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You can't leave us hanging like that Phil! Go on, tell us how much...

Yup, definitely available in the US.

Cracking stuff, and is what I've just put in mine. While you're there you might as well put some s/s brake hoses on as well, only about £50 and well worth it.

Quicker, both point to point and round corners. Amazing chassis, terrific engine and most of all outstanding brakes.

Exactly the same. Tesco's stuff.

If it's any consolation, I totally forgot to do the clip that holds the actual filter on when I did mine! It was only when I stopped and had a quick fumble to make sure everything was tight I realised that I'd got a bit too excited about getting it done and rushed it...

You haven't done the clips up properly and have air entering the engine which is unmetered (meaning you're probably running quite lean, which is a Bad Thing). Check all the connections are tight and reset the Check Engine Light (CEL) as described on one of the Stickys around here.

Yup, that'll be the stuff! You can see why I ran the risk of looking an absolute tit driving up the A1 for it!

Nope, you've probably got an air leak post-MAF if it's only come on since fitting the Popcharger. Check the connections and run through the CEL reset procedure.

Yeah, that'll do it! I guess in all fairness it does depend on how you drive your car. If you pottle around all day in city centres barely breaking 30 mph then I totally agree with you, tyre choice doesn't matter so much. I doubt that many people who own a Zed drive like that, though

Track cover?

+millionty In all fairness to JC, some of what he said was absolutely spot-on (the waggling of the cubby-hole cover springs to mind) but then some of what he called flaws, I would more describe as personality and is why I fell in love with the Zed. Each to their own, it'd be boring if we all liked the same things.

Vinyl wrap then, basically. There's loads of companies that make it in patterns as well, can be more effective than chucking stickers on a car but it's a shame it costs as much (sometimes more) than a re-spray. I once (before a JAE where I was hoping for a good result in the concours and had plastered the car in some seriously decent wax) drove a good 2 hours with clingfilm stuck to the front and wings. No flies, no dirt, and just whipped it off when I got there!

You have the difference in stagger to account for the slight differences in what the tyres do. It's more important that they heat up the same and grip the same on the edge more than anything. Or that, basically. A car with more predictable feel via the tyres will be more controllable. You can certainly get used to mismatched tyres, there's no question about that as you'll start to account for the unpredictable nature of the tyres and kerb your enthusiasm to take note of it, but for someone just getting used to a very powerful heavy-nosed RWD car, it's not such a good idea.

You could flog the other two either on here or on eBay, get some money back that way? By your own admission you're not used to the car yet, which is totally understandable (hell, I'm only 6mths into ownership myself and I'm still getting used to it), I just worry you're tempting fate for the sake of a couple of hundred quid. Summer's just as bad for accidents as winter really as you get the sudden downpours that bring all the oil to the top of the road surface again, making things especially treacherous.

Stick on always

I love the way people justify running on different tyres as an 'saving for an upgrade', bearing in mind they're the only thing keeping you on the road Honestly mate, you've already had a lucky escape on the same compound of tyre, you're really pushing your luck mixing them. I'm not trying to be funny or anything, I'd just hate to see a fellow owner post up a week later saying you put your car into a ditch. Even a short-term credit card loan to buy the matching front tyres will get you the secure handling you deserve on the Zed

It's a turbo. It needs exhaust gas to spool the turbo. It takes rpm to achieve the required exhaust gases to spool the turbo. You have lag. With the right turbo choices (I'm going to assume that for such a huge figure you must have one small and one bloody great turbo!) then you can reduce lag, and it will certainly be less noticeable on a large capacity engine, but it'll always be there. Without cheating via anti-lag, using an sc as well a la VW et al, it's mechanically impossible to build a turbo system with no lag. That said, I'd very interested in the details of your system, is there a thread on here or anything that contains all the details? As sad as it is, I love reading about engineering challenges of the turbo kind

£10-15 a corner? Also if you think it was twitchy before, it'll be 10x worse now you're mixing tyres front and back... Time to drive like a granny until you wear the fronts down (or even better, put Toyos on all round).

They certainly could. Hell, if you change the gearknob and don't tell them they still could! Tell them everything you've ever done and you'll never have to worry about it.

True. Most of the TT setups for the Zed I've seen appear to use the same size turbo anyway, although that's going from sight rather than looking at specific serial numbers on the turbo itself. Tbh if you expect to get no lag from a turbo engine at all you're misleading yourself seriously. The only way to get FI + no lag = supercharger, but you will then sacrifice top end power. Given that the engine is limited to 400bhp-ish before you need to start playing with internals anyway, it's the one reason I'd never consider going turbo on these cars. That said, the thump in the back of a good turbo is seriously addictive.

It's a turbo system, there'll always be some lag regardless of engine size. The only way to reduce it is to have smaller turbos but running higher boost. Well, that's not the only way as you could well go the anti-lag route, but it's going to be horrifically noisy and reduce the longevity of the turbos themselves. Flirt, have you got any kind of boost control on there at all? On previous cars I've used the GReddy Profec E-01 to great effect, as you can set it to keep the wastegate closed until a set pressure level is reached (usually 1-2psi below what you're aiming for) which does reduce the lag somewhat as the wastegate isn't letting the exhaust gas by so early.

I use AutoGlym Tyre Shine spray. Just spray liberally onto anything black and leave to dry for a gloss finish, or wipe clean for a matte one. Lasts for months, and is so easy to do.

On previous cars I've just used a good stiff steel brush and some Wynns brake cleaner. Never had a problem with that combo, and that was using cheapo Halfrauds paint too.

They're stuck, just pull like f*ck