Grundy Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 #nohomo but meeting some great life long friends this year from the forum. Didn't expect all this from buying the Zed, but made some awesome friends from it. #nohomo #teamtarmac 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirag1988 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Highlights for this year include my first Japfest and Wales trip getting to know more people on the forum and having mini local meets with fellow zedders. Also the mods I've done along the way, best of them all my full exhaust system Not-so-good points are picking up 6 points on my previously clean licence from the Wales trip and almost writing off my zed and my daily by forgetting the zed was in gear, stepping in to turn it on and lifting my foot off the clutch only for it to shoot straight out of my drive heading towards my polo parked across the road, only stopping inches from it when I managed to wrench my foot free from the clutch and slamming on the brakes! Biggest brown pants event ever with the zed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sipar69 Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Collecting my nismo... Without a doubt Same here. As with most Zs you don't get the full effect till you see them in the flesh. For us it involved a ttree month wait then a five o'clock am start to drive all the way to Barnsley, but it was all worth it on the drive home. Ownership has been a real pleasure since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Mcgoo Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 ^^ Hope you entered one of those Scotland pictures for the calendar competition Sam, ...love the red sunset shot. Well.........I may have. Although, I may have picked the wrong one. It may have took me so long to decide whether I should enter the best picture, or the one with the most car in it, since its a car club calender. Time will tell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock_Steady Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Highlight for me this year has been, being able to mod my zed quite extensively without my wife knowing anything about it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyG8nby Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Highlights include buying my Z in March Meting and becoming friends with the guys at Falcon Performance for all my Z related Needs! Lake Z was fantastic and looking forward to next year already. This forum and making new friends. The only bad thing I can think of is the amount of money I need to spend to get the Z where I want it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Euro Road Trip 2014 (write up here - http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/89972-euro-road-trip-2014-write-up-photos/) was brilliant! Despite being as sick as a parrot for a chunk of it, the driving was excellent, the company (in the form of an M3, Honda-powered Lotus, an RX8 and an A3) was excellent, the food was er, interesting, the roads in Spain were great, the alps were BRILLIANT and cooking my brakes (a lot! stupid RBC yellow stuffs) made me slow down and look at the scenery more, the autobahns were brilliantly fast (Got to the red-line in 5th and it still kept pulling in 6th), and crashing a rental car at the nurburgring also forms part of that story too... d'oh! Ups and Downs! :-) Great year. I said to myself that I wouldn't do a road-trip in 2015, but looking back, I think I probably will do another to make it three consecutive years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brillomaster Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 To be honest its been quite a quiet year for my zed... haven't used it as much as i'd have liked, its mainly been doing mundane commuting. However other car related news, I've successfully met my target of doing 12 trackdays in 12 months in a combination of BMWs, that's taken up quite a few weekends! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 (edited) ...I've successfully met my target of doing 12 trackdays in 12 months in a combination of BMWs, that's taken up quite a few weekends! ^^^ THIS - is my target for 2015 Did you do any writeups, etc? I guess its quite hard to achieve this?! Edited December 18, 2014 by Commander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brillomaster Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 ha, you have to be fairly committed to make it work, probably average £200 a day so that's at least £2400 spent on trackdays this year also fairly obviously you cant let the weather slow you down - in fact the only month we didn't do a trackday was actually july (but we did two in June) no write ups im afraid, at some point I might try and document it, but its basically been a) buy the cheapest, most powerful bmw you can off ebay strip out as much of the interior as you can c)fit better brake pads d) drive the nuts off it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisS Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Hopefully end of this week will be my best moment with my zed this year. What colour ? Then a lads weekend in the cars back in Wales. Cracking trips all with some great mates. The Saturday night was epic. (3/4 of a bottle of 7 year old Cuban rum.......... and that was just me) :blush: no write ups im afraid, at some point I might try and document it, Yourself, Ken and Will should do your own thead. Members would enjoy it. Been zed less for 14 months. But still had a great year meeting friends made on this forum. Chances of meeting them without this forum, probably imposssible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioneabee Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 well a meet in the middle of Lake Bala probably wouldn't go too well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 (edited) I drove it to Holland, Did some tyres... and my clutch but she looks pretty stranded up Made some great car friends (including stevo, snowflake, mouthwash, flex, ekona and anyone else who may feel left out!!) : Then ended the year in the gravel: but it was a great year all the same Next year, break less stuff Edit: Adding names in Edited December 18, 2014 by AliveBoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 High point is buying another z & having an 800hp engine to go in it Low point - not quite getting the engine in before the end of the year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grundy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 What about Ian Matt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 What about Ian Matt? Fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouthwash Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I know what Grundy's real best part of his Z related 2014 was.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grundy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I know what Grundy's real best part of his Z related 2014 was.... Sharing a bed with you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouthwash Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I know what Grundy's real best part of his Z related 2014 was.... Sharing a bed with you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I sold the best car I'll ever own: But I got to take her to Le Mans and watch Porsche's return to top class sportscar racing, and at least I can say I owned my dream car. In terms of Z-related stuff, I was fortunate enough to drive an incredibly well-sorted turbocharged 350Z, and it made me realise just what a great car the Zed actually is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 I sold the best car I'll ever own: But I got to take her to Le Mans and watch Porsche's return to top class sportscar racing, and at least I can say I owned my dream car. In terms of Z-related stuff, I was fortunate enough to drive an incredibly well-sorted turbocharged 350Z, and it made me realise just what a great car the Zed actually is. Have you been skipping leg day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Crap legs, amazing butt I'll have you know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliveBoy Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 thanks for letting me know.... I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouthwash Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Was it cold? Pretty sure I spy a nipple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted December 18, 2014 Share Posted December 18, 2014 Don't, I'm pretty famous for my always-on nips. Tiny little things, but by jove do they like standing to attention! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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