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Had some fun today! NOT! Tried I repeat tried to fit my Hexis vinyl roof! Did not go well.... Stripping the A pillars off. Sort of on..... After about 30 mins lifting, pulling and smoothing.....Tried with the hair drier too... But after a lot of swearing and shouting (mainly at Jess as this could not be my fault it was not going on ok! lol) I think I got it too fit ok? And the final "fitted" Pic's! What do you think? lol.... Oh well Ill go back to the mechanical things as Im ok at that! ha....

Sub'ed a few of you lot! lol.. Im glad Im not the only one who posts some weird crap on youtube! lol..

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Nice one mate! Im boosting about that may be a little more. is the 507lb ft at the wheels or fly? Im doing 448rwtq so around the 500 ish at the fly. You like the power mate! Its wild in the wet! loll...

Yeah mate the rear tires are pants there only crap falkens as my R888's did not have enough tread on them! lol.. The 0-160 run was fun mate, the car wheel spins badly in 1st 2nd so I would like to think if i could go full throttle in 1st 2nd the car should do 0-100 in the 8sec range!

Im looking into getting in to small sprints and some basic comps like TOTB for next year. Wheel to wheel racing has to much chance of getting the car smashed up for now! lol..

Im interested in this one too! I may just bolt the side mounts to the floor as im the only one who drives the car!

A guy calld Jeff Ludgate owns this car, Im not sure if he's sponsored by abbey but will have had work done by them on the car most likely. Was a great event and would be nice to see a few more zed's there nexrt year!

Guys today was great! Great weather and had such a good time. Andy J was not able to make it as it was his birthday Ill have to let him off! (happy Birthday mate! lol_) Soooo I was team **REMOVED** all on my own ......Me and Jess left our house at 7:30am got to Elvington for about 9:30ish and got signed on. While I was queuing up for the sign on I got chatting to a guy behind me who ended up owning a V8 200SX I've seen in magazines and at TOTB last year! We had a great chat and being a fellow nissan owner invited me to come and set up in the pits with the SXOC team! After signing on I had to get the car through the scrutineering, that was going to be fun! I dropped the car in the tech inspection area and 5 or 6 guys jumped all over it! lol.. The cheked wheels nuts, tires, under the bonnet, seat belts, you name it they checked it! Anyway it passed! ha... Next was the noise test! I had spoken to Dave Naxon about the fact it may not pass and he said he would get it through, the guy asked for 4K rpm to start with and he got a 99.1 dB reading! great, he asked for a 4.5K and got well over the 106dB limit so said "we will stick to the 4K reading then hey!" lol.... We had the driver briefing at 10:30am and the explained how the day would run, what class the cars would run in etc. I ran the Zed in RWD class B. Here's a few pic's taken off my phone. The driver brief on the starting line. The zed wearing its race number! Some of the cars that were running during the day! Scudder from the SXOC' super charged LS2 V8 Beast! The inside of the white R35 GT-R! Few more of the Zed! Jess and the zed cooling down! lol.. Few more shots of different cars that were there. Fully nismo built RB26 The BORG built by RIPS in new zealand. 500BHP GT35 Turbo top speed bike! Nicely built motor! Now for the results: I went for the standing 1K first! Runs: 1, 126.0mph just learning the track. 2, 153.0mph 3, 144.3mph 4, 154.7mph 5, 155.4mph << 6, 155.2mph 1/4 mile, I did not go for any records as I don't want to kill my clutch and the surface is not anywhere near as good a santa pod so ill save the 1/4 records for the drag strip! Runs: 1, 13.51@116mph 2.45 60ft 2, 13.07@116mph 2.31 60ft 3, 13.07@118mph 2.42 60ft 4, 13.06@117mph 2.43 60ft 5, 12.82@118mph 2.27 60ft << Handling circuit, never going to win this when the Dax rush with a cosworth turbo motors in my class! lol.. Runs: 1, 47.38sec 2, 46.92sec 3, 46.49sec<< Only had 3 runs on the handling circuit as it was busy and very hard on the brakes as there was no space to cool down etc. Im sure I could have dropped another 1sec off at least as some of the team SXOC guys had 10-12 runs and went from 50+ sec down to 42sec region! Also Very hard to put the power down! hahaha... Over all standings were: 2nd in the standing 1K in the RWD class, 5th in the 1/4 mile, and 11th in the handling!! Made up with the results as the only guy to beat me in the standing 1k was scudder from the SXOC in the 600+ WHP supercharged LS2 200sx! Few video's from the event! The handling circuit. Some in-car standing K runs! 0-159MPH Run Great event!

The overfolw is part of the APS TT kit mate.

Alittle more prep work done today! Got to use my new vaccum brake bleeder, this thing is awesome value and made the job of bleeding the brake system really easy! Getting set up to do the brakes. Vaccum bleeder hooked up. Bled all the brakes and gave the callipers a little clean up. Next job was to sort out the temporary fixings fir the bonnet. Ive not had time to make the custom clips yet so I've gone for a wire set up just for safety for tomorrow. The wire goes through the engine bay and is bolted to the steel under tray, the wires rated to 155kg so the bonnet would brake before these gave out! Lol. I've also developed an oil leak which I have tracked down to my ftont timing cover! The pics above show the leak, I know its hard to see! Lol. Ive tightened the cover bolts bacj up as 4 had worked lose! Fingers crossed thsts it for that leak.... Any way thats it, I'm ready for tomorrow! :-)

Some fitted pics!

Nice to see another propper build! Is this carls old motor??? Out the grass track car? That was a steal if thats the motor you got`!

Love the coffee table mate, you have some skills to make them!

Beau sorry mate those tints are not legal. I had my front and back done and got pulled and tested with light meter and had to pull mine off on the side of the road or get the car towed! The OEM 350z front glass has a tint thats about 65% light in so ANY front tint will take you over the limit.

Finished the 2nd catch today, A little harder to fit than the fist as this one had to be measure many times to ensure it was at the same angles as the other side! I dont want one being wonky! lol.. No fitted pic's yet as its started raining! ha..

Took the plunge and made a start on the areocatches today. Started by covering the engine bay as carbon dust will go every where! lol.. Masked off where the catch was to be fitted. Place the bonnet catch on and added some butter to the top and closed the bonnet to see where it touched! ha. Marked it and rilled a 8mm hole from under the bonnet though to the top skin. Fitted the aerocatch template. Made my first cuts with the dremel! Took a lot of balls to cut into my CF bonnet! lol.. Cut out. Test fitted the catch and it touched the under skin so that needed to be removed. Chain drilled the under skin, and refitted. Point where I have drilled the slam panel for the catch clip to sit. Clip fitted. I've got a small problem that the pin that the top clip locks onto does not fit well at all. Im looking to make a new custom clip from 2mm stainless steel plate tomorrow. If I dont get the 2nd catch fitted ill end up finding some way to wire the bonnet shut for TOTB and sort it out after? Anyway thats it for today! lol..

No one fancy this event? lol..Looks like its just me then! ha.

You could use a 10w-40 no problem. I have used 15w-50 in my engine but its not stock so im not sure if a 15W-50 might be a little heavy for a tight clearance stock motor.

Guys Im looking at going to TOTB X boot camp on the 30th July (saturday). Its £75 to enter and is a 1/4 mile, topspeed and handling comp. Great value for just £75! Google TOTB X for info!

Ive done mine mate, Black power coated. £20! lol... This was a while ago... This is more recent. With the gold heat reflective intake. Powder coat the OEM brace mate its the stiffest and strongest out there!

Great to hear!

Ps my insurance with adrian flux fully declared mods (agreed value on the car + like for like mod replacement or cash If you cant get them anymore) is wait for it.............£728 a year with breakdown cover and key cover!!! And Im still only a kid!

I wont make a guess! lol.. Andy, Im sure if you can get to 12+ PSI then 460+ whp is well on the cards! Wait untill you pick the car up and feel what 450+ whp and a $hit load of torque feels like and your gonna **** your pants! 3rd and 4th gear are awesome mate, I took my GF's brother out (the one who drives a C5 Vette) and his face was so funny! Its fast to 100mph but most cars are quick to 100mph ish, the zed will just plow on to 150mph really quickly! It feels like the stock zed at 90mph at 150mph its still pulling that strong! hahahaha.... fingers crossed dude!

You should check the oil when the motor is cold anyway mate, not after its been running.