tomfromthenorth

Well when it starts leaking in a couple of weeks I'll do just that. Until then... The car is working 100 percent. There is no smiley to represent the massive grin i had on my face driving about in the sun. Having not been in it for a while the car is wicked. Very happy. Have some rep for the help guys :-)

Think I have sorted it. Got loads of o rings from a hydraulics place and a new tube of gasket. They were all imperfect fits but pretty close. Got the stud out and replaced it with a regular bolt. A combination of new rings old rings and gasket seems to be working. Fired up on six but after a minute of idle violently dropped a cylinder something it's not done in a long time. Prodded all the coil packs and it recovered but don't know if it was a loose coil. Probably a glob of liquid gasket ended up on a plug gap! It sounded like a rear cylinder. I turned it off gonna let it settle for 20 mons then carefully re-animate it from its 2 weeks parked up. Hope it holds boost.

That's good advice mate, don't really know my way around Elgin yet ill try and find the local motor factors and that tomorrow.

Great cheers guys I'll let you know how I get on. But it's not the end of the world that sheared bolt?

http://www.zcentre.co.uk/?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.pbv.tpl&product_id=504&category_id=69&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=7 Haha haha 20 quid! I'm laughing I bet I end up buying them.

Get onto noz for those right or eBay or a mixed bag from halfords?

Good news then. I shouted *****cks very loudly shut the bonnet and got in out the cold so didn't do much investigation. The car had stood a week but I think they were fine. Hopefully a straight forward fix tomorrow. Liquid gasket of or should it have rubber rings. It seemed to have flush flat rings in there. And looking into the plenum there was some oil in there. Some not loads.

Changed my spark plugs for the first time myself rather than a garage. Bit fiddly as you know all went well strut brace off ballance bar off and replaced again. Quite pleased with myself I fired it up and it ran lovely on all 6. But with a whistle from the ballance bar on the drivers side. I had used some black gungey liquid gasket stuff but it was sucking a bit. I decided to go a bit tighter on the 2 bolts and snap! I did not feel I was tightening particularly hard. Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory! What do people reckon. It's definitely a garage job now. The plugs looked good to me.. Other than the fuely one and the one with a bit of oil on the washer they all looked like...

I have thought about a na rear before, always chickened out but your real world review is very convincing. Mark derbys real world review was less appealing though! I have read that the longer boost band is good on a tt diff but can't argue with how the car actually drives. I'll spank it down the runway one Sunday with a go pro on the clocks then get a na diff. I don't think any tracks have a straight as long and I'm not one of these motorway crack pots :-)

Sorry would it make you feel better if I changed my username to "honk" :biggrin:

Just had a look at your garage, I thought phutumsch was a dump valve noise lol as in "Grrrrrrr-phtumsch!":lol:

Or if your budget doesn't stretch that far see Turbonoz. He could tune a potato to about 400bhp. It's still bloody fast. I want half a thousand one day too but till then the car is great as it is now.

Think he was trying to do a Lexus lfa thing at the back, why not smooth the fuel flap after all the rest of the work. Is that a 350z steering wheel someone was asking about that this morning.

I could make a better model with cereal boxes and a highlighter. Some people are nuts.

Just seen this, glad the car protected her, well done Suzuki. Must have been awful to be inside. Wishing her a speedy recovery.

That man deserves a good slap.

Oh, and with regards to the route, I would normally cut the corner a bit more and go to Alston up teesdale then north but thought that May bring out the devil in my right foot.

I got 27 or so once over 80miles so God knows how people are managing 30+ I blame my massive exhaust I think it costs me some low down response having been in mondos car. But it's ace at full throttle. It's right what you say about modern cars not doing much better, 430hp a car full of stuff and forget the 25mpg I was comfortable, it was quiet, the climate was controlled, I had the option to use cruise control (which I didn't) and I looked awesome in every shop window.

Looking at it I think it May be no better than 25mpg :-\ but that's good for my zed which drinks fuel. And it had the equivalent of 4people in it it was packed. And a ****ing pheasant did this to my car...

I haven't got exact figures yet but I just got to Elgin on a single tank. 348miles on a tank! Now I normally hate miles per tank but as I couldn't afford to brim the tank again at this end it will have to do. I filled the tank with momentum 99 as I set off and started the trip meter. I decided at Stirling when I had exactly half a tank after 180 miles that I was doing it on one tank or pushing. Now with about 40 miles to go in the middle of lord of the rings I passed a rare petrol station with a fuel tank a woman would call empty. By the time I had 10 miles to go even I thought it was empty but I got to Elgin Tescos after 148 miles. I'll just crunch some numbers but that has to be good, 90 quid of momentum 99 to go this far. A lot of it at nearly 80 and a lot on single carriageway. Oh! And the car contained among other things, a fridge full of papers a 48inch TV and a lot of bags.

Redline mt90 is great stuff. the last bit of gear engagement feels more cushioned, better all round. The engine is purring again with it's Valvoline 10/40semi as always and it was laboratory clean inside and out. Drove a good 80 miles of country roads, had to play a bit of cats eye banzai In the fog at times lol. But when it was clear foot flat in fourth is amazing to experience, 23 years old and it pulls like an airliner taking off, smooth from idle to the redline gargling like a dragon. A happy zed is out of this world.

Well I'm gona head north west from there and do some exploring :biggrin: I reckon it will be awesome zed territory, and they have a long runway at Lossie... And we work all sorts of lonely hours on SAR...

Wow cheers man, most people are basically alright lol. We are really there to add embarassment to the situation :)

Today I cleared from RAF Boulmer on the back of my last shift with 202 Sqn A Flt. Wednesday me and the fairlady travel to RAF Lossiemouth before I continue my SAR career with D flight. My last shift came with a rescue, broken leg on the isle of May in the Firth of Forth, a woman from Frankfurt "Vos looking at ze poo-fins, ven she fell öhver unt broke her leg." She was 28 stone! Bit of free phys for me and the winchman. So any yellow helicopters around the north east it's not me, up Scotland way it could very well be. Of course I hope never to meet any of you guys in a professional capacity. I'll have to get into the zed scene up round Inverness. :biggrin:

Not far of needing some fronts so may go back to toyos, they are normally good value. Got some perfectly alright new kuhmos on the back that make the front maxisses feel a bit wooden on the nose. Again Gary, that handsome car.