OcUK & Cutters Rolling Road Day 19 @ Powerstation (Tewksbury) - Saturday April 25th 2015!!

I see quite a few 370z and 350z but both are reasonably rare which is kinda why I like those cars. I do love the look of the 370z but the performance upgrade isn't enough of a step up for me, and I don't like the slightly shorter wheel base characteristics. That said, they are much better looking in standard format than the 350z and are still as Blackhawk said a fairly rare car to see the on the road.

I see myself holding onto the 350z for a while (I hope!). Dream world would be making the step up to a fully fledged GTR - but whilst buying one is affordable, the running costs and maintenance is about 3x that of the 350z :(
 
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I see quite a few 370z and 350z but both are reasonably rare which is kinda why I like those cars. I do love the look of the 370z but the performance upgrade isn't enough of a step up for me, and I don't like the slightly shorter wheel base characteristics. That said, they are much better looking in standard format than the 350z and are still as Blackhawk said a fairly rare car to see the on the road.

I see myself holding onto the 350z for a while (I hope!). Dream world would be making the step up to a fully fledged GTR - but whilst buying one is affordable, the running costs and maintenance is about 3x that of the 350z :(
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Same, I know I will hanker for more power down the line but I honestly can't see myself liking another car's "feel" both inside and out as much as the E46. This is one of the reasons I'd rather just keep this forever, with forever stock power :o

be interesting to see what state E46s on the roads are in, in say 5 years time. Would be nice to keep a near mint one!
 
Haha, yeah it sounded immense! Have to keep clarifying though, it was my mates car (the guy who had his arm in a cast) he couldn't drive so I did the honours :D sounded great though, popping and banging all the way home :)

Funnily enough we had a chat about future performance upgrades to 'Scarlet' (his name for the car:)) and we agreed that theres not much point in stage 2 as stage 1 is only meant to net you 210bhp and some in gear performance hikes, with stage 2 looking at 225bhp. So more than happy with a stage 1 220bhp figure!

stage 3 gets exiting at 240bhp but then costs about half as much as the car and isn't really worth it! Add on the fact that most of the graphs online for stage 3 look like a mountain range, it doesn't seem too appealing. The graph from Powerstation was straight and true with no dead spots at all. He's keen on keeping it as is for now and just enjoying it!

Still waiting for my R34 dream to be realised....maybe one day :D
 
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Hi there

Managed to get the bolts of the bell housing which were giving me trouble after a visit to Halfords and buying some E-bit sockets.

Local Jaguar specialist who does most the work on my cars have very kindly loaned me their engine beam/support bar which works a treat:

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Gonna get everything I need to undo pretty much un-done now so when parts arrive I can get in and out nice and easy.

Also purchased several cans of brake cleaner, so going to take the rocker covers off and go crazy and spray brake cleaner through the engine, plug holes etc in a hope that should there be any debris that the filter did not catch a liberal spraying with brake cleaner will help shift it.

Once the bottom end is of I shall go mad again with brake cleaner. Then once new shells are in and its back together I am going to put some Shell Synthetic 10W-40 in and a new filter as its only £20 for 6l, let the car idle for 20 minutes unless I hear anything that don't sound good and re-check the filter. Then drop the oil and put the correct 10W-60 in on the basis there is nothing untoward in the filter.
 
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Gibbo you don't mess around do you, straight in there the very next day!
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Well just getting it all apart or at least ready so when the parts arrive I can get in there very quickly as on jobs like this a single bolt removal can take 30 minutes if its stubborn or in an awkward place. Plus at least at the moment I can full on attack the engine internals with brake cleaner to flush/clean the engine as much as possible. :)
 
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