Funkysi

Must say that when my Zed was on the road, on long motorway journeys it was pretty impressive actually.

Love those, although £90k is money I'd sooner spend on some Italian exotica.

Party on! :rofl:

Rover SDi...lol

Dave isn't yours uprated anyway?

Not with an arse like that Dave! The rear lights....eeeooowww.

Nice engine.....car looks awful though. Rear end mainly.

Still not too sure.

Anyone else tried this recently?

I've never gotten round this myth about import insurance. I'm paying £500 a year fully comp on my JDM TT manual. I'm 27, it's unlimited mileage AND I have 6 points. Can't imagine it would be any cheap for a UK spec.

Yup, most are imports in general. All N/A, SWB and cabrio versions were imports. Personally, you are probably better off getting an import. There are some nice UK spec ones about, but so many are scabby/rusty with high mileage. Imports tend to be lower mileage, available in more colours and the bodies tend to be a in far better condition.

Banned????? Has he painted that bumper yet?

£3K is at the bottom of the pile for reasonable ones. You'd most likely get a very very clean N/A or auto TT for that price.

Nope, no slippers I'm afraid.

Why did yours go? Oil pump failure? Low oil?

...I've only ever heard of the big ends going on one VG30DETT and that was Royals...

Going to replace the shells now even though they are fine. Will call MJP tomorrow. I understand that they are graded as well. I did call James who's rebuilding my engine and whilst he says the bearings are fine, it's best to replace them.

..sorry guys...seems to be my cookies aren't updating themselves properly. Have to keep refreshing everything. :confused:

All threads are showing about 2 hours ahead when you look within a seperate forum. From the main page, all looks correct. Also, my engine rebuild thread's gone missing, yet when I seach for it, it's visable. :confused:

Shells have got no wear on them at all. Bores all measured with a micrometer. The guy that's rebuilding the engine knows what he's doing. He also rebuilds lorry engines for Renault. We all know how long and durable these have to last.

It's only had a very light hone. Just to de-glaze it, that was all. So no need to rebore and pocket them. I'm replacing all the rings and seals anyway...:confused:

Yeah, James is pretty handy. Build 30 or 40 engines. He's just finished a high powered 200SX actually.

Pistons are perfect. No need to replace them as are the shells.

They are like new so I've been told. Jas was quite suprised how good the bottom end was. Probably won't be at the meet at the weekend. Still unsure as to the car's fate. Will see how I feel about it when I get it back. I'll be driving it ever slower than I did before most likely. :(

Due to the miserable and un-rebuildable state of the engine that was pulled from my Zed, I asked Jas to rebuild the duff engine that gixxar sold me. Luckily, the bores in this engine were in very good condition, even though as one of the pistons was removed, it fell apart. Not sure how, but the bore survived totally intact and unmarked (all measured). Have a few good spare pistons from my old engine, so now have a complete set of very good pistons and a nicely honed block. Bearing shells suprisingly were almost unmarked. The block has now been chemically cleaned after honing and is now ready for refitment of piston with new rings. Heads are going in for a refacing this week and hopefully towards the end of the week, it should be ready for being reassembled with a possibility of it being fitted for the weekend. If I had the cash and was tuning the engine, I'd deffinately be looking at uprated pistons. Have come to the conclusion that standard pistons aren't that great.