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Clay twice a year, wax every couple of months, good clean every week or so depending on how often I've driven it.

Take the vinyls off? Are you insane? They're staying on until after JAE this year at the very least, I'm planning to get the most out of them! In previous years the small shopping list ones are a bugger to remove, but the big stuff is a piece of cake. Literally just pulls off with no issues.

Sounds plausible enough to me. I'm not sure I'd want my Murci serviced by anyone out in the desert either, although for that sort of money I think I'd just send it back to Sant Agata to do it. If you've got the money, then why not give the car to a garage you trust? I used to drive a 100 mile round trip to get my car serviced as they were the only people I trusted to work on it without breaking it.

Got back yesterday, minus 750EU and my driving licence as both were confiscated by the gendarmes for some *ahem* inappropriate driving Great race, and aside from the weather at varying points over the week and my introduction to French law, I had yet another great year at La Sarthe. Roll on LM10!

Remove the entire grounding kit to see if that cures the problem, or at least rule it out before you start shelling out for bits. It's too coincidental that this all started after you fitted it.

To save me stripping my own one down and attacking it with a set of calipers, does anyone know off hand what the filter size is for the Popcharger, both in terms of cone size and inlet size? I only ask mine will need replacing soon and I'm going to go for an A'Pexi filter mounted to the Popcharger adaptor, so I need to know exactly what to order. Any info is appreciated, thanks!

You can already get supercharger kits for the 1KR-FE...

Clicky

Oil is okay (5w40 is better), but Magnatec is absolute @*!# and if it were my car, I'd be draining that nasty stuff out and putting something decent of my own in. Honestly, words alone cannot describe my hatred for that crap that pretends to call itself 'oil'.

Absolutely perfect, fits like a dream and sorts the whole front end out. Thanks again for doing that today, above and beyond the call of duty

It's a poncy version of the Aygo, nothing more really. Aygo has the same engine, is lighter, has more room inside, and really isn't that much bigger. It's also a good few grand cheaper. I know where my money would be going.

Regardless of morality here, the seller doesn't need anyone's permission to sell a photo like that. Still wrong though

:lol: Well, after detailed specs like that then it must be perfect for the Zed! Go weigh it. Get it dynoed to get exact power/torque graphs. It might be stronger on the outside to prevent any big whacks, but if it's designed for competition then it may only be able to last 10K miles instead of 250K miles. Dry sump is good, but you need far more details on exactly what is inside the block before any kind of reasoned judgement can be made.

You'd need to know the weight, the differing internals, the output and where the power was being made, and a rough guess at the lifespan of the unit in question. After you find all that out you can start working out if it's any better than the stock engine.

It's not impossible, put it that way. Given that the test pipes would have made for easier gas flow at low RPM, I'm inclined to think you're a bit of a loony and this is all in your mind I only say that as going back to a catted system will feel different, and I think you may well have gotten used to how the car drove with the pipes in place and you're simply readjusting now. Chuck a bottle of fuel system cleaner in your next half-tank and see if that improves matters.

See, mine does this, and so do all my cars that I've ever owned. No way should you even contemplate being in 6th gear at 30mph, and even 4th is pushing it. That's very bad for the engine as you're putting a monumental amount of stress on it, so I'd stop doing that for a start. Not trying to be funny or anything, but are you sure that there's any issue here? Maybe you're just noticing the fuel pump more, and this has now led you to think there's something wrong so you're trying to find fault where one doesn't exist? Dunno, just throwing an idea out there.

All I can think of is how sorry I am for the lady in the BMW and the lady in the blue car, and how much I really hope the old guy is in a lot of pain right now. I can only go on the detail that's been given, and to that extent I have no sympathy for the blind bastard at all who should've actually bothered to look before entering a busy road

We have wideband O2s on our car??!! Okay, that's going to make hooking up an AFR meter easier in the future...!

O2 sensor is irrelevant, it sits after the engine so nothing to worry about there. Could be a dodgy coil pack or sticky injector, swap them on cylinder 4 with cylinder 1 one at a time to see if the misfire moves, will tell you if it's the pack or the injector or neither!

Grinding noise doesn't sound promising. Issue with the LSD perhaps? Would cause the slip sensors to go a bit potty straight away, and possibly also cause the grinding to a halt. If you bought it from a garage then take it straight back now, if from Joe Bloggs then I think I'd take it to a Nissan dealer for a diagnosis only, as noises are very hard to sort out over the interweb.

And they come in carbon fibre as well... I so want one of those now if they do fit straight when mounted properly.

Le Mans, lemons... In-joke between the group we travel down with, we're called The Lemons. Not as funny when you write it down on a forum

1.5L Next!

I can take or leave the front, but that rear is utterly beautiful. The lines remind me of something Brabus or Zagato might have done were they let loose on the car.

RBF600, and you'll need 1.5L of it. Job's a carrot.