nickz32

Good guess....... But no

A little clue

Woohoooo Who wants to take a guess at what was wrapped in this

Yes mate.... until Ash sorts out his ability to deliver his good it’ll be a while before I get the Planar (sp) kit, so yes still in stock filter to compressor pipes

I don’t actually have a MAF any more (joys of standalone ECU) so I’m just on the Air filter adapter brackets that have a shoulder to slide into a silicon coupler. I tried to find the ad for the one I already have on the car but can’t see to find it. The only ones I’ve found so far are Z32 MAF adapter brackets that are listed at 75mm..... again though, just want to be sure before I buy something

They now do a 90 degree 67mm to to 76mm reducer which should do the trick (from memory inlet pipe is 65mm ID and the MAF connection is 75mm), but as I’ve just proved, my minds a bit off this eve, so wanted to double double check - - - Updated - - - If you could mate that would be grand

Infact ignore more. I’m being dumb.... If I just measure the two points on the stock T I’ll get the answer I’m after... Having one of those days..... as you were peeps

For those of you who are running dual intake Would someone be willing to measure the internal diameter of both ends of the elbows please? Thanks Nick

All will be revealed next week :P

Well, I finally committed to it, the BGW is no longer part of the look of my Z All being well, my new spoiler will be despatched from the US today and arrive mid next week

I’d love to commit, but will wait until the Z is ACTUALLY on the road before I do so. Fingers crossed 6 weeks or so I will know

Looking forward to seeing the progress that is to come buddy

Yeah, one of the companies I keep a saved for when I want to rebarrell by SSR’s

http://Www.Augmentwheels.com will do them. They have reproduced various Porsche wheels in different sizes and they look proper. It’ll be expensive, but it’s certainly possible to do it ***edit*** about $4000 before shipping expensive for forged aluminium wheels, so compatible to top end wheels

I know somewhere stateside that will do them, but not over here

Good to see you still around Andy The auctioneers are certainly doing well promoting the sale of that Z. Hopefully it’ll make headline grabbing news to keep the Z in the recent lime light it’s had recently

Happy birthday fella

Since th car has been in the bodyshop I’ve been umming and aahing about going back to completely stock rear lights. I’ve been on the 99 spec “conversion” for a long time but I’ve never been that impressed with how the diffuser sheeting sits in the lens, with gaps across the bottom of where the diffuser is meant to sit flush against the grey frame. I’ve never been a fan of the pinstripe lines in the proper 99 specs, although I do like the later centre panel with the red 300ZX text, I may have to purchase one in the future. To be honest I never particularly disliked the stock lights. Sooooo...... ....from a collection of spare bits I had purchased over the years I rebuilt the rear lights with the original orange diffusers. I think having a black car I get away with it more than other colours, so while it does “age” the rear of the car a little, I don’t think the whole car suffers as a result. I’ll keep the clear side repeaters and front indicators as they are. Once I’ve given the lenses a good going over with the DA I’m sure they’ll look perfect

Started off promising but the ground was soaked from the rain yesterday so the roads are fine

You can speak directly to PayPal And query the payment. But I 100% wouldn’t release the car until funds are cleared

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22 December 2017 The final piece of the fuelling setup turned up this week. A Turbosmart FPR2000 Yes, it’s complete overkill with its 2000 BHP handling capacity, however there are reasons for choosing it. Firstly with the addition of the WinFactory fuel rail much entire fuel system was -8 sized (I.D of about 12.6mm) all apart from the Tomei FPR, which was 3/8NPT (around 6mm ID). While it would affect pressure that much, it’s a bit of a bottle neck for flow. The Turbosmart FPR uses -8AN ports, so my entire system is now equalised. Secondly, as you can see in the data log there is oscillation in then fuel pressure when on load. This maybe caused by a lack of fuel dampener in my set up. This can effect fuel injector performance by causing inconsistency in how the Injector delivers fuel. After a bit of research I found this article by Adaptronic ECU’s. They too had an issue with fuel pulse oscillation with Injector Dynamics injectors. The article also compared some of the after market FPR’s as well as a factory item from an RX7. http://www.adaptronic.com.au/fuel-pressure-regs-is-there-much-of-a-difference/ ***spolier alert*** the Turbosmart came out as the most accurate and consistent FPR Yesterday I popped to the car and fitted the new unit. I need to adapt the mounting bracket as it currently forces the FPR to sit in a way that causes a clearance issue with the fuel pressure sensor. The car has changed a fair bit since I last saw it, virtually ready for primer. Best news is that no unexpected tin worm or gremlins have been discovered. Can’t wait to see it painted! And there we are, bang up to date. Obviously posts won’t come quite so thick and fast from now on. I still have a few things in the pipeline that will really change the look of the car. Bring on 2018!

November 2017 Dropped the Z off at the bodyshop After a week or so I popped over to grab a couple of parts I needed to do some bits to. One of my headlights had a dirty projector lens one of my rear light clusters was cracked. They had already started the prep work, focussing in the rear arches. They had been rolled and flared in a bit of a rush for Vmax to fit the new Varrstoen wheels. Because the flare is effectively 3 skins of metal, it’s been formed as close to perfect as possible and then filler will have out the dips from the spot welds on the rolled lip. The bit of filler at the leading edge of the arch is an old repair that I could see through the paintwork since I’ve owned the car. Once they removed the glass I took the rear quarter glass and rear screen home to remove the tint. I’d had enough of trying to reverse at night through limo tint glass! The quarter window tint came off without too much trouble The rear screen on other hand was a pig of a job. No matter how much heat we used the glue wouldn’t release the tint without taking sections of the heated screen with it. So I employed the help of the Mrs and her steady hand and we set about repairing the elements

September 2017 After establishing what options I had with the bodywork side of things, I decided to bite the bullet and go for a full glass out panels off respray. It seemed like a false economy to spend £1500 on a “blow over” to sort the various bits that needed doing and having a proper respray a few years in the future. I ended up choosing a bodyshop fairly local to me who works on prestige cars. Further more the owner of the business has owned and repaired several Z’s since the mid to late 90’s. His knowledge of how these cars come apart meant less time was wasted figuring out how certain parts come off and how to get them aligned again properly once painted. To go along with the new paint I bought all new roof mouldings, door mouldings, rear window seals, center targa bar, clips, grommets etc etc. If I was going to do it, I wanted the car to be compatible to some of the nicest cars in this club. The car was booked in for mid November and I started hammering the overtime at work. As ever, another small problem emerged. While I was confident in my work around the fuel system, I could very occasionally smell fuel around the plenum. There was no way on Earth I was going to let a small fuel leak cause the car to burst into flames and ruin everything I worked for. So over a few weeks, the plenum came off and everything was triple checked. And yet, no sign of any leaks, no torn seals, no weeping connectors. The smell was fairly localised around cylinders 1/3/5, but I just could not trace it. The final test was to place some UV dye in the fuel, run the car and then check the fuel system with a UV light.... nothing. Not even a dot of UV ink. I spoke to Jaffa at length about the issue as I knew his whole fuel system wasn’t dissimilar to mine. One theory was because I had used nitrile rubber braided hose rather than Teflon braided hose, the smell could be emanating from the hoses themselves. But I didn’t want to take the risk of a fuel fire and the smell seemed too localised for that theory to entirely fit the bill. Further more, I was getting thoroughly cheesed off having to keep removing the plenum to get access to the fuel system. Secondly, after the promising performance in the dyno I knew I may end up getting close to the safe limits of the NISMO 740cc injectors I had fitted during the rebuild. Only one solution fitted the bill. The latest version of the WinFactory top feed fuel rail mates with Injector Dynamics 1050X (1065cc) top feed injectors. By fitting this I reduced the amount of joins in my fuel system between the feed line to the regulator from 9 to 2, vastly reducing the likelihood of leaks. It added simplicity to the system of one inlet and one outlet on the rail itself, it further raised my safety net in the fuel delivery department, and finally meant I didn’t have to remove the plenum any time I wanted to work on the fuelling system. A bit of modification was required to get the rail to fit. As my car has the late design plenum, it has a few extra lugs and mounting points that weren’t used until after 1996. So I had to cut, grind and repolish those areas. Further clearance was needed on the “bridge” that connects the throttle pulleys to the plenum over cylinder 1. (Pics taken from WinFactorys installation guide) A bit more faffery wiring up new pig tails for the injectors and she was in and back together again To finalise things I decided a bit more thermal protection was required for the fuel lines, so I wrapped the lines that ran in the engine bay with suitable protection It was an expensive bit of kit, but the smell of fuel appears to have completely vanished. The Injector details on the map were changed to suit and she was running again (the joys of Volumetric Efficiency based mapping means changes such as injectors don’t require a full remap) I had moved house in August, so for the first time in a while I brought the old girl home.

Subscribed member???? Don’t you mean Supreme Emperor! I dunno mate, ruffling around in Simons carpet is something that requires serious consideration and copious amounts of alcohol.... I know where he hangs out!!! Oooooooh I do miss my SSR’s. I must check to see if they clear my brembos without spacers on. I took this pic just after I sourced the brakes, but can’t remember if I had my big hubcentric spacers on when I took it...... I do remember clearance being toight.... toight as a toiger ***Edit*** For those of you don’t havent seen or don’t remember, I have a set of SSR Indy 500’s which are pretty rare. Unfortunately a crack in the road around Lake Bala slightly buckled all 4 wheels and the barrels aren’t repairable. I’m hoping to rebuild them with new barrels one day because.... well... they look fapping awesome