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Really liking the car so far but it's my first manual transmission car so it's taking me awhile to get comfortable driving it. Having a lot of issues with rollback on sloped surfaces still so am avoiding any routes with hills for now in case I get caught in traffic and have to try do a start from the hill
The car has just hit 68,100km on it Have just given it a full service on a friends hoist. We replaced engine oil, engine coolant, diff oil and gearbox oil and now the engine sounds much quieter driving around in it.
Really liking the car so far but it's my first manual transmission car so it's taking me awhile to get comfortable driving it. Having a lot of issues with rollback on sloped surfaces still so am avoiding any routes with hills for now in case I get caught in traffic and have to try do a start from the hill
The car has just hit 68,100km on it Have just given it a full service on a friends hoist. We replaced engine oil, engine coolant, diff oil and gearbox oil and now the engine sounds much quieter driving around in it.
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Nice pickup. Still fresh.
On the "oh crap I'm on a hill rollback", use the parking brake - set it and as you release the clutch, release the brake slowly in proportion to how much the car starts moving forward. You'll do this until you feel comfortable and foot coordinated.
Not kidding, I grew up in San Francisco... And would still do it on those big hills.
After you master the parking brake technique for clutching, move on to "Using the e-brake to break the tail loose, let's drift!!"
Yeah good tip on the ebrake. I did an ebrake start for the first time today as my driveway is sloped and I had driven in forwards so I had to reverse it up the hill and I just kept rolling forwards. I managed to pull off the ebrake start and get it back out of the driveway proud moment for me haha.
Going to go take it to a hilly backstreet on the weekend and practice some forward starts using it before I jump into tackling it on the road, should get there pretty fast though if today was any indication
My previous car is a 1999 Mitsubishi Magna TH Automatic so the Z is a night and day different experience driving around, I had to take it out to a rural property for work the other day and this thing was made for the back roads!
On the "oh crap I'm on a hill rollback", use the parking brake - set it and as you release the clutch, release the brake slowly in proportion to how much the car starts moving forward. You'll do this until you feel comfortable and foot coordinated.
Not kidding, I grew up in San Francisco... And would still do it on those big hills.
After you master the parking brake technique for clutching, move on to "Using the e-brake to break the tail loose, let's drift!!"
+1 lol..YES! The parking brake. Took the words right outta' my mouth.
I actually haven't had a chance to give it a proper wax yet, just used some wash n wax stuff to give it a wash. Hoping for some nice weather on the weekend to give it a proper job. Looks pretty shiny already, the colour probably helps with that though
Got myself a 2005 Touring MT
Have just given it a full service on a friends hoist. We replaced engine oil, engine coolant, diff oil and gearbox oil and now the engine sounds much quieter driving around in it.
And would still do it on those big hills. 
