Stephen

It's a mystery.

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Whilst I agree mostly. Trouble is E85 is not available in the U.K., you can buy it from special places but it's certainly not on pump.

I was supposed to be fishing, I quickly retreated. Sitting on the banks of the Hants Avon is always a treat but lighting and 12ft of dry carbon rod is suicide. Slept bad to as it was so loud and the animals hate it. Baby slept through till it stopped then kicked off and my alarm went off shortly after. Zombie day today.

Is it one of the small ones, about 12mm diameter or the larger ones that are about 25mm diameter? A photograph would help a lot.

Just so you know...this car uses a stock vg30de, i.e. A non turbo longblock, stock longblock. There's more to it than that obviously E85 fuel being a major factor. The motor itself isn't the issue as such.

My opinion, as it appears there are many variables to that car. It would require someone with experience and knowledge to have a look at at really asses what exactly is going on. Get yourself a factory twin turbo mate, at least you will be able to decephier what should be there and it will make more power than that anyway.

Hi, there's a few zeds in your area... Before everyone starts getting excited about this single turbo thing being alarming one of the fastest Z32s in the world is a single turbo with an NA bottom end. If your serious about it you need more information but I wouldn't get too alarmed straight off. I notice no ones asked what engine it is? Is it even a z32(maybe I missed that bit) z31 are stock single turbo. Seems odd to build a single turbo conversion with a fordged block to run 340hp, very expensive way to achieve what can be topped virtually stock. More information required, somewhere a wire is crossed in this I think.

Ummmm. No...:pinch: It's not new news or a joke I'm afraid.

Who owns the mad bolt on arched thing with Day glo wheels?

Indeed, good to see some cars out and about, full stop. Would of love to have been them this year but er, not getting anywhere fast at present. :lol:

Looks like a good turn out weather considering.

Interesting, i know nothing was said last year and the guy was a real jobsworth. There used to be differences between U.K. And JDM cars too. Be a right mare if we all have to go reinstalling cats.

Cheers for that Pete. I don't mind doing bits myself but full panels is just too hard to make safe and controlled with my set up. I'm honesty my compressor is not large enough either. Il have a chat with this guy and hopefully we can come to a good outcome.

Is that quite right? I thought Z32s pre 93 were regarded as pre cat and not subjected to this? The turbo seals probably already have failed in this instance and the decat/loss of back pressure simply illuminates the fault.

I've had this car now the best part of ten years, it's lived outside that whole time pretty much, covered but outside. It's been a daily driver when I first got it, a second car used every weekend regardless, in all weathers including snow at least once. Now a days it mostly doesn't go anywhere, because I'm working on it but in seriousness when it is on the road it's used for the fun of it. This has taken its toll on the body work, gravel scars, stone chips, car park *******s and worst of all a paint reaction when my original bonnet started peeling. The drive train and underside are, aside from one area that needs some attention still, bloody good. The top side of the car is letting the side down these days. Here's some highlights or lowlights if you prefer. I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that half the car needs paint again, it had a blow over in 2007 by the previous owner. He reckons it was a full respray but I can tell you quite clearly it wasn't. I really can't decide how to progress on this. I had sort of decided on wrapping it. Why? Because I could do it myself with minimal time input and the cost was low, sub £400. No poisonous gasses to worry about and it would give me a few years to save up a few grand for a full job. A recent BBQ with some mates though and they all really put me off the idea. The scars are still there underneath. One friend who is way more body work savvy than I am reckons it's half a car essentially that needs painting. His recommendation was to chat to his body work guy because for the kind of money I'm talking a deal could probably be done to sort it all out. So what do you guys think? I'm not building a show car, I just don't want it to look like a shit box. Good from 5 feet is fine by me.

If mine had a name it would be Frankezien. Half the car isn't original anymore. The shell may be the original but the entire drive train, engine, box, rear subframe the lot was sourced else where.

Awesome.

Cherry pearl well executed is a great colour.

Nice clean work there Joel.

Don't blame you Pete, one less thing to deal with and break. I've considered doing the same as one of ballasts started playing up, if a bulb blows you can't get them off the shelf etc. As you say the stock covers what you personally need.

Be worth taking your time to do it proper mate, even if you just remove the fans belts etc and the front cover to check it's all aligned again. For the sake of what two hours? Could end up rather painful on your pocket...

You get the idea.

Looks like a glittery turd. I'd rather eat my own sick than that etc, etc. I joke of corse, it's looking great mate.

I think you will find winding those top rings up compressing the spring will add preload not stiffen the spring. Spring rate is fixed by the spring itself, it's to do with how the spring is made. Changing spring rate requires new springs. Didn't you say your spring rate was 10k F 8k R, this should be enough for any street car. Maybe you have another issue that's your car feel soft. Did you overhaul your suspension or just slap the coilovers on? Why did your turbo elbows come loose? Seems odd they all loosened off, did you forget to torque them up or did you use the wrong hardware? Not sure how the picture will hold up against the exhaust temperatures on the turbo.