Stephen

yeh did my oil change the other day, used about 3.1/4 litres as i ran some oil through first to flush it out i recon there was alittle left in there. seems crazy that a 3 litre v6 with oil coolers and turbo lines etc uses so little my capri used to used like twic ethe amount

had a little look at mine this morning, to try and see what you were talking about and all i could see that matched your description was a piece of maybe 3/4" hose that runs from the turbo area, up towards the plenum and i could gain access through the gap on the right hand side of the master cylnder. sound about right? maybe take a photo for us to give you a better idea.

you guys need to lay off sum one created taht with love and....... no no im not being serious! id rather drive a ford ka for the rest of my lidfe than that i swear its painted with poster paint and made from cardboard come to think of it i swaer i made that when i was in reception but i was makinga rocket ship that guy just stole it and put wheels on it

can you not just replace with some non precut hose? maybe even just temporarily to get you running and check wether youve done further damage? as ck300z says about air locks, they can cause all sorts of problems and without jacking the front up etc i dont think you will get most of them out.

same thing happened to me last year buddy. water pump seized. blew a head gasket and warped a head. new engine time. do a compression test, check the oil cap for smeg (and if you feel ok to fire her up, see if your blowing smoke from the pipes and have rough idle) you may have been lucky and just blown one of the little water lines in the engine way they make a hell of alotta steam and fuss. but tbh mate sounds bad think you will be paying zedworld a visit. DO NOT DEAL WITH NIPPON!in derby. sorry to hear of it

right, just been under there and found out that the line that runs from the oil tree just gopes straight to the sump, so for some reason or another the oil cooler lines have been deleted. looks like all i need to do now is run the cooler lines throuigh the bay and hook up to the tree and the pan essentially extending the loop and plumbing in the cooler :D thank f~~k for that phew:sleep: and breath :D il do this during my oil change as teh shops are shut now and i need some fresh oil and the oil pipe for the extension. if anyone can clear my mind up on the whole is it def not a na block that would be great thank you everyone for your help and input

thankyou very much lymon, gonna go jack it up now and check. hopfully its just been bypassed not missing. anyone got any ideas if its possible ive been given a non turbo block and they have bolted my twin turbo parts to it would that even run and how would i be able to tell without taking everything apart?

dont buy a gasless there rubbish a gas one will give you a much better cleaner weld. dont be tempted by the cheap ones if you intending to get alot of use out of it.

any ideas how i could tell the difference in the block? would it even work?

yeh its the zcentre kit im using, im gonna use this ans my engine oil cooler. having spoken to a few people today im fairly sure its one of two options, that the previous owner didnt get round to finishing the swap of the coolers and sold the uprated engibne oil cooler on. or that the people that fitted my engine dint fit the sandwhich plate to the block for the oil cooler and have bypassed it or they have put a nion turbo engine in that doesnt have the oil cooler.

soprted the placement cheers guys see my other post from today for what i discopvered next tho! grrr

used to have this there is a slow leak on the pipe that feed the power steering once it was warm the light would go off i guess the heat expanded the rubber and stopped the leak i just top up about a shot once every month every other month but plan to replace sooner rather than later

its a jap sec 1990 tt it seems to go from the box through the rad then through the oil cooler in the nose cone. i poped a hose off and it was full of autobox fluid. had a good look about couldnt see where the oil line would even come from. there a small pipe of hard pipe joing parts of pipe toghter so it looks like its been modified. seems that sum1 has used the engine oil cooler as the autobox cooler with the orginal jap style in rad on in series with it. i just dont see who would be stupid enough to do this, so i cant belive its really been done. where are the oil lines located to feed the oil cooler? at least then i can put things back as they should be.

Ive been fittin an uprated oil cooler to my autobox the usual necessary. When I find that at some point some one has used the engine oil cooler as the box cooler and I have No engine oil cooler! I cant find where the original feed lines for the oil cooler even go. Please help.

hi been talking on dorset japanese car club site abouta small local meet. getting a few zeds toghter from the dorset and hampsire area not just z32s but any z car that wanst to attend? any thoughts?

thats madness, i have insurance with admiral with one year ncb and i pay 1k and im only 23 insuring a tt import. mind you its on limited milage and as asecond car social domestioc and pleasure

my parents live in france part time atm, every time i go over there i see these awesome roads and think if only, ive never driven aboard yet. and im really not brave enough to take the zed there yet! one day, one day.

partially yeh, i guess what i really need to know is which of the 4 oil lines are the two i need to hook up to the cooler and where do most peopkle mount it? doesnt seems to be anywhere sensible. (im thinking that bolting it to the undertray is a very stupid idea)

just a quicky has anyone got a write up for instaling an oil cooler for the auto box. the common upgrade for jap autos. i just had a quick reccy and didnt find anything like what i was expectig to find

were talking about a dorset based meet maybe poole or sum where around that area if thats any localer for you?

who does what now?

if anyone is a member of DJCC you may have seen i posted up about a dorset based meet getting a few zeds of all ages toghter. i know there are a few of you guys in southampton aswel and obviously its not far, just gauging interest atm please let me know if you would be up for this or you already run one?

any thoughts on the uk style number plate effceting the ciooling side of things?

and i was worried about my water temp!

hrm its a tough one since there isnt really a specific mounting place on my front bumper. i guess the real issue is that a proper sized plate covers part of the air inlet on the front no matter where you put as to that effect this has i dunno, but i do often think that it isnt to the benifit of the cars health esp since our cars run so warm in any event. i guess you could argue that as a point. but then as i said what effect does it really have? how are they mounted on the uk spec cars is there an actual mounting position?