Joely P

when i start her up from cold she idles fine but if i touch the throttle the revs drop momentarily and then rise as normal. once warmed up it doesnt do it... any ideas? oh and occassionally when i start it, the revs bounce around a little before settling at idle.

i can probably make it dude!

i should be able to make it... maybe not in the zed though :(

... your havin a laugh right? il park it at the back of the car park and walk over... just to clarify (before i lose all respect on here :) ) its the mrs's car! ironicly mine is now fooked and hers still works :mad:

Hello matey... i have a little problem where my zed is off the road and will be over the JAE weekend... can i still get club discounted JAE tickets even though il be turning up in the scooby? thanks in advance :)

Nice shiny red with lots of vents in the front, a high level rear spolier and 6 pot rear lights heading southbound at about 14:00 on sunday... im sure i recognise the car from a pic on here sumwhere... any takers?

could be a wheel bearing, jack up the suspect corner and see if there is any play in the wheel. if you have a lwb with functional rear wheel steer then expect play in a steering direction but if you try moving it with one hand on top and one on bottom that may give you an indication of the wheel bearing condition.

wheel bearing? does it sound like its coming from a particular side or is it from the middle?

i will give the compression test another go but the last one after a rocky start, went well! it is on its first engine yes and has done 120,000 miles, although it does have a full nissan service history and receipts for £1000's so im confident that it has been well looked after. i am still suspicious of the tubs but at that mileage the engine is bound to be a little tired so i think a full rebuild and new tubs is the way forward. grin and bare stylie! once you have cleared access it is a simple job, if you are used to working with youre hands im sure youll be fine :)

if i was to remove the heads to change the stem seals etc, is it then possible to remove the turbos without removing the engine? thanks.

ok iv just taken it out for a test drive. now its smoking pretty much all the time!!! on idle, normal driving and on boost! DOH! help :bow:

as it only smokes when on idle, if i left her idling for a few hours would the smoke eventually slow down and stop once all the excess oil has burnt away? where has the excess smoke collected from the defective pcv valves, in the cats and exhaust baffles? if this is the case, if i removed the exhaust from the downpipe and its still smoking then i know me tubs are fooked after all?

bugger! cars out of mot and tax... cant mot it coz it smokes like fook after idling for a while, cant tax it without mot! struggling to think how i can run it for 500miles :wack:

hmm, a mixture of answers. they dont need to be shaken at all, you just turn em upside down and they move and vice versa, the ones i removed needed physically pressing to move. however, i was told to change these valves as it started smoking on idle after 10 or 15mins... i replaced them with the new ones this evening and it continues to smoke... alot! i have done a compression check which worked out fine and so suspect the turbos... my question is, how much oil is likely to still be in the wrong side of the system to make it continue to smoke? or am i buggered and need new tubs? :(

Has any1 recently bought new PCV valves? the reason i want to know is to find out the correct functioning of them... should the internal spring push the valve up and seal around the housing or should it just rattle around inside under normal conditions? I have just bought new ones from MJP as 1 of mine was a little rattly, but the 2 new ones i have received also rattle about! :confused:

should be about 150psi :(

sledge hammer

sorry chaps, the zed is dead :(

does any1 know the difference between the adjustable arms that smithy sells compared to the ones available via the driftworks webby?

lol my zed is also due its mot... no doubt there is a chance they will just require a clean... if your lucky :p though from what iv heard, be prepared to damage the hose on removal!

nail on head springs to mind... thanks dude!

After idling for about 10+mins the zed begins to smoke (embarrassingly quite alot) mainly from the right side but a little from the left. Its definately oil coz its blue... it always clears up after a quick blast up the road and doesnt smoke whilst driving, even when at full boost and coming off the power... so to clarify, it only smokes after being left on idle for a while... any ideas? any1 know where the breathers are on these?

i have the very same problem with my tyres, all four going bald on the inside very quickly. the adjustable camber kit is deffo one way to go, however, is it fair to say that the reason for this camber alteration is due to the extra 'squat' caused by lowering springs?... am i right to assume that if i used a lowering kit with shortened shocks that this movement in camber should cancel itself out? any1 know of the kyb adjustable suspension shocks that smithy offers are of a standard length or shortened?

that you again shep?

jae for me i think :(