Stephen

Check the ECU temp connection, it may be receiving an ittermitent signal causing the car to think its hottie or colder than it thinks effecting idle and the overheating procedure, ie turning on the fan.

Ummmm I'm in; Hinckley tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday Torquay( might stay down depending on the whole oil tree buisness) then broadway Worcestershire Friday... Any use? I've gotta get the last few bits done tuesday night so that's out.

I'm shocked it sealed as well as it did. More bodged work from the derby based scrapyard. I'm not counting my chickens just yet though lol, I was confident last time...

May be worth touching base with zclub to see what other zed chassis will be coming from your way.

Yeah, very much fingers crossed. Hopefully after work tomorrow il get it fired up again and we will be ok. Really dont want to drive anything but the zed to japfest, il still be there to talk to everyone and perform my duties in the morning.

Hey hey, that's a bit far. It was clearly said in jest. I've at no point got personal with you and said I think it looks terrible you should change it etc, merely expression my options on a public discussion board. As for your feelings surrounding the club that is another matter entirely and up to you....

Depends if they're a fat middle aged troll or a beautiful 20 something babe. Hahaha

It's defiantly the sensible option. My personal preference is for a sports car to not have extra weight and useless stuff poured into it, I personally feel it's also a bit old hat, that fad has come and gone. Of corse these are just my opinions but they do make sense.

Or you can buy directly from twin chip I believe.

Just don't go filling your boot with crap and the targas will fit :)

Right this morning I measured the depth of the block thread and the thickness of the lobe on the tree, the two bolts of roughly the same size were roughly 2mm too long, this after the gasket thickness leaves a gap between the two mating faces of 1mm. That doesn't sound right...so I cut 3mm off, chamfered the head and ran a die down the tread. Then reassembled the whole lot with copper RTV, got them all done up. Actuators back on, but that will do for today I've got too much to do elsewhere round the house.

Are you attending with us or another club mate?

If your over Poole way mate pop into Ashley power and get some ones rated to spec, done. They are "0"ring and bearing specialists.

Oh il be there, if not in the zed il come in my van or my mrs kia

Yeah I got hold of some 350 degree copper stuff made by Loctite, im going to re use the gasket combined with the gasket. Dry time is 15 minutes, so im going to start with the top one lol, the other three are easy in comparison. Get them nipped up and tweak them off afterwards. Had a good chat today with Jimmer over the issue and I've got a few things to look at on his recommendation, really helps to be able to speak to a proper zed mechanic at times. Tomorrow should see the damn thing back in suite and then theres just a few other annoyances to deal with before Saturday.

Good to hear it up and running dickie, shame about silverline as Steve always seemed a knowledgable and honest guy, rare these days... Be careful with your AMS manifolds, there have been some quality issues. I would expect though if your buying through Z1 rather than AMS directly, that they screen them. Worth having that chat though.

Tree out gasket is mint.

Yeah, except very best that gasket won't be here till Wednesday. Which will leave me doing the job in Friday night before japfest....

Damn blast and feck! It leaks, leaks like a sieve! Currently in the process of tearing it down, much faster this time hopefully. Gotta get some RTV from halfaurds. Can I/should I re use the brand new gasket, with the RTV?

Can anyone confirm wether the sr20 and rb series engines use the same oil filter? They are a bit blinkered old nissan, so unless your armed with the actually I can use this etc they can be a bit slow. Anyway they had some so I brought two that should get me through this summer season, and the oil filter will likely be the least of my worries parts wise.

Poor old thing. There's one like that near me as well

Haha, I got them now dave. We didn't event cars to go walking places now did we...

Ouch! That's a really expensive adjustment, I hope it's night and day.

Pretty sure a trader was doing these x3 of the correct size for a few quid, either silver line or noz

I'd love to go through some proper material on the subject, from what I understand they're pretty safe.