Has anyone with a UK car installed APEXi BOV’s recently?

 

If so, how did you access them? I have tried moving the fan out of the way but it will not go past the oil cooler and intake pipes. The fan has to move as there is no access to the far 12mm bolt holding the re-circ in place.

 

I cannot move the oil cooler as the bolts have rusted solid and I have already sheared one off, can’t risk any more.

 

If anyone has a decent method, please post it up!

I think you'll have to remove that cooler mate :(

It's mounted on a bracket so you could always get a replacement one from AndyZ or somewhere?

Depends if the bolts for the bracket are rusted too I suppose LOL

yep, remove it mate - 2 bolts of mine sheared off :(

If they all go just drill through afterwards.

 

pain in the arse but once its been done its easier second time :)

 

must have removed mine 5 times in last month,

Alex you could always get Smithy to make you a hardpipe kit and fit them in your engine bay;)

MAC think the Apexis are too big for that

Alex want me to mail you the English instructions ?

MAC think the Apexis are too big for that

Really? how big are they? Not seen any.

They do fit on a zed with a larger oilcooler.

You can also fit them "upside down" (sort of) , so they'll end up in the free area near/under the headlights.

I have fitted them this way and they work fine...if you want I can take a picture of it.

 

-Eric

Alex want me to mail you the English instructions ?

 

Yes please Chris, pm'd you my address. Have some net soyrced guidance, but the official one would be good.

English manual for Z32 BOVs

 

http://www.apexi-usa.com/productdocumentation/intake_bov_z32.pdf

Lymon - thanks for the offer, but it's not so much the fitting of the new ones, rather getting to the re-circs to get them off.

 

All the bolts on the cooler look rusted to buggery, including those on the bracket. May have to bite the bullet and try unbolting them, then drill them out if they snap. :(

 

The only other way I can think of as mentioned in another post is to try to move the rad back a bit towards the engine and see if it gives enough clearance for fan removal.

Cheers Andy

Moving the rad won't help! The rad thats in the way is the aircon condensor NOT the cooling system radiator ;)

Borrowed this pic from SMW.

 

OK - no chance of moving that then?

 

Cooler is the only option then - F*ck it.

That fan should come out fine. Undo those top screws, undo the connector and wiggle it till it comes out. Never had any problems till now.... Try bending the cooler forwards if its in the way...

Tried all that mate, the top of my cooler sits a lot higher than the one shown, up to the middle of the fan. It will move forward a bit by undoing the top to bolts which bolt to another pipe (also not on Jap cars obviously) but not enough. I spent about an hour wiggling and it would not get past the pipes no matter what I tried.

Well it should pull forwards slightly at the top then straight up and out :confused:

Looks like it will, but believe me I tried every way i could (even broke some of the plastic fan surround on the air pipes) but couldn't.

I had a few problems fitting mine as i have a very large oil cooler and front mount so i got the grinder out and took the fixing brackets off held them in place so they point towards each other and welded them back up worked a treat....cheers dad :)

 

Kirbz

AGREE WITH ANDY ON THE FAN DUDE-JUST FITTED19 ROW OIL COOLER AND

HAD TO MOVE THE FAN/COWL-PIECE OF P!!S-UNLESS IT'S TIGHTER ON A UK? :confused:

Update......now fitted the BOV's. You do have to move the cooler on a UK Z. Bit the bullet and undid the other bolts (after I sheared one off last weekend) and luckily they all came out fine.

 

They are a VERY tight fit against the cooler pipework, but other than that well pleased, not too loud and no more honk :)

Hey Alex - congratulations on fitting the ApexIs! I've fitted mine also (have a jap cooler so was a lot smaller - my uprated one sits to the side so out of the way) - bit of a bar-steward job I know. Are you suffering from idle/stall problems since installing the BOVs? If not do you have any other mods which may have fixed this (like an air/fuel controller)?

Hi Dave

 

I have found that my idle is slightly higher than it was pre fitting, so was going to adjust this weekend, but we're talking maybe 200rpm here and still steady nothing like you have described on you're other thread. No stalling at all.

 

I think my BOV's might need relaxing a bit, as the dump is a very short hiss and I can feel a tiny bit of surge back through the car when I'm on/off throttle. I will probably try this first before messing with the idle.

 

I don't have any other mods - I take it you've gone around all connections including the bungs to make sure everything is tight? Other than that no suggestions mate, sorry!

I think my BOV's might need relaxing a bit, as the dump is a very short hiss and I can feel a tiny bit of surge back through the car when I'm on/off throttle.

 

I think I got a bit of that as well (I only had 10 minutes to play with them before my radiator exploded! :rofl: well, cracked anyway). As new do you think the BOVs come on maximum tolerance and you use an alan key to wind them down a bit to dump earlier on ie. with less boost. They were DAMN loud when installed unaltered :bow: :bow:

I relaxed my spring tension a little last night and it seemed to help a little - I don't think they were at maximum though. Now you've mentioned it, you have jinxed my car as my idle was higher last night and reving the engine caused it to drop and struggle a bit before settling at 1200 rpm again.

 

I am going to keep experimenting to see if I can rectifiy the problem so I will lat you know - if you find something that helps post it up!

oops sorry about that mate :p I have that effect on women (drop and struggle a bit :rofl: ). Anyway check out this thread - its something else im trying:

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36357