Stephen

Il have you know Julia Roberts has offered me £500 quid and a sherbet dip for my chin hair, she wishes to use it as a merkin in her next block buster.

More grip required?

The OEM gauge had three stages, cold normal and overheated.

:lol: Keeps my chin warm that.

That's cos no one else wears makeup simon, they don't call em vanity mirrors for nothing. :p

I bet one of the big four next to the fan has popped off.

Maybe a club member would be kind enough to have a quick look at it for you.

Where is it and when you going to look?

Why do you think he sold them :p it's not an Evo already, Jesus.

Your best of taking it to Noel for him to sit there and map it properly, he can then safely monitor what's going on providing you with the best power and safety. A poor map or tune however you wish to put it will kill the thing quite quickly, who knows how it's currently running and I would want it assessed by an expert before you go hitting boost. Also don't you dare buy it and not come round mine with it lol, I want a passenger ride.

At least yours isn't fubar

I'd be interested in hearing your reasoning as long as you can apply your reasoning as your own opinion, if that makes sense. As in present it in a way that it is your opinion and accept the fact that others may no necessarily agree, debate is enlightening. All we seem to be hearing about ATM is money, how it will effect people economically. Maybe Scottish people's opinions arnt that dissimilar to the rest of the UK, I can honestly tell you for example that living somewhere that couldn't be more different from central London that it often feels the rules are dished out and applied based upon things that have no bearing to us and can be completely illogical. For example the recent focusing on the criminal persecution of the humble pocket knife.

There is a picture if a spanner round a nut at the end of the line with the torque numbers in NM, KG-m and ft-lb

Honestly you will be fine, it's only a case if changing a gearbox, the wiring it's complex either it's essentially a link, this shorts out the inhibitor for the starter, the thing that stops it starting in gear. Then using the existing power supply to reverse switch to make them work. Easy. PS pump is situated directly below PS resivoir, it can be done in situee but removal requires the anti roll bar to be moved out the way, four bolts and swing it out the way to get clearance. I believe you have to use the NA bracket with the NA pump and vice versa. A small oil cooler would do it.

Liar Barry I saw you at Coventry lol. I might actually come along next year, il bring some burgers haha!

http://www.300zx.co.uk/cgi-bin/manual.cgi I dunno wether you have used this before, all the bolt torques for the whole car are included aswel as exploded parts seriously usefull.

The manual conversion itself it's hard, it's literally a case of changing the gear boxes. Then there is some wiring to modify, the worst bit by far is the clutch pedal, access is tight. Here is the issue though, your going to want the power holding ability and choice available for the TT, this would mean sourcing a tt clutch and flywheel, then the bellhousing needs some tweaks to accept and allow engaugement of the starter, as the tt fly is a larger diameter. Subframe will mesh up without a hitch bar the disabling of the hicas which will be fiddly tracing lines and pulling them out. You can then use your NA powersteering pump and bracket for simplicity. You may decide that you want a cooling facility in the PS lines if your going to be doing some hardcore drifting, PSF may over heat being engine driven(it was an inbuilt facility on UK models) If your going to be using the car in anger regularly the likihood is you will break something sooner rather than later, so aside from obviously ensuring your basic service items are serviceable replace all coolant lines with fresh. Furthermore I'd delete absolutely everything you don't need, cruise control, AC all the junk that doesn't make the car faster or more reliable. It will make working on it 100% easier and obviously save weight.

Do em pink, that will set the cat amongst the pidgoens.

Yeah you get what I mean it's like a matte or satin type effect not high gloss shiney shiney and certibatly not chrome which is for biffers with old English sports cars. :p haha

I think your right, however right now the colour of why wheels isn't my number 1 lol, at some point il think il go for that sort of Matt silver Andrew posted with fresh stainless bolts. (They're not true split rims)

Are my wheels too dark? They are gun metal, or maybe charcoal it's a ford colour exactly the same as the in laws focus. I do toy with it being too dark lol.

When it was first up and running after the turbos and gearbox were replaced it was so responsive and pulled so hard, it's got progressively less powerful, I thought I was getting used to it, turns out it was just falling apart.

Right basically, I purchased my car about 5 years ago, about 3-6 months after I brought it for whatever reason it spat out it's coolant and overheated, blown head gasket warped head etc. At the time I wasn't a regular member here or did I know much about the zed, so I picked up on an ebay advert offering a low mileage vg30dett, for peace of mind they also offered a fitting service and even a 12 month warranty(providing the engine was running stock). So I parted ways with my cash and paid the chaps who collected the car took it to thier shop and began work to do the engine exchange for me. Time dragged on and we had a few conversations about why is this taking so long etc but I didn't want to get too funny and pushy as I didn't want a bodge job. Anyway after a few weeks I'm told the car is ready, my dad gave me a lift up there to collect the car, the mechanic gave it a once over and checked/topped up the oil and I pointed out my throttle cover was missing. Still happy to see the car running and ready to go we left. About 3 miles later the car started pouring out steam from the engine bay, I quickly pulled over and called the RAC they (the RAC) refused to tow it based on the fact that it was due to faulty works just carried out. He identified various issues including a leaking exhaust manifold, after a rather cold conversation to the manager he finically agreed to organise a tow truck and to rectify the issue. This is where it started getting silly, time started racking up. I was informed my car had been subcontracted out and was in a unit and they had no access to it as the guy has the flu. After a lot of badgering my dad picked the car up and drove it home to bournemouth promptly breaking down again in bmth. A snotty conversation later with the manager again ended with me saying I'd rather not have him work on it again as he has had his chance to fix it. Coolant leak fixed at home and the car was sent to a local shop to compression and coolant pressure tested which it passed. The car was then limped on for a while, few more RAC call outs one for a loose gearbox coolant line which drained all the autobox fluid leaving me with no drive on the m27, till it finally gave up and I started to investigate, multiplue missing hose clamps, open vac lines, loose bolts everywhere including those to the bellhousing, oil cooler looped out. a local specialist looked at it and eventually gave up and that when it went to zedworld, jeff spent a fair while sorting out boost leaks misplaced vac lines clamps etc etc. His take was it was a good engine fitted badly. Thing were considerably better then for a while and I just kind if cut my losses, it was working now so you know nm. The gearbox hadn't been right and was getting worse, being drained of all fluid it motion probably didn't help not did the subsequent discovery that the engine was a manual engine and the trust bearing with it, so no trust bearing on the torque converter. So we plodded on, then the turbos failed, rebuilt replaced, the car at this point finally worked properly and was dynoed at 276hp about right for a stock auto TT. What I couldn't figure was why it would detonate at the stock plug gap...then began blue smoke on decel, which I assumed based on the great compression results last year. That brings us to now where I was thinking about valve stem seal replacement and wether it was a manual engine or auto and wether it was worth throwing in some manual cams, I then found the 10y stamped heads instead of 40p :s then I looked at the pistons with a bore scope ah 30p, it's an NA that explains the suspected Det on boost, I then checked the compression to find a lovely result passenger side of 170, 170,170 and a piss poor 170, 115,200 I repeated the faulty bank a few times number one returned that 170 each time, number 3 threw back and increasing number that finally topped out at 145, number 5 returned a rather clogged up result if 200 each time. So one vg30de fitted in replacement of a vg30dett, modified to allow it to run turbos, poor instalation. Poor service, mis sold product, poor fitment and most importantly a not what i had paid for. Can I blame them for the gearbox and tubs failing, probably not no. However for selling me an inferior product and not even fitting it correctly subsequently resulting in the early demise of usable life yup. Apparently it comes under the supply of goods and services act 1982. Once I've got my shit together, receipt, RAC reports, independent garage reports of faulty work etc etc etc they will be sent a letter informing them that a formal complaint has been lodged with trading standards, why exactly I have done so and that expect a full refund for the supply and fitting if a vg30dett which I never recived, within the next 14 days or I shall Perdue further actions with trading standards.

Il reply properly later as I'm at work. This work was done under contract for myself after I purchased the car. I wish I had found out earlier as I could of taken rectification steps, mapping to suit swapped it for a TT and had an NA to sell etc.

:thumbup1: Great stuff Gio, wonderfully eloquent as usual. it just points out how more complicated it is than what most people think, that England took over Scotland and claimed it as its own, its a bit more mutual than that LOL. I think you hit the nail on the head though that its more about lining top brasses own pockets than the best interests of Joe blogs on the street.