Stephen

Have a chat with jimmer mate. He knows what he is doing, you will have something strong an reliable and then it's done. Even if its just to sort your options out its got to be worth knowing how much it will cost you to do it right.

Cheap shot lol

Bit of cropping and that's a damn cool photo.

The fact the tailgate came off is a clue.

Just remember your not lewis Hamilton, none of us are. Il share a douse of wisdom I was given at your age when I used to tear around in my capri. Everyone on the road is an idoit, you cant rely on there actions, so always assume the worst is possible round the next bend.

That's a serious first car!

This is Ian jr yeah I get confused?

Are the beasts wing mirrors veilside?

If the conditions were anything like home today, you guys had some crap changable conditions. So really good result there guys. How much more mechanical traction does the car have over stock?

Tbh james I think you were lucky there, damn annoying yeah, but not too serious by the looks? Those two scoobies coming in could have made things a little more costly/painful so I guess thats the positive thing to take from it. Mostly cosmetic I would assume?

I couldn't comment on his personal hygiene I've only met him once lol.

Haha I recognise the laptop squatter!

The damn shell is worth more than that in scrap weight. If that was local and I was in my new house it would be on my drive already

Yeah I was being serious aswel, don't forget Pete the indicator units are about a hundred bucks aswel. 700 for a 99 spec front end is a good price all in. I don't think people were realising that just assuming that was the cost of the bumper itself.

Mark derby has one.

700 might be plus indicators and paint which is probably about right.

It's quite probably for the autobox. As they dont really have a proper cooler, so that is a mass upgrade. I'd say that's too small for an engine oil cooler. It's dinky lol.

Just bin the bloody thing! I can't believe you have a subdoofer! :pinch: Honestly I use mine in the zed so little I forget I've even got one at times. I was singing to myself on the way to Haynes for a good 20 minutes before I remember I could press play. You don't really want "banging tunes" do you?

Silly thread, but they defiantly go faster than that.

Just so you know, although the 280 was a Datsun, Datsun was earlier called datson. They changed it to the later Datsun for a few reasons before dropping it completely for the Nissan brand.

I have to say the oem design is right one. It was those long lozenge shaped lights that first caught my eye when I saw the first one. They really are so distinctive. The afterburner or pot lights in any variety just look like you wanted a skyline rear end, which look like corvette lights. A copy of a copy. Grocers work, primarily because he doesn't have the centre panel and its 4 reversing sections cluttering up the place. When I first got my zed I wanted to go body kit mental, that quickly passed. Now I've seen the car for a few years and looked at it from every angle seen plenty of well done examples, I know the look I want. OEM+ little smoother little lower but clean and simple, the benifits of this style of corse is not only does it makes the car worth more bit its cheaper too. Over the next year there's going to be some big, little differences to look at on my car, this time next year is will be very simular but also very different.

It's not just a local problem, speed humps nationwide are getting bigger and bigger. One ripped the exhaust off my old car and that had more ground clearance than a stock z32. The front bumper seems the least likely bit to get damaged though ESP now it's stuffer, it's the chassis rails and mid pipes that suffer.

The oem one is urethane, the carmad one is fibreglass.

I have to admit I don't like the NSX I know that's an unpopular opinion but I just don't like them.

Second hand ones do come up, not very often though. I'd say I'd be waiting 12 months really to find one, luck of the draw. If your not worried about having oem, carmad does good quality fibreglass replicas. Don't forget you will have to source the indicator units as they are also different.