Stephen

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.

Happy Mother's Day Billy.

That's up to you really.

Indeed, I was pretty happy with the stock brakes in good condition for road use. I would of stuck with them if I didn't have further ambitions. Brake fade is as scarey as it is inconvenient :lol: There seems to be a misunderstanding that big brakes equals shorter stopping distances, this isn't necessarily the case or even really the right aim.

350z front set up and rebuilt stock rears. More than adequate and unlike the very similar (arguably the same) skyline version, they are available and fairly priced. Anything bigger than that and you risk upsetting the bias and just locking up faster. It's all well and good having huge front brakes but you need balance and the grip to use the stopping power, healthy stock brakes can lock the front easy enough.

Ah that little sucker. That's one of my next little jobs. I can't correct my caster because of that nob ATM. You can trim a lot of it off.

Where is it rubbing Joel?

Glad a good day was had, again apologies for not actually being there.

I did think that was the case. I only saw your roof but I'm pretty confident the other was Chris' car.

It wasn't Andrews. Was on stock wheels with a few mods, side skirts etc.

Did you read the link I posted?

Saw a few of you heading down, two red ones in the 50 limit on the M3 by fleet about 6.50am and a blue on at Cobham at 7.