TheRealNips

I have some of that Wurth zinc primer on the way. My friend advised it was the best and rust.co.uk taught me a lot too

Spent a day working on the car yesterday, O/S rear arch is done, grinded down and zinc primed. Ordering the O/S sill and that will be next. However need to get the car out of the container to take the door off and then get it back in and jacked up again!

Does any one have the fuel pipe that goes from the fuel filter to the black metal pipe on the plenum? Pictures here:

I found a large crack in my Near side lower arm and need to replace it. Does any one have one sitting around? It looks like this, but opposite as this is the off side one!

So I connected my laptop to my car and got these results: This is with my demist front screen thing on, temp set to 30C This is with the demist thing in the off position This is my friends Z working perfectly My O2 sensor seems to be broken as it never changed from 0.04V. On top of that my IACV-AAC/V reading only changes from 25-27% when the demist is on/off. My car hesitates when sharply pressing the gas. It almost stalls when you try to do a spirited start. Im hoping someone can look at this and suggest a route to take. Im thinking that the O2 sensors and the idle air control valve need replacing and testing the car again.

I don't know what you are all suspicious about?! I've messaged him for more info and will happily give him my bank details. I wonder if he could help me collect my long-lost Nigerian relatives inheritance at the same time?

I know. My black one is a NA manual... Hence me saying "I've got one". Then adding "I ALSO have a lwb tt manual".

I have one! I also have a LWB TT Manual (Its all there minus some of the sills...!

Thanks for the positive slap on the back, it does feel good to know im giving it another chance at life. Its hard going and maybe not to everyones tastes or ideals, but its what I would like to do with my time and car! Ill look into those products, I was wondering what I should use to protect it once its been welded up (badly!) :lol:

Completely agree with you. I drive buses and on a Thursday going to the dole office, its not foreigners on the bus. Its white British citizens, single mums, alcoholics, druggies and surprisingly quite a lot of young people with baseball caps on at a strange angle with hoverboards. We have about 20 EU workers from all over, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Italy and they are more hard working than most of our employees, rarely phone in sick, never late, etc. Before I start my diatribe against the UK, Please let it be known that I am totally white British (although I have 1/16 swiss in me), I was born here, lived until I was 19 here and I love it here, I love living here and even after 10 years in China, I still came back with my family because there is a better chance of a good life here... On another note, Britain isn't great any more. It hasn't been since the 60s/70s when the end of the empire concluded. We were only great before because we were THE superpower. Our empire, manufacturing sector and global trade meant every country looked up to us, traded with us, etc, even America. But now with Americas great boom in the 50's, China and India's monumental leaps forward, we haven't got a chance. America facilitated it in many ways, The debt we owed after WW2 (finally paid off in 2005) was used as leverage to give the empire countries their independence (Just look at this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom That's how big we were!) We lost all of our natural resources, our manufacturing and our labour. Then in the 60's, under pressure from America we changed immigration laws to balance with the empire, eg If Brits can go to India, Indians could come here. It was a massive open door policy and had very few restrictions. That's why in the 70's Britain had an influx of people from all over the world. In London before then there were very very few minorities, it was rare to see a Black person or an Indian etc. Now we are just a small rock on the edge of the Atlantic with dwindling natural resources, a small manufacturing sector and one city filled with embezzling bankers. We have a population of 68m people, which is nothing. The Tier 2 (medium sized) city I lived in China had 20m people, There's no way we can compete with economies like that by ourselves. These trade deals that have been set up with China mean nothing. At any point China can wave its hand and we will be thrown into the dark ages. We need the EU to stay a float in this globalized world of electronic money, post panama super trade routes and ebays international program. We will never be Great again in the misty eyed way that I feel the leave group is remembering. We wont have an empire, we wont have a massive work force of children working in factories and cleaning chimneys. The world has moved on since then and Super-Super powers like America, China, India and Russia have changed the game into something we cant compete in. The whole EU is struggling against cheap Chinese steel. If the EU is struggling how the hell are we going to cope by ourselves?

There could be so much new red tape in trading with us that things like the airbus wings get re-located to the EU. It might make more business sense to just build them in a EU factory using EU personnel and cut around the new headache of dealing with a non EU state... My personal feeling is that the leave campaign isnt making these type of things clear enough. If you were a share holder and the company director said the company was going to dive into a new market with no experience, you would want to know the EXACT game plan with contingency plans for everything. All I have seen from the leave campaign are things like "it'll be all right" or "We might be like Norway". im sorry, but i need more convincing than people telling me "it will be ok". This vote is the single most important thing this country has ever done in planning for its future. We as the population could seriously f**k this up because of empty promises (from either side) and bad biased media coverage. People need to research the f**k out of this before making an opinion because I dont think there will be any going back after...

Did some more work on the devil the other day, more tomorrow. Here are some updates: Cup of tea and rest before the storm Spot of de-rusting. Im trying to do everything on each corner before moving to the next. First bit of welding Offside rear part of rear arch rebuilt. Just needs priming and waxoyl'ing. Going back tomorrow to do more de-rusting. I wont weld because my welding mate cant make it, I dont feel comfortable doing it with out him at the moment. Ill change the drop links and check all bushings too. This time next weeks (5 days of work we think) and we will be ready to sort out the drivers side sill... :whistling:

What about the £58bn we would lose in trade? Increase in road tax and even more potholes i feel...

Be Careful. With windows 8 there was the Full version, the Full pro version and then there was the "upgrade versions" i.e If you already had normal windows 8, you buy the pro upgrade pack for very little and you got upgraded to windows pro. Im not sure about Windows 10 as its still a free upgrade, but always check what the product is. I have 4 copies of windows 8 pro bought 2nd had on ebay and when I have to re-install for whatever reason, I install 8, then do the free upgrade.

I assume that we would be able to travel Europe, but we would either need visas (like when you go to America or Canada, they would be available on arrival) or the UK would have to sign up to the EU Freedom of Movement Treaty like Norway and Switzerland do. However that would still allow people immigrate into this country, therefore making one of the main "leave" arguments pointless... So the way I see it, by leaving and therefore restricting immigration, on a quid pro quo the EU would restrict our immigration and tourism visitations. This also leads to another question; What about the 2.2m Brits living in the EU? Will they be forced out and back here? Will they need visas to live there? Will they be able to claim their pensions/benefits there as they do now? I really think this vote is floored as there are too many "what ifs" for regular citizens like us to think about let alone understand.

I may have opened a can of worms here... :oops: Everyone is entitled to their view and we should all respect that. If everyone thought the same, we would be in 1984! :lol: I feel that although the EU is not perfect, its benefits to us as a nation are greater in number than the cons. The EU needs changes and countries should be able to govern themselves more, but its difficult as there are some many people, so many cultures, so many unique local things that each country/province/ parish has. At the end of the day, the EU is paving the way in something we as a species has never done before (coalition between cultures, people working together for the greater good), there will be teething problems as we have never done this before. I feel that it would be a shame to throw it all away because the daily mail (and other publications) can make headlines from it. Things can only change and improve by people working at it and getting involved, by leaving I feel its a cope out to everything we have achieved together. Thats how I feel, you can agree or disagree, but mocking is not allowed! :lol:

Without wanting to start an argument here, Im just curious as to what people want to vote or if they haven't made up their minds.

Ive got 225/50/16 on OEM rims on the front. They are Falkens and so far are really good. I've got 245/45/16 on OEM rims on the back. They are Toyo as thats the only tyre that BlackCircles had that would fit Both sizes are stock sizes from the manual, however from a distance the rear tires look low profile and the fronts look like offroad tyres, its a bit strange. I looked at all 4 of my mates 300zx and they are the same, even his Supra is the same, small looking rears and larger looking fronts. Annoying but thats the way Nissan wanted it I guess...

I need a steering rack in good condition. I have a 1990 NA LWB jap import (i dont know if all racks are the same, but just incase) Mine is just starting to weep on offside (MOT advisory) and the "inner tie rod" are corroded (MOT advisory) so I would prefer to change it now and have a clean MOT sheet as it were! Ive added a picture of the bit thats corroded just incase Its labeled "Inner Tie Rod"

Ok, it went for another test yesterday as the first garage couldnt do it monday and it ran out of its retest window. Different MOT tester and he found both headlights aim are wrong, illegal number plate (but he said he wouldnt have flagged it, but because the previous tester put it on the system, he has to now. He doesnt think its illegal) and he found more rust. The rust will be welded up, number plate changed and headlights adjusted and then she has a pass! Interestingly we drove the car to the garage (10miles), car was at running temperature, idle emissions were done at 1200rpm and its was WELL below the pass level. So im not sure what the other tester did! I still need to solve this high idle and hesitating annoyance, but atleast it will have a pass!

My reverse lights work, so im guessing the reverse switch is working. Ill check the neutral switch. i found on here that linking Pin 20 & 4 for the Reverse on the Auto ECU and linking Pin 44 & 50 for the Neutral on the Main ECU sorts that out. Ill check the timing as well. The annoying thing is that some times the car will idle about 750 with the AC off. but as soon as you use the gas, the car hesitates then revs, then it takes ages for the revs to drop back down from where ever you rev'ed it to.

I didn't convert it, but the previous owner did and if its like anything else he did to the car, its going to have been done badly. Is there a list of things I can check through on a conversion? I know its not a simple as change box and add clutch pedal...

It was a non cat idle CO2 test. The left bank was 6.68 and the right bank was 5.83. I think. I can scan and up load the print outs when I get home if it helps. We suspect the car was left idling at about 2000-2500 rpm for the test, but as i wasn't there I can't confirm. My friend is taking it for a cane to get it really hot then get the retest done at 4pm with the heater/AC off. Fingers crossed...

Ok, all bits are done except the emissions. I changed the temp sensor at the front of the engine, but it hasnt seemed to have made a difference. Ever since I bought this car its had an idle issue. It always idles around 2000rpm with the heater on and around 1500rpm when its off. when you start it and sometimes when in a low gear the engine will rev its self. The power light flashes on the dash when it revs. It also has steam (atleast i think its steam, its not smoke that i can tell) that is easy to see when cold and under load, but once warmed up and idling isnt there. The inside of the exhausts are sooty and black. I think all these things are connected and have change the temp sensor, the MAF and fiddled with the throttle position sensor. Im thinking of changing the lambda sensor next and or the sensors after the cats. does anyone have any ideas?

Ive got a 15m flymo orange cable to attached to the back of the car...