Stephen

My zed goes out and gets driven hard, I don't pussie foot about with it. I do however only tax it for six months, partly because that saves me £180 a year, partly because I have no time to drive it in the winter I'm fixing it usually, but fishing takes over works busy and daylight is limited. I've just got in now, the idea of taking my zed out in the wet, in the dark nahhh...bear in mind aswel where I live, I'm getting through as much screen wash as I am diesel ATM in the van, mud and cowshit everywhere, not to mention the stones there digging up the roads ATM so I've had a puncture already this month and I'm waiting to get for an even 10 chips in the windscreen of my two year old van :/

As said though UK prices are in the rise, the snot is starting to run out. Once the crap has run out there's no reason that prices won't become even stronger esp with the increasing numbers of higher power z32s, that alone makes them competitive with skylines. The VG30 is a better engine than an RB we just need to prove that here in the UK.

Amen to that, there's a lot of cars I want/like but I wouldn't swap for the zed. I would be hard pushed to purchase anything that had the same appeal as a z32 and have a steering wheel on the right side.

One the size of Cornwall would do fine lol. In all seriousness, from what I've read the best two things you can do to the vg30dett is change the manifolds and step up to 2.5" intercoolers and piping.

Gonna keep them white? Seems like a good price

A belly button spoiler? Or one for use by the Navy? - - - Updated - - - Britians Got Wings?

£ that's the biggest question.

Careful....

My little van does about 600 miles to £60 so it might pay for itself buying a more economical daily.

Yeah, you should get about 280-300 miles out a full tank, lots if factors will effect it. Good luck, least it will be fun.

So it snapped at 25ftlb? Seems a little low to sheer a bolt that big, your talking about the 4 bolts that hold each throttle body on right?

That's nothing to do with zeds, that's to do with bad modifications. Could of been way worse, make sure to correct the cause.

Yeah I was furious...

Yeah seen that before, I think pretty much everyone can read that. This is why eye tests are individual letters, its far easier to recognise a blurry word than a blurry letter.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about this. Videos maybe?

In short, drive it sensibly till warm before you give it hell and after you've given it a trashing drive it gently, I think if it as coming into land. Think of an aeroplane, it climbs it goes along and then it descends, that's how you should drive your zed, warm up, exercise and cool down. That's all that really matters, that and good maintaince. Quality oil and filter changes at regular intervals, I change my oil and filter in the spring before I start driving it.

It's probably been topped up with freshwater at some point, maybe it's time for a coolant flush and replace. Hard to tell from that tough, I think you can test the coolant to see the strength. - - - Updated - - - On the plus side at least it's not brown....

Gosh now your asking... Iirc it's on the subframe. It might be a left over from an autobox, mines an auto shell. We shall see how quick release it is soon as it's coming out. :)

We had this issue with gazes car or similar anyway, the factory boost jet had been removed. So the natural pressure was 7psi, I suppose viewed as a percentage this throws things off and the higher the pressure from stock the higher the error, it's one of those accumulative errors. Question is it a large enough discrepancy to force your error.

Pleased for you mate, that was some shitty luck to begin with but looks like it came good.

It's not stock anymore bud, the hard lines were removed by some one a few years back(long story) plus you can't see much with everything in the way. There is a black w shaped clip by the engine mount, this holds the flow and return. The filter tree has a take off that us the feed, then it goes through the loop and comes back to a nipple on the sump pan near the turbo oil return. I have two joiners by the filter tree, these allow me to uncouple the oil lines easier for engine removal, leaving a 6" tail on the in and out of the block. May gave pics of that are il check.

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I can get you one of the slave etc. Engine Oil cooler line? Mine will be different mate, my hard pipes etc were deleted, it's two flexi lines.

That's how your will be done then gaz? Angle grinder and some 60 grit discs :p

It's not dropping cylinders intermittently is it? Crusty old loom disconnecting when the vibrations get high. These group RR days are annoying in a way, it's good because it highlights issues but you don't get time to expand on the whys, often the operator doesn't know the car so can't offer much advice. That's why having someone like Noel at the helm changes it as he can monitor the whole picture and knows the car. I know a member on here who was a bit miffed as the car fell short of 500hp due to dett the operator couldn't tell him anymore than that, kinda useless as he wanted to know what was causing the det, no AFR etc were recorded by that RR (Noel probably knows who's cars I'm discussing) Save up your pennies and get it mapped mate, properly. :D