Stephen

Welcome Stephen.

The take offs for the BOV are on the intercooler hard pipes not on the intercoolers themselves, so no.

Which bit do you want exactly? MJP will almost certainly be able to get one regardless.

Just proves that the cylinder is or is not holding pressure and points to where a loss if one exists is. As Groover says the only real way to say what's happened is disassemble it.

I do like the insignia. Nice choice Si. What's the interior like? My mate at work had one for a few weeks and really liked it despite a few niggles think it was the base model though so the interior was a bit meh.

Speculation I suppose. You could do a leak down then oil in the bore to force a seal, if it still leaks like a sieve then it's elsewhere. HG or valves and well with that recent event odds on, also from where the air leaks to let's you know a few things... That being said, you would have to pull off the upper timing belt cover and find each cylinders TDC manually because the cams will no longer be in time as such with a snapped belt. I'd want to know exactly what method they used to ascertain that is factually the case.

Didn't they stop fitting them in the boot after a certain year?

Is the compressor large enough? if it's too small it will escape before you have chance to create any pressure you don't need much just 5psi. Small leaks some soapy water is incredible as it bubbles up pinpointing things exactly but it sounds like you have a big leak.

That extra take off will be the Clutch booster vaccum supply, on factory manual cars it connects to vac tanks in the inner wing I believe. In a converted car just loop it round from here to the nipple on the booster. You will need a check valve inline to make it work, I nicked one from a primera in the scrap yard. You will likely find at present it's T'eed off the brake booster vac.

I expect the job was done, just badly or with inferior parts. You might get lucky, you might not. There is fortunately ways to tell how unlucky you have been. You could get your hands on an inspection camera, pop the plugs out and see what you can see on the piston crowns. You could also preform a leak down test to see what cylinders still hold pressure. Even turning it over with a socket on the crank could give you a degree of information.

Simply a cost cutting exercise. When you think about it how many turbo cars DO have an OEM boost gauge? Neither of my last two vans have had them, nor did many turbo cars I've driven or been in.

Not off the top of my head and I don't have any that arnt in use, the same bearing is used in the skylines turbos as well if that's any help. About 10mm does seem about right though. I didn't order them by size I ordered them by kit, the supplier sold me a full kit plus step gap rear seals and 360 thrust bearings. Have you started disassembling them yet?

Looks nice.

Many appologises Art, il send you a PM in a minute with my phone number. That way in future I can give you a quick text. Thankyou for sharing your pictures and I'm glad you enjoyed your trip. You do seem to be getting plenty of use out of the old beast which is always good to see.

That link says it's possible with the box in situee, I wonder how tyre that is. It's worth thinking about it, could save you a few quid?

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Il be buying that and adding it to the library go team Dixon.

It is a real pain, I myself and I know others too were looking forward to this. Unfortunately as Richard said it can go wrong quickly this time of year. It's a busy period and the weather can be a touch um trying at times. Personally I've away all week and am on call next weekend so my ability to finish the bathroom before Xmas has taken a beat delay wise, it's snorting I really need done. Amongst other factors. Looking on the bright side though the initial response was good and this is an encouraging sign. Myself and Simon are already starting to plan the car based events that March will bring, which is genuinely not far away scarily. Rest assured discussions between the REOs will be seeing you lot spoilt for choice this spring/summer. Despite being lovely and sunny here now this morning was bitter. Frost on the inside of the windows of the car this morning. Again many apologies.

That's a shame mate, would have been good to finally meet you.

Have you done something to the glass it's very shiny.

Reproduction 60k service kits are notoriously poor quality for these cars. Can belts won't line up properly, pumps fail etc etc, it's just not the kind if thing to cheap out on. I'd dare to say it would be safer to put your service off than use a kit like that probability wise. I know the proper kit isn't cheap but it will be done then for the foreseeable future.

Mines Matt black VHT paint, been in there about two years.

Agreed, you need to keep posting. That way we can follow what your doing to help. Think of it this way though, if you have one red marble and you throw 100 in the air it's going to take a lot of time to find it again looking at one at a time. Not only that it's disheartening. So the way to do things is form a plan and work through it. Start right from the beginning. It's an engine so we need a squirt a squeeze and a bang. Once we know that's happening we need to check it's happening at the right time and that the information is being given correctly. So let's just work through logically that way you won't be pulling your hair out. Have you got compression? Yes Have you got an engine running on all six cylinders? Do you have the correct timing? Does your TPS read correctly? Do you have any error codes from the ECU test? Do you have any boost leaks and is the vaccum induction system assembled together correctly? Do you have correct fuel pressure? Get it hooked up to conzult and see what all the sensors are doing. I'd give you a hand but A I'm very busy ATM and I'm currently about 7 hours away and will be for a little while.

I still maintain you need to do a boost leak test. The amount of vac leaks and mistakes you've found already screams you need to start at the bottom and work up. Did you ever do a compression or sniff test? You can keep chasing connectors etc but you won't get far unless you just strike it lucky. You've got to make a plan and work from top to bottom.

Duff battery?