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^^^ That's the attitude, well played sir!

I challenge anyone who is not a race driver to be driven at high speeds by a professional driver and NOT feel sick. Hell, even those of us who have done track days have probably had at least one passenger get out and mention that they weren't feeling great after a session in the seat next to you. When you're not doing the driving, the inner ear isn't always that happy with high speed, high G force manoeuvres. Absolute non-story.

You didn't answer my question. However, let's go back and do this one bit at a time, painful as that may be. I'm not saying you're saying that any gains will always be the same: However, am I correct in saying that you believe that, ignoring any degredation of the engine, that breathing mods including exhuast and CAI/panel filters will remain there forever without a remap? Is that bit correct? To give a basic example that allows you to answer yes or no, a 2004 car makes 270bhp on a dyno, then is immediately fitted with a new free-flowing exhaust and is dyno'd at 280bhp on the same day on the same dyno: Do you believe this gain is there for good?

Shame no V8, but given your circumstances it's probably the wise decision. Congrats matey

Chuck it in the other thread, if you like. I'd rather keep it all in open forum.

True enough! Trouble comes if you have a smack up and they start investigating though, not sure I'd risk it for £50 or whatever it is.

Beautiful.

The use that the OP is after wouldn't be covered by trade plates, unless I'm missing the obvious. Even ignoring the fact he's not a trader

It's when registered in the UK IIRC. So in your example, the car would pay the higher rate of VED.

*sigh* That has precisely zero to do with anything. Just so we're absolutely clear, would it be reasonable to state the following as fact? - You, one single person, says that a 350Z will always make extra power when you add breathing mods, and that these gains will stay there forever and a day WITHOUT a remap. - The collective knowledge of over 10 years of all the users on here (plus little ol' me) say that a 350Z will initially make extra power after breathing mods are added, but that the ECU will cancel these gains out after a short period of time UNLESS you remap. The one proven exception being a plenum spacer on the DE engined cars. Is that correct? Yes or no is fine. I just need a baseline to work from.

Yeah, you'll have to tax the car for the whole month even if only using it for a day.

If that's the stupidest thing you've ever heard, then clearly you've not read your own posts back on this forum. The rest of us have sadly had to put up with reading much more unintelligible garbage than my simple yet factually correct statement.

Bearing in mind the one breathing mod we know keeps the gains is a plenum spacer, which the OP has. Not aimed at you Ricky, just commenting in general.

Agreed. Cough up and accept it I think, bearing in mind you'll also have to lose a month of VED as well.

Been a lovely day here, gorgeous sunshine and a pleasant 5c.

Cripes, that's absolute peanuts, what a great buy!

I'm guessing a plenum spacer by Wasso, a custom 3" midpipe, Motordyne ART decats and a Pipercross air intake

Ugly as sin, but worth it for the engine. We looked at one before buying the Mini, and I really wish I'd put my foot down and pushed wifey in that direction instead. M Sport steering wheel, perchance?

I would never seriously consider listening to music on YT. It's a rubbish interface for doing that, especially when you have Spotify et al. It surprised me when Bowie died and the radio station started playing his stuff non-stop just how much of his stuff I know and like. As such, it would be worthwhile for me picking up some of his earlier stuff to see if the albums are to my taste as well, and it only takes a few people like me to do the same out of curiosity more than anything. Given that Spotify also qualifies for the main charts these days, people may well be listening to the stuff non-stop as a tribute for gratis. @Linus: Cheers for the heads up on those tracks, I'll pick them up and use them for fine tuning. I also use Sting's 'Fields Of Gold' for that kind of thing, it's very intricately laced with multiple subtle tracks that I never noticed until someone pointed them out to me. He's still an absolute bellend, but I can't knock his music

I mean, my setup isn't especially fancy by any means (Kef iQ90 fronts, iQ50 centre, iQ30 rears, Kube2 sub, VSX 920 AVR) but I can still tell the difference between the lower and higher bitrate stuff even on that. Maybe not on some modern compressed stuff, but certainly when you go back to things like Thriller, or even Fat Of The Land; things that have very high production values are especially noticeable.

Be aware folks, those of you with the Admiral group aren't covered for the value of your mods should you have an accident.

Isn't it just

I can only imagine how lethal it would've been on either rubbish tyres or if I'd taken the MR2 on 888s.

Not even in the same league. Like comparing a 370 with a GTR, in a way. A great car for what it is, but if you're after something that will suck your eyeballs out then you need the big power.

New MOT (no advisories), new seal on the AC compressor so it blows ice cold again, and my favourite geo settings now back on the car. If only the roads weren't quite so cold, I'd be in absolute heaven.