Punning Clan

I'll appear tomorrow, hopefully not as late as last year. Poor Z has been through the wars and I didn't know if it'd be accessible until yesterday evening!

Top stuff, cheers.

If there's room, I'm game.

Mains to the garage died. The technician from the electric company said it'd be 5-6 o clock before it was back on, bearing in mind I had a half one mot. I got a lift home and left the car up there!

Took mine in for MOT yesterday and it didn't fail! Didn't pass either though, as the electric died mid test. While the car was on the ramp. With me in it. Oh well, went back this morning and... its still 'on test' on the DVLA website and no one has the username and password for the chap who was doing said test. So, back in tomorrow when the original guy is back in to finish the test, three days in. They are giving me the test gratis though, and I had a good chat with a recently ex Zed owner at the garage so not a total loss!

Finally had chance to inspect my new sill in daylight. It's good and solid. No driving though, snow ploughing is not one of its fortés.

Luke OX12 Would be interested, date dependent, on a meet over crimbo. (If the car works...)

I feel bad for her. It's a tight car park, standard procedure is to roll back until you can see and hope whoever is coming sees you. And it was funny that the small scratch in her bumper will cost more than my Mazda is worth. Honest mistake at late o clock, fine. Careless damage or malicious vandalism requires chemical castration, however.

I did absolutely nothing to the Z today, which saved it from a car park clouting. Luckily the daily is next to worthless. I might have had a little cry if it'd been the Z though. Wing and a door for a SWB would be tres painful for the other party's insurance.

Count me in, as I've got to miss Coventry this year. Hopefully this time I'll be in my car, on time, rather than re-plumbing the rear brakes of my mates 200SX in Morrisons car park! 300ZX.co.uk 1. Bigh 2. Alic 3. Craig (am staying in Romsey Fri&Sat night, so can do a club drive out/Haynes/Bovington meet on the Saturday if any interest?) 4. tom1990 5. AndrewG 6. kgonzokia 7. nickz32 +2 8. funkysi 9. Therealnips (poss x2 cars) 10. Gman61 11. 007 and family 12. EddZ32TT and family (Can organise convoy from Arundel, West Sussex) 13. sdriver73 14. Chris Basildon 15. Hellraiser 16. scoobydoo67 17. RichardSmith (with Julia) 18. Ianl 19. Punning Clan Z Club 1. Farmer 42 2. Huw 3. iandecjak 350ZUK 1. Panman 2. Stuggerz 3. Olly350z 4. Louis350z 5. Reecebeaney (from E.Sussex - poss. convoy?) 6. dek_350 7. lukewilde 8. Payco 9.Seb 10. Zippypooz 11. Dunks 12 added by Payco as their personal assistant. 13 Veilside Z

Count me in, as I've got to miss Coventry this year. Hopefully this time I'll be in my car, on time, rather than re-plumbing the rear brakes of my mates 200SX in Morrisons car park! 300ZX.co.uk 1. Bigh 2. Alic 3. Craig (am staying in Romsey Fri&Sat night, so can do a club drive out/Haynes/Bovington meet on the Saturday if any interest?) 4. tom1990 5. AndrewG 6. kgonzokia 7. nickz32 +2 8. funkysi 9. Therealnips (poss x2 cars) 10. Gman61 11. 007 and family 12. EddZ32TT and family (Can organise convoy from Arundel, West Sussex) 13. sdriver73 14. Chris Basildon 15. Hellraiser 16. scoobydoo67 17. RichardSmith (with Julia) 18. Ianl 19. Punning Clan Z Club 1. Farmer 42 2. Huw 3. iandecjak 350ZUK 1. Panman 2. Stuggerz 3. Olly350z 4. Louis350z 5. Reecebeaney (from E.Sussex - poss. convoy?) 6. dek_350 7. lukewilde 8. Payco 9.Seb 10. Zippypooz 11. Dunks 12 added by Payco as their personal assistant. 13 Veilside Z

I think I'm going with the 200SX club (because they needed a touch of Z class on their stand) need to check whether I actually got a space or not but always a decent show, and the museum is great.

Over the last few weeks she's gone from this To this Came up sweet after a good wash and a spray of demonshine Will be taking her to Bicester Heritage tomorrow, and hopefully won't overheat on the way in like I did the first time...

I'll be there tomorrow with my freshly washed shorty in various shades of blue, would be nice to see some others representing the Z. Fab event, huge variety of cars, poor advertising. They welcome 80s-90s Jap stuff too, which is rare. R32 GT-R next to a Bentley Blower type thing. The staff are likely to park you with the interesting stuff too.

Top stuff, thanks, and to the rest of the staff for keeping the forum running, it's saved my bacon many times now!

Correct me if I'm wrong (I probably am) but aren't the USDM ones also equipped for twin bulbs? Either way, I've a hankering for some smoked ones which I've never seen but am assured were a factory fit for some markets. But then, I like the moustache and an N/A bumper instead of the turbo one I shouldn't have but do.

Dug into the leaky washer bottle problem as I'm bored of getting a wet boot now... it's narked, basically. It's missing a lower mounting tab and has a 5p sized hole in it patched with a bicycle puncture repair patch and siliseal, but the problem was one of the pumps wasn't actually bolted to the tank, meaning every bump shook the pump enough to stretch the rubber hose a bit and drip. Then I spent some time attacking rear bumper and the gangrenous mass of filler and what appears to be melted plastic where some dolt has overheated it trying to straighten it with hot air... it looks awful, but it's smoother now. I need a big chisel, and some mechanical sanding, or my arms are going to snap. And then I found more filler on the arch section of the bumper so I dred to think what on earth is going on in that region... I'm thinking at this point it may be easier just to get another bumper, even though it'll need paint and I've still no idea what colour it actually is. It's not Nissan Intense Blue Pearl BV4 as I had thought (hoped) but that does seem to match well enough to my eyes that I'll use it to touch up the peeling bits until I can get the whole car de-rusted, de-dented and painted in one go. If anyone's got an unwanted SWB rear bumper, I'd be glad to adopt it and love it... I WILL get this thing right, eventually, although the project E24 needs some loving too after a winter spent completely untouched in its barn. That's not run in 16 years now... But it was 250 quid, and restoring and selling it will hopefully release a wad of cash marked 'Z'. Then I came inside and resubscribed, because the best thing I can do, for the Z at least, is tap into the vast well of knowledge and experience that is you lot. Speaking of which... I've re-siliconed the targa seal edges, so that no longer leaks into the cabin, but that's allowed recent torrential rain to highlight the fact that the drain tube itself is blocked, and probably far too frail to un-bung the traditional way of using a length of stout wire.

A little late, I think, 'cos I'm a div, but I've sent it all over by direct transfer. Do I need to send the PM out for a re-sub, or is that just 1st time subs?

Got my new steering wheel, not a Nardi like every other Jap car seems to have, but a nice sensible British-as-a-cup-of-tea-in-a-repressed-colony Moto Lita. Looks the nuts, now I've just got to buy a boss and turn up an adaptor from standard 6 bolt PCD to 9 bolt Moto Lita PCD, and sort a horn press and fit the thing. But I'll finally be able to have a steering wheel I can actually reach, which is nice. Curse of the long legs. I also got the electric aerial working again, and..... crashed the Z. Into my own car. Like a complete idiot. At least my neighbour came over to tell me exactly who'd damaged my horrid little Micra. His face... ha. Thing is, despite it being a mere bump (the Micra shows no damage at all, I just scraped the dirt off it), the rear bumper of the Z practically exploded. Because it's made almost entirely of a 1/4" thick slab of poly filler. The more I dig into this car the more I realise what a complete pile of junk it actually is. Wiring is hacked to pieces, paint is blistered, body smoothness is a lie. I don't know who sprayed it blue originally, but I'm assuming most of this bodging happened during this persons ownership as it's all under the blue or has blue overspray on it... Pretty much the whole rear left quarter is filler and disappointment. And there's a rust bubble appeared on the drivers sill which I shall now have to investigate. But I shall rebuild. And I shall use only the finest engineered bodges to do it. I think Devvny's post above may have just convinced me to refurb the gold Gewalt splitrims and paint the centres dark too...

Having MOT'd mine on Friday, I took it to the rallying at Goodwood on Saturday, pulled through Chichester Maccas on the way home and lo and behold, another one! Couldn't go full sad git and park next to it unfortunately but looked clean, and the wheels do tickle my fancy. Auto, and couldn't tell if turbo or nae, too dark to see the instruments and couldn't tell if it had intercoolers. I like to think there were some confused locals not believing their luck at seeing two superb rare Japanese performance cars in one place. Or not.

Took mine for its (say it quietly so the car doesn't hear) MOT. And she only went and passed with no advisories! :D So it's off to Goodwood tomorrow then back on the drive until the weather sorts itself out. Rain, snow, hail and perfect cloudless sunshine in a 7 mile journey to the test centre... And I fitted the stereo I was going to put in the 6 series because I felt like it, and it has an aux in despite being from the 80s. Lost my Cream cassette tape inside it, but the aerial now powers up and down so, zero net gain on that front. Turns out, if you take your dash apart then put it back in using approximately three times the number of screws than the last guy to take it out, it doesn't rattle... Wish I'd done it months ago. 10 out of 10, absolute best mod for the money... :mad2:

And short, thus lighter and nimbler than any snail powered Z32. Besides, what sports car ever had power? Sprites had just 40hp! Maybe I need to get it out on a track and learn what it can do, but it just doesn't feel as friendly beyond the limit as a sports car should. This is why I hit metal and don't have a job with Autocar.. Although back on topic, has anyone ever seen the optional parking stick? A recent Youtube video featured a pair of Hondas with loads of ridiculous factory options and the extending parking stick reminded me of the Z brochure.

Sporty, certainly. Sports car... Not so much. It's subjective, sure, but I'd consider 'sports cars' to be more like MGBs, Elans, MX5s, Healey 3000s, 240Zs, TR6s. Low spec 911s. GT-Rs are big coupes more along the M3 theory. I dunno. The Z just feels heavy. Big, solid, and planted. Not something I'd feel confident slinging around like I do a hatchback, which of course is what killed the 'proper' sports car.

Sports car? At a ton and a half, it's pushing the definition. Much hate for cup holders I sense, but on a long journey (which is where these cars really shine I find, they are good GT cars at heart) you need refreshment. No use having the comfiest seats known to man if you are dying of thirst!

I'm very much into the look of the moulded in ducktails. Mine came with one, although the paint and filler job are now peeling away from it like it has leprosy, if done properly I think they're smoother than a stock wing but more 'there' than having nothing at all.