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I have considered it, yes, but I'm kinda worried about ending up with two stuffed cars. I can do that, I can.

I thought brake cleaner killed MAFs? Maybe it was some other product, or some other sensor. I should really start keeping track this kind of thing. I'm 90-ish% sure it's the MAF causing the issue, idle was rock steady once it fired up with it plugged back in, the check light was the only abnormality. I might try driving round the block a few times and see if it happens again. A new sensor is $NZ316 from Nissan (seems a little rich but meh) and I'll throw in a new air filter anyway, this one's over 50,000km old now.

And I'll quickly answer my own question here: Mate it's definitely the MAF sensor. Probably. I pulled the MAF sensor wire and it struggled to start before firing up cleanly. Plugged it back in again and it'll start first pop but has a check engine light now. Time to buy a new sensor I suppose.

PNM35 dead on the road I've tried searching but I suck at teh forumz so my keywords are probably all wrong. I beg your forgiveness if there's 400 threads I've missed on this topic. This morning our '04 PNM35 died while my wife was driving the kids to school and would not restart. It turns out it's been hard to start for the past week or so and she's been doing a carby-style start - pump the throttle once it catches but I'm not sure this has been doing anything for it. Today she was driving the kids to school and the revs dropped off to about 1000rpm before coming back up, then a short while afterwards it was game over and she had to coast it out of the traffic. I can hear the fuel pump priming but when I turn it over only the first cylinder will fire before it shuts down again. I made the fatal mistake of calling out the AA (NZ version of the RACV) and the old guy kindly sprayed brake cleaner all over my air filter (remind me to buy a new one) before removing that and spraying it directly down the intake pipe (I'm sure this is awesome for the MAF) before declaring it was the fuel pump. I remain unconvinced. I got the car home on a tow truck but I don't have any diagnostic tools to check codes, is there a sequence to get them from the engine check light? Or is this one of those "mate it's definitely the xyz" faults that are common with PNM35s?

I bought it a mate so I can start breeding them. Another PNM35 but this one's an '05 stripper model, no extras at all. Has some Work Euroline fakes and some red springs that make it ride pretty hard, I'd like to think they're Nismo but they're probably just Cobras, I haven't had a close look yet. Dash also has a crack in it but I don't care, it was cheap and otherwise in good condition. Obligatory faux-arty shot of all 3 cars. Yes my grass is lush, thanks for noticing.

350S is 6-speed manual, Z33 box I believe. Not many made and I desperately want one. Sadly I'm restricted by family requirements.

Axis S is different to 350S, and if you managed to buy a 350S you may consider every one of us insanely jealous.

Got the battery replaced in the remote. No more green flashing key symbol on the cluster and the return of the inane joy of unlocking the car from 20 metres away. So joy.

Find your chassis number via the GTR Registry sticky thread at the top of this section and see what you have for sure. LSD was part of the Cold Pack options.

Sorry, no, it was a statement. I thought I'd seen people asking but couldn't think of where. Blame my consistent lack of sleep.

I'msure people have asked this before but I don't know if anyone has answeredit yet. The M35 is available from factory with an LSD, at least in PNM35 form. For original specs go to... http://history.nissan.co.jp/03_minivan.html ...and g33k out. C34 and M35 are both in there.

That's the one. Put it on the other day and life got that little bit sweeter.

Deep fried Mars Bars are an institution, and a fantastic way to insert about 70g of fat into your arteries.

After 3 years, 1 month and two weeks of owning my Stagea, I think I've finally found the little directional toggle switch that is used to control the cursor on the TV. My wife found it lodged under the driver's set while cleaning out the car, the TV itself doesn't actually pop up (stillhaven't got round to sorting it) but it's nice to collect the full set of buttons. Can someone with a PM/PNM35 please tell me, does the controller switch have two Japanese characters on it? Google Translate tells me it says "decision" but I'm guessing it means "select". Otherwise it's a button for something else and I have no idea what.

I'm a Honda fan from way back, but the new NSX just leaves me a little cold. Maybe it's because the original was designed and built in Japan, with the input of Ayrton Senna, while the new one was designed and built in America, with the input of every barrow-pushing, hipster-chasing marketer in the area. While the original raised the bar and forced the supercar manufacturers to up their game, the new NSX feels more like it's chasing the pack. And struggling. They should have built a road-going version of the HSV-010 GT, and screw the environmental BS. IMO of course.

The other day I put in an old dishwasher, a step ladder, a combo kit (drill/driver, hammer drill and charger) in its box and a jigsaw, then went looking for other things to stop it all bouncing around... ...with the rear seats up.

I'm not so fussed about ice but I'd like an option that got rid the spiders that keep nesting in the side mirrors, those little buggers are determined, even fly spray won't keep them out.

Just realised I did have a part-way-thru pic of me putting in the stuff I listed above. The ladder on the left is 2.1m long.

Ah, forgot you had the Z seats, makes more sense now. The 2-tone effect will actually look pretty cool I reckon, almost custom. ... Oh lawd, I just had flashbacks to all-white vinyl interiors from the late '90s/early '00s. I wish I hadn't just eaten dinner...

I don't actually know, I just saw I had them when I looked up my chassis code.

Not hassling you for it, and I know colours are a subjective thing, but why do you want to swap to beige? My one regret with my Stag is the interior colour, especially since I have kids. It's depressing watching the seats change from sparkling clean to dirty over time, at least the dark interiors hide it.

Fact: NA V6 Commodores are the fastest ever man-made object. All people ever see is a blur, so they cannot be identified when involved in criminal activity. I guess it's much the same as any article about a road incident involving a person under the age of 25 classifying them as a "hoon", or "boy racer" in NZ.

I had a mild steel exhaust put on my Commodore 15 years ago, it's still fine today after nearly 200,000km in NZ weather and being scraped over speed humps many times. I'd say that's durable enough. I think it's heavier than an equivalent stainless system but you're not building a track car where every kg counts.

From the front: Cats -> Y-pipe -> mid-pipe -> muffler ...so anything advertised as a catback either includes the Y-pipe (in Tony's link), or isn't a true catback.

^Was my first thought too. LSX ALL THE THINGS!