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Remember to check for heel marks on the exhaust too

If you have a new car, when ideally would you do the first oil change? In the US, it seems they do them after maybe 1,000 miles, but Nissan just say to leave it in til the first service at 9,000. Is it ok to leave the oil in there that long or should you change it out sooner? Break in acording to Nissan is 1,200 miles. I know a few chaps around here are looking at or have acquired 370z's so would be good to know

PAAAAAARTY! Just kidding Dave!

Dont worry Col, Rob will be spitting, looks she touched it

careful not to hit the car and make it worse though. Wouldnt bother with a car cover, it will still be damaged through it potentially, and will just draw attention to it and they will probably try and rip it off Where is the car parked? If its private properly, stick up a CCTV camera from Maplins and a sign to say you are recording, should stop them sharpish

Depends on how far you have to commute. A girl I used to work with had one and commuted about 15-20 miles a day each way it in and loved it

Definately our sticker, not sure who that is though

Looks like a great day and a cracking spot. Shame I couldnt make it in the end

Tidied it up. So are you going to be doing the mapping yourself or is this just for a before and after for taking it to someone else?

Dont get me wrong, I'm not saying stay away from other proper tuners, but proper tuners will be very forthcoming about tuning your car - like what software, piggy back or replacement ECU will be required. I always say to ask any tuner how many they have done and using what kit, its very easy to weed them out then. I say stay away from "generic" tuners in the ones that think they can tune anything but cant, like the ones mentioned above - said on their website they can do it, but when they really look into it they cant. I wouldnt want them trying their random software on my car. Of course Abbey and RS Tuning arent the only companies out there, but if all you want is a quick remap with the lowest cost and hassle, you are hard pushed to beat them, and they are very well proven

What were the final prices on these Rich?

Dont worry, you arent the first that these people try to fob off, pretty much all generic remappers are the same. Head on over to Abby or RS Tuning and for a bit more you can have a good, reliable remap.

If money was the issue, he wouldnt be looking at an S2000. Its got to be the itch

Its because no handbags were involved

Nice one Dave, you should have really posted this after Wales though, and added in the wins from there too!

Everyone gets that itch at some point, we just have to direct people to the 370z

Sorry to hear you are selling up Rich, but for an S2000? If you've got the itch, you've got the itch though, I know what thats like. Thats why I got rid of a spanking new Leon FR for an older Zed, never regretted it once though.

Rob, run out is the amount the disc moves from side to side naturally due to variance in the disc and hub. See the threads on DTV that Bennet posted, it needs to be checked a d the discs skimmed if it's too much otherwise you get DTV which I got on my last set of discs that I fitted myself. It tends to develop as vibration after a few thousand miles, made worse ifyou are a daily motorway driver.

Yup nail on the head there - water based paints suck, full stop. You end up painting the car multiple times as its too soft and the clear coat is still oil based I believe. All that happens is the clear coat gets punctured and rather than the paint being able to take it, it breaks off and leaves you with primer. Orange peel is a major problem with water based paints and they are sorting it out these days, but the original Zeds were pretty bad. As for the 370z, it has self healing clear coat, but I'm not sure thats any good either, as it must be soft which means stone chips ahoy! I'd rather we went back to lead based paints that could take hits from proper stones and still be fine

i reckon he's fitted a jet engine Nah flux capacitor

Happy birthday hobbit

Yeah I was amazed too, seems the power of them isnt too different. The big difference is how quickly they fade, non brembos don't last as long, but with the right pads and discs they are fine

Its ancient but good, so will give you that, and hence why I am always asking these lovely members that get BBKs what investigation they have done about the size/no of pots in their kits to keep them balanced Its from when the car was released...

X pipe works best on the 370z, but theres not a lot in it. If a custom exhaust place is making it, I would go so far to say it doesnt matter which one you pick as they wont be doing any testing to get the right amount of cross flow, so neither will be optimized for the application. Just go for an X

You big drama queen Jerry, leading us all on saying the Zed would be going Welcome back bud