Stangman

:shock: !!OMFG!! :shock: Don't wish to be rude mate but WHY???? For that money you could have bought almost any car going! I love Zed's, I'm on my second and I ain't selling this one for anything :nono: , but if I had that kind of dosh to spend I don't think I'd put it into a Zed. Still I do admire you, you obviously know what you want and at least you haven't wasted it on something like a p**sche :xxx: (That's p**sche drivers, not anyone on this forum :D ) I've spent about £350 in a couple of months so far (yeah, pathetic I know!) and I've had to hide half of that from the boss as it is :tongue: But I think they're quite decent cars as standard.................

:bow: :bow: :bow: You ARE a star! :bow: :bow: :bow: Great to hear you are still keen to meet everyone, though I think you might have the rough end of the deal :rofl: Dave, you should start trying to prise some money out of us soonish.......there may be a few whose wallets are easier to open than others.....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :shock: Dave we can't let this die mate. Not after all of the effort you put in :nono: Besides which we can't pass up the chance to meet the lovely Stacey :nono: That would be a crime against humanity (or at least this bit of it :D ) I didn't know that this was in any danger of dying though. Did you PM us all or not - not to worry if you didn't I just seem to have missed something here. :confused: I have a photographer friend who I might be able to persuade to help us :) I'll see how you get on with Speedfreak's mate first. Hope we sort something out!

.........And what they can do is f**k it up in a very expensive, very tasteless way :hurl: That is THE worst Zed ever :rofl:

Have done a load of trackdays but gave them up when I realised I was running out of ability before my car was :o (had a modded 200SX at the time) Had a very "focusing" moment at over 130 round Goodwood and drove VERY SLOWLY for the rest of that day :D Have seen some bad smashes over the years but don't let me put you off! You get a massive buzz from a good track day....ALMOST better than sex....... :rofl: Have never been on track with a zed but these basics still apply. You MUST warm the car up properly before you really go for it. That means EVERYTHING on the car, so NOT just when the water temp gauge gets up to operating temp but particularly oil, brakes and to a lesser extent, tyres. Best way is just to increase speed gradually over a couple of laps. This warms you up as well as the car :D I would recommend you increase the tyre pressures by about 15 to 20%. Opinions vary as to exactly how much, in my experience this is about right but if it's wet be very careful! Overinflated tyres+wet track=NO GRIP :wack: You also need to make sure everything is as it should be, coolant, brakes etc and I would make sure the oil is right up to the top mark, but not over. If you haven't changed the brake fluid recently, do that and use the best spec you can. Also empty the car as much as you possibly can, take out anything that could fly around in the car :eek: and remove the spare once you are at the circuit. Take some oil (a litre should be plenty!) and some coolant pre mixed with anti freeze. I wouldn't change ANYTHING significant on the car just before the day, like suspension etc. as you are just asking for trouble. Trust me I've been there.... Once you get on track, the main thing to watch is braking! That's where most people crash, too quick into the corner but you will be surprised just how late and how hard you can brake once you get used to it. Just remember the Zed is a heavy car and once you've cooked your brakes, your day is pretty much over :( Oh and check your mirror occasionally too. There will be guys quicker than you, don't try and race anyone as that is the best way to come to grief, just let them go, find yourself a bit of space on the track and have some fun :hyper: :hyper: Wish I was going now............

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Plenty of online reviews about, but from my own experience Panasonic stuff is good quality and for what you get, reasonably priced. I have had a Panasonic camcorder about 4 years, it's never gone wrong, battery lasts well and it still takes good quality footage. Have a look here http://www.simplydv.co.uk/Reviews/camcorders.html or here http://www.clickcompare.info/y/search.php?phrase=shopping+for+camcorders&adw=yah&uid=e28273ffc742ad18507779fd585c1764&kuid=ae8a101180dabae65ce066fc211065aa&OVRAW=camcorders&OVKEY=shopping%20for%20camcorder&OVMTC=standard Hours of happy surfing ahead mate... :)

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Thanks mate. Love that translation! Well it appears to have worked as the body is in superb nick :) . I was worried that it might be some sort of film (although I couldn't see anything on the car) that would start to lift or discolour if I did the wrong thing to it. Guess the previous owner was a "question fish customer" :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Just about to go through the painful process of getting the Zed's body looking perfect when I remembered that I need to find out about this stuff. My car is a '94 N/A imported in November 06 and there is a sticker in the rear side window for Polymer Sheik. I have looked it up on that there interwebnet and it's obviously some sort of body protection, but my Japanese is none too clever, so can only actually decipher the "polymer sheik" bit! :( Any one know anything about it, whether it's safe to use 3M hand glaze on it to get the colour back (it's black) or else (real long shot here....!) read japanese :shock: so you can translate for me :bow:

Unless you want to race the thing, I reckon the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, but then I have an N/A so underbonnet temperature is less of an issue for me. To me the Zed is more of a cruising car than a balls out sportscar anyway, but that maybe 'coz I'm an old *******...... :( As for cost, it was £60 to get mine regassed last week so no biggie there. I wouldn't buy a car without it to be honest and use mine a lot :cool:

You would think that if anyone with any sense had been involved, but then car manufacturers being what they are.....it seems not as confirmed by Paul :rolleyes: I need to check it out properly to make sure it is the compressor but at least it's not a big money thing by the look of it.....famous last words....... :x: Thanks for the help guys :cool:

Anyone know if these are the same on the N/A and TT, manual or auto? Mine is knacked I think, and there's a cheap one on e-bay, but I don't know for sure if it will fit? Cheers!

Mine's only a boring old standard series 3 in black but it still looks fookin' good :cool: Count me IN!IN!IN! :D

I think we all owe you quite a few bud :duffer: :duffer: Unfortunately we're all driving :rolleyes: I know how much work you must have done getting it this far Do we need to do anything to be absolutely sure of the venue (like grease a palm or two!ha!ha!) ?? Let me know if I can do anything else to help out OK Cheers, Matt

Quick Update: I am working on the options I talked to Dave about but nothing concrete yet, will keep you posted! Work getting in the way of real life as usual :rant: Matt

I'm working on a couple of possibilities and will give you an update when I've got one. I'm not giving up on this one yet........ :rant: Matt

Come on peeps we can't let the chance of having our stunning cars adorned with the equally stunning tastywelshie pass us by :nono: . Used to live in the Midlands so I'll put me thinking cap on and see what I can come up with. Guess we want the option of indoors in case the weather is sh*te huh?

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