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16 hours ago, Azurez33 said:

This was in reply to yellow stuff pads, and reference about red stuff pure track ceramic pads 

OK, but Redstuff arent ceramic and arent track pads*, I wouldn't fit them to my wheelbarrow personally.
Im sure you love them but if you havent used anything else youre not really in a position to make a recommendation, go out in a car with CLs fitted and youll see what I mean.  
 
* from EBC website: "Designed & manufactured as a performance road pad" 

22 hours ago, SW66TTT said:

are they a good upgrade on standard pads? I need some new pads myself and have been looking around, I've looked at hawk and Stoptech pads, I might go for discs at the same time.

They are better than standard but so is everything else
Id recommend DS2500 for non track, Pagid RS29 or Carbotechs for some tracking, Endless or CL for heavy track action

 

15 hours ago, Azurez33 said:

I’ve been using them for 2-3years now no issues! just don’t make the mistake of using track pads on the road 😂 silly mistake a lot of people make 

Howso? Ive been using CL on road cars for years, sure they can be a bit dusty and sometimes squeak but they perform just as well on the road as on the track, pads that dont bite from cold are a thing of the past in my experience.   

Blues Brothers 
Vanishing Point 
Ronin 
Gumball Rally 
Smokey and the Bandit 
Convoy 
To Live and Die in LA 
Taxi 
Honouravble mention: The Longest Yard for having Burt Reynolds drive a Citroen SM 

Hmmm, seems Im quite into films with car chases in them 

3 hours ago, Ekona said:

To put that totally in perspective, that’s a Ferrari F40 AND a Lambo Aventador SVJ Roadster plus £100k leftover. 
 

Obscene money. 

Obscene increase anyway, https://www.gtr.co.uk/threads/nismo-400r-for-sale.3428/ - £32K back in 2002, £45K in 2009: https://www.skylineowners.com/threads/r33-gtr-nismo-400r-for-sale.116014/, not entirely sure about a 3600% increase in value over 13 years TBH.

I know a guy who sold a 22B in 2011 for 17K  😪
 

19 hours ago, Olly350z said:

I'm genuinely a tad surprised at how much has been used from the 370z. The rear interior, centre console and door switches to name a few are identical. 

TBH this was my biggest issue with the 370 vs 350 - just not different enough to justify the extra money. 
Seems they may have done the same again, when there are cars like the Yaris GR out there it does make you wonder why ......

I think Lewis is struggling to adjust to the car the same way Vettel did in the RB when blown diffusers were outlawed, or Danny Ric did when he came to McLaren - in both cases the "number 1 driver" was slower then "number 2", I guess its more difficult to unlearn 15 years of experience than 2. 

You cant really count a 7 time World Champion out of the bask of 3 races with a car thats clearly underperforming TBH, if either of the Mercs are going to be challenging they have to sort it in a couple of races I reckons 

 

Youre far too defeatist, I got round those issues by buying an E82 135i (less than 600 to start with!) and taking the back seats out  

1 hour ago, Umster said:

There are better cars than the Z but they cost plenty to buy, to service and/or to enjoy daily. No performance turbo gassed car gets 35mpg on a run like the Z. 

Let me introduce you to the BMW 1 series  

Cant say Im overly excited about the 400Z (like I possibly am by the Emira), still seems a bit heavy and not exactly at the cutting edge of technology, FI is good for increasing power though I suppose. Like someone else said, maybe 5/10 years ago this would be a winner but not for me, neither is the Supra for that matter though  
 

 

On 02/03/2022 at 07:28, ibrakeformoose said:

And don't I know it..

I hate to be that guy but when WBAC offer £12,500, a trader offers £15K and Adrian offers £15K have you considered £15K might be what the car is actually worth?
Sure, it might be the cheapest and lowest mileage 370Z but its also a write off, when there are plenty of other cars out there this is going to affect the value pretty substantially ..........

On 15/02/2022 at 22:23, HEADPHONES said:

That's over 6 hrs away for me.

6 hours? This was my drive on the last day of NC500 2020, Id done 6 hours before I was 6 hours away from home:

27 minutes ago, GranTurismoEra said:

Looks like Scotlands the one to do then! Big trip and full week needed. A week of minimal rain and sunshine. Watch out for those midges. 

Yep. Speaking as an Englander thats done the NC500 for the last couple of years its not even worth us getting involved in this thread

Roads themselves are better, scenery is off the chart but the best thing is that other road users see you approaching at a rate of knots .......... and pull over out of your way to let you past, WTF?
Coming from Southern England where folk deliberately drive in the middle of the road to stop you making progress this is a revelation, it actually puts the pleasure back into driving

Just dont leave a Ferrari in a field ....... like I did   
 

On 29/01/2022 at 13:31, Umster said:

Mehhh, I understand what you're saying but I wouldn't class them as budget. They are just not a premium make from a premium brand. 

 

Got them fitted on my MR2, PS4 on my 135i and PS4S on the other car. I wouldnt quite say night and day between the Michelins and the Hankooks but its very noticeable, the PS4S are borderline astonishing - I actually bought Hankooks rather than Michelins as I didnt want too much grip, I wanted the car to move around a bit  

The best tyres you can afford is never overkill (remember they stop you as well as make you go round corners) and when its £40 a corner difference then I wouldnt skimp, seats and steering wheels regularly get overlooked as well. 

 

Got to agree with yer man above, its only a good time to sell if youre not replacing it with another car, or if youre downgrading significantly, everything thats even slightly desirable is also holding its money or increasing in value.
Will be interesting to see what happens when the prices crash, if they ever do though, I bet there will be bargains to be had 
 

Ahh, the beauty of social media these days where everyone has an equal voice, whether they have been giving excellent technical advice on 350Zs since 2008 or whether they joined in 2019
 

1 minute ago, nozb2k said:

 

The wheel speed sensors freaking out combined with the module bypassing this behaviour is a danger, this is all I was pointing out.

The speed sensors would freak out even if you didnt have the module fitted. I know, Ive done it. 
I didnt even have to run 19s on the front and 17s on the back to manage it

56 minutes ago, nozb2k said:

The fact is, the burnout module allows the car to be driven with this setup and it jepordizes the braking system at times.

No, running different wheel radii from what the stability control is expecting is what causes the problem.

I used to run my Z with an 18 front, 19 on the back and the stability control would trigger all of the time, I got it when running drift wheels as well. 
Turning the stability control off is the only way to stop it happening but it also means you have no ABS, and sometimes the car will go crazy and youll have little or no braking at all. 

Got to say I like the way you come on with 20 posts, make an incorrect statement and then tell anyone giving you the correct answer they are wrong though, impressive stuff  

Was entirely my fault TBH, I knew my subframe bushes were beyond knackered and could feel the subframe moving about but kept going, eventually it just steered me into one of the big concrete blocks which as you can tell from the picture was pointing into the track for some reason. Youll be fine, Im sure :lol:

Never had much luck at the Pod TBH, first time I was up there I managed to smash a back quarter into a barrel, not unusual but unfortunately the one I chose was full of concrete    

11 hours ago, Kieran O'Quick said:

Nothing to hit but cones hopefully? 

Some of the cones are pretty tough, regretted this one 



Same day:



But dont let me put you off, Im sure youll have a great time

Toyota chassis much better but needs power IMO, Ive heard FI ones can suffer cooling issues, particularly on track.
If they had been 300hp to begin with would anyone have actually bought 370's since 2012?    

2 minutes ago, davey_83 said:

 You won't be able to tell Max anything about this game so to speak that he doesn't already know. Furthermore you won't be able to give him any practical advise on how to improve his time on track beyond anything other than theory. 

 

No PM received, shocker - you're trying to point score rather than seek information having asked a question - you're not genuine, good day.

On the first bit, he has spotters, race engineers, tyre engineers, sim engineers - all manner of advice from non drivers - do you think these people are from another planet or something?
I advise people daily on stuff I dont actually do, while we wouldnt be able to tell him much about actually driving the car theres a lot of other aspects that you might give good advice on.

On the second bit this is a discussion forum where 99.9% of users manage to have intelligent conversations in public, kinda part of the point of a public forum.
Why should anything go to PMs, the rest of us manage alright without?  

Its undeniable that at least two of your comments on this thread have massively contradicted the stuff you were banging on about a few weeks ago, just accept it and move on, you cant be right about everything  

4 hours ago, davey_83 said:

This is like gogglebox when you see the folks giving criticism towards an x factor singer however brushing off the fact that never in a million lifetimes could they ever do better themselves. 

Considering your recent posts on another subject, anyone else struggling to breathe from the blanket of irony that has just appeared?     
Im actually crying here, thats amazing  

Regardless, are you honestly saying no-one can have an opinion on what makes a good goal, a great innings, a championship performance in a fight because we arent elite sportsmen ourselves?

Of course we can, sport is all about spectators and you dont even need to understand the rules to appreciate an exceptional performance, never mind be an expert. 
When there are pretty clearly stated rules and someone is continually breaking them it becomes impossible to ignore, I doubt Im as fast as Max but I bet I have less accidents on track.  

 

On 14/12/2021 at 17:20, coldel said:

That is different to the issue at hand though, that the governing body of the sport decides it can just change the rules because at that moment it seemed the more 'exciting' way to do it. 

If that's the case, then this needs to become WWE wrestling or something similar.  Put on the show first, worry about the basic principles of sport second. They have talked about reversing the grid, and all sorts of more extreme things, then lets implement that.  

 

There is a slight element of interpretation to rule 48.12 in as much as the way it is written it only applies if the "LAPPED CARS MAY OVERTAKE" message has been sent; if they were only looking for "exciting" then they would have let the lapped cars between Sainz and Max pass too. I dont accept it as a change, I see it as interpretation, the same way the rules were interpreted after the first clash at Saudi. 

When so much of the rulebook is about interpretation (who is to blame for a crash, for instance) I dont think its the massive issues its been made out to be, particularly when if Latiffi hasd crashed a lap earlier all of this would have happened anyway ......... and while some are bound to disagree if they yanks hadnt taken over F1 when they did I think it would be dead in the water anyway, a bit "controversy" doesnt really make it into the petrol based version of WWE overnight

 

Just been through similar myself, ended up with AD08R as I wanted something that would work in the wet as well, they do wear quickly and are £££ though. 

Trofeos seem to be the favourite for outright grip these days but wear even quicker and cost even more, I was tempted by AR-1s as they seem to be pretty decent value (and are actually available) and been hearing good things about MRF ZTR, they are the control tyre for a few series - unfortunately even though you havent heard of them they arent cheap either

Been an F1 fan since I was able to watch it, was lucky enough to work with a few teams a while ago too. Ive got no problem with either of the big decisions from Abu Dhabi, same for Saudi as well. 

F1 a few years ago was in danger of disappearing up its own arse - there was little or no competition at the front, half the races were processions and what should have been the most exciting sport in the world was sending me to sleep every time it was on. 
Youve now got the whole world talking for most of the last 2 weeks, some proper passion and of course 2 races that have made the most exciting finish to a season I remember. 

When the margins are so small ( a lap more SC and Lewis would be champion, a lap less and it would have been Max anyway) and Merc couldnt have known how long the Safety car would last anyway why not let them race for the title? 
What would you prefer to watch, a soulless procession or a bit of actual racing action? 

13 hours ago, marzman said:

 

Nah, it's the oblivious ones doing 35 in a 60 in a Daewoo Matiz that force every other normal driver to risk an overtake when they really shouldn't.  These guys need locking up!!

Might have been a Matiz that actually stopped on the sliproad while trying to join M11 at 5pm the other day 🙄

I saw it coming so went for the undertake ....... only for my BMW to go into limpmode as its got a dodgy coilpack. 
Turns out a 135i running on 5 is still slightly quicker than a 40 ton artic