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The suspension tweaking worked! LOL... Beat my previous 1/4 mile record today! Best run was 12.63 @ 119.60mph! Made up... Few pic's of the "falcon" on the strip! LOL.. And my time slips from today....

Been mad busy today but managed to get time to set the rear end up a little better for dragging (I hope! LOL)... Good old english weather (PISSING DOWN) but oh well! Whipped the car up on the Diff jacking point and pulled both rear wheels off. This is what my KW's looked like! Nice and dirty.... On the jack. Dirty shocks. Even though I was very tight for time I could not stop myself from spraying a little GUNK cleaner on them and gave them a quick wipe! ha. This is how you set the low speed compression on the KW V3's. There were set 2 1/4 turns from full hard, I have now set these at 6 1/4 turns from full hard (about 50%). Swapped out the old steel wheel nuts to my new open ended spline drives too! Forgot to get a pic of the new nuts fitted though Right guys have to pack my overnight bag for tomorrow! See you guys soon!! (or tonight Paul/Rich)!

LOL, yeah Dan I have my eyes set on a nice seat of leather and alcantara recaro pole position ABE's. There not that light for a fixed back bucket seat but fit me really well and look ace! There only 7KG each so the stock seat I have heard it weighs about 20KG so there should be a good saving there when they get swapped out!! Just a little up date, I really want to up grade my wheel studs to some extra long ARP ones for extra satefy, so I picked up a set of steel open ended spline drive wheel nuts that allow the extra long studs to poke out the end. Im just not that happy running alu/light wieght nuts as I have my doubts on there strength (MSA blue book for compertion cars will only allow steel wheel nuts so thats gives you an idea on saftey). Picked these up from RareRims, Only cheep but strong and open ended (the black will go with my wheels too )

Finally the end to the epic tar removal job! LOL.. pax side wheel arch. Bose amp moved to allow more room. Driver side fully cleaned up! I rubber t that hard, Ive rubbed through the paint in some spot! Pax side arch done! This was the hardest part just because of the more complex shape and bad access. FULLY DONE!!!! Next job is paint!! woohoo... Oh and a bonus pic of a burger I had for dinner! hahaha... Was a good burger! LOL..

Another back breaker of a job done! LOL...Im such a sucker for punishment! I continued with the job of removing the deadening today. This shows the best I could get it with a chisel....Not very clean! LOL.. GUNK degreaser didn't touch this stuff so I just used that for cleaning up. This is the megs high strength tar remover soaking. After cleaning up the tar remover and scrubbing like hell with a tooth brush this is how it looked! More tar remover soaking! I think i did this step about 4-5 times!! Nearly there! Boot floor done! Was a hard job just because its a pain in the a** to bend over and work in the boot for so long! I would say its taken me a good 4 hours to do this!! Next job is the inner wheel arches!!!! LOL...

Had a little package through the post today. A cheeky little HKS oil filter ready for my next oil change. Great quality and should filter better and have less pressure drop than the OEM filter. Also spent an hour or two prepping the boot area for painting. Boot area just stripped. Horrible tar based sound deadening material. Fully removed the bottom section but KNOW WHERE NEAR CLEANED UP!!! Half a shopping bag full from just the boot floor. Weight is around 3KG. I have looked at may different way to remove tar sound deadening, Heat gun, air chisel, and the best method using dry ICE. I looked into where to get some dry ICE from but the cheapest I could find worked out at near £50 for 10kg posted to me. This is the best method but far to expensive for what little deadening I needed to remove. So I went with the hand chisel option! LOL...When people say its hard work I now understand! LOL..To do a whole car like this would take you the rest of you life! ha.... Im going to soak the rest of the tar in GUNK tar remover and clean up as best I can before priming and painting body colour. That should be a fun job! Thats it for today guys!

Ok so today I thought I would take some time to relocate my boost controller and defi data logger. It has been just stuck under the dash for a year but during hot weather the sticky velcro pads come off and I find the units just hanging down all the time So after getting back from the gym today I thought I would spend a little time moving them into the center cubby. I though an hour or so should cover this! HAHA.... How wrong was I!! LOL.. I took me about 4-5 hours and Its still only half done!!! And some how my defi gauge works but does not light up? It only lights up when the head lights are on! So thats more digging around endless wires for me to sort out LOL.... Word of advice on this, NEVER TAKE THE DASH TO BITS!!! I HATE WIRING SO MUCH!!! LOL.... Anyway a few pic's of my messing about. How it should sit. Units how I found them today. Unplugged. Gizzmo boost controller and defi V2. Stripping the dash out. Looks easy to get the wires and boost line to here but my cut hands will tell you its hard! LOL.. How it sits so far... If you look close in the pic above I've made a carbon fibre trim that screws into the inside of the cubby that blanks off the wires etc coming into the back and tidies it up. This panel is not fitted yet as a ran out of time today. So after my poor attempt at relocation I thought Id fit my new graphic's I picked up. Cheeky little "made in japan" logo. My race number for the santa pod street challenge. Thats it for today then!

Ok guys after seeing Paul_s guide to removing boot plastics I got on with a job I've wanted to do for quite a while! Stripping the rear end of the car! LOL.. As the cars a total toy day to day noises reduction is not a problem so I've removed 80% of the rear plastic trim. The starting point! Im sure we all know what the zed boot looks like! LOL.. Cargo net and floor mat removed. This is a little bit of dynamat I fitted when the car was driven daily. Dynamat Is really heavy! This little bit of matting weighs 3KG!!! False floor and dynamat removed. Dirty boot! LOL.. Foam that holds the tools in place and supports the false floor. Strut bar plastics being removed. Most of the plastics popped off quickly but any that put up a fight I used the green plastic tire leaver! LOL.. Some extra weight that was now not needed! Steel brackets supported the cargo net fixing points. Part of the Bose audio system. Amp may be ? This might get relocated in the the corner of the boot on a new bracket I think. Plastics, trim panels and fixings removed! Lots and lots! ha. Sticky heavy rubber pads removed from the boot floor. Must be to stop any vibration from the spare wheel. Rear suspension turett top is hiden under this part of the rear brace, Im looking to use a hole saw drill bit and remove about an inch wide section to allow access to the KW rebound adjuster! This makes setting the suspension settings a hell of a lot quicker as at the moment you need to drop the hole damper unit out to adjust it!! So the next step is to hole saw the turret tops and clean up the boot area, may be get some dry ICE and remove the sound deadening. Im thinking about DIY painting the rear boot inside as nissan cheaped out and its just in primer LOL... Oh yeah I forgot to mention, the weight reduction from removing the rear plastics was about 11kg. This does NOT include the spare wheel and jack etc. Im guessing the jack and wheel would be around 20kg's?? So the lot removed saves around 30kgs. Not bad! :-) Im yet to take the beast out for a spin and see what the in car nosie is like now! ha. Im guessing loud!

Just found this pic online!

Finished work at 7am this morning and got up at 12:30 to see the sun so I thought I would crack on and finish my heat shields. Carbon cut to shape and ready to be marked out and cut. Masked up ready to line up on the car. Just a quick pic to show you whats happing to the rear bumper! LOL Left side fitted! Both sides done. After finishing I have quite a bit of carbon left and the side skirts are a mess from the tires throwing up little stones all the time! So I made a quick template and used some left over carbon sheet to dress up the skirts! Stone chipped to death! Template made. Fitted on both sides. Quite pleased with how these turned out!

The zed felt a little left out over the past week as the megane has got most of the attention! So I got a new genuine NISMO engine plate through the post today! Must be worth 20bhp I think! LOL.. Its really nice quality and made from Alu.

Few more engine bay shots. Still one normal Nissan bolt to compare.

Not much of an upgrade hub one I've been meaning to do for a while! A bit of engine bay dress up. I've looked at gallery bolts and probolt stuff but it's SOOO expensive for what it is. So this afternoon I whipped the plenum outer bolts, head light, wing and front rad panel bolts off. Took them to Layton fasteners a little local fastener place (who also supply koenigsegg bolts!) to pick up some more bling ones. Swapped them all out for stainless steel dome head hex bolts and ss washers. Came to the grand total of £6!!!! LOL. Not quite as nice as the gallery bolt kit but about £150 cheaper hahahaha. I've got some crappy pics ofthe bolts but it's gone dark now so engine bay pic's will be tomorrow!

Just a few pics from a recent photo shoot. Full shoot is in the photography section!

REALLY FUN AFTERNOON!!!!.........NOT!! LOL.. Ive been meaning to swap out the manky old APS airfilters for ages and I was off work today so I thought I would give it ago. Being england it was OK outside to start but as soon as my car was on the ramps it starts to **** down Anyway swapping the APS air filters is no easy job. The front bumper has to come off and the driver side filter is hidden behind the bloody washer bottle!!! Here is some pic's of the job. Bumper off took 10mins. The washer bottle was quite hard to get off because of the holding bolts being on the inside of the rad core support. I really had to jam my hands through some small holes to get that bad boy off! LOL This is the old APS filter, Its really filthy! The new K&N fitted (this model is for a snowmobile but is a perfect fit for the APS TT kit!) The passenger side was a lot easier with no washer bottle there. Old filters. While the bumper was off I took some time (in the pissing rain! LOL) to look at mounting my front splitter. Its just mocked up in these pic's but looks to be a good fit. Took a while trying to workout where the mounts should go. Its hard to find space around the intercooler pipe work so Im using some OEM bolt holes on the Rad support frame. The front tie rods will take most of the downforce and these will be fixed to the crash brace to be nice and strong. Passenger side Alu mount in place. Driver side mount in place. The cars back together now so the next job will be mocking up the splitter on the car and sorting out more mount points. My bodies sore now from working on my back for too long

Picked up a little gadget I've wanted for a while today. A cheap and cheerful SPL meter. Its a calibrated one so I should be quite close to what you would get as a track side reading. The readings were taken at 50cm away at a 45 degree angle. As you all know the car is noisy I think it's a bit quieter now its been mapped but its still loud as hell really. I have no idea what sort of drive by SPL it would make as its louder on boost than just rev'ed with no load too. Anyway, First vid is a cold start still on high idle around 1500 RPM. This vid is a hot idle around 1000 RPM. This vid is 4000 RPM (noise test for thunder road!) This vid is 4750 RPM the standard noise test RPM (3/4 max rev's) The SPL meter is set on peak and hold so the 112+ decibels was the max it read. This is as above but on the other exhaust pipe. So as you can see I have failed all the UK noise tests!!! Im looking to add 4" diameter magnaflow silencers but Im not sure how long they would need to be to get me down under the 105dB limit most UK tracks have?? I was looking at 14" long but Im now thinking more like there 22" long version? Any one have any ideas?? Also I have finally got round to getting the dyno's plots. There not very good pic's as there just quick phone photo's but you get the picture.

Thanks guys! It's nice to finally have the zed back in full working order too! LOL. Jut a few pic's of today's tinkering! First job was to get the bloody thing off the floor! Oh how I HATE jacking the zed up, it's got to be the worst part of any job! LOL. I whipped the full exhaust system off again to get on with heat wrapping the system. I used what was left from my down pipes that managed to get me to about 12-14" from the rear axle so most of the exhaust is now wrapped! Few pic's o the job. Ive not had much time to see what difference it's made yet but I would say the car was a little quieter at idle? LOL.

Getting close to 700 likes now people!! Thank you lot for the continued support with TC MEDIA!!! I now have stickers so if any one fancies reping one let me know

Its a grey metallic powder coat mate, not sure of the colour code

This looks promising

Clark motorsport can I get a price for a kaaz 1.5way 60% lock on exchange please

Just had a reply from show off saying the wing is in transit from the US and is due the first week in may? This was what they had originally quoted so I'm unsure why I got an email before that one just saying it's on back order? Steve I'll see if show off come through with this first week in may if not I'll have your off you and I'll sort out DHL to pick it up

I'll be at trax but I was hoping to have it fitted sooner than that lol... I'm sure we can sort something out.

OK mate. Inbox cleared too I have emailed show off requesting a full refund. Your a fair way from me (7 hour round trip) could we sort posting it out or are your going to Japfest or any events this year we could meet at? Cheers.

Hi Steve. If I can buy your Megan wing that was the one from the group buy your a star. I'll send show off an email asking for a refund and then I'll pay you. Where are you based mate? Might have to come pick it up from you?