TheRealNips

Happy Birthday!

Im thinking a morning meet up at Brighton, a drive around the local area (route to be decided) then a pub lunch before saying goodbye?

Yes! Brighton or Eastbourne or both. There are some good roads around here

Born and grew up in Alfriston, now in Eastbourne.

Happy birthday!

We are not that far apart, I'm Eastbourne...

And for those that miss motorsport, these are great fun. They have several classes to watch including rally, stock car and road racing. Ash and I watched and bet shots on the winners. Kept us entertained for hours!

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I dont hate those black wheels, but OEMs are excellent!

My series 1 PTU just died, no reason for it to died, one day it worked, the next it didnt. The car would crank, but not fire. Got myself a series 2 and never had a problem since! (touch wood...) If the car has been standing for a while, has a family of mice moved in a eaten through some wires? Crazy, but has been know to happen...

Congratulations guys! Its our 10th next month, so planning for that at the moment

Are you using a series 1 PTU? They are know to fail (mine did) and the car will turn over but will not catch. Try a series 2 or different PTU

I had a friend with a paint thickness tool measure the car and the rest of the car is 80-90 microns, however the bonnet was 250-290. He thinks that its been respray (maybe several times) and thats why its fading. Ill give the G3 a go, I dont think there will be any cars shows this year, so hopefully can get it sprayed before Simply Japanese 2021 ?

Stick at it otherwise you will get 80% through the next colour and change it again, it will end up like painting the Forth bridge. It looks great now, finish it and enjoy it!

Thanks Chris. On all my cars I pre wash them with autoglym polar, then wash with conditioning shampoo. I then use the autoglym polish followed by a ceramic polish and it works well. The bonnet is do the same, but occasionally (more often than not) T-Cut it first before doing both polishes. I think it's at the point where it can't be saved. I'll give the G3 a try before I give up and get it sprayed! The ceramic polish is brilliant, I love it and it makes the cars look amazing once it has had the 24-48 hours to dry.

I have the red version of T-cut and although it looks good for about a week, it quickly goes pink again and seems to get worse? Maybe I am doing it wrong! I will have to give G3 a go, I have heard good things about it.

Decided to treat the car to a wash and a polish yesterday. My poor bonnett is going pinker and polish does less each time, might have to bite the bullet and get it painted. I also tried my aerosol skills by painting the windscreen wipers with satin black and clear laquer. All in all took me 5 hours to do everything and I managed to sunburn myself in the process. Pretty well spent day off!

There is a dead give-away to your location in this picture...

I really like the Zed logo at the end of the advert in the "A to Z" text

Cool, thank you. I will continue with my upgrade plan then!

Pictures would be really helpful, so yes please! I had to google rose joint, but I know what you mean now. Yes I am going down that road, so will look into tie rod ends, thanks for the tip. From my research the Flex Z comes with everything you need, unless I am missing something? TEIN Street Flex Z Coilovers As their most popular top-of-the-line coilover, the TEIN Flex Z Coilovers are still made in Yokohama Japan and are a true JDM coilover system packed with all of TEIN’s technology. This system incorporates the 16 way adjustable twin tube shocks and includes TEIN top mounts. TEIN pre-assembles these (though check pre-load before installing), so these are easier to install since you don’t have to disassemble your factory shock and spring to remove the top mount. Many applications, depending on suspension design, also include front camber plates to give you a full race suspension with plenty of adjustability for anything from the occasional weekend track enthusiast to competition use. https://uk.tein.com/product/flex_z.html

So I am going to upgrade my suspension (shocks, arms, bushes), I've done some research and found that the TEIN VSN22-C1SS3 FLEX Z seem pretty good and are just in budget. Does anyone have any experience of them? I did look at the street advance Z (cheaper), but they are missing the top hat bit (you reuse the OEM one) and I would rather have all new components and I dont have the tools to be releasing springs off shocks. I've been looking at Driftworks adjustable arms (https://www.driftworks.com/suspension/adjustable-arms/?car_make=nissan&car_model=300zx-z32) and have compiled a list of components using this blog: https://conceptzperformance.com/blog/suspension-101-300zx-edition/ and I think I need: Front Tension Rod Front Lower Control Arm Front Upper Control Arm Rear Lower Control Arm Rear Upper control Arm Rear Traction Rod Rear Toe Rod Has anyone used driftworks before? Is this everything I need? Most of the bits seem to come with new bushes already installed which is helpful, but is there anything else I will need? Also I am planning to do the work myself and then get it setup by an expert, is that possible/safe/stupid?

No one has no excuse to miss it now! ?

For a while now, I have been building a club app, Progress has been slow as I am teaching myself coding at the same time. The app only works on android phones (maybe in the future if I learn how it will be ported to iOS) from version 7.0 (Nougat) and above (sorry Richard!). My phone is on 9.1 (Pie) at the moment and it works fine. I have been testing it on my phone, but need to start testing on other hardware and getting feedback. If you are interested, please PM me with your Gmail address (It has to be a gmail account due to googles android developer rules) and I will send you a link. You will not be able to find the app in the play store as its in testing stage. Below is a video of the app so far, it is a work in progress and some parts are not finished (some haven't been started ?)

Seconded that ConZult doesnt work on windows 10, I have an old laptop with xp that I use for it. Im thinking of treating myself and just buying datascan