Stephen

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.

Lol, it's the fur in top ATM mate. It's like a bloody mushroom, beard is required for confined spaces as previously discussed.

Got the Downpipe back on tonight, soooooo much easier with the right tool. I'm short a 35mm long m10x1.5 bolt from the starter, sorted that though, I removed that silly bracket from the aircon which gained me 3 m10 bolts, too long with took much shoulder, but I can modify them, no problems. Oh and saved like 200grms in the process.

"It's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the ****ing century. In fact **** it, I think il keep it."

You can use NA decats on a TT but not the other way round. It's to do with the turbo elbows, stock TT elbows cone down at 90 degrees and mate to a flat flange, aftermarket TT turbo elbows come down longer and leave a 45 degree flange. I agree to an extent than an NA is mega loud when decatted, the turbos actually quieten down a TT significantly esp off boost.

Just do the whole bonnet mate, il be there to give you some stick if you find it necessary.

Leave early boys! You want to be arriving around 6, coming from your way the m4 down is going to be busy and the traffic will be mental getting in if your late. See you all there.

I'm on call :(

Doesn't really tell you much?

Lol, just thought you and classic FM had missed pink Floyd :p

:pinch: Stupid is as stupid does. Would have thought she would have learnt that lesson as a kid with the events of her mother. I take an odd stance on stuff like this, that I would discuss on an open forum as it's too complex and would be misconstrued. The two following two statements should help explain my stance though. "If coffee where outlawed, only outlaws would drink coffee." "If you make a choice which you know is poor one through selfishness or arrogance you can't cry about it when it backfires, except the fact YOU are responsible for your poor choice and it's shitty outcome."