Toon Chris

Gosh, that's a bit heavy duty isn't it? It isn't LSD either by the look of it, I thought the Z needed the special friction additive style diff oil?

Bump on this one Can you recommend a diff oil for me please, Simon? 04 GT, no track use, just normal Z driving which for me is lots of motorway and the occasional blast. In other words, standard diff oil rating for the Z but a good brand I've already got Millers going into the gearbox but Millers don't seem to do a diff oil for LSDs. Oh, and do you do those fancy oil filters with the magnetic bit in the middle? Cheers Chris

God but it's true

That's because you were staring at them Actually they probably all wondered if it was a new Porsche and better than theirs. It's very competitive in the Porsche owners world (pour souls).

As someone who imported a few of these, that isn't a bad price Gaz. You can shave £10 of that by importing but they aren't a branded name and the hassle is, well, a hassle!

How is it for smudgy fingerprints?

eBay trader sheridan3001 is very trustworthy and competitive. She isn't listing at the moment but I'm sure you can contact her. Price is £12 inc post

Thanks Guys, and thanks Alex, I wish a chat could have been at a slightly less fraught time.

I think they think if they do it wrong by hand the fly will be off-centre and so off-balance.

I'd just like to say that it isn't me... I have silver Z badges instead of burgers. I probably don't even know what a GT-R looks like

I'm nervous enough at the best of times when my car goes into the workshop. This time the nightmare has become real. I've got a new Fidenza fly and Excedy clutch from Zmanalex and have been sitting on it for a month or so waiting for the cash and suitable time to have them fitted. I drive a lot for work so can't be without my car for too long. The car is at a local sports car specialist who were hopefully doing the change, plus gearbox oil, plus aux belts all in on day. Lunchtime the phone goes and the flywheel wont fit on the crank! Full credit to Alex who has done what he can to help but by the garage measurements the crank boss is .45mm too large (yes, less than half a mm). This is not something Alex has seen before as all his cranks are smaller. To cut a lot of too-and-fro short, he recommended careful opening up of the centre hole (as per the Fidenza supplied instructions) but the garage refuse to do this on the grounds that they could throw the balance off. So the upshot is that it isn't Alex's fault (he has been more than helpful), it isn't the garages fault as they understandably don't want to take the risk of knackering things (although they are probably being over-cautious), so the upshot is that the car will sit in the garage for up to a week, maybe more, whilst they take the fly to a local engineering firm and open it up by a gnats whisker, then put my car back together. To be clear, there is no winging here about anybody, I'm just really hacked off that my car is off the road whilst all of this is up in the air. Never mind the inconvenience, the cancelled meetings, the rearranging of calendars, I hate not being able to control what is going on and being without my car! If everything goes well then it is only a delay and some more (!) money. If not, God only knows what the next step is. My last car took a week for a clutch change too. I must be cursed. How I miss ESR

The Rapture - Echoes Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz FabricLive23: Death in Vegas Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies Guano Apes - Don't Give Me Names Some ministry of sound thing banging techno-tunes. I keep forgetting to plug in my mp3 player!

Now you have made it sound interesting I had a stage2 tuned ford engine in my youth, all nicely lightened and balanced and hand-built. I used to take of the exhaust at the manifold for Santa Pod runs. I also had to remove a section of the bonnet and use a fire blanket to prevent under-bonnet incineration! It was only a high compression 1.6 but the noise was huge (with an odd glopping/popping noise at low revs), but the 6 inch blue flames shooting out of the head made it all worthwhile. I can't even begin to think what the Z would produce. Birds would fall stunned out of the sky

yes, for his chin!

Jealous nixy? They are pretty impressive

Not an arbarth, just the standard - and he hated it...

Fantastic! I'd watch that (on DVD)

We will have to agree to disagree on this one, I think the Zunsport kits looks very professional and well made. http://www.zunsport.co.uk/ Looks like top notch stuff to me unlike the chicken wire kits you get from Halfords and the likes. R yeah it's probably the chicken wire ones I am visualizing

Welcome You won't get any complains from me if you mod with the same level of taste you used with that Fiesta. When I first starting reading this I though 'oh no, a modded fiesta, how bad is that going to look!' as you see some absolute howlers in the small car arena, but I was very pleasantly surprised that you have produced something of such high quality and subtlety (relatively speaking ). You and a Z shoudl go far, but be warned that there are some seriously beautiful Zs out there so you will have stiff competition. Oh, and you may need quite a lot of money too!

Pah, as a Hull veteran I can say they are mainly used as a pose to frighten the local chavs into no nicking cars. All that happens is the chavs know they have a good chase on and deliberately go out to find and bait them. They have been seen hidden up slip roads on the A63 into town, but generally cruise around or are parked up unobtrusive as a pig at a wedding. You can spot them a mile away just like any Jam Sandwich. Too much council tax is spent on these show cars. If you really want to catch people, have stealth cars. If you really want to catch the chavs these fast cars don't help.

Ready fitted with a stubby aerial too - what a bargain

Sorry mate, another negative. Personal taste is always the most important so you do what you like and be happy, but for me it looks a little home-made, a bit like the corsa/saxo brigade.

I hate to say it after the event but if you let the paint dry fully it cracks off easily over the next few weeks and washes. I had a red car which was splattered by window frame painters next door. I nearly had a heart attack but it all can off easily enough when fully dry. It's a jazz not a Z so stick it in the local industrial wire-brush supermarket car wash and all the blobs will be gone (and half your bodywork too probably but that's the risk you take ).

You have no excuse. Be very sorry and take any punishment she wants to give you. It will take quite a while to blow over I think! Reminds me of when I got ratted on whisky on Christmas eve and went to bed at 5am. Woken up at 5pm the next day as the whole family had arrived and couldn't wait for dinner any more. I was still very drunk and stunk of whisky. Very embarrassing.

ooh very nice What do those Eibach rear camber thingies do for you?