Rob B

An elephant :) Kind of suits me some how :)

Same here :) Seanson 3 can't come round quick enough.

Sounds like a dodgy coil pack connector or one of the wires going to it. Mine has the same problem but it only happens when I disturb something. It goes down to 5 cylinders, so I try to find out whats wrong, then after about 5 mins of me unpluging/plugging connectors and wiggling wires it just goes back to 6. Usually when I've just about given up. From memory the 3 wires going to the coil packs are +12v with ignition on, permanent earth, and the other one runs to the left hand PTU connector and tells the coil pack when to spark. The earth and 12v are easy to check, but the other one a bit of a pain as you have to remove the connector off the PTU. I checked all of mine and didn't find anything wrong, but it was running on 6 at the time so that makes sense. Also, try checking the pins in the coil pack connector, to make sure they're not shoved too far up or or bent apart or something. Never heard of this but you never know. That's alll I can think of at the mo. Rob

Got my nitrous working yesterday :) :) so hopefully should get some good times :) I'll not be using on all my runs though, gonna try and set my launch control up first.Who else is going to be running then? Rob.

As the title says. What do I do now? Cheers Rob.

Yeah I'll be there too :) fingers crossed I get my nitrous working :( Rob.

The other week I went to my nearest shell garage and they didn't have any Optimax :( so I turned around and went to the next nearest Shell and they didn't have any either :( :( By this point the petrol warning light was on so I put £5 of normal stuff in so I could get to tesco and put 99RON in. Anyway, when I was paying for my whole £5 of fuel I asked the guy why there was no Optimax and he said they had stopped selling it for a few days while they changed it to 100RON :) Don't know if this is true or not but it came from an employee of Shell so it could be, although I've not seen it advertised anywhere so prob not. Rob.

Could you tell me how much your paying to the centre box sorted out mate. I want to get mine done too, but not because it's knackered, I just want it louder :) It's allready a HKS stainless but it's not quite loud enough. Cheers

Yeah mate black Z :)

Yeah, i'm up for that mate. I'm gonna need 2 runs though (with and without NOS) so do I count as 2 people? Rob

Yeah, that's my Z :) Fitted it last weekend. I've had the nitrous on for about a year though. I only use it on the strip as nitrous is f***in expensive. Like a few of you said it is to clear the nitrous line of air so it doesn't hesitate when you flick the nitrous on (which it did, but now doesn't) It's not just for real drag cars either as all the principles are the same. It may not be to everyones liking, but I'm well pleased it. Gonna scare the guy next to me on the line at Pod the next time I go :) and come on, if you had nitrous fitted, your telling me you wouldn't get a purge valve? Cheers Rob.

I'm here too, but I've been up since 11 am yesterday :) nearly time for bed :) :)

Just another note. I was aiming for about 1.1 bar when I set the duty to 65% so if you don't want to run that much boost, start at about 60% Rob B

You can tell if you have a boost leak (well, vac leak) with the AVCR. At idle I think mine reads about 450-480 mm per something or other. I spent ages searching TT.net when I was setting mine up and I came to the conclusion every car is different. Set the boost level you want, then set the duty at about 65%. Go for a run in your car and if it spikes reduce the duty a couple of %. If it doesn't reach your boost level quickly enough then increase the duty a couple of %. After a few full throttle runs it starts to self learn the duty anyway and changes it for different rev levels. This is what I did, and mine works fine now. A little bit of boost spike but not much. Hope this helps. Rob B

Managed to get up to 170 on the clock then had to slow down because it was 7 pm on the M6 and it was still quite busy. That was nearly 4 years ago though when I was young and stupid. Now I'm just stupid :rofl: but I've not tried it since. Rob

They look spot on mate. Out of interest, about how much did you pay to get them done? As I have some split rims which are begging me to be sorted out.

I'm hardly ever here but I am today. It's hard to keep interest when your Z is 1000 miles away :(:( Rob

Don't watch it Andy unless you have a tisue handy :cry: http://robbagwell.tripod.com/andyatpod.mpg It's about 4mb but it's worth a laugh :p And here's one of me beating a mates Evo :) http://robbagwell.tripod.com/robatpod.mpg Have fun Rob B

Right, this is a bit of a strange one. I was driving to the shopping centre the other day and I noticed my car was overheating a little. It was 32 degrees outside (I live in Italy at the moment) so I thought nowt of it really. On the way home it was overheating a bit more so I got home quickly. A few days later I went to the pub in my car and by the time I got there the temp was way up near the top :( I was in the pub for quite a while so it had time to cool down. When I got out I noticed a puddle under my car. About quarter of a mile away from my house the temp was at the top, so I pulled over onto a car park and waited for it to cool down a bit. Set of again and ended up rolling upto my house because I didn't like how hot it was. I got up the next morning to find a big puddle under my car :(:( All this happend the other week, and I only got round to looking at it this weekend. This is where it gets a bit strange. On Saturday I poured 1.5 litres into the rad and straight away it started coming back out of the bottom quite quickly. Problem is I didn't have a jack so I couldn't see exactly where it was coming from. At a guess it was from the pump/thermostat area. I got a jack today, jacked it up and poured more water in..... and...... nothing! not a drop came out. I filled it up and still nothing. Started it up, left it running for a while and still nothing. I took it round the block for a thrashing, got back still no leak. I don't understand how it can piss out one day, then nothing a couple of days later. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks for reading. Rob.

After moving to Italy just over 5 months ago I finally made the journey and now have my Z here with me :D:D As you can imagine, it's not been nice having my car all the way over there and not being able to drive it. So, after about £150 in fuel, £124 for channel tunnel and about £50 in tollroads and the Mt. Blanc tunnel it's here. This was taken just before goin in the Mt Blanc tunnel. By the way, If your ever going through the tunnel, keep to the 70 kph speed limit. There are loads of cameras all the way down. And here it is, after about 14 hours of driving and 8 cans of Red Bull, the Z sits outside my house :) All that's left to do now is to go and find some ferrari's :D Cheers Rob.

That's a bit weird. I live in Italy and I'm flyin back to the UK on Thursday for a holiday :) Not much of a holiday but at least I get to drive my Z. Oh yeah, and then drive it back to Italy :D:D By the way smw1, Non è facile imparare questa lingua stupida Cheers Rob.

Before I removed my cats I installed the breather kit to stop my seals from leaking. The only problem was the breather kit was just a pain in the arse so I decided to take it off the other week. I was a bit worried about the seals cos my Z has done 99k :( but (touch wood) it has been fine so far. Not a sign of blue smoke :) I think if your cars been well looked after it should be fine. Rob.

I'm 22 on friday. Had it since I was 20 though. It's the longest I've ever had a car :) Rob.

I'm still slightly active every now and then. Work for BAE. Just about to move to Italy working for 2 years. I can't go without my car for that long so it's gotta come with me :D Rob.