Stephen

What Serbs to get forgotten is many of these people have had previous allegations against them, sometimes the same people that are coming forward now were silenced at the time. Certainly that went on with Saville. My theory is that a public figure head or politician was at the top of this house of cards and something has happened to them. They have either they have died or they're bribes have failed. The whole house of cards has come tumbling down with them, leaving the abused open to come forward.

You need to investigate the simple stuff before you get too disheartened. Tbh mate I always assumed that a full engine rebuild was on the cards considering the extent of the work you have so far put in.

Mine did the same, I also decatted at the same time. Here's a thought, it's not an expert opinion just a thought. When many people's turbos start smoking simply turning on the AC can stop it. This from what I understand is due to rotational mass being increased. Now when the auto was in there the torque converter supplied drag, that's why the car idled so much higher and base idle was reset and why the engine revs far easier. So maybe the same applies to going manual. Try the old AC trick. But as Noel says you need to start investigating at least you can then say what it isn't.

It's a personal preference thing. No one but us geeks can spot the difference aesthetically and the chassis difference on the road is irrelevant at legal speeds and I really do wonder on track how talented a driver you would have to be to see noticeable differences in lap times.

Just for reference Gaz, Silverline doesn't use the forum anymore. As for the dice blue please, you know it suits red well.

Are you from an engineering background Ian? That drawing is exactly the way I was taught in college, even down to the number orenentations.

Fantastic excuse to go for a cruise.

0.16% is within tolerance isn't it? Tells you in that page what's suitable difference wise. Bear in mind the stock speedo is out, so when it says your doing 30 your more likely doing 28 or so, mines more accurate now with a slight discrepancy in the rolling diameter than before, checked and verified by the GPS.

Just enjoy the stock car, sell off your bits and use the cash to get the basics sound, 60k service etc you could even keep so e of the bolt on upgrades to one side. Once your happy the car is healthy and solid then hand it over to Noel and add the bolt ons if you still had them and make some good useable power.

Chin up fella. The tide is turning, I personally see much better growth now than even two years ago, as long as we don't get some Nit Witt that ruins the economy AGAIN we will be ok. Even the minimum wage us going up to be more in keeping with the living wage. Sooner or later we will get some money back.

We don't do internal travel in this country. We travel outside ALOT Brits fly all over the world all the world and are generally pretty well traveled. However, yeah internal travel not so much. This is because our transport system is crap, trains are expensive long winded and always unpredictable. The road network is constricted and congested, not to mention the cost of fuel and the inconsistency. To give you an example, to travel to London gatwick from my home is 116 miles, that takes around 2 or so hours, that's not too bad, I can do it in 1.45 quite often but it regularly will take more like 2.5 hours. To reach Redruth in Cornwall is around 170miles not much further but takes nearly four hours on a good run, that's an average of 40mph! I travelled to the other side of Britian a few weeks back, bournemouth to Glasgow it took me about 17 hours door to door, to go there and come back I was in Glasgow for 2 hours... That was by aeroplane as well. That's why we moan, it takes about a month to get a mile. Obviously I'm sure America has it's issues with transport but it's a nation used to travel. When we go to Europe it's really highlighted how bad our transport services are, driving from mine to Scotland and driving clear through France arnt massively different timescale wise, and France is pretty big.

Imagining things again lol! He has brought Gruntpa's old car which is a wise arch is it not? Got a full storsk or however you spell it kit.

Just incase your unfamiliar, the quickest way to tell other than the lack of back seats is the petrol flap is infront of the rear wheels, obviously that can be seen quite quickly, like when driving by.

I used those pages for a lot of my deletes etc, really helpful.

Looks like the AIV and EGR solenoids are still in situe. Do your boost gauge work?

Is that just a 5mm or what ever it is depth hollow tube to raise the cap? Also did you use new style caps?

EGR and AIV solenoids are in that corner from factory iirc, it could be one of those two not deleted properly. Before you go crazy, try to trace what the other end goes to, I bet it either goes down the back of the block or into a hard pipe on the drivers side of the plenum.

It's a wide arch I believe, that's why the offset sounds quite tastey. 10.5j with ET22 would have done poke on stock arches I believe.

So the ones that are on there are correct then, at least in terms of overall D. Did you say the rears are 10.5J?

Lol oh well Gary, I'm sure if it was that or nothing.... Do like these seen a few about, usually in orange which I don't like generally.

Pretty sure Hellraiser had his flow tested and cleaned about a month ago. He might have an answer for you.

Well tbh this is a discussion board. Whilst I appreciate some people may make rude or snide comments on the rare occasion regarding other people's cars, i certainly haven't done that here. All I have done is given a compliment and said what I would do personally, I haven't forced my opinion or presented it as a fact, he can paint his car pink and green for all I care. How do any of you know that the chap hasn't been looking at it and not liking it but putting up with it because he thought it was a factory addition, you don't. This is three people having a twopence worth at me in this thread, which reflects more poorly on the club than me sharing my opinion openly. Not only that but I've recently been told I shouldn't help other members if it's not 100% the correct answer, the correct answer wasn't even supplied by that person. Is it not better to get some help and thoughts, I NEVER profess to me an expert than not even try and help when you do know the answer. Lots of intelligent and informed people view threads and never reply then critic people who try to help. I'm a very relax happy go lucky guy and always try to help people out but I'm getting pretty sick of it TBH. I think I might need a 300zx.co.uk holiday I've got enough to think about ATM without being moaned at for having opinions or trying to be helpful.

http://www.etyres.co.uk/tyre-size-calculator Down the bottom of the pay is a calculator you can play with.

You need to use a calculator to work out what tyre sizes you need. If you use the wrong profile size the speedo will be out. My rears are 265/35/r18 so I'd guess a 35 on a 17" wheel would be wrong.

Personally yes, I don't even have the stock one as my car is red so it's just a swagde without a colour change. It is however your car.