siraff

yep. well thats the idea anyway. the red one's whole shell is twisted and i wouldnt want to see it on the road. the silver auto has a rippled front wing but otherwise its very tidy. and mine has stood for a long long time so it'll just HAVE to have coilovers, big brakes, etc etc. lol (dont tell the missis its fine).

i c. im sorry too. spraying in this is just not happening. i tried the other day on my minibus. trouble is its too cold to crawl under a Z for hours to get all the stuff off. still got to put the engine in the one on my drive too. the 2 down st.annes are auto (might teach the missis how to drive in the silver one) but the other's manual and im trying to get the bits together for a decent bit of power. sorry again all.

and no need to say sorry. lol i always respect peoples views. everyone's different an all that. did you see the state the red Z's in? lol bit of a sorry sight i think. thats why the engine (and its a good one) will be headed for the silver one. wish i still had access to a unit to do it in. it would have been done and MOT'd within a week. lol

np. i'm not down there at the mo but thats where the 2 are. its my mates (and ex) house. im on siraff@msn.com if you think of any bits you need or just want to have a natter. i might be going down st.annes a bit later to say hello.

i think you'd be down a road that goes round in a U then? near a park? lol yours is tidy if it is. stood staring at it one night a month or 2 ago on the way from my mate's house. they are 2 of my Z's but its not my house hence why i cant really work on them. i may just do the swap in the street it gets warmer anytime soon as im having a hell of a time finding somewhere to do it. do you want any bits off the red one once its apart? i'll be using the best bits of each car to make the good one but there will be a lot of good bits left to (hopefully) sell. si

dont get it.... whats that all about?

if its gone down on you i think thats a bonus, rite?

iam is a good course to learn road risks and what you should be looking for but it wont teach you how to control it if you do go overboard. i'd highly reccomend iam but also a performance driving course to learn the car control (i'd do this 1st then you're ready for the iam). the single biggest bit of advice is NEVER go past what you know it'll do. if you're unsure about anything (road, traction, itchy arse, etc) DO NOT take the risk. you may get away with it once or twice but sooner rather than later it WILL bite. i take it you're 'lude is a 2.0 then? very easy car to use to its full. they drive well too. i had the 2.2 si untill last year (197bhp import with a fair few mods). as for fuel costs, the TT CAN do 18mpg knocking about (very slowly). you're more likely to get just over 10mpg with the turbo's spinning often. realisticly mine do between 8-12mpg (giving it some) to 20-ish (steady motorway). as for the bits wearing out, i've never heard of the N/A being longer lasting than the TT apart from when they're modded (most TT's are) or not serviced well (TT's will kill oil much quicker so its more important to change it and use good stuff more regularly). TBH, if you keep a TT at N/A speeds it should last longer as its got lower compression and longer gearing (less revs per mile). watch everyone start shouting. lol

buy the re-trim kit and do it yourself for a big saving.

i'd love to do something like that but as said the fee is ridiculous (£10,000?) maybe we could organise something along those lines but without all that expense?

i think the 200's spin the wheels easier in lower rev range but thats more due to set up. also the z's a fair bit heavier so it'll have more traction for a given tyre and it has more tyre too. i think the biggest limiting factors with the Z drifting are the cost of everything (usually the equivalent mod 200-Z the Z will be twice the price and after labour it may be more than that), the size/weight and the complexity when it breaks (big factor in drifting as it wrecks things quick). i dont think people make the choice of other car on the cars merit, more on what it'll cost in time/money for the same thing. i think it could be a good drift car (low CofG, good grunt, good power spread, strong drivetrain, etc) but you can get the same (or nearly the same) from a 200 for a lot less cost.

i think you have to follow the yellow brick road? mayb there's a Z at the end of the rainbow?

depends a lot on how you use/service them. turbo's CAN last over 100,000 miles or they can die at 40,000. if you're running more boost or modding it much more than an airfilter you will need to keep it in VERY good oil but that goes for any modded car. tyres CAN last 20,000 miles but i doubt many on here will. if you drive normally on decently sticky stuff look at about 10-15k. if you're lead footed look more at if you de-cat the car please swap the turbo's for ones with a secondry seal in the back or they will blow when used hard (smithy used to do these but i havent been on here for ages so i take it he still does). brakes are total 5#ite at the best of times but easy use they'll last ages (disks over 50k, front pads 15k-ish. again though, hard use will see pads go within 5k (done that twice now) and disks warp after repeated abuse. best to upgrade the brakes. otherwise its the usual heavyweight sports car stuff like bushes, etc that will just need replacing as and when (same for most cars and the Z doesnt suffer any more than most). couple of other things; Z's dont usually give major probs if looked after well. they do if not looked after well. when somethings wrong engine wise its usually a wire/sensor/electronic piece of gubbins which is awkward to find but (reasonably) easy to fix. if it does go bang or something major breaks it WILL cost an absolute fortune and be VERY hard to fix. at 20 im presuming that you havent got a lot of time in powerful RWD cars? if not its worth doing a track training course (i know im not ya mom) as this will let you get used to it without finding out they bite the hard way. they DO bite especially auto's in the wet. once you're used to it you can tame them but you must always respect them. a skyline is much easier to drive fast if you're not used to a Z. personally i think they're one of the best fun cars around. comfy, quiet (by sportscar standards) and all the extras but still faster than most shake your teeth out cars. best bit is when you find someone in a newish so-called sports car (im not going to say 350Z incase people start going on) and even if you dont race them you know you have the ability to leave them. good luck getting one. si.

you CAN drift 4WD's. all you need on 4wd's like the evo, skyline, etc is a line lock to stop it sending the power to the front (or the electronic equivalent if you like your car). skyline's are RWD anyway but GTR's can send power to the front. they only do this when the back loses traction and from what i can gather the evo is very similar but has x% going to the front anyway and adjusts the bias rather than being total RWD normally. also, if you have a 4WD and its sending less to the front wheels than the back, if you turn in it will drift. thats the way its set up. most rally-inspired 4WD cars are designed to drift anyway (like in rallying). the ones that wont usually like to drift are permanent (and unbiased) 4WD's. the funniest i had was a long time ago when i had a subaru justy (yes, i admit it. and i liked it). my mate had a bit of land by the side of his house and he was trying to learn how to drift so i let him have a go in my justy (it was loose gravelly dirt type stuff). after about 5 mins i decided to tell him it was switchable 4wd and after clicking it into 2wd it worked really well. i think we spent most of the summer just sliding about of that bit of dirt. great memories. BTW where in wolves you from ALFO? there's a couple of silver Z's by me (and 2 of mine that never move).

i once went to look at a Z and one of the top g/box bolts was missing. funniest thing was the guy actually pointed it out to me. needless to say i walked away from that one.

wait untill its off then mention to her that the flywheel's seriously worn (probably from a very gentle old driver riding the clutch for too long) and will need swapping or it may explode, destroying the car and killing everyone in it. then mention that you just happen to have a nice lightweight one about (dont tell her the price - it was a tenner, etc) that will go in nicely. obdviously there will be MPG and reliability improvements so it will soon pay for itself in savings on fuel. easy.

is there a common place for them to leak from then? my engine's out at the mo so if there's an issue i'll sort it. cheers.

signed but you just know if they want to do it they will anyway, whatever the majority want. no matter. if they bring that rubbish in i may well buy a box but i bet it doesnt stay in my car for long.

only watched about 10 secs. what the hell is that lot? i aint anti-poof or any of that but that load of fairys quite scared me. imagine being in the pub having a quiet drink an having some god awful thing like that slap ya arse? they're big enough so after you've smacked them they might just be able to do something about it..... oh dear.

i think there was a 'blade in toys r us the other day but cant remember if it was race or road.

update... IM BACK!!!! well im back on here anyway. looks like the pesky trickster did ok for himself as i have loads of emails in my inbox about "how do i do a bank transfer", etc. i bet the bloke made a killing. he listed 4 that i can see so far. the worst thing for me is that we were bidding on a cooker that the missis wanted to do christmas dinner on and i've now recieved a non paying bidder strike because of it. i've never had anything like that exept a single bad feedback when a guy tried to sell me a mini engine saying it was a cooper s block but it wasnt. (1 stud short). trouble is that because i contacted ebay and locked my account down, i cant even contact the seller (i can see my account but i cant do anything with it yet) to see if they still have it. the other big annoyance is that i had a corsa listed on there and when ebay got hijacked i just sold it off cheap. looking through the mails on there i had offers of what i wanted to get for it which were a fair bit more than i took for it in the end. anyone want to buy a Z or 2 or fancy helping out with engine fitting as im flat broke now. cheers. si.

so if i dress up as a KKK member (im not) will they not check to see if i have a pitchfork up my sheet? strip-search anyone who's rude enough to ignore politeness and our social beliefs. i know plenty of muslim women who just wear the headdress. you can see their face and there is no problem religion-wise for them. if your religion restricts where you can go in the world thats surely your problem? if my religion was kiddy-fiddling i doubt they'd let me into a school?

i was on the 'net today having a look for a sensible car (like an M5 or a lexus and NO, the Z's not going.) ready for when the new baby arrives. i've also been bidding on a range cooker for her in drawers as she wants to cook a mahoosive turkey this year. went onto ebay to see how it was doing and there was a nintendo Wii for sale on my account (i'd left it on in the background) that i have nothing to do with! refreshed it incase it was a mistake and it asked me to sign in then repeatedly told me my password was incorrect. sent ebay an email from their security centre and went to sign into messenger. that keeps saying wrong password too. :headvswal now my comp's going slow, i have NO access to emails and i can only go on ebay as a guest. what the hell can i do? :rant: si.

oh and it was the 850 T-5. dont know if thats the one you are looking at? i presume the leccy's will be better on newer cars and V70's, etc.

i had one breifly (about 8 months). quite quick for a tank, totally indestructible body/chassis but i kept getting really annoying leccy probs. rev counter packed in (fixed with a new sender), A/C button would work when it wanted to (sometimes when i didnt press it), rear leccywindows seemed to have a mind of their own and the T/C was not off even when you switch it off (really annoying). auto 'box felt very woolley but worked ok. headgasket went but caught it before it did any real damage, rad sender packed in. sounds like a lot of probs but it already had 180,000 on it when i got it for £1200 and it was used to be a tool rather than a car. i used to lend it out for tip runs, holidays, etc when my mates didnt want to wreck their cars. sold it at 210,000 miles after abusing hell out of it and still got £1500. si.