Stephen

Whems the closing date for tickets?

£2~300 for a quality priduct would be fine, £400 is too much, its half a months salary for many after tax.

I wish even one polotician in the last 15 years had half the balls of that lady. Bunch.of nancy boys.

Im sure as a group we can improve things slightly, like I say there only some suggestions I have thought up, others hopefully will express there ideas, we need to provide a more modern image and show the vg isnt a basket case but a serious contender to an rb or jz even in stock guise.

Lastly lets restructure the rep system, simplify it, writting a reason is long winded, a simple like button like facebook style would make people use it more, were all guilty of not using it properly. I also think x points should equal a level. Lastly the engine trans type should be displayed on the left of your post under your namenavatar, stops you having to ask is it na or tt etc before answering a question.

9.Strength in numbers, working closer with other clubs, I'm not going to go into forum politics and the other zclubs, what im getting at here is closer links with skylineownersclub, sxoc etc and the other Nissan brands, this sort of harks back to the earlier point of knowing what fits, if group buys are organised in co-op with other clubs those numbers drag down the prices. 10.Simply be more positive and proactive, how often do new member join only to be told oh, your engines about to blow up and it will cost the earth and its a pig to work on. Maybe it will, maybe its not that clear cut, all too often we jump to the worst case scenario round here. Why do we tell everyone that if you up the power it will doe within weeks, across the pond many are running bigger turbos etc on stock block quite sustainably. In honesty aswel, how hard is a zed to work on? yes its tight in there, but its basic push, bang, pop stuff. Yes gremlins lurk in the electric's but that's nothing weird for a 20 year old car, once you pull all the intercooler piping off its a lot more spacious under there than it looks, if a monkey can do it(me) so can you... - - - Updated - - - Off you go then lol....

lovely interior you have there, seats are lovely

good we as a community want the parts, we don't want to pay through the nose because they have to be imported from the other side of the world individually, the current situation is no use to you or us and a solution needs to be found.

Right this is my 10 suggestions, feel free to amend, delete, add to, modify, comment on any or all. I will also try and explain why I think these are good ideas, I've only come up with these in the last few hours and I'm not the second coming so forgive me if there not what you would think or are unworkable, they are in no order of importance or process. 1. Make it free and open for non members to sell z32s with the forum. Just cars, not parts or breakers, cars can be sold as spares or repairs but not broken by non subscribed members. The reason I suggest this is, many people buy z32s without actually knowing much about them, it breaks they don't know what's wrong they sell it for buttons, if they were able to sell on here instead of ebay two things would happen. Firstly we as a club would have better opportunity to buy these cars, and get them back to health. Secondly they may hang around find out its a boost leak fix it and keep it, which would mean new members. Think how many end up on ebay that never end up visiting here. 2.Speak to companies like stillen, ams, twinz etc etc and see if we can form some sort of co-operation that would allow us to buy directly from them at retail price, this would reduce shipping, taxation, third party profit etc etc. It would also extend their market as they currently have no uk distributors. 3.Embrace the evolvement of club members par taking in racing, a kind of sponsorship if you like, if the car is publicly raced for example totb, time attack, professional competitive drifting, if they display a 300zx owners club sticker(obviously it would need to be of a reasonable size), they're membership is free for that 12 month period, or something similar. 4.Movement away from being known simply as http://www.300zx.co.uk, that's not a club name its a website. proper affiliation should be sought from Nissan to become the official uk 300zx owners club and be renamed THE 300ZX OWNERS CLUB or similar, z32 whatever would be decided as best. This is an owners club not just a chat room, I think some have forgotten that and don't participate in meets. I know its not hard these days but to make it to one show a year really isn't that big a commitment, I know money is an issue but if you can afford a fuel tank of fuel to drive around and play in your car you can afford it to drive to a show or meet, prioritise and think ahead. 5.Coverage in top Uk Japanese magazines such as banzai and Japanese performance, covering a rolling road day or the like showing a range of z32's this would necessitate some of the big hitters turning up to it, recent coverage has shown the car as a money pig, thinking back to madmaxe's car, it quite clearly explained the car cost 70k to build, that puts people off, and there are many many many cars on here that didn't cost a 10th of that. Internationally there are 100's of cars that are running 500+ bhp on less than 10ks expenditure. 6.Investment by the club into pattern parts, these cars arn't the best in terms of rust, and it makes fantasic sense that the club owns the rights or at least has a historical record of panel patterns for them to created or fabricated by a third party if the need arises. Hell we should be investing money into the production of panels now, how many struggle to get the bits for there rusty inner sills, or spend a fortune on the bits they can get. 7.Sticky thread, listing a comprehensive and guff free list of parts available from other models than can be used. For example you can use an xtrail reverse light switch, from euro car parts for £18 instead of the z32 specific one from Nissan which is £70. many of our chassis components are use don other cars, 200sx parts are cheap and plentiful, knowing which fit and are of use would be a great help to all of us. 8.The implementation of a z32 census, obviously not mandatory, but it would be good to at least have a list of how many there are and where they are, Many do not want to be part of an internet forum, but many would attach themselves to a register saying they own one. dinner is ready so points 9/10 will be after that please be patient before you reply. :)

I really hope you realise that I'm not trying to stir the pot or put down the previous work done, I'm aware considerable effort has occurred with the media. what im trying to do is take things forward as a club, the whole club, improve the scene and improve the image of the z32, whilst ensuring the present is catered for as well it can be and preserve the future.

I do see your point, however im not really even talking about advanced stuff im talking about bolt on mods that make big differences to the stock systems, you say exhaust systems, well I seem to remember that people struggle to buy anything but 2.5" systems for lwb's. A 3" system has great gains over 2.5" but does anyone sell them? and yeah im talking big gains on stock equipment. Intakes, well if you can find 2.5" intake systems for our cars available here in the uk please point me in the direction. As far as intercoolers go, the only smic available here off the shelf are the japspeeds, which are out of stock since the first run. the front mounts are generally cheap, and of not the greatest quality, I know someone once made a dump load of power on an autobahn one, but ive also read write ups, where some of those front mounts because of the quality are worse than stock.... I know we wont ever have the turn over to be able make is financially viable to stock big turbo kits, but there's no reason why kits like the gt525 tubs aren't the go to when the stock t22 die a death. Im not talking big things here im talking the little things, a few month ago I looked at coil pack pigtails, stupid money!

Re: "what cant you get" What can you get thats aftermarket decent and zed spefic eithout importing it or paying silly prices. Case in point, 2.5£ intake iping, makes a massiv ws difference over stock, 3 different manufactures in the us.here manydont even know what its for, it certainly isnt available off the shelf.

Tonight once im home im going to write up a 10 step action plan.

Very well thought out reply, we.have a great comunity wighin this club, but too many dont get involved in the club. We need more members. Theres so many zs out there that are unaware of the club.

[quote name=Gonzo Other Jap cars have done well in the UK with a good source of aftermarket parts and the Z32 does very well in the US so the issue is UK based i believe[/quote] Correct the question is why, and how do we fix this.

Lol touch of the grumps ey?

Im liking some of those ideas ian, how about a sticky of parts from other cars that fit.

Common dont just veiw this thread have your say.

Hello and welcome(back) jimmer aka powerzed is local to yourself.

I dunno why I swear theres more zeds there than anywhere else!

Totally agree, but how many will moan that £40 is too much to spend to make a meet then spend that the very next day on alcohol and cigarettes, times are tough and life is about choices, im not very well off in the slightest as many know, but I choose and preempt things. Ive praised mjp, his access topattern parts is exactly the right way to go. However we as a club need to be more proactive, thats the bottom line.

Noz, you mjp, jeff and the crew, jimmer and mjp are some key cement in the future of zeds. And I totally agree that bob and jaffas involement in time attack.is a fantastic opertunity one we as a club should be grabbing with open arms.

Hands up whos actually got off there backside and gone to a meet in the last 12 months, hands up whos never been to a meet!

I know ams have had issues recently but theres no uk distributor is there, no godspeed. These are brands we need.

I do agree poor interclub relations arnt helping as you say marty, but we will have to overlook that part of the proble at othrrwise this thread will go no where.