Darren-B

Woohoo I didn't bend it & SMD didn't wet the seat

What a buy Adrian, after seeing & driving your car earlier I have to retract my previous views on the GTR. That is one awesome car, the only criticism I have is that it covers its speed a little to well (hope you have some room on your license)

Well done mate, I know how relentlessly hard you work with your businesses, you deserve it

So does anyone want to buy a 240z & 987 boxster S?????

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite a collection of cars you will have by the weekend

Freelander,

X5

370z

Cayman-S

GTR

want to buy my van?

1) AmyZed - FA51 AMY

2) Andy James - AJ07 ZZZ

3) Winkj - W11 NKJ

4) Dynamic Turtle - MV64 VVZ

5) nissanman - PN60 JUJ

6) Bodyboarder81 - GT08 ZZZ

7) chizzz - BF11 KOD

8) Kryptochris - AJ04 HLZ

9) ogman - Y3 0GGY

10) Buster-V80BSV

11) Masa - MJ54 MZZ

12) glrnet LR54 NKO

13) humpy N12 SRA

14)Jay Kay. VU57 ZVL

15) A9H-RX

16) Darren-B BVM 362K

+spare/spot by the gate:

1. coldel - M479 UTF

2. octet - ADY 870D

Woohoo another Ace meet & I won't be in a porker

Ill take the free Akebono brakes please

 

Wishful thinking

You might get free delivery if you ask nicely

You saw my Gold one last year & just had to have one didn't you?

Try a cup of camomile tea, seriously, it will help you calm down a bit, then we can open a thread about Tesla, a lot of guys in here are very keen to get one, with some very envious!

 

You are a laugh.

Anything to show off your sig. Good advertising that.

I can see you are trying hard as your time is limited. Tesla is the future.

I am being a prick now just thought I would wind you up a bit.

hahaha why would you even say that? if he wanted to show off his sig I think he would post up a new Torqen product :headbang: & if you think you are winding him up, your probably winding yourself up as no doubt he is laughing at how much of a foolish post you have just made :lol: :lol:

I am not the police or any authority but I do find driving like this on a pubic road unacceptable.

What does my post count matter? That just means I reply to the threads I feel I want to. Not every thread that may provoke a sale.

It comes with age and experience to see w@nker driving when I see it. Especially when it is described in such detail.

You are fighting the wrong war. Try explaining to a parent that their child has been killed due to some knob in a fast car.

I do expect to be banned for this but.

"you and many others on here are just immature boy racers with no conscience"

And as for selling the Z to the OP I would rather crush it into a cube..

Bring on the Tesla.

Dont bother correcting my spelling / grammar etc. I am dyslexic.

Wow this didn't take long to escalate, The OP has admitted a number of wrong doings that have probably been the cause of his unfortunate accident, poor driving standard, lack of experience & bad car setup. But to be fair he is being a brave guy & sharing his c*** up publicly,

This is supposed to be a forum for like minded enthusiasts, where we help each other out with both good & bad experiences with the cars were enthusiastic about. Are you PC Power? & it's 'BOI Racers innit bruv'. Maybe you should skip the tesla forums & join the prius ones

Pins in the pistons to stop the rings rotating like a two stroke..... that`s interesting.

 

Wonder if they have anything to do with the scoring of the bores ?.. just a thought.

That is a very good point! but surely the pins would make one score if in contact with the bore as the piston can't rotate on the con-rod. From what I have read the bore scoring is caused by the pistons become oval shaped as a result of heat. The piston skirt is seems very short though

To be quite honest I'd say don't buy it!!! That's only because you're my brother so I won't be able to make a good margin on it and I need the pennies for the GT-R

 

Looking at similar models (Cayman S 2006, 55k to 85k miles) with no engine rebuilt (so chances to have bore scoring are as big as they were on my car) you can see them going from £15k upwards

 

http://www.pistonhea...-s-2006/4384209

 

http://www.pistonhea...an-3-4s/4523981

 

http://www.autotrade...201507145192224

 

http://www.autotrade...201406124962712

 

http://www.autotrade...201506114239033

 

http://www.autotrade.../20150802571360

 

http://www.autotrade...201508105922873

 

and so on.

 

Hard to put a price on mine, what do you guys think it will be a fair price, considering the brand new engine and 1 year warranty which is usually worth about £1k?

He's your brother, you have to GIVE it to him!!

Well I did propose a good deal to hime yesterday, we could just swap,

Let me know when it's finished & I'll buy it from you

So I'm now torn, I have the 987 Boxster S which imo is a great car but after spending a few hours in a Cayman S last night I'm trying to justify why I shouldn't upgrade to Adrians car

The Cayman is dynamically better than the Boxster but not by much & has a bit more poke, so do I or don't I buy your car Adrian???

Oh & my vote would have been C

I'm not modding the GTR .... ha ha ha ha ha

 

We all knew this would be the case though. I'd be more surprised if Adrian didn't change something tbh.

He hasn't even bought a car yet

Hmm interesting

You say the 2012 model has some sort of cooler already?

 

2012 onwards yeah — it has some kind of heat exchange between oil and coolant. It was made standard from 2012. I understand that isn't any good for tracking the car, but for enthusiastic driving its fine.

This oil/water cooler is standard on all uk 350 & 370's

Right I'm going to have my 2p, I bought a 987 Boxster S a couple of months ago as my daily, Although I'm a huge fan of the Z car, the porsche I a far better drivers car, feel,grip,balance,handling. The power is good to, my 3.2s level pegs in straight line performance to a 350zHR & on track leaves the 350's sucking on v-power vapour.

The only downsides against a zed car is that the 987 doesn't drift like a zed.

Try cornering a little quicker to get the most out of your tyres

Without seeing/hearing the noise it would be hard to diagnose, but possibly an engine or gearbox mount, otherwise as previously mentioned the flywheel hitting it's stops

Screw the purists Darren . . those seats look the business

 

Now you just need to get rid of the cream leatherette tablecloth draped over the centre console and the door cards . . .

Ahahaha I have plans for the door cards but no rush, went out for a little drive this evening & the seats have transformed the experience, no longer having to hold myself in place with the steering wheel & my knees whilst cornering

Yes you can get a 350z bumper in your 350z

Might be worth putting a dust sheet over your seats & trims though

Not been any updates for a while as I've been out enjoying the car, North Wales, Lake District & Donnington so certainly done a few miles in the car now. Loved every one of them

Managed to get a few hours on the cars today, what else can you do on a rainy Sunday. Went & collected these beauties

I had some plans for the original seats in the car

Got the new seats swapped over in the porker

Then I took these, used the wiring diagram I have to pin out the electric operation, made a loom

Then cut up some steel & fitted to the 240's existing seat fixings

Then fitted them in the 240z

I know the purists will hate these, but comfort & support out weighs the originals, which I can swap back in about 30mins,

So now the 240z has bluetooth hands free & electric seats :lol:

As it was still raining I decided to sort out my centre gauges, so removed the centre (ammeter/fuel) & the clock, stripped them both down & installed a voltmeter from a 260z in place of the ammeter & the clock with a working one,

Thats a wonderful job you've done here.

 

You must be very very proud, looks gorgeous.

 

Top job sir.

Thanks, really happy with how it's come out,

Welsh police sucks! Specially PC Powah!

I reckon Pc Powah trip was involved with this,

The guy is a bit of a tool for posting his mug shot publicly in the video

The car looks amazing, an awesome presence on the road & it was a pleasure driving with you today

what he said ^

Personally I reckon your heat/det issues are due to the poor design of the stillen kit, the maf's are reading intake temps before the charger & water/air intercooler, so the ecu cannot compensate for fluctuations in intake temps, I'd be spending my money having a couple of temp sensors made to thread into the intake manifold after the cooler matrix.

 

This is what mine has had done at h-dev ..... Just waiting on uprev to sort the tables to be able to map it in .

 

Major floor in the stillen design if you ask me

Will be interested to see the results, I'm sure it will end up in a better, smoother tune. How many temp sensors do you have & where have they been positioned? are they just taken from the maf loom?

Trouble is Stillen made the kit to a cent, supplying additional temp sensors would have cost them more money. It's as if they spent all their time designing the intake manifold & pipe, then just didn't bother on the rest of it.