ZaneDylan Posted Monday at 14:23 Author Share Posted Monday at 14:23 This being a bit of a project car and due to carrying a fire extinguisher being a legal requirement in Germany I decided to hardmount a fire extinguisher in the Z. I tried to do as clean a job as possible and kept the top carpet off so that I can remove the extinguisher mount and cover up the holes if I choose to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted Monday at 14:29 Author Share Posted Monday at 14:29 ULTRACE Part 1 Firstly impressed with how much more you can fit in the boot of the 370 compared to the 350. We drove down as a convoy of 4, two red nissans and two white BMW M cars, got on Le Shuttle with no issues but ran into tons of weather and traffic - staring off with rain/thunderstorms through france to a 40 degree heatwave through traffic jams in germany, but we eventually made it after 28 hours of driving and 40 hours of being awake. I really wished I had functioning AC during this trip... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted Monday at 14:33 Author Share Posted Monday at 14:33 ULTRACE Part 2 After finally getting some rest we had a day free before the show so we went on a shopping trip, took plenty of pics and videos of the cars before a drunken night that ended at 6am after the sun had risen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted Monday at 14:37 Author Share Posted Monday at 14:37 ULTRACE Part 3 The car show itself was unfortunately underwhelming - some great builds there (not very many z's aha) but it was poorly planned so we spent more time looking for water than at the cars. That evening though we attended a car meet that was straight out of a NFS game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted Monday at 14:42 Author Share Posted Monday at 14:42 ULTRACE Part 4 We left Poland early and headed towards Paris for a day there, we took pictures by what I was told by the missus were landmarks of her favourite tv show before escaping the worst city in the world I did manage to get "parked" right outside everywhere we went though - confidence and foreign license plates go a long way in keeping your car nearby without having to pay for parking lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago First job when the car returned was to give it a good clean - the wheels especially were filthy after 2000 miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago Next it was time to address some issues I found during the trip, there was a misfire low in the RPMs (around 2.5-3k rpms) so I replaced both CAM Position sensors and the crank position sensor - the crank sensor especially looked really worse for wear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago Next up we've got brakes, I think the track time at silverstone took its toll on these discs which were already on their way out and this trip finally sent them to their grave - it was incredibly hard to find all the info I needed for what pads and discs work with this BBK because as far as I'm aware - this is either the only one or one of the only ones around (more info on this on another post). So I gave it some GTR 380mm brembo discs and some EBC bluestuff pads, as you can probably see the new stuff is in way better condition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaneDylan Posted 2 hours ago Author Share Posted 2 hours ago In the process of finding the brake parts I found out some background on the car - it was originally owned by Frazer@ART and was the demo car for his big brake kit, he unfortunately didn't have the drawings for what was needed but he did send me some pics of what the car used to look like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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