Stephen

Personally I’d find some small orange SMDs and put them behind the grill. They will be virtually invisible when not on and when blinking super bright.

Can you not nick a bit of fluid out the brake resivoir temporary to get you to Halfords?

One of the other clubs I belong to you have to purchase something from the club shop or make a charity donation, to a chosen club charity. It’s only a one off thing and it seems to work well.

I think you will find a dedicated thread quite rewarding Pete. Sometimes your talking to yourself but it’s great to flick back and see where you’ve moved forward etc.

As long as it to moderate yourself! :lol: I’d offer to help but A I do t have the time and B I don’t think I have any useful skills.

Not stock housing. The rear is a 5 bolt and the front mounting is wrong, which is why it needs the adapter. God knows what’s there but they look like they have made their own version of a t28 hybrid.

I think part of the issue when compared to other car clubs is it’s run by volunteers, it’s not a buisness. Compare it to say the Capri club that has a HQ, breakers etc etc. We’re just not on that level.

Simply Japanese is normally a pretty huge convoy from Tesco to the grounds.

I am not, repeat not, taking my engine out for the forth time to get a bloody badge! :lol:

Mine had that fault the ECU sensor connection was faulty and it would flood on hot start.

Turns over, smells of fuel, doesn’t catch. I’d be looking at wether there is a spark first off.

Remember I’m not asking for answers I don’t have. I’m expanding the point. How many shows do we have each year? Are these exclusive to members, full or part. Help and advice. It’s an open forum, so not only do you not need to be a full member to get that you can read all this without any membership. Also that doesn’t make it more of a club that is the forum. There’s no exclusive access to parts, no discounts (aside from insurance) no group buys anymore, no news letter, no Callander. Maybe we need higher memberships prices but you get something in return for that investment... at present all I can see being a full member gets you is PMs and the ability to sell.

To play devils advocate Gary, what exactly does the club offer to make it more than just a forum? There’s a real lack of activity of late. Yeah there’s some high end OEM+ builds but not many. I can think of several active members who have disappeared of late. There’s lots of young single blokes with money in the car scene, they aren’t here though, they are spending small fortunes on Hondas and VWs, the Z32 doesn’t attract these people nor does it attract the wealthy collectors.

That’s some dark craic.

Titus that’s not a Scottish problem though that’s a UK wide issue. There are too fewer meets and too fewer members who attend. There are various reasons for that and I’ve seen both sides of the coin. I appreciate Coventry is over 400 miles from you but it’s not an insignificant distance from me, in fact from some parts of southwest England it is over 300 miles. In a car that does 20 to the gallon and ownership base that isn’t compromised of millionaires that adds up. Btw meets are open to all, you don’t even have to be a member, it’s a free world... I do agree with your main sentiment though. The fee regardless how small does not warrent itself. An ability to send PMs in a small community that many of us talk outside the forum anyways, makes that less worthwhile. The amount of items for sale on here, is a fraction of what’s available. Forums in general not just this one are suffering and many are dying. Facebook is the reason, end of. To be a forum is not enough, you need to be a club and to be a club you need to do more than provide a forum.

I think temporarily il just get under there and manually close it. As you can imagine driving it in this weather with the heat jammed on, even if it’s not blowing it still raises the temp, is a little uncomfortable.

It only blows hot. I should hook it up to consult, on board tests show all the actuators work etc, the error codes are nonsense to me. It’s a long standing issue and I have a fiddle with it then give up regularly.

Balls. I was hoping you’d say it’s a normally closed 12v solenoid. Your right the Climate control is very clever for the cars age, or over complicated and annoying is the other way of putting it.

Brilliant. Do you know is it a simple normally closed affair that opens when 12v is supplied or does it work proportionally on a 4-20ma supply or something? Ie is it solenoid or more like a flow control valve?

All done. I used 4PK870 and 4PK1000. Snug but all good with the undersized pulley. #note those sizes were particular for my pulley set up and would be too small for a stock car.

Is that valve, the one with the blue/red circle below the hot supply? Ie if it’s closed cold matrix?

Belts and radiator replaced. The belts I went for Continental units in 1000mm and 870mm. My old power steering belt was past its best once I removed it. New belts were a snug fit... just for Jeff. Radiator I ordered a generic aluminium unit from EBay. It turned up emblazoned in Japspeed logos and cost significantly less than the ones on thier website:lol: Not bad for an hours work and no more coolant loss or squealing!

Do the Stillen centre consol covers come up often?

They always were more expensive though. There are various market factors involved there, America’s lack of Skyline and the limited EU market being just two. There simply isn’t that huge source of cars from Japan to flood the market in either market.

You can get the belts from any motor factor, they just need to be the correct size. Mine came from Euro Car Parts via eBay, Contibelt branded which is a division of Continental tyres.