Stephen

It appears we’re all on lock down now anyway, so I’m stuck at home where I’ve been for a week and a half already and will be climbing the walls by Wednesday.

Probably two reasons Tony. Firstly some segments of the media are presenting (or have been) this to be the case, that for the young it’s simply a cold. Secondly, it’s easier to bury your head in the sand and pretend (till now) that it’s all hysterical nonsense and that the first point is prime. In short, fear, misinformed arrogance and bluster.

To be fair, if they spent more time listening to the bloke in charge, doing daily press conferences and the updates on the official government site, they’d still not have all the answers but they be a damned site less confused than if they keep reading the Mirror and the Sun. I’ve had some one tell me, “it’s ok, we don’t have to pay our mortgages.” I asked where they heard that, “sky news” they replied. I asked if they had actually looked at what their bank says... “no” People are stock piling because “Italy’s closed” they haven’t looked into enough to realise that they can still get food and it’s unnecessary to freeze half of Hovis’ delivery. The guy in Tesco (in reference to the lack of bread yesterday) told me, “we have got bread, the lorry is late, if you can wait 10 minutes the shelves will be full”

I think the gossip clouds the water, I’ve been having this conversation with my wife this morning. There’s so much “I heard” “I read in”, things are moving quickly in terms of procedure, there’s daily briefings coming direct from number 10 and these are straight from the horses mouth. Obviously there aren’t answers to every question, it’s simply impossible. I believe the advice of keep your head on and stay sensible, following the science is still the way GB is approaching this. Of corse the rights and wrongs, of these unprecedented events are for the history books to decide. There’s been a lot of misunderstanding of this “Herd Immunity” business, the press heard the term and ran with it. There’s a very simple video with a doctor explaining with buckets the approach being taken. It’s all about using the brakes at the right time and not too hard. Trying to balance the economic, social and health impacts. If we slam on the brakes and close the country, there will be an economic crash that will cause hardship for a generation or more, and I mean people living in tents hardship. If we let it run rife, short and fast the health service will be over run and the cost of life will be unacceptable. One thing is for sure, things are going to be hard and I do not want Boris’ job.

Enjoy changing it...

F13 ?

I’m sure you're being flippant but Spain nearly a thousand miles away from me, it’s nearly 500 to Scotland. I drove to Brest in France last year and it took 17 hours. Dover to Penzance is over 350 miles. If we’re going to be as generic as to say, south, midlands and north we might as well just say England.

I would be categorised as South by that but “the south” is so vast two members could be as far apart as they are from Scotland.

I’m in Ferndown btw.

I’ve got a set of new style, as Simon refers to, 370cc (stock TT size), they all ohm up correctly last time I checked them but they’ve not been flow tested or cleaned etc etc. You’d need adapters, they aren’t a straight swap.

Hi guys, can I use a 5mm slip on spacer on the rear with stock studs? Not talking about the universal jobbies but the slip on hubcentric ones with the correct centre bore etc.

You know it’s just a computer drawing?

I suspect the drivers foot well fuse box/loom is a mess. Probably from a leaky targa drain.

Linear?

It that not stinking your house out?

Does it spin up and run straight or does it want to fish tail? If it’s going straight it’s probably a heavy foot, wet greasy cold roads etc etc if it’s fish tailing... Mine went through a scary stage of wanting to fish tail and I pinned it back to the subframe bushes. You won’t achieve anything positive by simply lowering the ride height, it could be one of the shocks is failing. I’d get it up in the air and have a good look for worn components and if there’s nothing obvious have the alignment checked if not done recently.

Very sad to see this, he will be missed for sure and has been a huge part of the Z community for many years.

Agreed, it’s my least favourite part of the south outside London.

If it’s anything like mine was then your rolling around at 40 mph in over drive making lots of deep vibrations and chugging along ?

There are a few types, early and late style side feed injectors made by JECs for nisssan. Early Z32s used a square plug type, later an square oval shape, the date this changed is different between TT and NA. Most Z32s will be early type. Early NAs have red square topped 270cc injectors. Early TTs have purple square topped 370cc injectors, this go a chocolate brown with heat and age. Later spec are the same colour and sizing. They are not however a drop in fit and require an adapter kit. The R33 as some models came with the late style 370s, same as a later model Z32s. GTR models and R34 cars had top feed 440cc injectors, these require too much effort to fit. There are Square oval side feeds in 440cc and 550cc in some factory cars such as Subaru’s. Be aware any change to the injector size will require a new EPROM to run the correct fuelling. Remapping is possible either by a chipped and socketed ECU and fitting an off the shelf EPROM or preferably a custom map. There aren’t too many people who will touch the Z32 ecu as a stock unit and switching out for a Nistune board will make finding a tuner easier.

Have you used third gear yet? Your national speed limits only 40 mph isn’t it? ? I visit jersey for work now an again, usually fly in though tbh.

They could roll it out across the country, there’s no money and no transportation other than cars outside the M25. Good luck charging people round here, the courts will over flowing.

Are those numbers cold or warm? Quite low, I’d want at least 130psi really. Number 6 is pretty low compared to the others in the bank. Your theory seems logical. Hopefully you’ve not bent a rod. I can you having to pull the block to go much further forward tbh. I’d want to see the view with the pan and heads off.

Which cylinder is failing to fire? Personally I’d hook up compressed air to failed cylinder and rotate the crank, if operating correctly you should hear the air being ejected from the inlet and exhaust as the combustion cycle is performed. If only one cylinder is failing to operate then I would think the chances of this are low. Regardless as above is a sensible step in diagnosis. You’ve already stated compression seemed ok, what numbers where produced over all?

Just bear in mind Art that the weight or rather mass of the flywheel has function, it’s mass is to carry inertia and make the transition from stop start smoother and keep the engine turning. I’m not saying you will notice but you might be paying for something that doesn’t give YOU a desirable benifit. Bearing in mind iirc you wish for your car to be a cruiser rather than a angry thing. Just something to consider.