Stephen

It's a race to the start line lol.

I'm guessing the help to buy scheme was what excited you?

I genuinely cannot believe anyone would vote labour. Not only have we just come out a terrible recession they caused amongst other things their current front man is an imbecile. If that pink bus convinced you go ahead vote labour but your memory is very short. Who will I vote for? Well it won't be labour obviously, the temptation to make a protest vote is high but that just seems to help who didn't want get in the back door via coalition. Ol' Dave isn't my best mate but I think this end of the shitty stick is better than the other. What is really like is to trigger a vote of non confidence and force the over paid monkeys to go back to the drawing board and make some real changes.

That's good news.

I've got one of the club banners in the boot already Gary. Just need to finish the car now hahaha

Ouch, looks like it needs love.

This...although isn't it also your daily? Shame it's not a TT because tt diffs are worth about 50p so you could just swap it out.

21...bit older than that mate, we celibrated 25 years last year, mine rolled off the line in that early batch in 1989. - - - Updated - - - I could do with chatting with you about that at some point lol.

Is he from your local area? I'm willing to bet that's quite a common name.

I've seen worse, lots worse. However that is a basket case, as said they tend to rot from the inside out( that bump in the sill is the targa drain point) the bitumen hides things till it blisters out. It might look like you've got 5p of surface rust but the reality is you've got half an apple, with a core softer than chocolate. Corse the converse could be true, stones etc have removed the bitumen and left steel exposed leaving it to rust, a wire wheel maybe solve that. Basically what I'm saying is that looks like an unknown, it's waving a red flag saying I'm going to want attention and it might cost you a fair sum. That being said, finding a rust free example us going to be nigh on impossible esp within your lower budget. Unless you can do the work yourself and/or the car is cheap enough in your opinion the rectify it I think I'd keep looking.

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?161842-200sx-tie-rods-fitting-the-300zx Defiantly not s13 ones then, can't remember where I got them in the end but they were off something else and a lot cheaper.

Ahh right. I'm pretty sure I got mine from euro car parts as 200sx s14 ones. Nice and cheap and fit for purpose. Can't remember exactly but I think it was an s14.

What ones do you mean exactly bud?

Ps fluid as above is seperate it's also actually filled with auto trans fluid so will likely be a pinky red colour. If you have a green puddle and a smell of cats piss, fishy or curry it's likely your heater matrix has failed. There's a small chance if clutch fluid however the pot can empty entirely into the carpet without evidence, had this happen to me before, so I doubt it's that.

I have looked at these myself but not used them so this is just logical thought. The double male threaded ones are for the oil feed. The four banjo ones and bolts with holes are for the water feeds on the turbo core. The barbed ones must be to go from the braided water hose to the normal water hoses. The good thing about the stock configuration is that hard portion means you know it's not going to be testing on the exhaust housing, you have no control of this with the flexi ones, particularly the water ones. The advantage of them is that you don't have to fight with the oil feed hard pipe and I suspect it's easier re tighten that configuration. For me I was thinking il only use the oil feeds and leave the water ones as nature intended.

Bloody iPhone, button not bottom.

Maybe, my money is on vac leaks, poor connections/incorrectly set sensors etc though. Some crappy sparking or poor settings would soon see the thing coughing over a bad set of values...worth investigating though because as we all know it should fire up on the botton.

Did he ever finish that car? I heard he got bored and sold them both.

I actually started mine the other week with a virtually dead battery. It turned over, wah, wah, I'm thinking oh for gods sake il need to charge that then, swifty followed by it catching and starting albeit on five cyl but that just proves the point. I started a car with compression on only five cyl with a half dead battery, they start easy, too easy IMO.

I think it's a smart looking car.

Oh right, your location says Scotland that's all.

Didn't know there was a Yeovil in Scotland as well.

Il let him clarify that one but yeah I had spoken to him and it wasn't CURRENTLY an option.

I've been left feeling confused after that...

Ah that's helpful Joel, I was struggling to find companies on google. I assumed it was something I'd be able to source locally.