Stephen

Which particular one do you love? The first, second or third one that's shit the bed on you? :lol:

There were other factors involved there as well I think as it did the same on other occasions. Poor H lol. We had to push him up the hill.

More than likely yeah, sign of success. However I believe there was a slight cock up with the stewards that saw a portion of cars getting stuck in that car park off to the side and the main drag then cut them off. Think it was just a little hiccup to be honest.

Last year was a bit of a hash. I will ask what the intention is with that. However in previous years we've sailed in pretty smoothly. A few minutes at best.

You won't get 12v across the injector connector. They are constantly live and then the ECU makes the circuit by grounding it. The plug only supplies live. You will have to put the meter on the battery neg or block and the positive to the right pin. You want your meter on ohms which is the horse shoe type icon, then with clean pins you should see 10-14ohms. If your meter is saying 1 on the left with nothing on the right that means the circuit is open. The resistance is infinite. The most likely cause of this if they are all saying this and you know they work is the pins are dirty. I suspect though your not using the meter correctly.

Don't put the SR in. I know I works and it's actually a better swap than most people think but getting what a stock vg30 can get power wise for a boost increase vs what you'd have to put into the SR and i recon you've gained nothing. Yes it's lighter and parts are 10 a penny but it's a 2.0L 4 banger. If you wanna do an engine swap then I'd go for some aluminium blocked v8 any day of the week and make strong NA power and get the weight loss. Alternatively have an easy life and maintain the vg30 and add a few psi with a map.

I got a 8x4 sheet of 18mm ply, got it cut into 3 sections and that made life 100xs easier. Allowed me to use the hoist on gravel.

From that it appears I applied to top coat too thick and there was moisture in it.

Bear in mind that some of weight will go back on.

In honesty it's not saved me much by doing it myself as apposed to if got id had it done. By the time you factor in all the bits. Tbh though it wasn't a cost saving excersise it was a learning curve. Once I have the facility I plan to paint the whole car, if I can't get a flat panel right, well, it's a good place to start learning. Little stuff I can do, but bigger sections with a compressor is something I'm keen to learn.

Nice. DIY?

What are you replacing it with mate?

Welcome back my friend.

I was concerned maybe I was supposed to apply a fixative layer or something to prevent the new and old paint reacting?

Trouble is I don't have anywhere I can safely use 2k. There's live stock in my back garden.

Yes a small water catch thing on the output from the compressor. Maybe not large enough. I know the compressor is under sized.

If that's the case that would make sense.

Il pop up some pictures later if I get time but I'm after some advice as to how I got it wrong. I painted my bonnet last summer, first time using a gun an compressor. Using 1k paint. I keyed the original paint to the primer then applied a layer of primer from a can, then the colour then two coats of clear. After some wet sanding I was really happy. Few minor things like a fly and I over sanded one corner. First few weeks were great. Then winter came. The paint was suddenly ruined. The car lives under a cover. The two defects are tiny blisters, I believe these are called micro blisters and are caused by water in paint? This is only in one area. The second defect which is throughout the panel is cracking. The paint looks like it's shrunk and split apart. I assume this is some sort of reaction? So before I try again, what went wrong?

Typo I hope.

Adventadors make buses look narrow.

What bloody use is that.

I started to think you'd gone off us all.

Shame you don't do just a very simple lip for the 89 fascias.

Obviously I wasn't there, however I've been to Japfest when it was at castle Combe a fair few times. I think the largest issue for this club is the fact that we didn't have a set person to co-ordinate for us. Simply relying on one member of another club is a bit unfair. This is why there were no banners. It takes a fair bit of juggling to organise three clubs at once and even with it all in order things still happen. For example a few years back at Simply the stewards decided to separate all the Z33/34s away from the rest, ended up parked in different parts of the show ground, annoying. I'd say, next year id take Japfest on for us. However with it not being in the south anymore and the way it fell I'm not sure il be going next year either. I feel if someone from here took up the batton next year and helped out, not just flags etc but it's the conscious effort to badger people to go. I think we missed out this year. With that in mind, your going to see a lot of Simply bumping.