Everything posted by Stephen
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Master cylinder gone
Shipping will be painful but you soul likely get it by the weekend through Z1.
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Heater System!
There's a pesky solenoid/valve on the heat exchanger itself that fails open or shut. Mine is open, so I get roasting heat non stop. There's other crap like a sensor in the roof that fails.
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Stainless steel FUEL lines
Driftworks. Only thing is they don't have the locating bushes. If I was you I'd be ripping the interior out and getting it high in the air and cleaning and refreshing all the underside so it's future proofed and you know what needs fixing before going down the bolt on mods route. Then getting a major service sorted, cam belt etc. it's not like your in a hurry.
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Zed on ebay
Pretty sure gregs car is silver.
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Fitting a strut bar
From what I understand our cars suspension doesn't really make the best from a strut tower brace. The load isn't applied here like on a McPherson strut car. Those two tiny M8 bolts torqued to like 30ftlb are just a location device. The load is applied laterally to the upper and lower arm mounts. So I theory they won't do much. However, there's a fair bit of flex in the z32 shell, primarily because of how the monocote shell is produced. The front isn't very solid with the rear. The difference were feeling is likely an improvement in overall chassis regidgitity rather than the the effect of bracing the struts. There are some brackets that go in the inner wing and tie the front better to the shell. Reportedly these are a great addition in the fight against flex.
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Master cylinder gone
You are loosing fluid right?
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Master cylinder gone
Pull the carpet back. It's likely coming out the back and down the firewall. Rebuild is easy and cheap.
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Fitting a strut bar
It won't start with the fuel fuse disconnected :thumbup1:
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I must be mad
He's saying the new ones are great the older one not so much. If he's talking about the original boxster I can believe it,my zed on stock boost was faster... Now go drive that boxster looney.
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Off too the big smoke
Well done buddy. They must be paying you well if your prepared to swap Lymington for London lol.
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Classic show at NEC
It's a helpful place.... Welcome.
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Is my old engine usable?
Shame. I could do with a crank rods and Pistons out a turbo block.
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my build thread
I can't believe you were driving around on those arms they look sketchy beyond belief.
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i am not a newie but an olde
Welcome back. Can't quite remember the car, but I do remember meeting you.
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Decided on my zeds new look.
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Plasti dip or paint
Mine are colour coded, looks better in my opinion.
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France under attack
Racism is to prejudice against someone based upon there racial background, so in essence you could be guilty of rasism for prejudices against your own people. Context I feel is paramount and it's the intent that counts. If you mean to cause offence based on racial grounds is very different to making fun. Humour CAN transcend these things, can. You can also be positively prejudice as well, treating some people better because they have an issue or are a way. Realistically though, there is only one human race, our various geographical variants are simply varieties of the same animal, so racism is a human construct that exists only in our minds as a tool of prejudice. Our obsession with each others differences is ancient and part of our animal fabric but it's tribal behaviour that's lost its use really.
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Smoking
That depends solely on your exhaust. It's highly unlikely to cross over, however it is likely they are joined by a H or X section. This would mean exhaust gases are mixed before exit so both sides would smoke. Sometimes it's a simple single line from turbo to exit, only way to know is to get under there and look. There is a school of thought. I've only read about this not seen it work. That the exhaust system must have an X or H, without this join the exhaust gets into a pulsing frequency that effectively sucks or pumps oil past the seals. Some have reported that restoration of this kind of join has fixed thier issue. I'm not even going to say this could be it, just you may wish to consider it as a cheap try. I know you've said your compression wasn't bad, but what's not bad? Essentially those turbos are smoking because either they are being exposed to excessive crank case pressure or the real seal is so jiggered that oil is passing. Do you have cats? A lack of them is going to make the symptoms show more, due to the lack of back pressure. You say you've done done the PCV, I take it that's the valve itself that screws into the plenum? Have you investigated the front pipes? Is the brass restrictor still in place?
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Is my old engine usable?
I wouldn't bin it for a blown HG, put it that way. Strip it down and inspect it. Get a machine shop to check the head and block.
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Smoke from engine or turbos?
Sounds like turbos. Have you ever done a compression test? When you've replaced the turbos have you ensured the drains are clear etc.
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Jaikai - Fall & Rise of my purple zed
I've gotta say mate, I think that might look a bit naff. Something smaller maybe. The large rainbow decals a bit garish.
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Jaikai - Fall & Rise of my purple zed
That's the spirit lee.
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France under attack
It's a really complex problem that's only going to get worse. Anyone who thinks there's a simple solution or a quick fix really has no idea what's going on. Unfortunately the majority of Americans fall into this category and they are very vocal. World powers need to stop squabbling though, stop penny pinching and sort out a proper solution. This is not a religious problem it's a people problem.
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France under attack
The whole nuke the *******s line just isn't applicable. There's nobody to nuke. It's not a country it's a mindset, groups of nutters in amongst everyday people. No sane person would murder millions of innocents to kill a handful of nutters. Far more effective to strategically remove them and win over the locals to realise we are not the baddies.
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France under attack
Sitting on the fence, waiting for other countries to deploy, refusing group troops and respecting some invisible boarder out of Syria isn't taking it seriously. Taking it seriously is a strategic attack, proper support in the regions and burying the hatchet on temporary problems to move towards a more permenant stability in the area. That whole corner of the world is a rats nest that needs proper long term stability.