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I was bored one night so I tried to get a vid of my dials moving. yes I was that bored. ;) Anyway, it caught some nice sound :D Hmmm, listen to that V6 :D Crap vid. But like I said. I'm bored Here D'Link Stuart

The Optimax is 4p a litre cheaper too. Plus I think there will be problems with this Ultimate as they are doing a Ultimate Diesel too. Wonder how many suckers not paying too much attention will put the wrong Ultimate in. Stuart

Im not too sure how the ECU diag works exactly, but you may have to reset the ECU to wipe the memory storing the error code of the Det Sensor.

They are looking a little thin, but nothing urgent for now. Put it on the agenda though. Stuart

Isnt Optimax 98?

I think AY3388 can get some top notch gear fulid ;)

Im with you. I dont see the point of spinning round in circles ;)

Doenst the SE chip retart the timeing? I have had my boost increased to about 16psi, I am running the stock intercoolers and I have not had any detonation yet. Stuart

They could have washed the rest of the car ;)

Congrats mate. :D

I think I may try it next time considering it is the same price as Optimax. Plus the Shell garage has a habit of blocking off the pump I used which usually means I have to do a 3 point turn in the forcourt and reverse it in to the tank is on the right side. :mad: Does any one have any information of the fuel? What RON is it? Stuart

No it wont sort out bad driving ;) Only the driver can

But by the tone of his last email he is refusing us to go on. His words and I quote This was when I asked for prices and dates of Binbrook. Stuart

Sorry I forgot to put the ;) at the end of my first post. ;) And one to make sure ;) Stuart

I am seriously am thinking of taking my wheels off when I get new tyres. Not only do the wheels get put on too tight, but I have had a number of scratches on my body work and a few on the wheel its self from the air gun catching the car. :mad: Stuart

I wonder if the WRC and F1 drivers agree with your views? The world best drivers and they use it all the time.

There web site says about £1000. I think Stuart bought it for over £800 without the GB. When I got mine in the GB it was £600. Stuart

That was really the main reason for the wheel spin the other day. I just got it chipped and upped boost and now the turbos spool up in a completely different way. A hell of a lot quicker. I hear what you say about the HICAS, but I think what that problem was, sometimes the rear wheels turn one way sometimes they turn the other way depending on how much you are turning and your speed, and there is also the quick turn one way and then back. That would put me right off. Thank god I dont have it. ;) Stuart

I think the manual says 74-82lb/ft so like Andy says,put it as 80. I do

I got 0mpg once. I left my car on until the petrol ran out. ;)

Here is a little extract from a web site with some one who installed Traction Control. I think this explains things a little better than what I can. Being dyslexic I have trouble with.......... er............ those things................ er............ what they called?................ Errrr, WORDS!. Thats it ;) And dont explain things well. Stuart

Yeah but I bet all the executives with their 5 litre BMW lump get a way with it. Stuart

I can see where you are coming from about the false safety. But every time you go for a drive you are relying on your brakes working that is false saftey. The 2 real times the TC has cut in when I wasn't expecting to, its impossible to say what would have happened if I didnt have it. It could have spun on the slippy part for a very short time and then carried on. It is impossilbe to say what would have happened other wise. However I am still here and I have still got my car to learn about what happened. Both times I was not expecting it to cut in. I was not expecting a huge frozen burst water mains to flood half the road which has no street lights on. I was driving cautiously that was why I was doing less than 40mph when the limit was 60. Over taking today (Well now yesterday) I wasnt applying too much power, but the unexpected flooded drain with bumpy road cause a wheel spin. In both cases the least that could have happened was I carried on as normal. The worst I could have been dead. The Traction Control may have saved my life or it could have been a waste of money. Frankly I dont want to find out which. About once a year there is always some one on here who loses their car and hits a tree or puts it into a bush (touching wood right now). Luckly no one has ever been seriously hurt and its not happened for a while. For the 2 maybe 3 times it has happened that I know of, the drive said they wish they had Traction Control. Traction Control does not make you grip better, it will not stop you skidding all the time as some type of skids are undetectable for the Traction Control system and even then wheel spin is not the cause of the skid. I have never been going round a corner so fast that caused Traction Control come on. I have always gauged the corner and the road conditions before deciding how fast I take the corner and the TC has never had to interveen. For starters you get understeer on a Z when you go into a corner too fast which Traction Control will not correct. I will agree with you on the point that if you rely on it, it may not safe you. Any one who relies 100% on something to save them is a fool. A box of electronic will not stop you driving like an idiot. It will help you out with sudden changes in road conditions. But how do you know that there isnt an oil patch on the road just round the next corner? How do you know that you have just got a puncture and one or your rear tyres are a few PSI down and leaking. You will find out when you reach that corner and you slip on that oil patch or the rear slides out because of the puncture. And what will stop wheel spin faster? You or lightning fast electronics? If I was expecting problems like that all the time I would drive everywhere at 20mph. DaveW: If you want me to show you what the Traction Control really does I will happy to take you out and show you when you come to find your phantom boost leak ;) Stuart

But if you have the attitude of more technolgy makes you drive worse, Take off your HICAS, disable your ABS, put Ford suspention on, go and put the cheapest tyres you can find on, drive car with a carb not an injection, drive a car with no ECU, get rid of of the speed related power steering, remove the cruise control, dont drive an automatic, get rid of the LSD. All of these are highly technical parts of a car and either make the car run better of make them safer. Traction Control does not increase the cost of your performance because it is reconised as a safty device and not performance. You cant tell me that you have NEVER wheel spun the rear wheels on your Z? I used to do it so easily when I was pulling out of junctions on a wet day. Sometimes you have to hurry up because of the traffic, but lots of power, wide tyres, wet road and turning shapely is a good recipe for lighting up the rear wheels. No matter how carful I was most of the time would result in a wheel spin of some description. But with the traction control I know that if the wheels do spin, it can react a lot quicker than I can. It doesnt mean that you can just rely on it all the time. Your natrual reaction when you feel something happening is to correct it, but the traction control can detect the spin in a 50th of a second and instantly do something about it, way before a driver will notice anything wrong. A few times I have turned it off and forgot that I did and when something happens I have corrected it automatically as a natural reaction. If I was expecting the TC do fix the problem I would have not done anything and probably hit the barrier, but I did react. However, in the 3 tenths of a second it would take some one to realise somthing was happening, and then another tenth of a second to react and then another 2 tenths of a second it takes for me to release the throttle and then engine to actual power down, over half a second has gone. The TC litterally stalls the engine so the power cut is instant. This reply is a little long isnt it ;) Stuart

You cant tell with these cars. Personally I would not want a car which when I get it will need work to get it running. I suggest that you stay away. Why you want a NA? Most people wished they went for a TT after having a NA for a while. Where about are you from? Stuart