Must be t'interweb rumours I've been listening to again then Personally I've never found Scratch-X to be very good compared to "proper" polishes from Megs, but again, I guess as it has no real cut, I've probably been expecting too much of it. I found Poorboys SSR range much better for attacking swirls EDIT: http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums/sh ... hp?t=45379 From the Megs forum. I consider (possibly incorrectly) that silicone is a filler

Ah that makes a whole lot more sense now. If you are using things which are "clearcoat safe" with all this new fangled diminishing abrasives that break down, then yes PTG isnt really required as you will only be taking off tiny amounts of clearcoat. Also if only ever applying via DA you wont ever get the heat or intensity to do any damage either as you say. So they dont mean that PTG are a waste of time, just they are pointless if you are doing a bit of DIY buffing with a DA. The only bit I dont like about some of those polishes is all the fillers they use. They are great for minimising the look of swirls, but they soon come back when the filler is washed away. As we know the Megs polishes with proper cut and no diminishing properties can do a lot of damage to cars

I love the idea of the logo indicators and sod the cost im gonna do it. Ive spent the last hour on the internet looking for the indicators themselves to no avail so may need some help sourcing them???... PM Dan. Likely source is from the US or just get them from a dealer (hence the high cost!)

Dan (dcash5) did them in his. Looked very neat but cost a small fortune from what I understand

And how we shall point and laugh - POINT AND LAUGH

Out of interest what are some good winter tyres? I could be tempted to fit some to my old Rotas (although gold wheels will look right chav on a 370z in 18" and high profile tyres) or to my OEM Rays.

twang, alloy ruined, biscuit cries Nope, cos he has his AlloyGators

No snow here yet, and it can stay that way if I had my way Will be interesting to see how the '70 handles the snow if/when it does come

could you dirve it?? I would feel like keeping it safe somewhere I dont think the "special" owner would have cared that much for it

but its one of a kind Wonder if its been rallyed

And quite a few journos have done sub-5 0-60 too I did a cheeky 0-60 over my OBDII connection and it gave me 5.7 up a slight hill Make sure you have intake and exhaust mods G Man that will up your HP a bit more too - unlike the 350z which tried to resist mods - the 370z loves them