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Paint them all the same colour...........Matt black.......lol

I knew there was a reason for a big spoiler on the boot Si....... At least she has something to hold onto....... and push when the Z breaks down........:whistling:

Hi stephenk..... what colour is it, LWB or SWB......(2+2 or 2 seater) version.......?

The pipes look a bit dirty........ could do with a clean.......

Welcome fellow Essex member........ TT manual is loads more fun....... Where you going to look at the G reg one??

Hi Lee, been through entire garage and couldn't even find my spare set of oem recircs...... guessing they went to the tip along with my other bits when the father in law tried to help tidy my garage whilst I wasn't here..... Sorry Bud.......

Leave flossy out of this...... she looked great in those pink wellies and pink lipstick......

Mine is still running an NA fuel ECU.....

That one was still available in china last time I checked Ian...... But postage was the issue for me.......

Well found the air leak..... I had done the carbon canister delete and blocked off the vacuum pipe above the N/S intercooler coming from the hard pipe.... The blanking plug was missing when I did smoke the test.... Was like native american smoke signals........ in orange.... lol Suddenly I have pressure on leak test..... found a Jubilee clip had gone bad on throttle to hard pipe connector, so I swapped with 2 mikalor clamps from the set I need to fit in a minute.... Now have no leaks that I can find anywhere..... YAAAAAY!!! Started her up and she sounded better, still idles okay when cold..... but is now showing she doesn't like the throttle blipped when she warms up as stalling still...... I have ordered a new CAS plug, ECU temp sensor plug and TPS plug...... so will solder them in when they arrive, one at a time and check to see if they make any difference...... I am also going to go back to the Platinum spark plugs as they are £2.16 each at the moment..... Just waiting for the RS232 to USB adapter so I can do consult check...... was due to arrive yesterday but christmas post may be delaying it...... Thanks Andy and Santa....... On a side note..... Can I have a new GT-R for Christmas please Santa???? I have been a good boy!!! LOL

Lee, Is it part numbers 26 and 42 you need from Andrews diagram??? If so I can have a gander through my boxes of bits as I am sure I had spares of them when building mine...... If I have them your welcome to them.....

:ninja:xxxxxxxx:shuriken:xxxxxxxxx:death: Damn you Gary.........

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Hi Andrew, I spent ages reading up on that guide for the past few days and other posts..... Found one Jeff did about the metal pipe for the rocker cover coming out as mine also did that and was fixed back in a while ago. I checked it again today and it is still where it should be..... lol I am going to get a pair of PCV's and new associated pipes as mine are a bit hard and old now..... Might as well while doing all this work..... Thanks for the help.....

Right, was fun trying to get her on some blocks to get jack underneath as repeatedly stalled when in drive or reverse.... Got her up in the air and there appears to be NO pipes off and all jubilee clips are tight.....???? Going to go and get smoke matches or pellets after my little ones nativity play later and try smoke test tomorrow..... I did however start her up with MAF connected and then same disconnected and made no difference to stalling when throttle blipped, revs drop and stall.... I then had a play spraying contact and switch cleaner in connector plugs one by one..... checking idle and stalling is still there..... I got to the TPS upper connector and found it was a bit green in the connector side.... Cleaned it and slide back on...... Stalling seems to have temporarily stopped happening..... Might be the cleaner helping make connection, so am going to route through my connector box of old connectors and see if I have one in better condition anywhere.... I am guessing this is a standard 3 pin bosch type connector as I found this number from on a website??? Bosch 1 237 000 039...... I Might go breaker yard hunting for one..... and take spare TPS with me to check fitment..... It would be handy to have a list of cars that have donor connectors we could use to replace our ageing ones??

Funny bugger........ lol Compressor is good enough for air tools, so should have given me some kind of reading.... lol I tried for about 5 minutes to get at least some reading using 7psi to start with.... then upped it to 10psi...... still nowt.... it was like trying to pressurise a colander..... lol So tomorrow I am jacking her up so I can see all pipes and trying smoke pellets to see what happens......

Hi Andrew..... nope mine had hit pistons and left a mark, but not holed or cracked them...... Looks like mine was at low revs and was lucky it didn't do anything but the valves.... I think it did 3 or 4 valves..... Hopefully Muzza will be lucky and it was at tick over and not too much damage done...... fingers crossed for you.....

Boost leak test and can't get any reading as it is literally zero..... Going to jack car up tomorrow and try again to see if I can find a pipe off or where the air is escaping from..... Can hear hissing from air going in where the bung is, but not from anywhere it is coming out of..... May try the smoke test to see if that gives me any clues..... if it isn't an obvious pipe completely off somewhere......

Valves themselves aren't too expensive as long as the heads are okay...... My old NA bent valves but the heads were undamaged, not a scratch...... Guess I was lucky... I got new valves from company based near ilford essex...... I think they were called ferrari's......? Can't seem to find a website though...... Get the heads checked and see if they can be rebuilt? At least when it is rebuilt you will have good heads, new head gaskets and a new belt..... as long as bottom end is okay you will have an good engine....??

Hi, I am after the grey 14 pin consult port located under drivers dash with some wiring attached please..... If anyone has an old breaker they could lop this off of, please????? Cheers....

You sure it ism't one of those corsa's jammed under the Z???........lol

Happy Birthday Noel..... Hope you had a great day..... :balloon::balloon::happybday::balloon::balloon:

Hi Stephen, I Got a friend to use a combustion leak tester on the radiator and came back with No head gasket leak strangely..... I will grab my boost leak tester tomorrow and do that first...... see if there are any more leaks..... I did compression test and they were all pretty good......Posted up somewhere..... so I was guessing it was cylinder to coolant system leak..... but apparently not.... Sorry for posting up what I have done and what I intend doing..... I keep double guessing myself and have lost all confidence in doing anything right..... after making some really stupid mistakes lately that a few years ago I would never have made.... I did the NA to TT conversion with nothing to go by and boxes of pipes and parts......I have cocked up quite a few bits when I did it rushing to get her finished.... not double checking vacuum pipes, etc... I have ended up posting rather than just getting on with finding the problems....... From now on I shall just get on with it....... Thanks to everyone for all the help and advice you have offered..............

Well, errm..... today was back to stalling and same power as before....... ??? Weird.... must be one of the connectors that I used contact cleaner on...... sorry thinking out loud..... First thing is swap out the temp sensor for the ECU..... and then... Going to go back to platinum plugs and see if that stops the stalling when warmed up issue...... as I still have the old ones I took out.... just to see what happens.... I am then going to check connectors and see if cleaning them again makes any difference..... start with CAS, test drive, then MAF, test drive, etc...... see if any cause the same power increase.... It must be something silly I have done...... Any idea's anyone???

Jeezzz Dan...... 20mg would mean you wouldn't care if it was a Z or a robin reliant...... lol Glad your keeping her..... Just do it in your own time frame..... See if you can collar some mates for support and some lifting help...... Sell it as a Christmas get together..... with a few beers and mince pies after it is all done..... lol