Toon Chris

Any bluetooth earpiece you fancy really (not plug in!). Parrot are supposed to be quite good maybe? Sorry i don't know good ones any more as i don't keep up with what's on the market. Mine was some no-name thing I got from work so I didn't pay much attention to the brand.

My experience was the same. Hard to hear the caller and shouting into the microphone. TBH its an exercise in frustration and best not to bother with it. An earpiece made it much better experience.

I don't know if it is the same on the 370 as it is on my Infiniti (which is based on the 370) but the TPMS will also warn if the tyre pressure goes too high as well as too low. After an hour on the motorway this tended to happen a lot until I worked out what the problem was!

More recently, a work colleague was driving home on the motorway late at night doing a steady 80. As he passed some services a number of black BMWs pulled out of the slip road and sat behind him. He didn't think much of this until they proceeded to surround him and box him in to the hard shoulder. He nearly pooed himself thinking it was a 'mafia hit' (I've no idea why the mafia would be interested in him) but it turned out it was unmarked cars practising their motorway stop manoeuvre. Even though he was clearly rather frightened, they still kindly gave him 3 points for speeding.

Many, many years ago an acquaintance had a frequent, bad habit of getting steaming drunk in town them riding his moped back home. One night he waved goodbye and set off to make his way back along the quiet road, and almost immediately he spotted a jam sandwich in a layby off the main drag. Stricken with fear that he may get spotted (he was well known as a boozer) he panicked and lost his steering and drove straight into the back of the police car. Christ we laughed so hard we nearly died.

Those vids are not really my cup of tea, but I like the one at 1:18 where a guy loses it only a little on the ice and slowly and gracefully starts rotate around in a circle. So far so good and no harm done, but as he gets to the 180 mark you see a huge fuel tanker doing the same thing right behind him. It was cool for him until that brown trouser moment.

If at all possible try to get someone who has done a Z before. The guy who did mine snapped all the poppers in the pillars then said they were already broken.

I live in Cumbria, surrounded by big mountains, surely i will be ok? Sellafield is just far enough away that I ought to be shielded from the worst. Plenty of sheep to eat at the moment. Unfortunately the Lakes gets all the pollution from Manchester so a hit anywhere down there means a slow death from the poison rain after a few days - which it tends to do quite a lot here. Then nothing is fit to eat except the remains of the defrosted freezer contents and that tin of beef consommé I've been looking at suspiciously for the last 2 years but can't bring myself to open or throw away. Next doors cat looks good by this point. Point being no-one gets away with it, it is just a matter of how and when you go, not if. By the way, the idea of 'grabbing the girl' and having a fun time falls short when she is crying and I can't get it up through the fear. Sorry, I can't see any fun happening ion those circumstances. More likely we will be in denial for a few hours and then byyyeeeeeee.

For road go for the setup in my tag. It only rattles a little at low revs and other than that is good quality and does the job very well It depends how much track you do I suppose but something for the track may not be ideal for gentler road use, which means it might be a bit rougher in 'normal' use?

At least the old-style carb and mechanicals cars would have survive an alien attack that fries the electrics - that's what the movies say anyway, so it has my attention for a next car

To add to this ^ make sure the ignition is off and you need to use a spray of carb cleaner for best results. And yes, it is normal.

That's good thinking right there. Maybe but rear discs don't get all that hot unless you have been giving it some beans, which is unlikely on 30mph tootles to work. And the handbrake is shoe-based so that won't be the issue.

These guys can refurbish your existing alternator for a higher output: http://www.universal-rotating.co.uk/public/category.aspx?ref=High-output-Starter-motors-and-alternators

You need to let the car settle for a while before testing. Turn off everything and wait for 20 minutes or so to make sure the car is completely asleep. If you still get that 0.35 reading I'd say that is too high and you have a drain. The trouble is different manufacturers and models will differ so hopefully someone else might kindly do a test on a healthy car for you which would help, for comparison(sorry, I am Z-less at the moment) This link is handy as it talks about the alternator issue I mentioned as well as general good assistance. http://www.aa1car.co...y_runs_down.htm It costs you nothing to try this: "Or, just disconnect the alternator overnight and see if the battery stills run down. If the battery drain stops, you have found the problem"

That is the drain with everything off? That's 350 milliamps and high enough to flatten a battery. If I've misunderstood and you don't have a drain then the alternator could be the problem (not only though elimination). When the alternator is turning its' supplying enough power to run the car and show 13.8v but that doesn't mean it is charging the battery. There may be a fault in the alternator circuitry. Sell one of your new batteries and get a second-hand alternator from Alex

KW yes. Type 1 if you don't want to fiddle with them. Trouble with adjustable stuff is you are forever fiddling with it - I chose to trust the manufacturer and thought they were bang on for road use. I was 25mm lower but got sick of losing the flexis on bumps so went to 15mm drop instead. Easy to do as the KW hight is adjustable, even if the shocks aren't.

I've got an Infiniti FX which weighs as much as a small yacht and is based on the 370z chassis, including brakes. Thats a lot of strain on the disks and pads Infiniti front disks - pulsing after 6-8K. Problem starts off slow and eventually gets so bad that there is a shuddering thought the front wheels and i have to swap the disks out. I am meticulous not to sit with the brakes applied at junctions. Cheap off the shelf no-names - pulsing again after 4-6K EBC slotted - pulsing after 6-8K DBA T2 - 12K so far and no problems at all. I don't want to slag EBC too much as I have used them on my 350z without problems although the DS2500 pads wore through them quite quickly. Oh, and the Infiniti uses EBC green-stuff pads with no bothers at all. They behave very well. Go figure! as the yanks say.

Revolution in Gateshead looked after my Z for many years and also a few other local ones. They are not too pricey, understand performance cars and more importantly they are trustworthy. They won't rag your car around on a 'test drive'

So either Top Gear or Pornhub.

£50 for gear knob (really) £40 door handles £60-£70 window motors even the little bits add up. Plus lights front and back could get you £4-500. Trouble is the useless wreck you get on the drive for a year that you then have to pay someone to winch away.

Back in the early 90's I got regular 15.1's / <100mph with my Opal Kadette with Ford OHV 1.6 Kent engine. It was a real sleeper. Looked like crap but the engine was balanced and lightened with high compression pistons and had a fast cam and twin webber 40's. It reved up to 8K and had a Ford Cortina 2.0E 'rocket box' gearbox. My how we laughed as it wiped the floor with lots of fancy RWYB cars. It is amazing how little knowledge most of the people had of car mechanics. I distinctly remember some guy bragging he had a half-turbo fitted (which half I never found out!). As has been said, the problem was always how to get going without either bogging down or spinning the tyres. If I could have got that right I'm sure a mid 14's would have been possible.

Oil isn't getting lost through the plug seal - you really would know about it if a plug was leaking as it would be hot, high-pressure gas not oil coming out - and probably not long before the plug shot out like a bullet! As KyleR said right back at the beginning, its a common problem for a small leak around the cam cover to drizzle oil into the plug hole. You can fix it, but if it isn't too bad you can also ignore it for quite a while. It sounds like you only need to top up the oil and keep an eye on it. Check at least every week until you get a pattern of how much it uses. To diagnose a random misfire some explanation of when it happens is useful - i.e. what sort of revs, is the engine warm, how often does it happen. 6 new coils sounds pricey but has it solved the problem?

Blue Harbour chunky knit, high neck zip up cardy/jumpers. Thanks Mum, now I feel I'm 60 going on dead.

Are you fitting massive spacers? Appreciate you might want the rolled look and that's fine, but unless you go <<<wide>>> you can spacer out quite a bit with no changes.