scotZ

Yep, was a top day - great choice of roads, Neil, esp on the way out to Loch Doon - detour round the cattle grid next time tho! ;-)

Nice to meet you guys as well - see you at another event soon, with any luck!

Impressed at you getting pics up so soon!

Sandy.

Tell me it's the one at the sainsbury's - didn't see the update and just rushed over from bothwell services...

Still up for it! Are we still on for a 9am meet at the Bothwell services?

Come on lads and ladies get ur names down!

Why such a small response? Is it the date? Pm me if there's a better date that would suit! I would like to try and accomodate for everyone!

1. Neilp

2. Jay (depending on rota)

3. Stephen

4. Gibby

5. Cragus (should be good for this )

6. Paulie (transfered from other thread by Neilp)

7. jacr87

8. D13vyl

9. scotZ (Sandy)

Looking forward to it already!

Just fast road work, no track days!

I had an Elise before the Z, meaning I've been spoilt in terms of how cars handle :-) Still love my Z after 5 years though, but I'd just like it to handle the twisty stuff with a bit more aplomb!

Brakes are already a bit up on OEM with EBC grooved and dimpled discs and RedStuff pads. I've got the Brembros so stopping is already pretty decent.

The endlinks are a must, like I said, it's embarrassing at the moment! The S-tune sounds interesting, guess it depends what it's done and what you're looking for...

I've got the infamous Z creaking rear end, greasing the endlinks has eased the embarrassment slightly but I figure a set of Powergrid endlinks should sort it permanently.

 

Question for you all is, what else is worth doing at the same time? What gives the biggest boost to the handling of the Z?

 

Uprated Antiroll bars are a great way if you doing the endlinks and then get a set of coilovers if you want to go all the way

All the way to the end of the budget :-D

Does anything need to be done with the coilovers? Is it only of you drop it by extreme amounts that you need to watch things like camber? [suspension newbie]

I'd seen he had the endlinks for sale before! Yep, Perth's a quick blast up the road from me...

I've got the infamous Z creaking rear end, greasing the endlinks has eased the embarrassment slightly but I figure a set of Powergrid endlinks should sort it permanently.

Question for you all is, what else is worth doing at the same time? What gives the biggest boost to the handling of the Z?

If they manage that, it'll take so many cars off the road that it will cure global warming! By all accounts there's a cruise at Tesco's in Falkirk on the last Thursday of the month - never seen it myself, I'm always in Glasgow on a Thursday night...

Good - we don't want to lose our rarity value

Seems like every second motor around here is a Scooby with an exhaust like the Chunnel...

'll keep an eye out for it if I get let off early for a change!

Are there many others around our area? I've seen one pretty heavily modded silver effort - but always going the other way...

hey jim - yeah, i'm normally on the 7:41 to edinburgh.

cheers for the recommendation on Bumps - I had it in there last week and the guy (another jim btw) did a top job for a very good price.

I think I'm getting the modding bug - had the JWT and the plenum spacer fitted yesterday and loving the noise when the revs get above 3500

That'll be another dip in the fuel economy then!

I'm not off the train back until after 6 - think I must miss your Zed!!

Thx lomoto - think I'm going to have to do some serious studying before I jump into buying

I have a chance of a secondhand set of rims - 19x8.5 +35 offset on the front and 19x9.5 +40 offset on the rear.

This would be my first set of aftermarket wheels, so I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this.

I currently have the 18x8 +30 offset Touring v1 wheels on mine - would the 19's fit and what would I need?

All help and comments much appreciated!

Yeah, that was me Jim! Thx for the intro

Only recently moved back into the area - I'll check out the places you mention. Uninspiring is fine as long as the guys know what they're doing - so many of them don't. I've had minor bumps ironed and resrayed by a guy in Glengarnock in Ayrshire, his place looks like a shed, but he does a roaring trade by word of mouth! A bit of a trek now I'm back in this neck of the woods tho...

Cheers all - glad to be on board!

Will post an mp3 of the HKS once it's installed - here's hoping it sounds awesome!

A Scottish meet sounds good to me...

Alright guys and gals - just thought I'd look in and see what's what. I've had my Z for 3.5 years now - it's an imported 2002 Fairlady Z GT-spec, which I got with 1500 on the clock and has now covered 28000.

It's seen city living, which means it's been subjected to the @*!# parking and careless door-opening of the great, unwashed masses. However, now I have my own driveway and garage, that's about to be remedied!

First on the agenda is an HKS Legamax stainless steel catback exhaust (arriving Monday ) and then I need to find a good bodyshop around the Stirling / Falkirk area, if anyone has any suggestions!