Stephen

It's pretty common mate. Obviously the heat all rises into that loom and bakes it. The connectors and cable get damaged. Where you move it the movement makes and breaks connections and shorts. The best solution is a new harness which will cost a fair few quid. If you have patience then you could obviously remove, test, repair. Long road that one though.

Quality unknown. Why do you feel you need adjustable lower arms? They tend to "wonder" out of alignment fairly regularly.

Trust me Jeff there is no ignorance here, I'm fully aware of the situation, as are many others. I appricate you feel the need to get your soap box out but you've made your point now and are now just repeating yourself. Without providing anything informative your not educating anyone, just slagging off a business or two. Like I say, I have no interest in these people, it effects me not but without information your at risk of looking like the bad guy yourself. As I said previously if there is an issue with said mapper then what is the issue or issues? I'm aware of certain customer service issues but not technical ones of any detail. Your statement is that he sells dreams of too much hp for stock engines and blows them up. To phrase that they way it's being put, if you run more than the standard 14psi that's good for about 340hp your 20+ yer old engine will melt. That is utter rubbish and akin to when people said "they were going fast so they crashed" a symptom or factor is described as a cause, without any information to credit the claim or even make any sense of it. So let's have some proper information or none. Have engines blown due to overly lean AFRs? Excessive cylinder temperatures? Excessive timing?

This is just getting silly. If you have a healthy engine with a good map there is no reason for failure even at 4,500 hp and there are many Z32 across the world running huge power without failure. A bad map will kill the best engine very quickly. Without anyone stating what is actually wrong with said mappers maps its just mud slinging and the mods should be stepping in on this. This thread is full of half stories, no actual Information it just slags people off. I have no care for the people being slagged off but it's just silly unless a proper discussion is had. Let's have some information or out our handbags away.

It's not banana'd :lol:

I think this is most likely as I have tow and caster adjustment available on mine. It's probably just never been set up properly on that parameter. Tow has been corrected but caster was neither measured nor adjusted.

No problems. Just obviously all this conversation about engine damaging power seems rather misleading and lacks any technical information.

Swage to wheel edge. Il have to re-measure, it was a few weeks back. The main issue, or rather what brought it to my attention was the gap from the tyre sidewall to the rear bumper tab. I want to increase the rear track and can't at present because it would likely kiss the tab on the passenger side, the drivers side is spacious.

Sorry missing word. "Still running in atm"

Sorry could you rephrase that?

Interesting stuff. Although it does seem to apply to production cars with solid bushes which ours don't at the rear. Be interesting to find out what tolerance there is between the stud and the solid bush.

I spose your right. I suppose the most accurate and proactive thing to do would be to get the caster measured and adjusted if required. At least that can be conclusively ruled out either way.

Nearly new and there solid aluminium units.

Does that not cause an issue as obviously camber will change with the wheel off when the cars in the air. Should the caster be unchanged throughout the travel?

Mate at the end of the day Jimmer knows the build and your spec. Have a chat with him surrounding your options. Your going to need a remap due to the changes made to get the best out the car anyway. Jimmer as the builder is the best person to advise you how things should be proceeded with. Your still running at atm I take it?

I'm thinking the rear caster is out on that wheel. As this wasn't adjusted on the alignment.

No. None of that is an issue. It's all present correct and straight.

Everything is fresh back there.

As above. Even though the car has had an alignment the wheel is not central in the arch. That's kind of miss leading, what I mean is both rear wheels aren't equally distant from the fore and aft of the arch. There's about a 5mm discrepancy with the passenger side sitting slightly further back, visually at least. Ideas?

You could stipulate that it's a "power run only" ie no changes made just to see the output. This is fairly common practice. In answer to the question though, no there not all equal. Different brands will be different. Tbh dyno's generally are a bit of a farce.

In the mid 90s it became Japanese law that a car could only hold a certain amount of Automatic gear box fluid. This effected the Z32 because it uses PSF to run the power steering. This was the driving force behind the switch to the electronic HICAS system. The trouble was even after that, with both steering and box combined, the amount of fluid was still 2ml too much. This was discovered and they were forced by law to comply. So rather than redesign the system further and create further expense and delays the simple solution was found, to press a dimple into the resivoir displacing the volume whilst not effecting the level switch. Using the law of displacement. This was done by supergluing a 3mm diameter ball bearing into the press mould of the pot. The "new" pots were rolled out throughout the range to reduce production cost.

Rare or not it's grim. If that car was mine is be switching to a plain black one right away. Looks like grannies fireplace from the 70s.

Out of interest grey, what was the cause of engine failure? Ring lands? Also I know you say the map was shit but in what way? Mapping is pealing my interest at present so I'm keen to know where the fault lay. Who read your map and remapped you to where you are now?

Nipped out in it this morning for some domestic bits an 8 mile trip turned a bit longer, more like 20 :lol: just enjoying the drive.

Big improvements, nice one ted.