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Looks great

The main problem with Rik was inconsistency and lying, thats why things went on so long. There were people who had good experiences and those with bad, and when the bad outweighed the good by a long way, it was time for him to leave

Very nice sir Watch out for Martin's drool stains on the car

Swinley this afternoon for a little potter about and get Amanda some more practice on trail features (berms, table tops, small drop offs) and a bit of exercise for me Only one piccy as its very tight and twisy in there, so hard to stop and get pics. No way Amanda would have done this a few months back, shes coming on leaps and bounds for someone who has been riding properly for about 6 months!

Go with what you see then! I remember it being trial and error when I did it. I knew from a line in the bricks on my garage how high to set it (sad I know!), so just turned the wheels until the cutoff lay on the line. I do this for all my cars as found the line is a nice height where you can see down the road, but not dassle other drivers

2 problems I can see from what you've said. Firstly they did the run in 3rd gear. You are correct in thinking that it should be done in 4th, and doing it in 3rd has let to inconsistent and under read numbers. Secondly, at the top end, your car seems to drop torque quite rapidly, more than I would expect. For a rev up engine, it should be producing power for longer, and if you follow the graph trend up another 500 revs or so, it would have put you in the right power range. This could be because of how they strapped it down, or because they did it in 3rd gear. When in the car, does it pull hard right up the redline? If so, I wouldnt worry about it, its probably dyno operator error

I seem to remember it was clockwise. On mine I had to do a lot of turns, like 20+ WRT the self leveling thing, yes the lights do self level, but you need to change the starting point for them to do it properly, just because they point at the floor doesnt mean they arent working. Go sit in the boot and you will see the still point at the floor - they wont get higher as they will self level. You can still move the reference point up

+1 thats exactly what I want to hear

Glad to hear you're enjoying the new motor Dan I found the same with you on the track, the Zed has more character than 911/Caymans, the Porkers are almost too good at what they do. Supprised you managed to keep up with GTRs though, were they the R35? They should have walked away from you given equal drivers, purely because they are 4WD. In the dry with bundles of grip fair enough you keeping up, but in the wet they should have had it easy. Still shows you were driving properly Look forward to more piccies and follow ups.

I had a similar letter too, wasnt expecting it either

Looking forward to the updates chap, I am very much iterested in the same ones, espescially as you are fitting them to a Quartz

Whats NVH? EDIT: OK googled it, and yes I agree, the TT has much less NVH. BUT that does take some of the experience away. Like I say, you can make the Zed quiet, I did it in my 350z by noise deadening the bollox out of it, but then it kills some of the good noise too. Its all a balance. The TT is better for long distance drives with less NVH, but then again, it sounds quiet as hell when you boot it, unless you get something like a TTS which is way out of a 370z price bracket

Everythings big money over here, cheaper to chop it in for a faster car

Think I'll have to disagree with you for once Colin - that doesnt happen often! I think it looks good on Quartz, but not totally conviced. Think it looks great on white though (both matt wrap and proper CF). Does look better than I thought, very tempted my self. Think we need more piccies I think it might be the lack of contrast in the photos as the car is already so dark. I'm glad someone is doing the CF bits on a 40th in quartz, means I can steal all the better looking bits!

GLWS matey, shes a beaut. Cant wait to see what you do with the bigger and obviously better version

Dont worry, my bike will fit in mums car boot, just dont know about Amanda's

Sorted

Well thats under discussion! Obviously we want to take the bikes, but also the Zed. Trying to work out if we can have both I think they may be forced to stay behind for that one They really do need to sort out the grading system for trails, its so varying. All fun though, I guess the easiest thing is just to try all the trails, so long as theres chicken runs for the biggest stuff, shouldnt have any problems on red/blacks.

Yeah its a bit of a shame the way that trail centres are going now, created a bit of a monster of themselves, so have to cater for all levels and also be able to withstand a lot of abuse, leaving them to be largely flattened and be covered in a hard surface to cope. Maybe the camera is lying, but that didnt look like black run stuff to me, would you say it was harder than the stuff you took us on in the Lakes? Amanda will be well chuffed if the stuff we did was harder! Still its all good fun, and trail centres do have their uses, like if you dont know the area or the weather is a bit pap as they tend to be designed to handle it. Certainly opened my eyes riding with you and Fran and see what everyone means about most trail centres getting more sanitised and not half as good as the natural stuff

I've got a 350! Get it straight from Stillen. You wont get it cheaper or faster from anyone else

Someone will have you beaten on that, trust me! As Colin says, TPMS is for the US market, not sure if anywhere else gets it. In the US I think they may be mandatory now which is why they get them as standard. They wont waste their pennies on us over here if they arent required by law

It's all gone very quiet on the 450Z front, if it ever existed at all . Pete No chance, the rumours for the next Zed is a hybrid or Diesel And I'll be keeping my Z34 for a very long time if that is the case!

Some interesting "angles" there bud! How convinient it went tits up when you were meant to be showing us big air Looks a little tame compared to our little loop around Ambleside, dont let these trail centres dumb down your riding

Remember to do a "How To" when you do it

G @ WLMG is going to chase up tomorrow when their head tech is back in. I suspect he will end up having to chase NMGB for the answer, in which case we may be a while What model iPhone are you running? I'm just updating my 3GS to iOS4.1 so will see if that breaks it