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Errr my car has been through 2 mots according the history but doesn't have a rear fog. How can this be if the MOT requires it. The car is a 90 TT 2+2 JDM. I have also check and there is no switches or anything installed for a rear fog. I assume I am going to have to fit one but how and where.

I will be but it looks like there has been a respray done to the car before and it is not the best but I will be looking at that in the summer.

I have almost finished plumbing in my set-up above just waiting for a couple of check valves and some blue hose.

getting a golf tdi to run round in while it is getting fixed, so not bad car to run about in as the wife has one.

RESULT!!!! GET IN THERE MY SON! Just got word that the car is going to get repaired, will be dropping it off in a weeks time when I get back from my Holiday. Wonder what POS car they will give me to run round in while it is getting fixed.

yes it is a jdm tt

Right just had a call from the insurance company saying they are sending an somebody round to look at it, will be busy finding all the decent zed I can find tonight.

6 Days after I got my zed in january somebody hit the car and dented the rear quarter while it was parked at my dads work (was visiting him). The repair is about 900 + vat. Here is the snag though the other persons insurance company want to write it off, beacuse the car is a 1990 and they think it isn't worth it. any advice on what I should do next as I don't particularly want them to write it off unless they are going to give me market value for it and since I just looked on autotrader and on here a tidy JDM TT manual seems to be about £4K. Thanks in advance

Was on my s14a, that I had better throttle response. Think you have misunderstood what I have said about recirc valves, they help emission because they prevent the overfueling often seen when lifting off with aftermarket vent to atmosphere types or complete removal. thank you for the link to the guide it will come in handy tomorrow.

Warrenty Replacement are not subject to tax ;) Email them and speak to them and you will find they will or even arragne the delivery yourself.

I try it and see as it is easy to refit them if it fecks the car up.

Okay let me answer the throttle response, my 200sx had better response when the dump valve was removed! I have also had other people confirming this to me. Joely P see my post above about it will only munch the thrust bearing after a very long time and the fact that if it was as damaging to turbos as you are suggesting all turbo'd cars would have them. the noise by the way is cavitaion, i.e the blades choping the air rather than blowing it, as I said before certain professionally built cars do not run them with no side effects, yes modern rally cars have anti-lag systems, but early turbo'd motors didn't have anti-lag and suffered no increase in lag. Think about the money F1 and rally teams spend in research even in the early 80s if the was a major benefit for fitting one they would of. The biggest benefit for fitting re-circs is for emisson reasons as both vent to atmosphere and complete removal cause overfueling on lift off. I have been told by a couple of decent tuners dump valves shouldn't operater below certain boost pressure (depending on set up) so this means you are effectly running no DV on pressures below this. for example 15psi of boost is you max boost, DV set to 10psi, therefore everything upto 10psi will not open the DV when lifting off, therefore you will be running the pigeon mod. This is common since the springs holding the piston closed have to be of a certain stiffness in order to hold the piston shut at high boost levels to stop leakage. I would only run this upto about 1 bar myself but other have run much higher.

rrrr this no edit function. let me clarifly this line I have always used these forums as a starting point but have had a few conversations with professional tuners, and have often found things to be different for the expected results. this should read I have always used these forums as a starting point but have had a few conversations with professional tuners, and follow their advice have often found things to be different for the forum based expected results. hope this makes more sence.

I will try it and post results here. I like to try things and see what happens, I know more about an SR20det than the VG30DETT but i am learning quickly and the only evidence I can find to tell me not to do this is it might eat the thrust bearing after 50K miles. I have always used these forums as a starting point but have had a few conversations with professional tuners, and have often found things to be different for the expected results. Example I read countless times on different forums that a vent to atmosphere would make my 200 run shit when backing off (jerky, stall), yet I never once had a problem with it and it ran smoothly at idle (once set-up correctly) on a single piston dump and not a twin piston which again everyone recomended, yet was totally unnecessary. chris if the idle is very rough then there is other issues surely with the engine as there is no boost pressure so the recircs are doing nothing then anyway, if you are meaning when backing of then this is probably cause by the MAF reading the back surge of air and over fueling, will look out for this during the trial. Also I have never seen a re-circ or dump valve on any pro rally car or any of the old turbo'd f1 cars, Phil Morrison has ran his turbo for over 6000 drift miles with no damage and he ain't got a dv or re-circ, I know it is a differnet car but, how many people here have actually done this and fully tested it over a few thousand miles.

re-circ ain't couple of hundred to make (maybe at Ni$$an prices), so why are they not fitted to a CA18, in fact I am sure the new scooby doesn't have it either. I might remove them and run for a while to see if there is a performance difference as they can always be re-fitted, certainly the 200sx (s14s, & s15s) guys are saying there is no difference in performance and in fact alot of them are saying the idle is much better than with various different vent to atmosphere setups

So therefore it can't be damaging to the car running without them then as why would Nissan not fit them if it was bad for the turbo / engine? What the hell is goosehonk??????

Alot of the drift boys are running without dump valves and I have been looking on sxoc and apparently s13 ca18 don't have them fitted as standard but I think this must be wrong. (I know very little about the s13). I am more worried about damage to the turbos. on my s14a I used to get compressor stall all the time as my dump valve on opened at over a bar of pressure when backing off. (single piston so had to set it high to stop it leaking on idle). Never noticed any worsing of lag when I set the boost to ten psi during the winter. The pidgeon sound is the compressor blades stalling.

Has anyone here binned the re-circ valves on there car. I was thinking of do this and just blocking the hoses up, I have seen this done on 200sx without problems other that compressor stall noises. What do you think?

Then I would be suing the garage for supplying fuel of shit quality. Found another thing that annoies me to day, the vinyl trim that splits on the sunshades and the boot cover.

You know it costs £807+vat for a new one and that doesn't include fitting.

maybe it is but it is still shit! Actually thinking about this, my 200sx had better fueling stock than the zed afr of around 11.5 - 12.5, also I managed 265bhp at the wheels on standard map with only basic mods on it.

The fooking cost of a new windscreen, the shit standard fueling, the shit standard wheels, the seatbelt oh boy does that get on my nerves. The steering wheel position (too fooking low) oh and the biggie for me is the HICAS that not only drives me up the wall but it scares the shit out of me as it kicks in way too much when cornering.

^^^^ thr rim that is. you must be gutted, I am still awaiting my reart quarter to be fixed which happend 3days after getting the car. so I know how you must feel

if it is a split rin you can get a replacement part, I wouldn't trust it after had be repaired.

I am insured with MCE as well and they gave me £400 FC on my 1991 300zx TT. They are top blocks.