(adl) phoenix

I have a red badge I removed from mine if your interested.

Won't tell you how much my new ones actually costing but retail is 462+vat. Plus lights etc. Will let you know Stephen, might not be till next year,

I hate seeing things like this, they give dealers a bad name, our car park in particular is tiny, we have incidents all the time, Definitely worth contacting BMW customer services. Rather then the dealer, take it over their head, I know from a personal point how much hassle those departments cause for dealers, chasing things and borderline harassing us over various issues.

Been hacked to fit the fmic, and I'm going back to side mounts. Few scratches on the bottom, and sides were it mounts need attention, might sell it on, or keep it as a spare

Roof trims for slicktop already are nla iirc lol.

Just seen it all recently, being the longest established dealer, we see loads of older cars, just following the pattern once they go Japan normally means they'll be nla soon, doubt they will be making new ones. Even more common Nissan are starting to have a large number of nla parts from that era Yeah it's direct from Nissan, and I pay cost hehe..

With my slicktop going into storage yesterday, I've been gathering bits together and planning for when it comes back out, ordered myself some 99 spec parts at work, got a new front bumper and all 3 tail lights on order, the bumper turned, and so did the centre and the passenger tail light, the drivers is coming from Japan, but now their all showing Japan back order, Just a heads up to people it could be a sign they are running out,

I will definitely speak to them, Nissan are talking big on their heritage, was even thinking be good to get them at events like Beaulieu, even their new concept z crossover has elements of the old zeds in it.

roll on next year, our area managers going to get me nissans corprate event teams contact details, after seeing hondas setup, and given were not just 300's any more, they might want to join in with a few nismos and corprate gear.

Seconded, we need a club kettle, Great weekend, first year I've been with you lot a jae, good to meet you all, and see the zeds first hand.

I apologise in advance if my zed doesn't make it to jae, had a nightmare weekend with it, long story short I think a major problem , I've got aa cover so I'm going to chance it, as it's currently working, but no real time for a test drive till the 3 hour drive up lol Worst case I'll be up on the Saturday in the 370, just no one laugh at its broken windscreen.

Is that enough room for 52 zeds haha, and tents.

Got my ticket ages ago, although now the 300's playing silly buggers, looks like I've a long weekend ahead of me if it's going to make it... Is anyone driving up on the Friday from the south east and want to convoy long boring drive if not, I'll be coming through the Dartford tunnel at some point haven't settled on a time yet.

Be careful their tolerance are sh.t had one leak as it didn't go tight, get the nismo one its much better,

If that's OK, I'd like to join you lot, don't really feel like being on stand on my own.

Out of interest is there any spare room on your stand?

I think I might be bothering you lot a bit more this year, after some mechanical faults and change of plans sounds like I might be the only car on the ADL racing stand, and I've got to bring the 300, as the 370 needs a new windscreen...

Nope, I don't have dump valves or recircs

There is a bit of lag, not alot really, starts boosting fairly quickly, it doesn't jump up either it's sort of gradual.

That's what I mean worrying isn't it...

If you disconnect the wastegate actuators, there is no pressure boost applied to open the wastegates they should overbooked up to their maximum pressure, they opened at 12psi, far too low, would suggest they are worn imo I This would support why my greedy boost controller was set to 80% to achieve ~14 psi previously

Mapped for 14psi, John Dixon chip apparently, I'm leaving it in safety boost till I know what's wrong, can't help but think it's wastegates opening from exhuast pressure.

Oh I had read a thread on the leak tests saying to do it with about running boost, oops I think everything is in the right place, although I did connect the boost source for the controller to the back of the plenum, should it be before the throttle bodies? Tbh couldn't hear any leaks, with the wastegates connected without a controller I get a constant and consistent 0.5 bar, I'm off next week too so maybe I'll pull it again and recheck everything.

Well I'm going to remove the pcv valves to replace them with sort off a spare plenum that look good, will order new ones when I'm back at work.

OK, just finished putting the last bits of the slicktop back together, not convinced it's fixed, although is running very well, I've hardly any boost similar to when I first got it, I've replaced 90% of the hoses, and refitted the Intercooler, replaced all the missing gadgets on the engine, I've tried to do a leak test using an old clutch cap ( actually a perfect fit) can't hear any leaks, although it seemed to be losing alot of air into the crankcase, particularly the dipstick tube, assuming the pcv valves have gone, hopefully someone can confirm, only used 10psi ( due to not having a compressor at home, used large tyres pressurised to 10psi as my source) Now onto the boost issue my Profec has always been set high to produce around 13psi, it was only making 12 when put back together, so I've tried disconnecting the wastegates to see what their doing, only got 13psi, I was careful as I expected it to over boost, but it didn't, seemed a fairly consistent value too,does this mean my wastegates are weak? Wondering if this was the problem from day one.