Stephen

It's not rudeness it's ignorance as well. This morning a lady had broken down in the middle of a main road, 10 yards round a corner. Everyone's cuing to get past her, she's outside the car waiting for the inevitable idiot to slams into her car. Why did no one stop? Pushing her car to pavement would make it safer and easier for all. Apparently she had been there a fair while! Wtf? The amount of customers, and employers I Hear in shops using the phrase "I want" pardon? Has no ever thought you "I would like" or "if you could" followed by a PLEASE. Which leads me to final current gripe, people who refuse to let you out when it would actually make life easier! Followed by those arseholes who don't say thank you when you let them out. I tell you when I'm grand emperor of Europe, there will be a lot of ignorant rude people removed from society.

You have pm mark.

Whoa that's fantastic news! whats with the smoke though?

Don't get me wrong im not slating, ive heard people that have done good with them, the thing is bad news travels fast....if you've had them a year and they are behaving, few track days aswel hasn't there been? then its sounding positive.

Ur sure that its not the oil feed line that's leaking. Here's a theory, the oil return line is partially/ fully blocked. This is causing the turbo to become full/overfilled with oil, its only escape route are through the seals on the shaft front and rear and body. There is no seal between the core and the exhaust housing so if it fills with oil it will pour out round here aswel.

Doesn't the waste gate open and close the other way up to the garetts. Ie hinged at the bottom. This causes them to catch on the down pipe.

Just to add to this, have you considered the limits of the stock clutch?

Been some hit and miss reports on them ey. Hopefully he will be ok with them.

That's right, it behaves best being ringed within an inch of its life. Great for race cars crap for road cars.

Yeah! Hopefully you will win some car cleaning stuff and you can bob round n clean mine - not parking behind you again!! :biggrin: Hahaha!

It's alright bud I didn't take it that way.

Sorry mark I missed that the page hasn't refreshed when I answered.

My dad had a Rex honestly pants fuel economy 20mpg on a run. Underpowered and I think poorly built.

Sorry you've asked that several times haven't you yet no ones answered. Firstly the plenum would bee swimming in oil. Secondly the car would burn blue, this is because the oil would be combusted. The thick grey color of this suggests oil being vaporised after combustion. Ie in the exhaust. Also the PVC should be open during idle and all vacuum conditions. It closes when the car boosts to prevent press sustain of the crank case.

You wouldn't. the bearing sits in the hub which is easily accessed by simply removing the wheel. get a photo and we will soon work out what it is.

Shit me mate a bit of over fuelling? Question see after the black clears it goes grey quickly what causes that? oil being burnt? bit odd isnt it.

I did think to myself im sure that and the other obvious stuff like water pipe bypass would have been done esp seeing as the plenum came off.

I guess 465fwhp :)

Yeah, as ive said a few times the colour of the smoke and other things described is text book for rear seal failure. What confuses me though is that oil is also being combusted/entering the combustion chamber. I wonder if theres a blockage in the turbo oil return and its filling the turbo up its overflowing everywhere. Im just confused as to why oil is in the chambers, it cant locgically be sucked into the chambers through the exhaust manifold can it? The amount of oil that's escaping whatever way its leaving, the seal would have to be virtually gone, unless its under backpressure and being forced out.

Mine was between 165 and 170 on all cylinders

He is a busy guy I'm sure he will get in touch though. Search around for ashspecz USA company that do loads of r&d for the z32 he has been pulling good solid numbers out of stock turbos with 2.5" inter cooler lines 3" exhaust systems and 740cc injectors. As I said earlier though it would be cheaper to upgrade the turbos, than do all that to get the same figures.

Yes, yes he did lol. The cost and time of messing about with getting the very max out of the stock turbos would outweigh the costing of some updated units. Have a chat to nix there weren't that many mods to get 430hp that extra 50/70 is expensive.

Just to clarify jeff I wasn't questioning you, merely trying to help with diagnosis. However in reality as you said earlier there's no guarantee to what happens with second hand parts, what they were doing last week is no guarantee of what's occuring now.

To a certain extent I agree with you mark, As I was saying yesterday the colour of the smoke etc suggests rear turbo oil seal, that smoke just doesn't look like combusted oil. However the bottom plug is very black on the tip, I would say that cylinder has been burning oil. Its bloody confusing, oil shouldn't be able to pass the threads on the plugs and gain access to the cylinder should it. I recon if you removed the turbo elbow, opened the wastegate and dipped your finger in there a pool of oil would be found.

Well, there you go then. Not fun.