Stephen

ive been through some ups and downs with this car but im sick of this now. as some of you know i recently converted from auto to manual but i have to say i dont even want to drive it anymore. thats a real first. the whole thing feels disjointed clunky, im pretty sure the turbos have shit the bed i took it out tonight and it stinks of oil and chucks out white smoke when it feels like it. every time you pull away it rattles and feels like it wants to stall. i can honestly say two weeks ago i had a very solid auto jdm zed. now if im totally honest i have a smokey piece of rattley shit. i need help or im gonna burn the thing to the floor.

Any further comments guys I wanna work this out. One way or another

They do seem to prefer regular usage.

i was under the impression once they go theyre gone? thing is where ive just done the manual conversion and im wondering wether its something else ive done and im chasing the wrong thing. sadly i cant refit the stock cats as the turbo elbow studs where rusted solid and snapped out on the downpipe side.

il try and video it and get a vid uploaded. the mot an tax runs out in september so if i can limp on till then if it is the tubs il pull the block and have them rebuilt then. but as i say i just wanna be sure. im not one for driving around with squeals or smoke makes me feel like a ****. makes it look like a junker, and id like to at least try and look after her.

yeah lots of companies do this, if you had bid a quid or whatever it would have quickly shot up.

yeah i checked for play first aswel. the smoke is quite noticable. and i doubt it would pass an mot now :(

i decatted when i did my manual conversion and i now have a small amount of white smoke on idle and a it smokes when reved. seems to smoke less once warm, i drove it the other day stayed off boost for about 5 minutes at motorway speeds and had 0 smoke. the car still boosts well and pulls well. i seems to remember jimmer putting up a diagnostic thing for smoke, ie hold at this rev and if it does this etc etc. i had absolutely no issues before decatting and im pretty sure its the turbo oil seals i just want to be sure before i go putting considerable time and expense sorting out the wrong problem. input welcome guys

ive looked at that previously dave i was concerned that because of the curved edge on the bottom of the zeds front bumper it would look a little stuck on. also i think i want something with an edge to it. like an actual splitter. i was thinking today about a strip of 1mm rubber rubbing strip laid over a piece of aliminuim thats riverted onto the base they cover it in some 3m carbon fibre vynal to appear as one piece and give the effect. cant really make my mind up atm. - - - Updated - - - which is the laguna one ? the cupra one yeah it would hav eto be felttled too much to get what im after. keep the ideas coming guys.

I want to make a front splitter, im thinking along the lines of a curved rubber strip. Like on the front of many modern cars. I dontreally want to make it out of fibre glass for obvious reasons. Any suggestions of what to use, I have the 89 spec front

What size are they?

Yellow will be phils with a matt black bonnet aka ultimateray. Its tge only yellow on ed round here and the silver I believe is owned by a couple in xchruch did it have quite a lairy body kit? If it was mine it would be red and making a fair chunk of noise.

Lol yeah I meant colour lwb/swb tt/na?

What did they look like dave?

See a few round here. Mines out every weekend and a few are daily drivers.

In that case put the touches on if it will cost you that little enjoy it for what it is till your in a better position and find yourself a slickie

By the time youve pumped in the cash to get it to the point your talking aboutvto sell your going to have spent a fair few pennies.obviously yours is a solid low miler however I think you would struggle to get what ud be wanting. You would be far better off using this as a solid example or hunting out one that already has say a forged engine and cutting your losses with the current one. Probally not what you want to hear im just being realistic.

I agree its going to take more than a day, they may b ef able to do the bulk in a day but they will wznt longer to work out the kinks. I helped do one with two members that took a total of 24 working hours. When I did mine it took around 12/15 hours, im still tweaking it its back on the road but ive got,niggles to sort.

that front bumper is different i think i like it. :)

sorry to hear this ian, however knowing the history of the car in terms of its tin worm issues, i do a have to agree that it this may be the nail in the coffin for it. you dont need me to tell you about it pushin your insurance as its now classed as a cat... whatever right off. my personal opinion would be to write if off buy it back then break it and pool the money to buy and keep parts to get a more solid base for your project. chin up bud im sure we can find that club spirit and try and sort things out for you somehow.

well ideally you need to start from the front backwards. cleaning or at least inspecting the ptu is a good start, then the cas connection. as this is where the spark signal is sent from. then working further back.

could turn out to be very interesting this. esp for people like myself who are trying to learn more and more. realistically the only way to learn things is to try but you need someone who knows, to step in and say no thats a red herring or try this blah blah. i notice alot of people are posting problems and once resolved the solution is never posted, so if you do a search and find a similar topic, there are a few suggestions, but they dont finish off with a solution so you cant really know for sure quickly what is worth trying and what was just hearsay.

I take it the tps is unrealted to the idle? Ie I dont need yo do that I just need to do pin 44/ neutral blah. And reset the base idle?

Id forgotten hythe was my side of the test so thats fine. Ive walked home from.there before so its not that far lol

whats the current arrangements then times etc/ i did notice about meeting up in hythe but that would make the trip twice as long for me lol.