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Dont mean to get all antagonistic on this, but what a load of Toss. Bottom line is the 300zx NA is a fast car. It isnt as fast as a TT, granted, but it is easier to work on and maintain, I have found it cheaper to insure, there is less systems to go wrong and it is my belief that you can use more of the power of an NA more of the time. I support these beliefs by the fact that I have driven and worked on both. Dont presume that everyone who buys an NA secretly wants a TT, If I wanted a TT, I would buy one. I chose to buy an NA and there isnt a car on this forum I would swap it for Craig, my suggestion to you, is learn to drive the NA (eg, thrash it. Seriously, all the power is high up the revs, much the same as a bike) and as your mate in his TT goes past muse quietly on the fact that you havent got turbos to go pop, you havent got hycas to mess up your handling, you dont need to buy blow off valves, AFR, big intercoolers, boost controllers etc. Yet you still have a fast, beautiful car :) And NA's with an open pipe sound so much better than a TT :dance:

Favourite for me is my cheap as chips B&Q electric screwdriver, takes a 10mm spinner amongst other fittings and I have yet to do a job on my car, or anyone elses that I havent used it. Herman, dont worry, Randy is just upset cos somebody was in his garage, noshing on nobs and he wasnt involved :)

Posted the above cos I couldnt be bothered typing out the relevant bits. Around the 1k mark is about right for nos, if you buy it brand new, look on Ebay, get the kit for about 400, the controller mentioned above, new, cost about 300, so it can be done cheaper. Have had mine working twice, and removed it twice cos i wasnt happy with it, now in its third reincarnation

The usual route is exhaust, induction, ecu. These are the easiest to do and reasonably cheep. (you will have probs finding an ecu chip for an NA tho ) from then on depends how far want to go money and work wise. lightened underdrive pulley, headers, polished and ported head, racing cams, all thoese add power but cost some and involve a fair bit of work in ascending order. The reason I went for NOS is that it is reasonably cheap, easy(ish) to fit and, if you fit a good kit and stay withing the limits of the engine, doesnt put undue strain on the mechanicals. The 11lb bottle i have is said to last around 60-90 seconds, doesnt sound a lot I know, but factor in this: a reasonably fast car will do a standing 1/4 in 14 secs, Nos is only used at wide open throttle, so that is between 1 1/2 - 2 miles on full tilt Nos and WOT. The problem that i had with the above is that I dont fancy chucking 100bhp/ 200ft/lb of torque through my back wheels at one hit, so am fitting a progressive controller (allowing a preset build up of nos, over a predetermined time) (also its another gadget) this has the benefit of controlling the power and making your nos last longer., the controller cuts in between 30-60% through to 100% over a time of 2-9 seconds, which again is increasing your FT/WOT time. If you are going somewhere like a track, you make sure you have enough gas (an 11lb co2 fire extinguisher has the same fittings as a nos bottle and is a dam site cheaper) if not it is a little surprise for the traffic light grand prix laddos.

good work fella, glad to see it come to fruition :)

Cheers lads, at least its nice to know its not cause I am a tw*t :) Vijay, I have a cheaper version of those that are not spring loaded and i think that may make the difference, B&Q first thing in the morning then :)

Enjoy mate, sounds like you earned it, I am not long back from egypt and the weather was marvelous

Evening all, Just been changing my discs and calipers, but when it came to undoing the joint where the rear brake line joins the hardpipe I got a little stuck, it si difficult to get any spanner in there and the space is restrictive to getting any force on it. Any ideas??

Having driven both I would say a) buy a 300 and b) (as I have a mate who has his up for sale) £9000 wont biuy you a sorted GTS-T, but will get you avery nice 300tt and change. HTH, or two very nice NA's :)

well seen he wasnt parking it.lol

had mine out the same way, indicators, nose panel and front half of the wheel arch, does the trick, and I dont own any stubby spanners, but do own a set of box spanners

glad to hear it :hyper:

She would hardly be saying that to me in the company of the you two FFS. I can understand the comfort eating on your part Herm, but ryan looks like a clothes prop that swallowed a balloon (how can you be fat and weedy???) lol

Sure he mentioned mauve as well, and any guy who can tell the difference between light red and mauve is suspect anyway. But they were definately pink. He also said he has "had a lot of offers" and "quite a lot of interest".....say no more And ugly I can deal with, but light in the loafer department...oof. I now realise my mistake, you said you wanted a nice tight grip and in my naivete I went and fitted traction control, when all you wanted was a lad with big forearms.lol

apparently (s)he was trapped in a tower, let down his hair so that he could be rescued by a handsome prince and the strain made him go blind (either that or it was the :xxx: ) Its ok now tho, hes under the doctor :x:

Sorry to hear that mate Hugh

is it ...............................................MYDOOM?

Just would like your opinion

unless of course you buy a lovely NA :rofl:

It looks to me like they are using the headlight covers that luke sells. if you look at the top of the page they have the same conversion as SE, but the lower ones are just a cover

Cheers Mate, at least us porcine molesters know how to look after each other :D

lol, this thread keeps getting funnier

And he probably feels cheated :)

Dont know where Macs off to, but know I wouldnt be far behind. Imagine having a wrestle with that. Be like christmas every day :)

whats happened here then? Has there been another row?