Glenn1981

Hi Mark, Going to be calling you to book in my car by the end of this month, been too long that I have been waiting to do this, so I am dead set on doing this now. Just want a bit of advice on what you (and others of course), feel would be the best plan, as I have a few bolt-ons already and the last thing I want to change is the cats before you UpRev and tune. I will probably get you to do both at the same time. My current list of mods is as follows on a 2004 276bhp DE car, UK GT: *CAI - Fujita or Simota I beleive from Alex, I know the 2006+ air box is better, but I love the look and sound of this thing, so unless it is a real hold back in terms of major horses then I would prefer to keep it *Motordyne Plenum Spacer *Buddy Club Pro Spec III exhaust from Cats back. What I am toying with is getting the Art pipes or Berk resonated decats and then having the XYZ pipe after that on to the mid section and tail pipes of the Buddy Club. Leaving it with the straight through decat, but with the option that when MOT time is coming round, if I cant convince my mechanic to pass it as it sits, I can buy the race cat from you later on. I realise this may be loud, but I am fine with that, like Ian I am a fan of loud!!, plus with the baffles in the buddy club it sounds very exotic and I have fallen in love with the sound! Although if it really gets too much, I can always just change the back box\tail pipes. My questions are: *Does this sound like a good combination of mods that will give good returns, or could you recommend anything better? *Is it possible to do this combination, with the buddy club exhuast, the layout is here: viewtopic.php?f=32&t=42867 *Are there any other mods that I can do at the same time to aid power and torque etc? *Could you get me together a price for the parts and work and do you have stock? *When can I book in!! Thanks Glenn

Sorry for the delay in coming back to you guys, just been looking at the funds to see if I can make it, but with service, tax, work trip to Barcalona and Birthdays this month, I just dont think the piggy bank will stretch. Pretty gutted as I had promised myself I would go this year, but I am sure there will be one or two more chances later in the summer! Hope you all have a blast though and get lots of pics!!

Do they make a UK type one, I have never seen it? It is the only thing to ever stop me buying this rear!

this will be mental! I wish I had the kind of money this guy probably has to throw at toys! Is this going to need a different engine for that kind of build, or are we just talking full forged everything?

I knew most kits wouldnt fit from the US, but I thought it would be okay with Jap makes as they drive on the correct side!! I will have to do a bit more reading obviously, but it is way off yet anyway.

Thanks Just been looking and SC seems the way to go if stock. Just been looking at forged internals and pricing it up. Is all you need= Pistons, Con Rods, Bolts and Studs? The GReddy TT kit looks good value, as does one of the HKS kits. I suppose you could run the TT kit at low boost and 400hp and then when you have the money in the bank for the internal work then go higher, or probably better do it the other way round as Turbos are pretty much bolt on Been looking at the SC kits too though. Appealing as you can stay stock internals

Looking awesome!! Love the little details!

how safe is this setup on stock internals then?

Seems a good price for one of these, I think they are normally £800+ with most retailers Free delivery too http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DC-Sports-Stainle ... 35a8763297

Animal, if it is about the HKS, drop him an email, he is pretty good at coming back. He got me a good quote over in this format. I will PM you his email

Boxter. Pah! The fact that there is one parked outside every Hair Salon and Trendy Wine Bar around where I live, really put me off. Could have bought one 3 years ago when I got my Zed, but there was no competition for me, the Zed won hands down. My opinion, if you have £20k+ to spend. Get a good Zed for £15,000 and spen £5000+ on top notch mods and a reflash, pwer and handling. You wont regret not buying the poser car then! Cayman S - £30k+ but they are a different story..............

22hp gain actually I know that you wont get anything like 22bhp from it at all, but I was hoping maybe 5bhp or something and a nice whistle. Obviously as you all know from previous topics and posts, I am not as technical as alot of you guys, but I understand the basics and I am learning more every day The thought process that is going through my head at the moment is that I know what makes power in NA tuned Zeds and that is Air Flow and Fuel Flow and then ultimately the mixture optimised by the Re-Flash. And then on from there you are getting into the expensive stuff like Cams and Port and Polish. I am just trying to work out what parts will optimise my airflow in and out and then probably look at fuelling after. As a side note, is there much point in uprating fuel rails, pump and injectors, will I see any HP from doing this or is it money down the drain in an NA Zed?

Checked on Z1, but Adam only does the AAM ones I think. I will PM him though. It seems very different to the AAM one with those notches to create a supposed vortex effect, I wonder if it gives anything other than a nice whistle sound?

Anyone have experience of these, or reckon they would be worth getting? Looks better than the AAM one, with this vortex swirl affect, would that actually do anything? http://www.wheelskin.com/spe-94355.html Thoughts? Any idea how we get our hands on this US stuff over here, any stockists?

gonna look awesome mate, go for it!!

When I got mine I really didnt want Blade Silver it was the one colour I didnt want, I was adamnt I wanted Black. I ended up of course with a Blade Silver At the end of the day it is when you walk up and see the car sitting there gleaming away and then put your foot down on that first test drive that you fall in love with the Z no matter the colour and that is exactly what happened to me. I now truely beleive I bought the best colour and I am not just saying that because I have it, but I find it shows the lines and all the extras you can buy for the car look better with the light colour Zeds like white, silver and red. A GT4 in Yellow are nice if you can fine one. I would even buy a temper orange, as in the metal they are amazing looking!

You Tube is your friend

If you like that dark red colour, then look for a later import, they do a colour which seems to be called "Brickyard" you might like that. If I was buying a new Zed though, I would go white as they are the nicest looking. The later UK spec also had a really dark blue which was lovely but very rare.

cant you fit it down infront of the rad like this? viewtopic.php?f=25&t=33876

For £1500 you can pretty much get any exhaust that you desire, bar the exotic Ti Jap ones like the Amuse or the ARC. If I had £1500 to blow on an exhaust, I would already have a HKS fitted to my car. But I would have been very tempted by the Motordyne Shockwave. The thing I like about the Shcokwave is that it comes with an XYZ pipe, which you can fit a CAT into for MOT purposes, with great ease and then take it out again afterwards. This means you can run test-pipes or resonated decats and have better flow. OR, better still, you can get a set of Manifolds like the Japspeed ones with a decat pipe incorporated into them and have the maximum airflow and still have a spare cat for about £250 to pop in on MOT day. The Motordyne with XYZ and Cat is roughly the same price as the HKS setup. Abbey can get either. Final thought though, it really is pointless spending £1500 on a top of the range exhaust system if you dont intend to go and get the UPRev re-map. £1500 just for sound alone is crazyness!!

Sorry my bad, I mean SPD Automotive. They are the UK main dealer for Buddy Club. http://www.japshop.co.uk/

Oh and in terms of fitting, it is usually £50 per hour. The hardest part is getting the old one off I am told, which can take a while, but once it is off it is just a case of positioning, hanging and bolting the new one up with the gaskets and a small amount of exhaust gum or loctite copper for the perfect seal if needed. If you are even remotely handy with a spanner and have access to a ramp or lift with good working soace then you could easily DIY. I dont have any kind of ramp unfortunately for mine so getting a friend to do it for a nominal fee

it might be worth noting that all the clips you are watching on youtube of the HKS are clips of it with High Flow Cats or De Cats fitted and some with headers too. So this will makes things twice as loud. at 87dbs I wouldnt have thought it would be too noisy. It is when you get to 95dbs that it is loud loud, I think mine is 95db!!(Buddy Club) If it is only noise you are after then I can think of exhausts that sound nice, where you dont have to spend the sort of money the HKS is. The Scorpion sounds great at a quarter of the price and is not loud and the Tanabe Concept G is a great sounding twin pipe system for only £800. I saw that SRP are doing the Buddy Club for £530 at the moment on special, which is £150 off the list price

hope you dont mind me posting it here, should help with the sale though!

I was sure it was someone off of here. Thought it would be a helpful tip for the buyer and the seller