Stephen

At which point for one, its economically unviable. Working on the thought that one from Japan would cost double its cost to your door you'd be looking at £50-60. You'd be paying an engineering company for an hour, set up etc. What's an hours labour, 50? And you've still got a fake and the end. Well done on learning some stuff Ali.

Is Dave still making stuff? Gone a bit quiet of late.

More investigation required IMO before shelling out to rebuild it. Esp if you've only tested half the engine. If you had less than 100psi on all cylinders I'd expect blue smoke on over run and probably grey smoke on idle as well due to excessive blow by. Be well worth you having the car health checked by an expert in these cars.

Agreed. Just seems a touch odd that it's uniformly low. Is it exceptionally high mileage? Does it burn oil? Generally I've seen these engines fail on a cylinder or two rather than evenly though out. I've got a 60k block sat I'm my workshop at present that still has very clean clear hone marks on the bores and the ring gap was well within factory spec. What I'm getting at is that for an average mileage engine I'd be surprised if the rings are worn out evenly through use as apposed to mechanical failure. I suppose it might have suffered from oil starvation but then I'd expect bottom end damage too.

When you say average, what were the actual numbers? Why did you perform the test? Is the car showing symptoms of poor health? Is your testing equipment calibrated or verified?

This what I meant when I said speculation. You just cannot know anything other than what you know and all you know is that they are currently shite. If your gonna bin them, bin them in my bin will ya.

I'm working on a kit myself. Watch this space

Are these cold or warm numbers?

Agreed. I swear Jimmer has used the new style ones without issue?

Caution is the lesson, assume nothing esp when buying used components no matter how little mileage. There's only a few companies that actually make injectors. I doubt Tomei are the manufacturer. Probably made by the same people as Nismo injectors, JECs.

Only post edit the cheeky pup. Both he and Jeff failed this reading and comprehension test. :lol:

Your quite right, that is the bottom line. How they were before can't be proved either way. Maybe they can be sorted out but as they stand right now there useless.

This. Its all just speculation.

Think you will find I said exactly that, that the reputation is based on early problems. I.e. It's old information.

They do indeed, the Americans don't rate them at all. However I believe a lot of this negative press is due to the company's early history when they were redrilling stock injectors. It's also all well and good people slagging off JECs but the OEM injectors are made by JECs, the 500cc size is featured as stock in some Subaru models.

Welcome. I pass through Arundel regularly.

The led will illuminate if the ECU has power. It does have to be in diagnostic mode to show the codes though.

The plug will have been fuel fouled Bill, once the heat got to it, it burnt off. Interesting that it did it though, time to check a few things. The ECU temp sensor and connection would be a good start and pull your ECU codes.

Love it!

Do you have any power?

:lol: nice edit.

Me too. You hear, I took a 25 year old car that hadn't been serviced for 20 years, turned up the boost and it blew the engine. Must be a shit unreliable car, it's the only logical conclusion.

Pop your specks on and read the question again Joel :lol:

This, this is probably why you got it cheap. Not only would that fail an MOT but that is the tip of a very painful iceberg. When these cars were worth less a few years back most would of told you to scrap it, seriously. Next time your working on this car take a wire brush, preferably a soft one on a grinder and hit that sill to remove the under seal. What you will find will be 10xs more than what you see. To repair that you need to learn some welding and fabrication skills. There's a few sensible warnings on here about your intentions. Put it this way though, if you earned the UK national average wage restoring keeping one z32 on the road will be difficult with the cost of living these days let alone two. Being totally honest most people your age or slightly older are going to struggle to live on that money (esp in your part of the country) let alone have luxury projects. If your serious about this business I think one of them projects needs the boot.

I take it it's not a testable fail then? Just not legal lol.