Stephen

Does it sound like a rattling heat sheild from the trans type area? Yet nothing Is loose...if so mine does the same it's worse when the cars cold, almost sounds like the exhaust is rattling. If so it's quite a common complaint. Couldn't tell you what it is though, I've given up with it as nothing appears to be wrong just a funny noise. Pretty sure we discussed it in so wine else's car recently.

Yeah my japspeed(read generic Chinese one) has them, just a welded on boss threaded to bolt up the stock shroud, it's not 100% correctly aligned though, but hey it was £100 and it actually works, that's Chinese stuff it's 98% there.

I've had an on going issue with my zed now for some time. The issue is that it burns oil, to start with it grey wafts of it at idle and plumes of grey/blue between 2 and 3k it was honestly like a smoke machine, terrible. After a compression test revealing an average of 160 psi across all cylinders and no oil being ingested pre throttle body it was decided it was most likely the rear turbo oil seals, inspection revealed that a pool of oil was building up in the rear compressor housing then being pushed out when the airflow was sufficient. So these were rebuilt using staggered gap rear seals etc, the Pcv system was all replaced at this time too, with non oem Pcv valves and new silicone hoses. This cured the issue almost, almost, but left me with some smoke on deleration, or after prolonged idle that initial rev, it will idle all day esp with the air con on without a single puff. After some recent work on the oil filter tree I noticed oil coking from burnt oil on the CHRA of the drivers side tub, consistent with a cigarette like waft of smoke from that area now and again. I inspected the oil feed line as I was under the impression that oil from the core couldn't leak this way, certainly not without massive amounts of smoke. There was no evidence of the feed line leaking however and I was left thinking its obviously working its way out the rear seal again via that route, as well as through the exhaust. A while passed and a few days back I had a look after a hot drive, sure enough oil was visible from the oil feed line, it obviously leaked under high pressure and burned off to the underside. Anyway I tightened this up and bobs your aunt that problem has now gone. So back to reading about the fault and speaking to a friend we came to the conclusion that it may be the valve stem seals, these may be allowing the thinned out hot oil to be sucked into the combustion chamber and gasses to be leaked out into the heads. This would obviously create blue smoke and create resistance for the turbo's to drain into the sump properly. The car doesn't noticeably burn oil, I've done about 2.5k miles this summer and its no needed topping up since my spring oil and filter change(only use the car in the summer). I have used the search function and google and found that seal replacement is possible with the engine in situee and head on, I just haven't got access or space to crane the block out right now and it came out when the turbos were done so service items were done very recently. Whilst some threads indicate that my issue sounds prime of valve stem seal failure, correct compression, low consumption, blue smoke on deceleration others say the seals rarely if ever fail on these cars and I would be wasting my time and money. Could some one please discuss some sense with me and highlight anything I may have missed. It would be a terrible waste to pull a turbo or disassemble the top end for no good reason. I am looking to borrow a leak down tester of a friend to see what results that produces, id really like to have a summer without blue smoke trails, it doesn't happen all the time but you can guarantee it will happen when everyone is looking.

It may never of gone through the books I guess, just fixed at home and sprayed up sold on. Not very scrupulous but it happens, it may not of even been the previous owner it might be historical by now.

Nah they normally come with threaded bosses to bolt upto. Alternatively it can be clamped on with weird ziptie like things.

That's not cool, is the chassis rail compressed then or something? Has the car be written off at some point or repaired without that happening, I say repaired I mean bodged, as I would expect far more damage than that was done at the time. Did you do a HPi check?

Really easy, just be careful the mountings for the screws (for example the control pods) can be quite brittle and snap out easy.

Yes to this, my Capri had an Efan retro fitted which was extremely powerful I couldn't tell you what it was off. It was a gift. You could throw a welding glove at the front grille and it would stay stuck there by the fans suction lol. It sounded like a jet engine when it was on, seriously loud.

Cheers for the clarification there Si, you are completely correct I remember both cars now lol.

Eagle eyes...

Looking good mate.

Did you race down in the kia pride? Lol

Not seen one like that before.

There's so much crap being written about the z35, rumours of hybrids, twinturbo 4cyl's, a return if the zx even targa equipped cars. There's an article on that page about how they wish to make a spiritual successor for the 240z errrr wasn't that the plan with the z33 z34 and oh wait they aren't just spiritual successors but a whole timeline of Fairlady's http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2013/08/nissan-preparing-new-z-car-as-240z-spiritual-successor.html I really wish something concrete and reliable would come out. I also wish Nissan would stop pissing about, the z got progressively large and complex over time which, it was criticized for with the 280zx and z31. Then they finally made a good fairlady again with the z32 shelved it and realised something on equal par to the car they invented a decay debit more previously saying it would be the return if the dirk aft and hark back to the original concept. 10 years later they are going to bring back the 240z fairlady, come on guys stop messing about.

New strip looks great.

My 89 had lived outside for the vast majority of its life it's not rotten at all. It is still a 15 year old car though one that does rust.

It's the way forward, eligibility for classic insurance cheap daily cost and gives you freedom to take the zed apart for maintaince without the stress of getting parts and rushing things.

As soon as you can afford it get as many if the water pipes as possible changed and then the cambelt or if budget allows both at the same time. If you can get those done even on a low mileage motor, rubber rots, then you will take away the main weaknesses that occur. With winter fast approaching be careful with that new car, they can surprise esp in the wet. Look forward to pics and your progress, welcome.

Not one I can do on short notice but I spotted a sign on the roadside last night at silly o'clock. It appears to be a family car show for Children in Need, last year raising £1.1m link provided. http://www.carfest.org/Content/Welcome-to-CarFest-South Some one might be interested and if yiu go let us know if it was good and it may be one to top on the Calander to arrange next year :)

Well done, get driving it now :)

Yup, my dad paid a fair few quid for his. Looked after it with main dealer servicing etc etc and as I say it just fell apart and he paid to fix and it sold for about £2k. He was gutted.

It's a quirky and interesting engine, it's a far older design than many realise and it obviously extremly tuneable, being able to bolt on more rotors is crazy. I still don't like it though lol.

Maybe he was a dud then cos honestly it was crap.

So yeah, not offically owned one but worked on lived with and driven yes.

Not directly it was owned by my father. Il give it it's dues it went back and forth on long jounerys a fair few times but the common issue with flooding came up a few times, the interior fell apart at any given oppertunity the sump rusted out from the inside out, every mot included suspension repairs and the underside liked worse than a car two or three times it's age. He could get low 20s out if it but on average mid teens. He brought that car a few years old with reasonably low miles, owned it for four years and lost thousands on it, he was gonna sell it earlier but he brought it with his retirement bonus and couldn't bear the finicail hit. It had all the extras, areo kit the lot. It was a pretty disappointing experice and my zed ran timeing a round it and came to it's reduce a fair few times.