Stephen

I vote for dedicated.

One of the largest on the Calander mate. PM on it's way.

Glad you got a result tony, I was expecting them to play pass the parcel over this.

I've had three. The first an ebay job was crap and scratched my car blustered the paint and broke. The second was the cheap one from halfords £30 it lasted 18 months and kept the crap off and the worst of the wet, but did go brittle and split it's also not waterproof, it didn't however damage my car. I've now just brought the more expensive £50 one from halfords. I must say in impressed with it, very sturdy, soft inside and comes with 3 buckled straps. Can't comment on the longevity but so far so good. I brought the medium one which is an extremely tight fit, which is good, large would prob be better.

There's very few details in that advert. However it looks relatively clean and unmolested. Yes it's auto but that's not the end of the world. If it's mechanically sound I don't see why £3.5k isn't a fair price, certainly if it was manual then it's a very fair price. If, IF...it's mechanically sound.

You don't mess around do you, I think the cars really stepping up a league isn't it.

Why....? I guess you no longer need all that open space for radiator air supply and that will be suffucent for intercooler supply? So less holes, more aerodynamic?

My gut instinct says a maf fault. I know you tested the voltage but have you tried running the car with out it connected?

Looks like your going to end up with something special there mate. The only thing I never like about a lot of these wide arched cars is the front just does not match up IMO, creating a wedge.

Yup. The height adjustment is as far down as possible. So I either change the coilovers again for something lower, change the spring to a shorter one or simply remove the tender spring. None of which solves the issue that the damper might bottom out like that. Bit of thinking to do.

Yeah I want more pics too, particularly the front.

I haven't no. The thing that got me thinking about it was that my coilovers on the rear are maxed out. After seeing a few golfs etc with this done and escorts etc with conversion work done and looking at the stock strut tops in the boot it dawned on me it's very possible to do and retain a factory look. You could gain a fair few inches. However the geometry will obviously become increasingly more complicated.

Ah right, have you put any thought into increasing the height of the strut tower in the rear? Give you some more travel on the damper?

Holy ****... Question though. The ground clearance underneath will be terrible won't it?

Isn't the sail part removable? I was under the impression you could interchange between swb and LWB by changing the sail and window but it's not a fun job. Maybe someone could clarify that?

Agreed I have actually found better economy at that kind of rev range you mention than a lower 2k rpm.

Most don't know this till some jobs worth books them, equally many don't realise that the old car derived van exemption is no longer golden and the gross payload is now relivent. Laws change regularly and you don't get a memo of this till it's too late.

Mine honestly isn't too bad. I can(or rather could, it's broken) get obscenely poor mpg, I've used quater of a tank on the way back from the in laws in the past and it's not exactly far. Conversely Coventry meet this year I used about £60-70 quids worth for the whole round trip. I can't really remember or define if going manual has increased fuel economy, I seem to remember that it is at higher rpm on the motorway post conversion. So much has changed though it's hard to pin point what the majour factor was. When I first got the car it wasn't running it's best, Cornwall and back we used about £130 worth of fuel, roughly 150 miles each way. I think tbh one if the worst things for fuel economy is poor mechanical health. Boost leaks and failing components.

Have you set the TPS up?

Agreed Pete the z32 is probably the only z model that the 2+2 doesn't completely ruin the roof line, most look like and extra six inches has been welded in without any thought. There are a few swb z31 about like literally a few arnt there, that very smart black one that was a zclub member springs to mind. I'm not saying I love them just they can look good and are very much a bargain Z.

The z31 is to the z32 what the z33 is to z34. Vast improvements of each other, IMO anyway. It's not overly pretty inside or out and whilst this sound silly it's extremely 80s. Ok, what I mean by that is that it's a bit gimmicky it shows it's age with trying to be new (at the time) and disregarding what we all know, classy, classic and subtleness stands the test of time best. To defend the z31 though, they can look great. The S13 is a very popular car and Z31 with it's pop up lights looks like an S13 on roids. Not to mention that vg30et lump is actually quite tunable. It's a real bargain of a car still with average example still being worth about 40p and still something you rarely see. I've been tempted by one as a second toy, an all out weekend warrior more than once. Some well thought out mods....tell me no one likes these two...

Is there a way I can view those Japanese auctions in English?

Yeah I run 32 psi on all four with 225/45R18 and 265/35R18

Thats a very good point that's often over looked, when mine was auto I was able to pull away without braking traction on snow, on compacted snow!!! Manual even grass can be a bit slipply.