Stephen

20" bbs lm s theyre gonna look a maze zing. However theres a chap in yanky land with big wheels looks crap. Ott.

yeah that sounds very cheap ok its smoking but how bad, and why. if its a fubared engine wellll 600?

probaly a fuse.

er they look a bit blue tbh, are they stock lights might be an optical illusion. hpowever they must be white or yellow.

:S sorry you lost me there you think its lumpy? it has got full decats and divorced downs, i thought it sounded pretty damn smooth, and that was well not hot but warmish. it will smoke like that a idle only. once moving ie under load the engine does very little. i think whatever is getting in there is dribbling out at idle but not passing through. then once the revs rise it starts to pump it out the exhaust. once pushing it out at a faster hotter rate it burns off what was introduced. that is my sorta take on it.

we tried but the equipment wasnt working correctly. its on the list this week. i did however do one less than 10k ago. and although i dont remember the specific result i remember it was pretty good. il have it done by the weekend.

what you need my boy is a fence. nice little three foot this is my land now piss off device. it might be a little tight getting out your car but hell it will save your paint. and if she struggles well she can always stop being a fat dent creator.

lar de dar no one talking to me anymore?

evening bump.

alot go for v power jspec cars need higher octane fuel due to the fuel grade in japan being higher, conversely a uk spec can run on normal unleaded. i will run mine on crap old unleaded if i have no resort petrol stations are little thin on the ground round here and they can run out of super unleaded esp out in the sticks, in this case i top up ebough to get home and just cruise without boosting.

good on you. theres a lack of quality work out there as you say. a friend of mine works for a classic Porsche resortation company and they do some amazing stuff above and beyond what the usual "restores" will do.

you may even find as i have that half your local non specialist garages will turn the zed away esp if its a twin turbo model. they dont want to get involved. and the only one locally to me who would get involved was a waste of time and money. there is jimmer with his company powerzed down south but thats even further for you. ive used zedworld for a few things now and ant fault them, your gonna have to travel to get your car worked on so it may aswel be travelling to someone worth their salt.

theres a black one of these round teh corner from us my father in law was pretty convinced it has a engine cover that looks like a ferrari engine and everything, the cheap wolf race wheels that didnt fit the arches and the tiny brakes, not to mention the huge aftermarket drift style whale tail spoiler was the give away oh that and the fact it was about 4 inches clear of the floor

can a mid put in the thread title that this now has video?

cheers gaz it all looks so promising till the revs start to rise lol.

what is it a civic?

right aftertoday inspection the foloowing has come to light. a leaking pcv valve that is causing oil to drip over the left hand turbo and possibly into via the top feed. also some not fully tight spark plugs that had oil coming from the rocker cover down the shaft in very small amounts. the spark plugs were clean an amount of carbonation which is obviously to be expected. no oily deposts. the plenum had very little oil in it. the car will idle quite happily, well very happily actually, smooth as glass. with no or very little smoke. at 2000 rpm it smokes like a trooper at 3000rpm the smoke clears. hellraiser kindly made a video of this today aswel which quite cleary shows the above.

yup melted piston or rings have gone probaly more likly the piston has melted after your 1.5bar of boost. shame. anywayssssss as above get yourself a good runner from a breaker then decide whether or not to rebuild the orginal block.

Dont panic too quick! Compression first panic later.

you need a compression tester for starts then you remove the fuel relay so the car cant start and remove the plugs, put the compression tester in the spark plugs hole. crank over and you will get a reading in psi, for that cylinder. obviously work your way along doing them in turn. they should all be equal i cant remember off hand what a good reading is but damn you will notice a bad one. you can also look at the plugs while they are out if they have sticky black residue youve been burning oil. black sottiness is normal just carbonation. you can also do a leak down, this involves a similar procedure but you pressurize the cylinder. and leave it to see if the pressure drops, obviously this is a slightly better way of testing because you get a longer veiw of potential leakage.

rods wise fine mate, i get my barbel and match rods in there fine. however i struggle more with the access these cars dont do gravel tracks well. i had an auto but i converted to manual the auto boxes are a little delicate and really do take some of the driving pleasure away. they do however make the car a very comfortable cruiser. where abouts are you located?

i agree with mark i just didnt want to be the one to say it. time for a compression test at least preferably a leak down. even if only to isolate the worst from your mind.

you can put more through stock internals but depending on the engine condition bear in mind the age, its life expectancy could dwindle significantly.

leakdown test is on the cards to rule out rings but as you say i recon its tub related. pcv seem a cheap logical service item to do in any event. as you know though im just tryiong to cover the bases. - - - Updated - - - i take it valve stem seal failure on these engines is not a common common thing...

thats what i thought mark i got one off a mate and he said just pay me what seems fair i didnt know what to pay myself. but i was thinking 70-80