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Are any of you local to me? I'd sure like to have a proper look around a TT and perhaps get a ride to see how they are on the move!

That's certainly a cracking looking car, might have a look at it this week, thanks for throwing that up!

Blimey, that's impressive for such a mild tune!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, always nice to see an active forum. Ah I'll always have a Volvo now, I will one day build a 240 with a 16v Whiteblock running silly power, but who knows when! There's certainly a lot of tat around, they seem to of suffered the worst with shocking bodykits/enormous wings! I'm a big fan of keeping things looking stock body wise. I'm looking at a budget of around £4000-4500 ideally so hopefully that should net me a tidy one. I was initially looking at a 3000GT/GTO but all the electric aids put me off, ticking time bomb! Plenty of room for mappers in the Volvo world, unless you go to Don at Kalmar Union or HLM directly, the only offering really is a generic chip from RICA/Shark/HLM/BSR, which is fine but they tend to run a little rich for safetys sake. Are you looking at ME7 or pre-ME7? As for the Zed, unless I stumble across a nice spec one anyway, plans are pretty much all reversible if it comes to selling it, so from what I've read a stage 3 set up is filter, cat-back and a map? What are the standard brakes/suspension like? I had to put bigger V70 gear on my 850 as quite frankly the standard ones are wildly undersized, and scary at best. Especially when having a spirited drive with a 200sx! That soon cooked my brakes lol.

Peterborough based, Ben is the name! Non ZX owner though.. Always been a bit different when it comes to cars, I'm 22 and have had 6 cars to date, an XR2i, a mk3 Fiesta S with a 2.0 Zetec lump, a mk4 Fiesta lowered on Capri 4 spokes (surprisingly worked!), a mk4 Escort Popular with 28,000 miles that I used to smoke around in at college, I then bought a 1700 Puma which took the track treatment, and I now roll around in a Volvo 850 T5 running around 270bhp sat on a set of S80 wheels.. Without spending a wedge on internals, I can't really go a lot further with the Volvo, plus I've had a real hankering for some 90's turbocharged Jap goodness for a while! So, plenty of questions, I'm sure most have been covered so the search function will be getting a hammering. Looking forward to speaking to you all. A quick question first, what's a rough price guide on TT ZX's? Ben.