Stephen

Cheers for the clarification there Jeff. There is another as well isn't there, the Sierra XR 4x4 which had a Cologne v6 that cosworth had had thier way with which was known as the 2.9 BOA. It had that little extra window at the back.

agreed but I'd take an RS2000 any day.

Two different cars there Gary, ones a Serria RS Cosworth and 4wd, worth very strong money the Second is a Serria Saphire Cosworth rwd and less rare/desired but commanding stronger and stronger money.

Yup running. Non running you'd get 12v dc which tells you, by much.

The shit catchers work well with the skirts.

:lol: one truth in life is that no matter how much you earn you will still be broke.

Bet it's cheaper than it is for us though...

No, the Injector harness is perminent live with a switched earth from the ECU. Simply shoving the meter probes up it on 12v dc won't help. I believe from memory you must put the negative from your MM to a suitable ground and the positive on the plug with the MM on 12v AC as it's a pulse signal.

Have you tested the connection to the injectior yet, these fail quite readily.

What's rather important though is that the engine is in a state that's going to allow even the best turbos to not smoke. I'd hate to see anyone stump up 2k on turbos to still have smoke because the engine itself is junk.

I can't really answer that for you. It's cheaper to rebuild stockers but not by much, obviously if you want a stock car then it's obviously an option. New ones from the states would be better though. T28 turbos feature a design revision to the exhaust seal (so I'm told by my local specialist) and it's a fairly nice upgrade to have your turbos modified in this way. If you have the desire and wallet more extreme options are available but in all seriousness a mild upgrade to t28 internals should provide more than enough potential for a road focused car.

Have you been through the basics? Worked out if its loss of spark or fuel?

Smoking at warm tick over is classic rear seal failure, I use that term lightly as the seal isn't really a seal and it may not of failed. However oil is passing from the CHRA to the exhaust and evaporates as grey smoke. Not to be confused with blue smoke which is combusted, i.e. It's been through the cylinders and burned. In an ideal world the rear seal could be absent and the turbo should stil not smoke, this isn't the case though. When pressure on the exhaust side of the seal is lesser than pressure in the unpressuired oil system the oil will leak. This could be a few things including excessive blow by gasses pressuring the system due to poor compression. Oil drains blocked with coke or simply an exhaust design that sucks on the seal. One things for sure I wouldn't personally rebuild stock turbos again.

Does the block with low compression have stock or aftermarket Pistons?

And I. Goes back to what I was saying the other day about excluding people. Passive or concious this guy hasn't really been given much encouragement to join. It's not my taste I've made that clear before and I won't hide my opinion. But it wasn't in the club then. Better ways to go about things.

The LS is a great option but a very expensive route.

How strange. To be fair though I guess being a Chinese made mass production piece variance can be expected. Check out my thread for the indicator mods, there were a few suggestions but Andrew Gs is worked out for me.

That's odd, I didn't have this issue. Although I plumed them in before bolting them to the bracket.

There's a different feel to old car brakes and I think that's where the confusion comes about. The other cars at home have very sharp brakes where as the z on standard brakes was more progressive. The actual stopping distance was pretty good, it's just that it wasn't a sharp stop.

It's been a few weeks since I've made much progress forward with the car, missing Beaulieu was a disappointment but it took the time pressure off. I've decided that I simply won't be putting the car on the road this summer, it's something I've been fighting but I simply don't want to use all my free time getting it on the road for what two months? Plus the cost, to then take it back off the road and continue what I was doing. This way I can chip away and aim for next March/April and actually achieve what I want to achieve. I do enjoy working on the car but driving it is what I enjoy most and tbh working on it feels like a bus mans holiday at times and I'd much rather be fishing. In better news, it's looking like it will finally have a winter garage to hibernate in and for me to work. Next summer this car is going to be in a much better position and it's going to get used, heavily....

Quite the event isn't it. Congratulations mate.

His cosmetics...

Probably using the stock mounts for the optional bike rack.

Ironically I woke up on Friday to find out my card had been cloned and was being used in St Lucia. - - - Updated - - - I woke up :lol: that would imply I slept.