nickz32

Tried banzai breakers? Fairly sure he's just bought another z for breaking

Steamer and lots of microfibre cloths

The alarm bells went off for me when he said he couldn't get a good colour match. Find a different body shop

I should be doing a couple of airfield days this year as a way to fine tune my fast road setup/post build shakedown and reacquaint myself with my cars power levels. I'm off to the Alps and the ring later in the year, so that's prob enough for my wallet for one year

I wouldn't be disappointed by any negative feed back, more curious to see where a journo who drives more different cars than most of us combined will ever drive feels that the z falls down in the company of the type of cars in the feature. That then would give some of us ideas if we agree with those negatives on how to rectify them

What's the bad?

And it took 112c water temp and 120c oil temp to do that. For such a drop in oil pressure, you'd be looking for a failed oil pump, a significant oil leak, or an internal failure of an oil way.

Mine blew due to det. Nope, head was a straight as a straight thing. Sod knows how!

Mine was sat for two years with a head gasket this badly warped, had a TINY bit of emulsified oil in the block, certainly not two litres!

That's a HUGE amount of water for a blown HG! I'd second the theory of a cracked block. Shitty news for you fella

+1 to Joel's comments. I run the zeta-r on my car (SWB spec springs on a lwb car) as I wanted to go back to a more compliant set up after living with Jap spec Tein Coilovers. For general road use I have the dampers on their softest setup and the spring pre load wound back to "zero" to get as compliant a ride as possible. I made up a spring compression marker so I can set the pre load I was happy with for track use and tweek the damping as I see fit. As for quality, I'd probably give them a 8/10. The anodising of the damper body and top mount have held up to year round use well, but the powder coating on the spring began to flake off after about 3 years. While I understand the Meisters are not a premium suspension product in the grand scheme of things (they're no Ohlins) I would have hoped the Spring coating would have lasted a little longer

They could be the under plenum water pipes?

The little hoses under the throttle body, one side feeds the carbon canister, and the other feeds the EGR solenoid

I feel your pain fella. I had my MPFL reconstructed 2 years ago, but it didn't solve my symptoms, so had a tibial tubicle osteotemy and a MPFL graft at the beginning of this year (simple terms, they break your shin to move the patella tendon further down to lower the knee cap further down the joint, and then pinch a tendon from the hamstring to replace the shagged ligament that keeps the knee cap tracking straight) Enjoy the pain meds and unless under strict instruction not to, start moving the joint as soon as possible, it really really does help speed up recovery

Welcome back buddy! I know what you mean about the detailing, I haven't done any in ages!

Wow. Terrible news. Lovely bloke. Condolences to his family and friends

Still stock rail with Nismo 740's. My cars a 95 so runs the later rail and injectors. Will eventually go for the top feed conversion, but the setup is fine for what I need for the GT525's

Yes you would need a remap. Bigger turbos move more air at all pressures. More air needs more fuel. Remember you can only turn the pressure down as low as the actuator is set to, usually 0.7 bar unless otherwise specified.

The actual cause is still unknown, but it was during a 181mph pass at Bruntingthorpe, cylinder 5 had suffered some det which was severe enough to blow the head gasket and cause some bore and piston damage. I suspect it was a fuel pump issue (pressure drop that starved injector 5) as the injectors have been tested and are all fine. Made sure I have the fuel system to cope this time round and a Haltech ecu to save the engine should anything similar ever occur again

As and when mine is all finished to a point I'll happily bring it to a meet, your more than welcome to come for a spin in mine

I have to disagree with you there buddy. Prior to going pop, mine was more than usable on the road at 580hp in all conditions. Granted in the wet you had to be sensible (but then, you have to be sensible with 300hp in the wet). Power delivery is far more crucial than outright number. A peaky 450hp can be far more of a handful over a progressive 550hp

Jaffa's is on a a Link ECU. Cheers for those other names though, got a couple of questions about some of the base map settings. Cheers dude

As per the title, is anyone else on here running a Haltech ecu?

Andrew!!!!! Shame on you!!!

Andy, now you've been running these for a while, any feedback?