nickz32

New rubber went on yesterday. Aesthetically they’re not ideal, I forgot that Michelin’s are quite balloony in their fitment so probably should have gone with a 275 or 285 tyre,. But in this case, function wins over form. 295/35ZR18 103Y XL Michelin Pilot Super Sports and the Z now has a serious rear end foot print. I’m probably going to have to do some clearance work where the bumper mounts to the quarter panel as it’s looks like it’ll foul on suspension compression. Also looking into corner balancing and geometry when I’ve tweaked the ride height. Another random curveball appeared on the way back from the tyre place, a nasty oil leak from the left hand oil cooler hose. The Stillen oil cooler has a push in earls fitting, which appears to have torn the inside on the hose when it was pushed into the hose. Bearing in mind this cooler has been on the car for over 1000 dyno miles, it’s clearly been a slow time failure. Luckily I spotted it in a timely fashion and fitted a new section of reinforced rubber hose and she’s leak free yet again. Just waiting for another free slot on the dyno and the power runs can commence

Unfortunately I can’t get the PS4 or 4s in my rear wheel size (285 or 295/35) so my only Michelin options were PS2, PS3 (which wasn’t a great tyre) or PSS. Such a shame they dont make the 4s in 18’s, I’ve got them on some of my work cars and they’re a fantastic tyre

About 100mph. They’d been tuning the part throttle cruising ignition timing at the time, so not a particularly high load scenario. I checked the other side, which has no obvious sign of stress (no discolouration, micro blisters, cracks etc). But as you say, rather it happened on the rollers and not on the road! I’d been planning on putting some top notch rubber on it any way (it’s got FK453’s all round at the moment, so not bad just not amazing), just wasn’t anticipating doing it quite so soon!

I have never known a car that has resisted so hard against my attempts to put it back on the road! Received a message from the tuner the other day stating the car had developed a severe vibration during a session on the rollers. I kinda assumed that it had either thrown a wheel weight or I had somehow not tightened up the new camber arms properly. So I went to investigate. On removal of the wheel, the problem was immediately apparent Wasn’t expecting that! Not entirely sure of the cause of the delamination, as the tyre is still holding 32psi. My guess is age related failure. They have been on the car since 2013 and was stored on those tyres while it was off the road.I haven’t checked the manufacture date yet, but I’m going to assume that they were at least a couple of years old before I bought them (new) So I’ll be changing all 4 tyres. Last thing I want is a failure whilst up at the lakes! Michelin Pilot Super Sports all round

M40 - M1 sounds good to me

I’d Normally agree, but according to Google it’s only an extra 10 miles distance wise. Just thinking about flow of traffic around the usual spots on the M6 May end up being much slower than using the M1 up to Leeds, A1M and across

Most direct route is looking like M40/42/6, however knowing what traffic can be like on the M6 around Knutsford/Lymm and Preston (especially on BH weekends) I’m wondering if the M1/A1M maybe a better flowing option (I hardly use the M1 beyond Northampton)

Although I haven’t spoken to Andrew about it yet, I assumed we would probably RVP somewhere on the M40 before heading up the M6. Game for meeting you guys somewhere probably north of Birmingham

It’s gloss black base colour as per the rest of the car, but with a matte clear coat over the top

Well, my suspicions were confirmed.... one very blocked fuel filter Looks like I hadn’t cleaned the braided lines aswell as I thought as the filter was blocked with very fine particles of rubber. Tested the system with out the filter and a bit of meddling on the Haltech and she runs as well as she did pre rail swap! I’d originally discount the fuel filter because it’s had such little use I assumed it would be fine. Lesson learned! Unfortunately I lost my slot at the Rabbid Tuning ltd in Basingstoke, but the car was due to stay there all week for them to fine tune cold start etc, so I dropped it off this evening. New filter will arrive tomorrow and be installed prior to any runs. Hopefully, all being well, she shall make some power this week

I’m cant say for sure there is no restriction until I check the filter, but it terms of pipes and bends and no kinks etc everything appears as it should. Basically when I put any load into the engine fuel pressure drops dramatically (down to 0.7 Bar when I give the throttle a good jab) causingnit to run lean. Pumps been checked, tested and fine (both in voltage its getting, amps it’s drawing and fuel it’s putting out), and a known good pump had been tried with the same results/symptoms. regulator is brand new and more than up to the task (had the same issues on my previous Tomei reg, which is why I swapped to the turbo smart). I can adjust the FPR all the way up to 5 Bar on idle condition, so the pump can generate pressure, but when I ask for an increase in volume the rail and FPR simply isn’t getting it Exasperated to say the least

Unfortunatly I no longer have an OEM steering wheel, as I found it say to close to my knees for comfort. I have a dished OMP wheel (have done for a while) Well, the car won’t be going for mapping tomorrow. Yet again, fuelling issues have scuppered my plans and the car isn’t exactly driveable. Having spent two days going through the electrical side of the fuel system, it appears that I have a mechanical problem somewhere I my system that means when I put ANY load into the engine, even when moving from stationary, I have a massive drop in fuel pressure that causes the car to run lean and misfire (a different problem to my old pressure issue, which was high rpm high load, this problem only seems to have appeared since changing to the top feed setup) Gutted doesn’t come close to how I’m feeling today. I’ve got one more thing to try (fuel filter). After that I’m out of ideas

Thanks buddy, looking forward to getting her out and about this year

Custom exhaust with these tips. Either 3.5 or 4 inch, need to see how they look in the space before I decide

They’re getting replaced in the near future with something a bit nicer :P

Cheers guys, I’ll upload some more pics later

Well I was supposed to pick up he Z today, however fate suggested otherwise A couple of days ago a very very careless eurocarparts driver parked next to the Z while it was out in the yard and opened his door onto my Z, marking and denting the passenger side door right in the middle of the panel. As you can imagine, neither the bodyshop or I were best impressed. So, today the Z went back into the spray booth to have the door repaired and repainted. After the baking process I decided to make use of the warmth and fit the OE Upper windscreen moulding (the one the windscreen company used was hideous). Annoyingly this is where we noticed the windscreen wasn’t sitting and flat as it should be and sits proud of the side moulding runners on the top left corner of the screen. There’s only one way to fix this, and that’s windscreen out yet again (hopefully for free). On a positive note, the Z should be ready for collection tomorrow and off for mapping on Monday

1. Craig+2 (booked) 2. Richard+1 (booked) 3. AndrewG+1 (booked) 4. Ianl (booked) 5. Joelyp 6. Coopd 7. TonyB 8. IanGreenfield 9. GSC (Gary)+1 Booked 10. nickz32 +1 (Booked)

Doh, although the ambiguous title of the other thread doesn’t help :sweatdrop:

Looks like the next Z won’t be a cross over SUV after all Hopefully it’ll have the looks and performance to challenge the new Supra with the developed version Twin Turbo V6 out of the current Q60 https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-japanesecars/nissan-370z-successor-confirmed/37731 It’s like 1994 again!

I’m curious now, Andrew can you check mine please mate, pinged you my vin

Fairly sure the one I took off my car was the one on the right, but I replaced it with a earlier series alternator as there weren’t any lightweight pulley kits for the late style alternator (at the time, and my bearings were squealing like mad) I’m pretty sure I’ve seen both hitachi and Mitsubishi alternators for the Z

1. Craig+2 (booked) 2. Richard+1 (booked) 3. AndrewG+1 (booked) 4. Ianl (booked) 5. Joelyp 6. Coopd 7. TonyB 8. IanGreenfield 9. GSC (Gary)+1 Booked 10. nickz32 +1