After almost 18 months Of ChrisC having a broken Z,It fired up today after we worked on it all weekend :hyper: The Gay Spaceship is now back in action and a very BIG THANKS goes to MTL for driving all the way up from London to help us out :bow:

excellent, at long last! Will get to see this thing at billing then :D

excellent, at long last! Will get to see this thing at billing then :D

 

LOL yea its never seen Billing,so be carefull not to scare it :D

Fookin excellent, was gutted when it went off the road.

 

Pleased for ya mate, top job peeps!

Superb.

 

Good job guys I've also been waiting to see my wide arse brother in the flesh :rofl:

Superb.

 

Good job guys I've also been waiting to see my wide arse brother in the flesh :rofl:

 

thought you met Mac already :rofl:

Nice one :D

 

I dont know whether I would have waited that long for my Z :(

 

But its getting that way already LOL

thought you met Mac already :rofl:

 

Oh here we go! Poundstrecher rebuilds is back :rofl:

well done guys!

Nice one Chris - I'm "made up" for yer!

Oh here we go! Poundstrecher rebuilds is back :rofl:

 

:tongue: :xxx: yes mate got a quiet 5 mins :rolleyes:

Looking forward to seeing it, the car that is!!!!!!!!

You can't believe how good it feels to hear it fire up after all this time! :hyper:

 

Started with this a few months ago:

 

"Camping" with Big Mac and MTL "Z Guru" in the rain:

 

Nearly there:

 

Something mean lurking in the drive:

 

Ready to start:

 

Looking good:

 

Starting to grin now it's running:

 

Massive thanks to MTL who came all the way from south of London to Leeds and spent his whole weekend working late with us to get this done.

He really knows his stuff.

Same to Macca and Ben for their help this weekend and over the last few weeks with a lot of travelling themselves.

 

Car sounds awesome and the bigger turbos have made the exhaust sound even deeper.

You should have heard it without the exhaust on when we first fired it up.

The neighbour came out and said his tiles were falling off the roof LOL

Still got a problem with the clutch but it's pretty much sorted so I'll be at Billing if it doesn't die on me for another year again LOL.

Chris I have been dying to see this car, people have told me it is one of the best looking zeds around!

 

If you wanna give me a ring about the clutch and I will give you benefit of my experience with them!

I'll do that mate.

Problem is the pedal just goes to the floor and only moves the clutch a few mm.

We have bled it a few times and there's no air coming out but when it's running the weight of your foot is enough to send the pedal down.

Ahh Noooo! you got a pic of me :D LOL

looks good, always said there is nothiung better than hearing something youve built fir up. Well done to all involved

Excellent Chris, well chuffed for you!

Does it run OK so far with those settings on the chip?

Excellent Chris, well chuffed for you!

Does it run OK so far with those settings on the chip?

 

Yes seems fine so far but haven't had it on the road yet.

It does seem to stumble a bit when backing off the throttle but I suppose this is normal with dump valves and a twin pop?

Never tried one with both these fitted before.

 

Thanks for getting the code to me mate.

This car is turning into a forum team effort :rofl:

 

Might have a solution for the clutch to try tonight.

Might be running a bit rich at very low rpm / load. I can try tweaking the bottom of the VQ table down a little, might help.

I can put a new chip in the car in 30 secs now I've wired the ROM into an external box with quick release socket. Knew it would come in handy ;)

 

You can't imagine how nervous I was when I first turned the key after all this time and money spent over the last year.

With all the problems and bad luck I've had recently I was expecting a loud clatter of pistons, valves, bearings etc ending with a bang and clounds of smoke! LOL

As soon as we connected the fuel it fired up with a quick turn of the key.

Amazing when this replacement engine hasn't run for about 18 months!

Nice one mate!!!! Soz for not being able to get up this weekend, looks like I missed all of the fun.

 

Spent yesterday ripping my interior apart, replaced two of the rear light panels and lo and behold the imobiliser killed the car! Supposed I was pushing my luck for a years worth of trouble free motoring! ;)

 

you around next weekend, wouldn't mind seeing the silver beast on the road?

Ben,

 

Got to sort this clutch problem and put the bodywork back yet and I'm not getting home until late in the evenings.

I think I'm working on saturday but if it's "mobile" on sunday I might be able to nip over and return your tools etc.

Don't know if a drive like that might be a bit ambitious for it's first run though LOL

Thanks for your help mate :bow: :hyper:

congrats mate!! :D

damn, what am i going to ask you about on MSN now :)

 

nice one mate :)

damn, what am i going to ask you about on MSN now :)

 

nice one mate :)

 

is it still going???? :rofl: