Right, I've got a pretty standard 40K miles UK TT in red with leather. It's in great condition but never been touched (original exhaust, shockers, everything really). I've added a poly bush kit, new calipers, discs and a decent piece of ICE. It's been dealer maintained from new and has had 14 oil changes!. Even the gearbox oil is bright pink!.

 

Now if you wanted to spend 10K on it to make it one of the best, where would you go, what mods would you do and how much would it cost?.

 

Teaser??.

A standard UK model with 40k miles and in very good condition is rare, if it was me I would buy another Zed to mod, I think the model you have is going to be the first to appreciate in value and by the greatest amount.

 

I agree with that. I remember watching a program a few ywaes ago, cant for the life of me remember what it was called or about, but i remember a guy had a totally standard Astra GTE he wanted to sell, people came to view the car but no one bought it so he took it to a Vauxhall dealer who did buy it off him at a very good price, they bought it as a centre piece as they had'nt had one in the show room for years, and the only reason they bought it was because it was low mileage and standard

I agree with that. I remember watching a program a few ywaes ago, cant for the life of me remember what it was called or about, but i remember a guy had a totally standard Astra GTE he wanted to sell, people came to view the car but no one bought it so he took it to a Vauxhall dealer who did buy it off him at a very good price, they bought it as a centre piece as they had'nt had one in the show room for years, and the only reason they bought it was because it was low mileage and standard

 

Mk I Astra GTE? :bow: Amazing car for its time! Yeah it was a vauxhall but thats what made it so amazing

engine work make it 15k and that be about right

if i had 10k i'd do something interesting or different like a supercharger or a v8 conversion. depends how far it would go!!

I suppose this thread has really brought out everybodies individual slants on the Z32!

 

What you really have to do is work out if you like making the best of the driving experience, the appearance of the car, making it a quartermiler or taking a challenging tuniing apporach?

 

 

Choose your perversion :)

i wouldnt touch your mint uk.

 

buy an import and butcher that instead!

fill the tank up with juice, then piss the rest up :rofl:

If I had £10k lying around I would probable sell my zed and use that plus the 10k to buy a 350Z.

i would keep it standard and buy a decent import with a few mods like zorst,wheels,suspension and maybe brakes already done then spend the rest on go faster bits

buy a mint supra or r33

R33 Brembos

SS Brake Lines

DS2500 pads

Brake MC brace

Short shifter

18 Wheels and tyres

Chip

Exhaust

Uprated shocks

Decat

Split Downpipes

EBC

Koyo Rad

Oil Cooler

UD pulleys

Manual Conversion

Uprated Clutch

Ligthened Flywheel

Richer gears conversion on diff

Strut Braces

Lowering springs

Front camber arms

Rose jointed tension rods

HID Lights

Hicas removal

Race Logic Traction Control

Bigger intercoolers

 

Good servicing and keep some by for future repairs

 

off the top of my head :D

 

 

LOL thats more or less what ive done plus more :eek:

Buy an R33 v-spec

Cheers all,

 

Some great ideas there