Stephen

Any reason your aiming at 500? The difference between 400, 500 and 600 go up sharply. There's lots of information out there, just got to hunt for it. There are many ways to skin a cat, just need to decide what your priority is.

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No no, imports arnt reliable bri was your mouth out!! Every good American knows they are full of gremlins...haha.

TBF though Si, 3zc is like a damn an witch hunt at times. There's plenty of people with AMS parts without issues, the manifolds and downpipes are very popular. That's not to say there arn't issues with quality and customer service but bad news spreads 10xs faster. AMS is cheap Chinese stuff, but tbh very little stuff isn't these days. Everyone bums powertrix and is happy to pay extra but it's still cheap Chinese manufacturered products. There was a thing recently blasting their rads, the rad looks identicle to the Chinese ones sold by japspeed as thier own and how many of us have them without issue? I know of at least 3 lol. I can see the arguments for both sides, I also agree we should help promote the innovators but I don't think people should be blasted for choosing to take a punt on Chinese stuff as long as they are aware it is a punt. Godspeed stuff is another example, you would get ripped in 3zc and told thier stuff is shit, yet it seems it's ok even those turbos that fall apart so they say, everyone with them in this country no reports of immediate failure. Kind of feels like the tanks are just anti china off the bat.

You fishing again Noel....

The main part he is buying the ashspecz stuff I believe.

Cheers bud, at some point we've got that bit of metal bending to do :D

Yeah not looking forward to fitting it, ratchet strap might be a winner. Hopefully it will slot in nice and happy with the solid bushes. Got to get the old one out as well. Trying to get my old drive shafts out the hub is proving a touch difficult think I need an impact wrench.

Meanwhile in the shed, I've been tarting up the bits to bolt on. The front shocks, cusco ones which came from an R33 have been cleaned up and painted mated with some new old stock z32 specific apex pillowball top mounts and just require some 2.5" springs to complete. I'd decided on a 6k-8k ratio so the rears will be changed at the same time, as I don't know what those lap rings are rated for, I pilfered them off a skyline. Total cost for height adjustable coilovers minus springs £110 so far. I also pulled the diff cover off checked it all out for anything obviously nasty, cleaned up a bit if gundge and replaced the slightly chewed fill plug. New gasket and a lick of hammerite, I did start to prep the diff cover for polishing at which point I took myself to one side and bucked my ideas up. So here's the diff ready for fluids and fitting. I plan to assemble the rear sub on the car as the diff alone has a small moon floating round it, it's got to weigh 40kg which for a football sized hollow chunk of cast full of cogs is heavy. Assembling it seperatly will likely be more time consuming but lining up the frame etc will be a damn sitè easier. There's a cardboard box sat here getting fuller and fuller ready to go to the shot blasters and it's looking like I've got an engine to transplant but more on that all next time...

Right so I've been doing 5 minutes here and there when I can between the rain and cold and work both my day job and the house. Getting it off the floor a suitable height was a bloody nightmare, gravel an unlevel surface and various other working condition hinderances, it even fell off the stands at one point(don't worry I wasn't even remotely under it) but yeah. The first picture creates the optical illusion it's way off level then the second you realise how irratating that slight slope is. Since I took this pic I've flipped one of the ramps 180 so it can't roll up or down, and wombled (translation; borrorewd on a virtually perminent basis) a set of 6 tonne ratchet stands, making a total of toe ramps and six axel stands. The rear subframe is free to be accessed for removal. I took a picture at this point to show what condition things are in now to refer back to, a proper then and now scenario. Ignore the sill, it looked off so I hit it with a grinder and covered it in red oxide till I can come back to it.

I think you've got confused a touch maybe? I know I am. Even for you that was a confusing one :lol: Anyways..Those two discharge pipes are two different ways of achieveing the same thing from what I can see. One the increase in pipe diameter, which is created by the hard pipe itself tapering from start to finish, the other uses a silicone joiner to step up before that hard pipe as it does with the stock system. I'm fairly sure those two items are made by different manufactures but I couldn't tell you if one is better than the other, hence the two different ways to skin one cat. Just ensure you have the full kit or clarify what's missing with the supplier. Personally I would leave that pipe off when putting the engine back anyway and refit in situee giving more room and vision to install the block, refitting it in situee isn't that bad at all.

My old van was like that, speed restricted to 65 due to it having the areo dynamics of a brick and all the stability of an egg.

What v8 were you toying with?

I have to agree, we are letting ourselves ie normal citizens become criminalised.

I share your pain mate genuinely. I too have flirted with the idea if an engine swap, it's still not off the table but I just can't see a way to make it a sensible option financially. It's ik for the yanks with a plethora of used v8s floating around but we just don't have them in quantity over here, subsequently price is higher. It appears to be shame shit different day, still struggling for parts that are cheaper across the pond and and engine which unless you pay big for a newer version will land you in roughly the same place as a stock TT.

No no, you have from memory 1,2,D and an overdrive button right? Firstly deselect overdrive that makes it instantly more fun then youbcsn also put it in 2 rather than aswel and that makes things fun. Goug manual is even better. The power and hold buttons never seemed Ttp do much for me.

Lock it down into second and feel the grin :)

Amoungst other irritations, worth checking those pesky blighters all day long.

Vented nose plus bumper extension together or both removed otherwise one or the other looks out of place. My opinion keep the vented.

Alex has two identicle zee 's One in silver one in green The only difference between the two of these Ones twin turbo the others a breeze :lol: my mind is great

I was wondering why you had problems until you said that, I don't have aircon it's all stripped out took me about half hour to remove my recircs.

Are there never opportunities to get a few runs in on a quiet time? Like a weekday etc?

To tig weld what mate? It would be a damn site easier if I had access to an AC tig welder :lol:

That rather depends on wether the last person to knob about in there put them on the right way round. I hated doing all those clips up with them orentated in such a way you couldn't get to them, so planning goes along way doesn't it. But yeah that whole area is tight esp the drivers side.

I can sympathise with that, changing the strut takes minutes stripping half the boot out is a pain in the ass.