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looks like I'll be giving you a call john my car should be back up and running in a month or so. I will now have a batch of JDM tuner ECU's that I will be selling off as they are all for stock injector cars:- 1) Mines 2) Tomei 3) Jun 4) Blitz etc. Each has its own identity and all are mapped with safety maps etc. Do you know what is the going rate for these ECU's these days MInes

Will probably need it John but the only donor ECU's I have are all JDM chipped ones a la mines etc. . They all have that goo all over the chip. I cooked my car with the last 'aggresive' chipped stock ECU so do not trust the ECU at all having run various JDM tuner ones with no issues for years......... What sort of power can I expect for hybrid 360deg bearing turbos, Stillen intercoolers, 555's injectors, Intake and exhaust BUT with daily driver reliability???

Anybody ever seen a JDM ECU that is not one for a stock car? I want ECU for 555's and hybrid turbos, Stillen intercoolers, induction kit and exhaust

then you do have one 0f the blitz maps then. if you open it up and see the eprom covered in sealant then you deffo have a blitz ECU:bow: Blitz, (rare) Mines (see a few around) or Tomei (super rare) are all the muts nuts:bow:

Wow check it out it is the real deal a blitz access ECU for a TT.:bow: Don't see these very often at all.

I agree they are holding values and ultimately I have to concede that the only super car thing Honda got right with the NSX was the rarity factor but that was not by design. Honda themselves will tell you they did not sell anywhere near as many as planned in the two prime target markets of japan and europe which is why they have been so shy about doing a replacement. Yes the handling IS legendary BUT and this is never mentioned it was never road tested with anything more than a weedy 280bhp so you have to say that the handling was really un-tested at true supercar levels of performance. Ironically all of the same was true of the Z in its day which sold well on initial launch complete with the 'fastest round the ring' time etc. but sales fell off a cliff due to an appreciating Yen (at the time) and the 'anti-prestige' of the Nissan badge. It is no co-incidence really that the Nissan logo is totally missing from the new GTR. Again as with the Z it was only america where the NSX sold well (re-branded as the Acura NSX.) Just like the Z the yanks could buy it in numbers because they are not carrying the baggage of the must have 'sports heritage' that we crave in europe. My mates dad who bought a brand new Z on launch tells of the laughter he got from all quarters when he fessed up to paying 30k for a Nissan...................Still The japanese keep on trying to do that porsche-for-half-the-money-trick but realistically who aside from the japanese actually want that as a 'value proposition?' Sure a few enthusiasts will see the value, the engineering and performance but then everyone will have one and the clueless will still be muttering 'poor-mans-porsche' as you drive-by. It is exactly the same with the NSX Nearly-a-ferrari-but-not-a-ferrari

For that money NSX's are a joke. :slap: Same money gets you a sweet handling 2+2 Ferrari 456GT V12 check the front-mid transaxle concept (as copied by Nissans new GTR 10 years later) sub 5 sec 0 to 60 nearly 200mph and bring the kids along or an F355, five valves per cylinder mid engined super car described as one of the best handling cars ever in history........Clarkson "As close to perfection as anyone has ever come". Both Fezza's will be super low mileage and owned by someone who never scrimped on maintenance or bolted stuff on cept maybe a Tubi exhaust I did the whole NSX drool thing a few years back and then drove one back to back with a F355 no contest. The economics of the NSX's will never work because by the time people can afford them they do not have the type of prestige most are looking for. Unless you want 14year old boys who spend too much time on gran turismo worshipping your ride then other choices make more sense. Long story but for the price of the NSX I was about to buy I now have a V12 Ferrari that only 146 were ever made in RHD it looks and goes the nuts and my missus likes it too because it came with matching luggage. It is no co-incidence the NSX has not been replaced. It is hard for anyone knocking out millions of Honda Civics to ever convincingly play the exotica game. Ask a women. We went for test drive in the R8 the other day and her indoors's reaction? "It is not special enough" and when returning to park next to the TT in the showroom......"It looks too much like this one"

I think the NSX is a great piece of engineering but in supercar terms it is so underpowered and lacking any kind of prestige at all. I think it is finally starting to look a bit dated too........ I just hope Honda replace it but judging by the new GTR we will have to pay rip-off britain prices..........33k to 66k WTF!! :shock:

answer:- 99 Spec lights I had an HID kit fitted by the guy who imported my car. It was nightmare it shorted under the bonnet, started going faulty, got pulled by the rozzers, bulbs too long had to have beams adjusted etc. etc. IMHO Nissans own 99 spec std HID lights with silver insert reflectors are the nads If you cannot do that then ferchrissakes get a good 6000k set from someone who knows their stuff like DTA and get them fitted properly. anything 6000+ is max power stylee chavness and stoopid :nono:

An 'almost-a-supercar' like the Z has almost-a-supercar running costs. When you buy a Z you should look at the bank balance and lifestyle of the person who sold it to you. I suggest you only buy from two types:- Did they look like they would have sold their shirt to keep the Z in fine fettle.... or.... have it as a plaything next to their other cars / toys that are all looked properly? If not you are now typically (at this stage of a cars life) either fixing all that has been neglected in the past or enjoying the fruits of many years of TLC lavished on the car. Sadly most Z's have been through a period with owners thinking 'not much more to by than my corsa' and then scrimping on everything. Luckily this 'cleansing' of the market will only last a few more years and the good Z's will be left.........Hope yours is one of them

Yes I did discuss with John and perhaps I got a faulty chip. Early in the conversation the assumption was that my car must have issues but upon trying it in other Z's they all behaved the same. John then said that he had found out he had a faulty EPROM burner. This all took place over a long period as I was in and out of the country due to my job. When we get up and running with the 555cc injectors I want to take it to get a proper set-up so will consider all of the known chips and test thoroughly then decide. Experience has taught me this is a very expensive thing to get wrong.

I have to beg to differ re: zedworld chips and john dixon chips. John Dixon sent me three chips over the course of some months about a year ago and my car would never run right with them. I tried it in a mates and same with his. Hesitation on kickdown in the midrange due to overfueling then leaning out at the top end. The zedworld+70hp chip was worse it went into safety boost on the way home from having it fitted and then the next day at silverstone my car went bang. Prior to that I had ran for 2 years on the mines ECU (yes all it is is their chip in a 're-conditioned' ECU). I ran that on optimax with no issues and great performance so I know which I think is the quality item. My fear is that any chip I get for my 555cc set-up is developed enough to not have things like safety maps deleted etc. That is why my car blew up. The normal nissan safety maps where shall we say 'by-passed' in the +70hp chip

sorry team that should have read at silverstone when she blew i was running a std ECU with Zedworld chip :slap: . Note I ran with a mines ECU for 2.5 years no problem and she went great. D'oh! Even now I cannot understand why I messed with it and tried the +70hp Zedworld chip........... :cry:

thanks andy, The reason I asked is I have a spare manual 'Mines' ECU which I was going to get upgraded on their 'upgrade-for-life' policy with the VXROM but did not want to get that done if would not work in my auto loom or something. Yeah I am going to 555cc injectors and uprating to 360degree bearing turbo's. New engine in in v. good nick but otherwise stock so not going for big power. maybe just running about 1.2bar. All note I was running 1bar on std injectors with a mines ECU and my real-time diagnostics just showed the injectors running at 99.9% capacity all the time. On the super hot day that was the Z parade at Silverstone my new Zedworld +70hp chip + track session + the heat fried the engine........... Lesson learned std injectors soon max out. Anyway my Z will be back Anyway thanks should soon be back on the road.............

Team, My car is an auto that is undergoing a manual conversion :hyper: at the moment. My question is will my car always need an auto ECU (with the big 23 on it) or can I at the same time switch to a manual ECU (with the big 22 on it). I am uprgrading to 555cc injectors so I don't have the same melt down as I did on std injectors. I have a number of ECU's so need to know which one to 're-chip to 555cc or even if it does not matter. Thanks for your help

Why can't we have mileage based tax instead of these stoopid blanket statements. "Big cars are bad" The ferrari owners club did a calculation about how much CO2 the total world-wide fleet makes (most are weekend only cars) and it was absolutely tiny less than 1 tenth of a percent compared to the hoards of school run golfs and focus' out there. Thats where the 'problem' (if there even is one) is. I hate the way most of the 'green' debate has become a class war in disguise. and the only options are punitive ones. Yeah so I have 4 cars and on the face of it I am a green nightmare:- 5.5 litre V12, 3 Litre V6 Twin turbo, 3 Litre straight 6 and a rotary engined 1.3 but.......... I do 100% carbon offset through the shell drivers club and the first two cars are used probably for about only 3,000 miles per year so do I deserve clobbering with 1,000 pound car tax on each? Could I pay that amount yes because I am doing 'alright' but, Should I pay that? Hell no I will be there when we protest as I think the truckers will do it again soon. I am just at the stage when I am about to say *****cks I will move me and my business out of the UK to somewhere less hostile to hard working law abiding citizens who enjoy driving on the few hours off they take a week. Rant over

As always these are only opinions but I was massively underwhelmed by the 350 and having had 100, 200, and 300 nissans on my drive at some time or another I was supposedly exactly the target market. At the time of launch my missus was in the market for a new sports car and she came home with the RX-8. She described the 350Z as all muscle and no finesse and be-moaning the lack of occasional rear seats plumped for the Mazda which has been an awesome purchase. The new GTR is no way a 'skyline' and it if anything it seems to be trying to unify the nissan sports cars fans onto one platform. But for the price in the UK. It is a total joke when the JDM market is getting them for 35k. I mean ferchrissakes it was developed here in europe (cosworth did the engine, lotus the suspension and it was honed at the ring) if anything it should be cheaper here. We should start a campaign to keep nissan honest and avoid them alientating their core audience. If they think they are going to attract porsche 911 buyers out of their 'lifestyle' brand cars then they have got to be totally deluded. Just cause millions of playstation playing youths rate the GTR as a brand does not mean they will go buy them especially at over 35k. sub 40k I would have considered it but not at the price being quoted. If newera get rich importing these then something is drastically wrong at Nissan.

There is now a sad twist though I read today that they are to inflate the 35k jap price to between 40k to 60k for the european market. :rant: It was a spurious story about different HiFi and suspension set-up etc. (yeah right for a car that was developed in europe :confused: ) Me smells another rip-off britain story coming up :mad:

LOL sorry mate but your MG experience would not bear any resemblence to any car made by nissan as in manufactured quality the japanese are light years ahead of everyone. I once 'had' to have brand new rovers (our company car scheme was based on them) every single one of them (over 12 cars in total) was a shed except for one 623 that was great. The rest all had serious and minor faults. For earlier posters I was not in any way suggesting the new GTR looks like a 300 it does not. what I was suggesting was that mechanically and platform-wise it has far more in common with a 300 than the skyline. As for the thing that currently goes under the name skyline that is really a facelifted american G35 thing.

its 33k in japan so that is a bargain. If you own a GTR AND a Z32 then by default you must have poured enough dosh into them both to afford the new GTR. I know my own car collection costs me way more a year than i would spend depreciating the new GTR

yeah you are right. Years ago the nissan corp had enough sports car buyers to support the pulsar GTR, 100nx, 200, 300 and skyline all at once. Now they will have the GTR and the 350Z. It just goes to show how much those stupid 4X4 Off road tonka toys have taken market share from the traditional sports car buyers. I was a die-hard hanging on to my 300zx precisely because there was no replacement that I could relate to. In the meantime I bought an RX8 for the missus and waited for nissan to get their act together. That was until now that is. They have done it and it is a stunner. 7.35 lap of the ring too.

Also if you think the new GTR is not sleek check out its Cd figure. You got to concede it is a very modern design as was the Z32 in the late 80's

I have to respectfully disagreen as it is clearly designed as a sports coupe first and foremost with supercar performance for a decent price (£32,950 japanese launch price). With that as the design intent is like history repeating all over again. On your points the SWB was primarily for the US market as they don't 'get' 2+2's and the soft top version was never actually made by nissan. These only got going after it was clear that the US market was dominating sales. I think that GTR has become such a powerful brand that it was decided early on to call it a GTR not the 400ZX

After drooling over the new Nissan GTR :bow: (yes it shall be mine) I have to say that I think it is more realistically a sucessor to the Z32 than any skyline:- Consider this:- V6 twin turbo not an inline 6 2+2 coupe not a saloon Also the original z32 concept was proposed at one point to be 4 wheel drive so I say it is a Z not a GTR Anyway whatever at £32,950 (current price in japan) I am getting in line NOW

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