bantambunny

here here, silly people's fault for running the bull in the first place poor thing. Saw the bull fights in valencia last year and it shocked me just how hideously cruel and barbaric it is. I honestly didn't know a thing about them till i saw it first hand and it made me think even after all this time how cruel human beings can be to animals :(

I guessed it probably wouldn't be on, i didn't have a zed to drive anyway so didn't matter too much.

I'd say si's is a stunner and well worth getting involved. The guy's put a heck of a lot of work into getting the paint right

Try craig david's. It's a genuine 99 spec, pretty much stock and an absolute stunner in my opinion. Something a little bit rare

Well my purple tt has cost me £2000+ in the past 12 months and i'll be gutted when he goes :(

Yep, john is actually sending up a new chip set up for single intake but its a bit late now i guess. May be worth keeping for the new engine if i decide to keep the tt injectors

lol, mate i've got bigger worries to worry about than car engines blowing up atm so not overly bothered. Getting the purple tt sold and 3k back to my bro is a bigger worry so taking all the none standard parts back off and putting it up for £2500 at the weekend

lol :D

Cheers matey, well the engine is dead and i'm pretty sure of that and tbh when i get the new stock unit through all i'm going to do is fit the stock pipework back in, leave the injectors as stock and just forget the small power increase i'd get by running the larger tt injectors. it's too much hassle for the 10-15 bhp i'd get over all and the car is going ot be my day to day car anyway. Thanks for all your advice though matey, if the engine were salvageable i'd have got it set up correctly but i can't afford to do this all the time. Speedfreak looks like the doolz is up for sale buddy Cheers, Nick

Hehe brill, i was there for the day hiding till they revealed it to him so he didn't know i was there :D

It's Jim Jitsu, i gave him a shout last night and he's never had problems like that before. He's said to check the fuel lines as the nitrous connects into them. Could be a leak, could be the fact the pump is knackered. Either way it would explain the poor running recently but i did know the engine's not set up properly yet

It's this one as far as i know (which i think is the doolz you're talking about?) http://www.z1motorsports.com/product_info.php?products_id=62&osCsid=bc5e4c941 I'll take some pics when i get back in tonight, so do i need an idle stabilisation pipe? The engine is an NA running TT injectors as far as i know, check my rides section for all the details Thanks for your help buddy

Ahh right, that's no problem i'm going ot take the car to John when it's finally moving again to get him to tweak it anyway and make sure it's set up properly before i even think about trying the NOS setup up.

Ahh i knew it had problems before i bought it, Jim's done a cracking job with the car, you should see the engine bay! It just need a bit of tlc in the engine department and it'll be sorted. When you say that, you mean it won't pump as much or it'll pump more?

I'll give it a go tonight when i get back. I'm pretty certain it's the fuel pump not running that's causing the problems. I'll check it pumps first, if it doesn't then i'll hot wire 12v directly to the pump to see if it gets it moving if not i know what the problem is. I just hope it's that personally. Where's the best place for a brand spanking new fuel pump? I'm sure i saw a link for one for £80 somewhere?

Front right i mean drivers side, the cylinder nearest the throttlebodies. I could try that but my tt's auto and the na (the one with the problem) is manual, does this work then?

Sunday i went for a drive in the new zed, its had what i thought was an overfuelling problem (kept stalling/a quick thrash would afterward make the car lumpy and it wouldn't get past 60 without issues and 5th gear just didn't work full stop) It's running 375cc injectors and twin intakes. Having had a word with John Dixon he says it's set up to run with a single maf and a dummy maf. As i came into town after overtaking something (yes silly i know) it started to miss firing on a couple of cylinders and as i went through town it got worse till i was eventually running on 3 as i struggled ot get up the final hill to my house. Pulled into the driveway and it stalled as always. Tried to restart and it wouldn't fire. So last night i took all the coil packs out, all the spark plugs out and gave it an hour to evaporate. In the meantime i checked the plugs. The front right was coked up badly but the other 5 were virtually white? This would suggest to me it's running lean? I topped up the tank with 5 quids worth from a jerry can just to be sure i hadn't ran out of fuel and put everything back in. Started it up and it coughed and spluttered a bit but didn't start and after a few seconds died again. I had a listen for the fuel pump under the car when the ignition was put to position 2 and heard nothing. I'm going ot take the fuel line off tonight and put it in a jar and turn it on briefly to see if any petrol comes out before i go any further but just to clarify: If it's running those big injectors and twin intake (which i'm reverting back to single and john is sending me a new chip) do i need a tt fuel pump or is there no difference? Could the larger injectors, etc have killed the NA pump and the engine leaned out on steady driving? It was alright on acceleration just not on steady speeds. Any ideas guys?

Sorry i didn't make it in the end spent all night trying to get the new silver zed to start. Have a feeling the fuel pump has gone, pulled and inspected all the plugs tonight and couldn't find anything wrong, topped up the petrol using a can but still couldn't get it to start. Next job, check fuel line tomorrow then i'm out of ideas lol

Anyone else going? I'll try and get there but i have to drive an hour home then empty the petrol out the cylinders of the car and dry the spark plugs

Happy Birthday little buddy! :D

I tried leaving it overnight to dry the spark plugs but it just juddered then stopped again and then just kept turning over with no spark so i'm guessing it's pretty wet in there. I'll be taking the spark plugs out tonight and giving it a good spin to try and throw the petrol out before i clean and refit the sparkplugs. It's the least of my worries right now anyway, i'm in the middle of the unpaid item dispute through ebay and it looks like i'm going to have to get a friend of mine who's a damn good lawyer involved (he was the guy who got Tony Martin out of jail) My bro has said he's in no rush for the money so i shall be taking this as far as it can go. Worst comes ot the worst the guy receives an unpaid item strike against his name which should warn any potential buyers/sellers of his ebay conduct and may help avoid anything like this happening again.

Well i'm not leaving it till he gets a big fat NON PAYER mark against his name

I've put in a non payment order with ebay

Oh christ i hope pk1 doesn't see this he'd go apesh1t :( Poor guy seeing his beautiful limited edition car turned into this pile of do dah :rant: He's much better these days. He's always posting on the lotus esprit forums and i saw him about a month or two ago when they presented him with his fully restored esprit.

lol, well as such i now have no zed to come in now. The silver zed's engine is flooded (i hope) and the purple zed hasn't sold and is still sitting on the driveway with guy now informing me he isn't buying it