Sam Mcgoo

Im not having a dig, just can't see why you would even start the thread without having the pics ready etc.. You must have some pics you've taken in the last few months, or even back in the summer that you could have posted until you took some current ones?

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And a current one Hi mace I knew you'd be along

Welcome to the club. A few ex-Supra owners on here, including myself (BPU TT6)

400whp is fine on stock internals if you have a good tune and supporting mods etc. Many in the US have done it for years and a few of us over here have too. I would stay below 400 lbft of torque though as it's the mid range torque that breaks these engines.

Different wheels, but just to give you an idea of different combos of shadow/black chrome etc... http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/77963-wheels-finally-refurbished/

This seems proper cheap! Don't think it'll hang around long at that price. GLWTS.

Welcome to the club.

Oh dear, really? I hope it isn't a true reflection of my driving skills. I haven't had that much time on it yet, but do have damage on so try not to use other cars to slow me down if I can help it. Seriously though, does it just randomly put people from your friends list on the cars you race or does it actually mimic how you drive ? Yourself (Ekona) and Will seem to always be my main competition in my career races, there is usually some rubbing and the occasional nudge from you both, but nothing too major. I do really like it though, makes you more determined to do well somehow. If it is a reflection of my driving, I'm afraid it wont change because I won't be playing it for the next 3 weeks.

Nothing wrong with hel lines. Just clean up the sealing face on the back of the caliper and make sure they are routed and secured correctly.

Make your own?? http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/59915-how-to-diy-cold-air-intake-cai/

The spacer is a good thing. More oil = lower temps. My JWT spacer holds another liter of oil. With the cooler on top of that as well....it all helps.

I must admit I really didn't want to use two. Two places for a leak to occur and looking a little untidy but mine has been fitted for a couple of years now and I've no issues with it on road or track. I'm sure if you got the sandwich plate you want, you could drill and tap it for the temp.

I think you'll struggle to find what your looking for they don't seem to be available. I ended up running two sandwich plates, a Mocal 92Deg from driftworks for the cooler and a plain ebay one with 1/8th NPT ports for the oil temp. But if you've been searching, you've probably seen my posts on the subject.

Welcome to the club.

Amazing stuff guys.

Better get to bed now or santa won't come! Good night everybody and I hope you all have a merry Christmas tomorrow. Cheers.

Love that And would quite possibly volunteer for the test fit ! :teeth: :teeth: :teeth: :teeth:

+1 It's the only way for an accurate reading.

I'm pretty sure it's the SSV v1. Its the parallel one not the tapered one. Cheers, and thanks again for your help Chris I must admit I'm loosing confidence in DW a bit, Unless its got dirty, which obviously isn't their fault. Might have to try something else though.

Cheers, I thought it best to try and be thorough, as I struggled to find anything to help me when googling this problem. Most faults have a CEL to point you in the right direction.

12 months I think. The last set I had trouble with a couple of years ago, Abbey cleaned and flow tested them for me but one of them was massively under supplying. I sent them back to Deatchwerks for servicing. They contacted me saying that I would need to replace 3 of them to make a propper balanced set so I did. I might try just getting these cleaned and tested again and go from there.

Further update - I haven't got round to getting the plenum leaks welded up yet, and although they do need sorting I wasn't convinced its the cause of my issues so decided to do a bit more fault finding. Chris (Keyser) VERY KINDLY lent me a coil pack and a pair of VVT controllers to help me eliminate them as potential causes. So one by one I swapped out the coil packs thinking it would probably be the issue......No change I then tried the VVT controllers ......again no change . During all this, I noticed that one of my true dual exhausts was smoking more than the other and it was this one that seemed to be spluttering. This obviously concerned me. The car never uses any fluids, ever, so thought it was unlikely a head gasket or anything more serious but decided to do a compression test anyway. The first good news - Compression test was good. see bottom row below. I then looked at the plugs I just pulled. Five of which were black as the ace of spades and one was not. These have only been in for a short amount of time since I had the issue. Plugs from Cylinders 2,4,6, and 1,3,5 This suggested that cylinder 1 may be running lean and all other cylinders were being run rich to compensate. I looked at the plugs I removed when I first started getting the issue (not anywhere near as bad then) and although they looked pretty normal on the whole, it can be seen there are signs of number 1 running slightly leaner than the rest. 2,4,6 and 1,3,5 I then connected my OBD2 reader and loaded Torque up on the phone. No fault codes were present as before, but it could be seen that the ecu fuel trims were adding about +4 to 6% to bank one but removing - 7 to 9% to bank 2. This again suggested that bank 1 (cyl 1,3,5) was not getting the same amount of fuel as bank 2 (2,4,6). I'm now thinking an injector problem. Surely not, they're only two years old and covered about 10k miles. And after having faulty/ out of flow tolerance ones on my previous second hand set prior to that?? I decided to remove the injectors, coils tested ok for resistance and functioned when given 12v. I marked them up and put them back in the opposite banks. Once all back together I fired it up, and as suspected the smoke, popping and fault swapped to the other bank. The fuel trims were also opposite to before. Finally getting somewhere now. I suspected the issue was with the injector now fitted to cyl 2. I had a spare injector from my previous set and although not flow matched with the others, I figured that it was worth a try. After swapping the injector with a spare - It purrs like a kitten Haven't had a chance to go for a drive yet but idles and revs fine. Also the fuel trims are pretty even and now both +ve figures. So I'll go for a drive tomorrow and see how it is. I must say I'm pretty dissapointed that I potentially have another faulty DW600 injector. I will try and get them cleaned and tested first but not holding my breath.

Happy Birthday Chris! Hope your having a good'n.