Stephen

Those are lovely.

There's some tabs on the rad so I recon there's an electric fan.

They look loads better. Any proper full car shots?

That thing you check to stop speeding tickets ;)

Turbo seals tend to fail on the exhaust seal at which point you get grey/white smoke as it's not been combusted. If the smoke is blue, your hunting a pre combustion oil leak be it oil being sucked into the intake or into the combustion chamber. Have you at any point done a compression or better still a leak down test. For the time taken this could rule out a fair few causes, esp a leak down. If the combustion is good then your sucking it in before the combustion chamber. Do you have excessive oil in the plenum? Or the intercooler pipes? I know you say you replaced a turbo but I don't know if your aware, that the opposing turbo drives the opposing bank. Ie if the passenger turbo was leaking oil into inlet it would be the drivers side that burns oil. I assume from your description your exhaust has no H or X pipe. I don't think however that's your issue. The above suggestion of valve stem seals isn't a bad shout and that may well show on a leak down test.

You need to check the rolling diameters if your planning to use the tyres currently on them, when I looked at it the 350 used a larger rolling radius so the speedo would be wrong.

It would appear they have looped out the intercoolers. Seems like a crap idea to me, maybe in some very specific occasions it could be advantageous but in a road going car I think it's more a bodge than a mod. Unless someone knows better?

Oh ok il left you off. Mines in the bin, you know save weight and that. :lol:

Stop the press. Where's your bonnet lining?

That's the face I pull when I drop a socket in the engine bay and it magically disappears.

It's hard work being the tea boy ey Si.

Lovely wheels.

Cheers guys. Gaz is helping me out with his talents so we should be ok, always to the resuce haha. Hopefully it will all be sorted this time next week. I have to admit after inspection today I found a bit of swarf adding to the issue. Here's a photo of the issue.

How did you veiw and purchase through yahoo Japan? It's all in japanese.

Glad you had a good day and sorry that I missed it. There will definatly be an event in August, I'm otherwise busy the whole of June, but July may or rather should yeild something, so keep you eyes peeled.

That's the current plan. Simply to cut the orginal seat a mm or so deeper. It's not that bad just frustrating.

Drivers side brembo front. The last one to bleed which helps with the illusion that it's working to start with.

That's the exact conclusion we came to. It's a serious buisness stopping, not much room for error. So in a way I'm glad we found it and we found it before it caused a problem beyond a spongey peddle.

Yup that's the issue :(

He can be useful at times :lol:

Ok, il sort that tomorrow.

I can edit my own posts still just no PMs I assume my subs ran out. Can't tell as it just says REO. If so I need to sort that

My PMS have disappeared, think my subs have run out. Phone number is xxxxxxxxxxx, gimme a text tomorrow and we can sort it out.

Sadly I can't attend guys. I've explained a little better in my project thread but I can't justify the time ATM without my car which isn't ready.

Basically one of the bleed nipples sheared off on the caliper. Common issue with these by the sounds of it. So I pain staking lay drilled out the thread half a mm at a time. Sadly it appears I've nicked the caliper body and the nipple no longer seals properly. That's my leak. Gaz popped over this evening and we tried to rectify the spongey brakes, at which point he noticed this fault. Any ideas greatly recived. Sadly japfest is now out. Despite my best efforts I fell at the final hurdle today. With the wedding a meer two weeks away now I simply cannot justify driving the other halfs kia to castle combe in the early hours. To walk round the event and then leave early when an increasing list of stuff builds up here. So sadly I'm out :( Rest assured though my zed will be on the road over the next week or so once I get round this pesky issue.