I may be getting a black zx early next year thats running around 450bhp at only 1bar of boost.

Seen it run a 12.7 qtr mile at only 0.6bar. This wont be a keeper for me but a car to sell on.

Question is.... who will be interested in it if i get it to move it on.

would be around the 2k price and would have a full mot put on it.

 

Its a black import with the very rare 1/4 light light up window glazing panels in.

Lots of goodies including a AVCR boost controller, huge turbos capable of handling 350bhp each, nismo 555 injectors, lightened flywheel.

and has full bodykit(although could do with tidying up).

Inside has a one off alcantera/leather finish.

 

Will get some pics up over next few days.

havnt got the car yet, but if any genuine interest then that could change.

 

 

 

 

these are the from before it got parked up. As said bodywork will require a little fettling now, but not too much.

Edited December 11, 201114 yr by davezx

450 bhp for 2k ? yes please :)

Well on the face of things it all seems like it could be bit of a bargain tbh

 

2 obvious questions though, this guy has clearly spent a fair wedge on the car, albeit in some good and bad way. He is still spending money getting the engine rebuilt which ain't cheap in order to sell straight away, so why is he selling it so cheap and making such a big loss?

 

Assume your not a bloke who happily buys things for fun when you don't need it, but you imply you may not even keep this for any period of time to enjoy or use yourself, so why you buying it in the first place using around 2K of your money to sell again almost straight away? why not tell him to advertise here or elsewhere cos obviously you know the answer to your opening question, yes there is a lot of interest in buy a Zed for around 2K with that much power and mods which is clearly worth a lot more.

cheers

smithy

Well on the face of things it all seems like it could be bit of a bargain tbh

 

2 obvious questions though, this guy has clearly spent a fair wedge on the car, albeit in some good and bad way. He is still spending money getting the engine rebuilt which ain't cheap in order to sell straight away, so why is he selling it so cheap and making such a big loss?

 

Assume your not a bloke who happily buys things for fun when you don't need it, but you imply you may not even keep this for any period of time to enjoy or use yourself, so why you buying it in the first place using around 2K of your money to sell again almost straight away? why not tell him to advertise here or elsewhere cos obviously you know the answer to your opening question, yes there is a lot of interest in buy a Zed for around 2K with that much power and mods which is clearly worth a lot more.

cheers

smithy

 

Good questions there. The first answer is because the guy has a few different car projects on the go and although he still loves the zx hes just wanting to put his resources into his jetta thats now got a vr6 engine in it.

The car is realistically priced to sell considering it will need a little fettling with the bodywork.

 

And for the second question, i agree it could sell for more and dependent on how things work out it might be a little more. The 2k is a rough price on what it will be around. We all know that any zx with even 20k spent on it would do well to get 7k back for it in the best condition going.

if i wasnt soo close to finishing mine then i would of thought of keeping it, but i cant afford to run 2( would be nice tho).

doesn't make sense, if he was rebuilding properly it would cost at least 2k to do that. So why's he bothering?

Shame cos with what you say, all the more reason he should get as much as possible for it to pool into his other project and save you spending your own cash upfront.

 

2K-ish with the existing mods and a fresh built engine irrespective of the "fettling" to bodywork, is to be blunt nuts.

Shame you can't encourage him to sell it for a realistic price direct to someone who'll keep it and use it.

 

Lucky peeps don't do this with houses otherwise we'd never sell em when they already hard enough to sell, a bit like Zeds lol

Good luck anyways

smithy

I think people need to remember, that we're in a recession, a double dip one in fact, the car is a 3.0 Twin Turbo, it's winter, the price of petrol and road tax on such a car is sky high, not to mention insurance prices.

 

We just broke a car, that whilst probably perfectly good with a little more spending on it, would NEVER have fetched the price required to not lose a fortune on it, if sold as a complete car. We only had the car 6 months and ploughed thousands into it, only to never quite get it right and just keep finding more and more problems. We bought it for over £3k, plus the money we pumped into it to get it right and I doubt I could have even raised £2k for it as a complete car.

 

If this guy is doing the rebuild himself, and if it's only a "gasket rebuild" rather than a full bottom end and upwards rebuild, if he's spent the money he's spent, over several years, as opposed to a few months and now just wants it to go to a good home, I can see the logic in doing the rebuild, to make sure it's mechanically sound and lives on, rather than being broken up for parts and selling it cheaply enough that someone might be tempted, in spite of the recession, fuel, insurance, wet roads, etc.

 

Don't give Dave a hard time over it, he's just relaying the information at this point. I would guess if the guy who owns it currently had the time, inclination, computer knowledge, whatever, to put it up here and sell it himself, he probably would. Not to mention, if he was so inclined to keep the car sitting around for the next 6 months to a year, just to get the price he wanted for it, I'm sure he'd do that too, he's obviously decided that since a VG30DETT, even a rebuilt one, is only worth about £400-£900 and the bodywork is a bit tatty, then £2k is a fair price for it with the state of the market, I'm inclined to agree with him too. I mean we're not talking about a completely mint show car here, which are currently only advertised at around £7k and have had a LOT more money put into them. Besides that, no one here knows the full spec of the car, it might be standard suspension and brakes, it might be a "guestimate 400bhp" as lots of cars are these days, it may or may not have other issues that Dave isn't aware of, what's the interior like etc.

 

I'm not having a pop at any one in particular here, I just think it's a little unfair to raise some of the questions that have been raised here, when it's only a "feelers" thread in the first place. Not to mention the fact, others have put bloody nice cars up for sale here for less or only slightly more and no one gives them this kind of barrage. It's not Daves fault, nor his mates, that the 300zx is currently worthless in the car market. As depressing as it is and as much as I share the anguish some have expressed, it still isn't Daves fault. Were we all comfortable, with bank balances that were healthier than a Kenyan Olympian runner, I'm sure the prices would go up, because we'd all sit on the cars we have for sale until they went for the right price, what they're worth. Some of you may remember me doing exactly that earlier this year with a VR4, eventually, after about 5 months, it sold for half the price it was worth and lots of people tried to barter me down heavily on price because of little issues that were nothing more than basic at best, in the mean time the car sat outside unused, brakes rusting up, paint getting rained on etc. :( So I kept a car taxed, insured, and used it now and again to stop things seizing up, for it to sell for FAR less than it was worth, because the status quo changed and our situation demanded it go quickly and cheaply :(

 

Disclaimer: No person or persons are targetted with this post, I share your sentiment, torment and upset at the price of our cars, I just feel Dave is getting a rough ride here and he doesn't need to. :D

Shame cos with what you say, all the more reason he should get as much as possible for it to pool into his other project and save you spending your own cash upfront.

 

2K-ish with the existing mods and a fresh built engine irrespective of the "fettling" to bodywork, is to be blunt nuts.

Shame you can't encourage him to sell it for a realistic price direct to someone who'll keep it and use it.

 

Lucky peeps don't do this with houses otherwise we'd never sell em when they already hard enough to sell, a bit like Zeds lol

Good luck anyways

smithy

 

People do do this with houses, especially if the bank is demanding money or the house. If it comes to it, people put a lick of paint over stuff and flog it out cheap, on the other hand, if people have cash at the ready and aren't panicking to sort their lives out, they sit on unrealistic prices, like my landlord who wants £265k for the house we live in, which is beyond ridiculous. The last house to sell in this area was around 2009 and it was for £235k, we're now in a double dip recession and this place needs wiring, plumbing, decorating, damp proofing, etc. etc. etc.

What a weird post?

 

Anyhoos, i'm with everyone else on this one. £2k appears like a bargain. As suc i'll add my name to the interested list

Weird? Did all the posts giving grief about the price disappear? lol

Not in anyway having a go at Dave, simply asked sensible questions on the basis that IMO whats being offered and why, doesn't make sense especillay based on his opening post.

Like i said good luck to whoever is involved in all this and certainly someone could be very lucky, despite all your "if's".

 

My point in relation to a house though is simple, IF you owned your own home, would you want your neighbours to obtain the BEST price for their property or the worst? obviously the best so as to help your property obtain it's best price in the future, the very same argument applies to Zeds, erm the car we all wanna see carry on for years to come :thumbup1: hope now you get my point.

This guy can still get a realistic price that helps his next project and gives someone a bit of a bargain at the same time and all for very little effort.

cheers

smithy

Not in anyway having a go at Dave, simply asked sensible questions on the basis that IMO whats being offered and why, doesn't make sense especillay based on his opening post.

Like i said good luck to whoever is involved in all this and certainly someone could be very lucky, despite all your "if's".

 

My point in relation to a house though is simple, IF you owned your own home, would you want your neighbours to obtain the BEST price for their property or the worst? obviously the best so as to help your property obtain it's best price in the future, the very same argument applies to Zeds, erm the car we all wanna see carry on for years to come :thumbup1: hope now you get my point.

This guy can still get a realistic price that helps his next project and gives someone a bit of a bargain at the same time and all for very little effort.

cheers

smithy

 

Oh I couldn't agree more, as I said I share the anguish you and others share at the price of the Z. I HATED breaking the yellow one and would much rather have sold it on in one piece, it just wasn't realistic. I don't know your financial situation Smithy, so it's hard to know whether you can understand my point or not, but having done the sitting on a car thing to get the right price this year and failing miserably to my own cost, I suppose I'm just relating to the position the buyer might be in. As for owning a home, I don't think I ever will, because they're just unreachable now, even in the recession. The house my parents sold in Surrey during the last recession is still worth over £230k, when they sold it, it took 8 months to sell and went for £99k :( Starting as a first time buyer, even if I could put up a £40k deposit, if I borrowed the remaining £225k to buy the house I'm in now (Which I couldn't because that's more than 2.5 times my salary still) I'd never actually be able to pay it off in the maximum 30 year mortgage. So my only choice would be interest only, meaning I'd never own it. So whilst you as a home owner want the best price for your house, I want to knock it down as far as I can to actually give me the slightest chance to buy it. lol

If it makes people happy i could always gladly up the price if it pleases.

lol go for it Dave ;)

If it makes people happy i could always gladly up the price if it pleases.

 

lol you cant please them all Dave if you need another thread clean to keep it on topic let me know.

If it makes people happy i could always gladly up the price if it pleases.

 

or just for fun drop the price even more.... not because i want it or anything :whistling:

Oh I couldn't agree more, as I said I share the anguish you and others share at the price of the Z. I HATED breaking the yellow one and would much rather have sold it on in one piece, it just wasn't realistic. I don't know your financial situation Smithy, so it's hard to know whether you can understand my point or not, but having done the sitting on a car thing to get the right price this year and failing miserably to my own cost, I suppose I'm just relating to the position the buyer might be in. As for owning a home, I don't think I ever will, because they're just unreachable now, even in the recession. The house my parents sold in Surrey during the last recession is still worth over £230k, when they sold it, it took 8 months to sell and went for £99k :( Starting as a first time buyer, even if I could put up a £40k deposit, if I borrowed the remaining £225k to buy the house I'm in now (Which I couldn't because that's more than 2.5 times my salary still) I'd never actually be able to pay it off in the maximum 30 year mortgage. So my only choice would be interest only, meaning I'd never own it. So whilst you as a home owner want the best price for your house, I want to knock it down as far as I can to actually give me the slightest chance to buy it. lol

 

 

 

Thats a bit paintful, im up at my fathers currently doing up his old villa we got, nz money $250k, so i guess £115k?...

 

acre of land 4 bedroom kauri villa... out in the boo wops, had alot of work done, been repiled etc all the woodwork inside is restored, just gotta tidy up the walla, some roofing iron is on its way out, gotta replace some weather boards.... but right now were getting the barn up :cool3:

Anyways this is getting wayyy off topic so i shall not waffle on about houses

noone seems to know what side skirts are on it, personally i can see his point of view.

 

in bits and selling as a whole its not worth a great deal, in parts its worth more, but then your stuck with bits that do not sell and a shell that he might not have room to accommodate while he strips it.

 

So logic dictates that to get shot of it, it has to be built, working and cheap. then he can get rid quick, and get the space back, not everyone wants to have a car sat there doing bugger all while its waiting to sell, or even have the room to break it.

Yeap i agree its all personal circumstance, i had enough room to build 6 cars at once in my old garage, had 2 complete zeds in there, house got sold had to ditch one, stripped it in a day, got everything i wanted and the rest went to scrap.

noone seems to know what side skirts are on it, personally i can see his point of view.

 

in bits and selling as a whole its not worth a great deal, in parts its worth more, but then your stuck with bits that do not sell and a shell that he might not have room to accommodate while he strips it.

 

So logic dictates that to get shot of it, it has to be built, working and cheap. then he can get rid quick, and get the space back, not everyone wants to have a car sat there doing bugger all while its waiting to sell, or even have the room to break it.

 

Exacery my point too ;)

Its an Evolution Explosion kit. (front bumper and skirts) - Very rare.

Edited December 12, 201114 yr by Yowser

I think we should lock this thread until ive bought it!

You got my email Davezx ;) ;)

You got my email Davezx ;) ;)

 

Checked my emails and havnt got owt from ya. Which addy did you send it too?

dont forget you've already got a waiting list for this Z Dave ;)