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Boxed up my heads, manifolds, down pipes, turbine housings, lower Plenum, backing plates, block water pipes and a few other bits and bobs ready to be sent to EPR tomorrow. £170 for a 6 day delivery with TNT/FedEx.... not too bad considering it weighs 90KG

Gutted for you fella. Glad to hear you’re ok.... yet another stark reminder to people that Z’s are old cars now, and perform like old cars when it comes to collisions. Again, glad you’re ok

For anyone that’s on FB, you’ll find my engine under the album name “UK’s Black Betty” on the EP Racing page. I can’t link the album (stoopid FB) but you’ll be able to see the album from this post I’ll be posting a selection of the pics that Mitch posts on here anyway, but he usually describes certain processes of his builds on FB if any of you have interest in seeing the machining that’s going into my build. As before, if anyone has any Q’s, please feel free to ask.... I don’t bite!

First bunch of parts have arrived...

Happy bday Gary!

I do, .Zircotech, but they have quoted £350 more than EP Racing are charging me for the same product

Yet more money.... So having contemplated the thermal management side of things, as well as my previous bad history with heat wrap, I wanted to look at alternative solutions for reducing engine bay temps. Initially I thought about making a heat shield that fit my manifolds properly and then insulating certain components with a decent quality gold insulator. But having completed a reasonable amount of research, there appears to be reasonable doubt as to the effectiveness of such products (gold coated insulation). I also thought about using a turbo blanket for the hot side of each turbo. However I have decided to go down the ceramic coating route. I spoke to Jaffa about the results he had when ceramic coating his exhaust parts and he gave very positive feedback. So I will be having my manifolds, turbine housings and down pipes all ceramic coated by EP Racing. This should give me a significant reduction in engine bay temps aswell as reduce the amount of heat soak the engine suffers with.

No worries I personally trimmed them down and fed them back through the holes in the floor and put some rubber bungs in the holes to seal them ip

They’re the cat converter temp sensors, to detect cat over heat. It’s pretty common practice when the car has been de-catted to cut the cables as the temp sensors are normally stuck in the cats. In short, nothing to worry about

I assumed TT ones were also NLA. Something for me to order then!

*****sold*****

Will see what the future brings, but as much as I’d like to, it’s pretty unlikely

I’m unlikely to make this even this year with baby on the way and the financial commitments I’ve already made. Shame as this years trip was brilliant

Something else I forgot to add to the list is that I’m having one of the blanked off ports into the oil galleys opened up and machined for an AN fitting block off. The plan in the future is to plumb in an Accusump System, but have it fed directly into the oil galley that supplies the crank rather than using a sandwich plate arrangement. That in combination with the extended baffled sump should provide as much protection for the bottom end as possible, short of going for a full dry sump

Yes I’ve read that thread and spoke to rob over Pm. Looks like I’ll be fine. No, I’ve bought a core bottom end from Mitch, but I’m shipping my heads etc for him to CNC port and then build a Long Block, and I’ll put the rest on when it’s shipped back

So, the new engine spec is.... 88mm CP Pistons Saenz Forged Con Rods King XP main and big end bearings EP Racing Thermal Barrier Piston Coating EP Racing High Performance Bearing Coating EP Racing Billet Crankshaft Cap kit EP Racing High Capacity baffled Sump v2 ARP main crank and head studs EP Racing modified crank EP Racing modified oil pump Ross Performance dampened crank pulley with 12 tooth Timing Ring and Hall Effect sensor Ross Performance Camshaft Trigger Kit (CAS Elimination kit) EP Racing “Street” profile CNC Head Port As well as carrying over my existing parts... SuperTech 0.5mm valves SuperTech dual coil valve springs and titanium spring retainers BDE v2 intake VTC pulleys Power Enterprises Kevlar timing belt EP Racing belt tensioner AMS exhaust manifolds Z1 GT525 turbos AMS 3in expansion down pipes WinFactory top feed fuel rail with Injector Dynamics 1050x (1065cc) injectors Z1 SMIC modified with 2.5in flanges Setrab 19 row oil cooler AMS alternator/power steering pulleys All built by EP Racing The issue with the Ross Performance kit isn’t actually the kit, it’s my Haltech, which unfortunately is limited on trigger options due to firmware limitations. Just awaiting confirmation that if I wire it into the relevant pins in the ECU that it’ll recognise the new signal input

Yes, cooler was replaced with an updated item and lines were cleaned. The previous build didn’t have any bearing damage or debris in the oil. This time, both cooler and lines will be replaced

Dam straight we do! I’m just waiting on confirmation on compatibility for a particular part and my Haltech. I’m 99% sure it’ll work with no issues, but I want to confirm before I commit to it, it’s not a cheap bit of kit

Yeah, I was reffering purely about ceramic coating his wheels. As for paint, I think the ceramic does help protect against mild swirls etc, but anything above that would require matchine polish correction..... and from what I hear, it’s bloody hard going on ceramic coating paint surfaces

You don’t need to remove them mate, they naturally just lose their effectiveness. They can be topped up every couple of years with a another coat or two.

Erm.... a little. Last chance saloon for my Z really. If things don’t work out after this, then it’ll be going.

Great product. Good choice

Well this evening I committed to my future engine plans. Watch this space for future updates..... as per usual I’ve decided on a few parts that very few, if anyone in the UK is currently running. Exciting times

From what I saw, Stiggy has been at the pies!

Glad that I managed to get my car on the stand.... even in picture form (cheers Ian!)