Some pics from the breakfast club meet today

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February 15, 200917 yr

Some pics of todays meet:

Some of the pic's of the 2 Zeds there

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February 15, 200917 yr

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Woot Woot a 350 :dance:

On dear...

Mini me :D

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February 15, 200917 yr

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Some random pics

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February 15, 200917 yr

Nice pics :D

Now lemme see that steering wheel :D

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February 15, 200917 yr

Looks good seeing zeds standing out from the crowd, is thats Munny's??

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February 15, 200917 yr

I love the Mk1 Astra GTE, I always wanted one of those in white.

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February 15, 200917 yr

Looks good seeing zeds standing out from the crowd, is thats Munny's??

Yep thats munnys mate :)

Nice pics guy!

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February 16, 200916 yr

Few of mine from the Day!

DSCN0130.jpg?t=1234753542 A nice Arse Shot!

DSCN0132.jpg?t=1234753584 Sweet 3/4 pan shot

DSCN0133.jpg?t=1234753601 Nice Smiley Fronts (original bumper vs 99spec)

Zed.jpg?t=1234753632 Pic by Midlands Photographer

DSCN0121.jpg?t=1234753715 Yummy Noble

DSCN0116.jpg?t=1234753734 Arial Atom

DSCN0115.jpg?t=1234753774 1 Mean RS6

DSCN0110.jpg?t=1234753797 Lotus Elise Old vs New

DSCN0104.jpg?t=1234753818 Nice bit of Euro Style

Enjoy!

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February 16, 200916 yr

Great Pics Munny :D

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My daughter calls it Toothless the Dragon: My ‘95 TT Z

After many hours research and consulting OCS, I decided to try something somewhat new with my piston rings.

I have decided to run Total Seal Gapless pistons rings. The setup includes a gapless top ring, with conventional second and oil control rings. To my knowledge I’m the only person in the UK to be running gapless rings on a VG30, but I know of at least one other in the states that have shown very positive results.

The term gapless is a bit of a misnomer. It’s a 2 piece ring, with their individual ring gaps rotated 180 degrees from each other, effectively making the area around the ring gapless. The positives include virtually 0 blowby (so a 0-1% leakdown vs 5% on a conventional ring), increased vacuum and reduced oil fuel dilution. The other benefit is you can run a larger ring gap on the 2 pieces, allowing the a wider margin for thermal expansion without the downside of increased blow by
The only real downside that I can see is the cost, at around 30% more than a CP Piston ring pack.

Hopefully this will help with slightly improving my idle vacuum (due to my cam profile) and a generally more efficient engine.

By nickz32 · 4 hours ago4 hr
My daughter calls it Toothless the Dragon: My ‘95 TT Z

Also spent a bit of time with the burrs to clear out the casting debris and stress risers from around the bottom of the block around the crank journals.
This casting debris is from the imperfect casting mould that leave small sections of iron/sand mix still attached to the main casting. In certain situations, harmonics can release bits of this debris which then has the potential to destroy the bearings, an engine, by being circulated by the oil system.

Stress risers are similar. They’re very fine ridges in the casting that can form a weak point. Simple remedy is grind them back flush.

By nickz32 · 4 hours ago4 hr
My daughter calls it Toothless the Dragon: My ‘95 TT Z

Well I got my block back from OCS last week and have started on the block prep for deep clean and assembly
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Nice to see all those upgrades make it onto the car, congrats!

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"Setting the standard for super cars in the nineties" Nice find Lee.

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