SteveW

Thanks very much fellas. I didn't think there was any difference in the skirts but have never actually seen them side by side in the flesh. Thanks for confirming.

Hi Folks, Just wondering what is the difference between the Nismo V1 and V2 sideskirts?? I can't see a difference in pictures. Is there actually a difference, if so does anyone know what it is? Thank you Steve

It just depends on the length and speed of you rdrives mate. I find that if I go to work at normal time and leave at normal time I average in the region of 22mpg, all to do with being sat in queues. So I go to work early and leave late (there is a gym at work) so I miss all the queues and generally get 26.5mpg on that run. A tank average with a bit ofeverything driving work run, spirirted and cruising about I see 25 - 26 mpg. I have been UpRev'd which did help. Before I used to see 22.5 23.5. I'm not suicidal because thats the risk you take going on track. I bought a sports car to drive it the way it was designed and supposed to be driven. You just can't do that on the road well you can but licenses don't last very long. Obviously on track the danger element goes up a fair bit but I enjoy it and accept the potential damage as part of the track day. My parents and GF think I'm mental taking "such a lovely car on a track" its not like I'm rich if I wrote the car off on track I would have no car and still have 2.5 years of my loan to pay off but I love it One of teh unfortunate attendees: It may only be a saxo but it may well have been his pride and joy.

I run a K1, I personally love the look of it and the sound of it but only with the bungs in! Take out the bungs and its like Defcon 5 just way too loud. Bunged up its 93.7Db at 5K and unbunged its 104.2Db!!!! I have been considering getting a middle box put in it so I can take the bungs out and then have a really quiet exhaust for long journeys.

It really is amazing what an earth strap broken or poorly connected can do. Car just behaves very very irratically. I had the same exact issue with an old car. A new earth strap sorted all my problems. Good luck , hope its something simple.

Yes I was very lucky, it could have ended up much worse if I had had someone inexperienced following or I had hit some nasties hidden off the circuit. I checked the front end all seems OK. I'm planning on checking the rear suspesnion this weekend a brief review seems to suggest no issues. I checked all the front end and drive line at Cadwell after going airborn. The drop links have got noisier but that is probably due to the track day in general. They were creaky and had play in them before I went and really do need replacing. I'd been out about 5 minutes on the second and third offs and about 2 minutes on the first off. After the first off they closed the circuit to clean the oil up. It was everywhere! I'm running Falken FK452's I really want to get a second set of wheels and either some slicks or R888's but I just don't have the cash at the moment. The whole trip to cadwell, on the circuit and home was about 290 miles, in total I put in £110 (£80 to start tank was very empty then £30 from the track) of fuel and have just over a quarter of a tank left. The mpg gauge said for the whole journey I averaged 19mpg. The way there was 32.2mpg and the way back similar on track its usually about 10 - 12mpg. I probably did 8 sessions of 5-7 laps each. Cruising at 70 I get approx 35 - 37 mpg.

Well had a great day at Cadwell park yesterday. However, did have 3 very scary moments! 1) Going into the park curve way too fast, some one in front of me had dropped oil, the back end caught the oil sending the car sliding I caught it at about 75 degrees to the track pointing towards the inside of the corner, over corrected and the ended up the other way. But again caught it and carried on, a small 'twitchy' moment. Didn't spin it though 2) Coming out of charlies onto the park straight, I really have no idea what happened........car was gripping no problem slowly fed the power in exiting the corner and i got eaten! Full on tank slapper, sideways about 5 times, at one stage I thought I'm going on the grass but managed to wrestle it back then got it in a straight line again. Said my thank you prayers and carried on. My mate who was following me said at 3 or 4 points he thought I was too far round to pull it back. 3) Again entering park curve too quickly with a BMW 328 right behind me. Over shot the corner and ended up on the grass on the outside (luckily the BMW driver had done a few trackdays and knew anything can happen when a car gets on the grass so backed off completely and kept his distance). Good job, as the car went on to the grass the back end spun round. I then decided the inside of the corner was safer due to no barriers and I was still going about 50mph. So I went back across the track to the inside of the corner but didn't see the large grass mound . . . . hit the mound and flew through the air. The Marshall and BMW driver said I was about 3 - 3.5 feet off the floor. Imagine Petrov from Sunday's GP! Very scary moment, but very lucky, landed on a down slope and the impact wasn't too great. The front bumper got bent under the car but was split anyway and ripped off a wheel arch liner. Managed to pull the bumper out with some brute force but a new wheel arch liner is needed! All in all a fantastic day, even with the scary moments

I love the front but think the back is awful. But each to their own or we would aal drive the same cars

Will try my best mate. Love the Nismo kit by the way......very jealous!!! Cheers mate... the fron tbumper needs a respray so im contemplating getting it debadged and smoothed while im at it... That will look really good I'll look forward to seeing it next time i'm over your way or at a meet. I'm hoping to get to the wales meet this year but we've got a nurburgring trip planned and I'm not sure if I'll be back in time.We were planning on getting back saturday but looks like we may not be now so have to see. Don't say that.....

Cheers Alex for the right order I knew it was a strange one I just started at the wrong wheel D'oh!!!

Thanks folks will get some more RBF 600 and re bleed. I knew I should have got two bottles lol. I thought it was probably still air in but I've never experienced this before do thought best to check. I had my dad helping me as the 'pedal man' but it doesn't seem to have worked will get my usual helper next time ;0) Thanks again :0)

Well I managed to get my slime green HEL lines on today but have now got braking problems . . . Pictures of the lines, they do look cool, shame you can't see them when they are on Basically now when I brake there is a lot of pedal travel before I get any braking effort. If, when driving, I press the brake then quickly press the brake again the brakes work really well. Pedal pumps up rock solid when the engine is off. When I fitted the new lines I bled the system OSR - NSF - NSR - OSF, all in all I've put half a litre of brake fluid through and no air was coming out. I'm really confused now, brakes worked spot on before fitting the HELS. I'm guessing its something I've done as opposed to an issue with the lines. Does this sound like I've still got some air in the system, what else could it be?? Been a rubbish day, found my oil cooler was leaking so thats now off too. Only thing that seems to have gone OK was the oil change..... tempting fate I think there. . . .

Yes always best to sell mods separately and put stock bits back on. If its a genuine Nismo kit I would be interested in the Front bumper and skirts, don't want to come across vulturesque. Good luck whatever you decide to do

Love it, I just don't have any spare cash!!

Ok thanks mate. I'll have to give them a call or pop over if it is where I think it is.

Will try my best mate. Love the Nismo kit by the way......very jealous!!!

Ok thanks chaps I think they are pretty local to me so I might try and bob round if they have a shop/warehouse or similar!

Morning folks, Just wondered if anyone had ever ordered any bits off madmotors.co.uk? They seem to have lots and lots of body kits in and I've seen they do the INGS V2. They also seem very reasonably priced with the front bumper at £300 and the sideskirts at £300. Sadly they don't have the Nismo V3 which is what I really want but rocking horse poo springs to mind..... Does anyone have any experience of this company? Are the parts genuine or copies? Thank you Steve

Well its Cadwell Park on the 12th of April Love Cadwell its a briiliant little circuit. Anyone else going to be there? I'm praying for a dry day . . .

Good numbers fella!!! I'm still the lowest, rubbish!!! I put it down to the bunged up K1! Think it may be time to invest in a quieter exhaust and get the bungs out lol!

If the discs are skimmed up on the car then it will fix your run out problems and the vibration will go. However, having said that be very careful skimming can hide underlying problems, such as a wheel bearing on the way out or a bent hub. I know I have a bent hub on mine, back left. After getting the hub off and measured on the CMM at work two "lobes" on the hub were 0.1mm lower than the other 3 so the disc sits wonky on the hub thus runout was about 0.4mm at the edge of the disk. Ideally you want as close to 0 runout as possible, but less than 0.07mm at the back and 0.05mm at the front is acceptable on the Brembos. In my experience its not usually warped discs but has been caused by discs not being fitted correctly. It is essential when changing disks to check the runout of the disk with a proper DTI and make sure run out is in spec. A way to check how many of your disks are running out is drive around for a bit, stop and feel your disks. If any differ in temperature from the rest they are running out for some reason. Either warped or not fitted properly. One thing to be wary of is that when they skim your disks they don't take them too near to minimum disk thickness because then they will warp due to thermal stresses and possibly crack. Additionally if skimmed near minimum thickness the temps can cause microstructure changes in the disc material causing hard spots to form which don't wear down as the rest of the disc does and then the vibration comes back.

Cheers Chris, never heard of that stuff before Might be handy!!

I used 1.2 litres when I did mine but I did pump way too much through the first line was just too hard to tell when the new stuff was coming through. It had only recently been replaced. I think the brake fluid companies should colour their fluids would make it easier lol. I use RBF 600 and its quality stuff . Did 4 track days last year and didn't boil the fluid once. A mate running some standard dot 5.1 in his clio sport boiled it towards the end of the first session.

Hi Folks, I asked a question over what size brake line spanner was needed but I found my answer, so for all those who may need to know it is 10mm on the Brembos. Thank you Steve

Thank you RichieB for the pics that is just what I was after, makes it very clear Thanks for the heads up Alex I don't think I have any copper washers, I had best check, I bought the lines used so may have to contact Hel for some if there aren't any. Thanks again, Steve