Southernspeed

So it's your fault when it rains!!

Yep, you need a check up from the neck up Looks like a pretty skip to me

Congrats on the new job! Not a lot of those around these days. But please ....... don't call in ginger , I'd hate people to say I drove a 'ginger' car Prices seem to have tumbled of late so your budget is very realistic.

Take yours to your local bearing stockist. Very unusual for cars to use non mainstream bearings.

I use Ventureshield on motorcycles. Fitted correctly (best to get them to do it) it's barely noticeable apart from the edges and is an amazing paint protection system.

Those are all things on my shopping list but haven't found anywhere that fills me with confidence to buy as yet.

I feel your frustration and sympathise, but someone isn't being straight with you. A litre in 600 miles that isn't pouring onto the floor can only be going one place ... out the tail pipe! Either it was measured wrongly, honed badly or built badly .... or not rebuilt at all !

The rings/bores may well have been the problem but if you're running in on fully synthetic the new rings won't bed in so you're back where you were. As Mark said, you need a running in oil or a semi/mineral oil. If there is no external leak then you have to be burning it (or losing it into the cooling system via cracked block, bad gasket etc but you'd see that in the coolant), if it's not coming past a valve guide it has to be passing by the rings (assuming you don't have a cracked/holed piston). Maybe suggest to them that you take it to a Z specialist and they foot the bill? They don't have to smoke to burn oil. Mine burns loads but it's only visible under hard use where as when I just had a race cat it left huge clouds everytime I got on the throttle, especially after any engine braking. The stock cats burn virtually all evidence of it.

Looking good! What make are the cooling plate and engine cover?

I use a motorcycle cargo net, cost a few quid and work perfectly!!

Have a chat with Mark at Abbey, he knows what works best as a package and knows what results to expect. Plus he'll do you a deal on a package

Sat in its new owners garage won't he be upset missing that bracket¿:-) Is that your old car? Hes not missing it And yes it is hey ...... where's my bracket?

uh oh..... more money

Thanks guys but I splashed out on a new pair

I can't help but think that unless you get an absolutely straight and level tug, you're going to do a lot of damage to your bumper!

Pocket is still smouldering but they missed my balls EH370 did me a good deal but they were still nearly 4 times the price of SGS ones

Well I couldn't take it any longer ..... so I bought a new pair of Nissan struts (thanks Evans Halshaw and EH370) and now my tailgate works perfectly , infact, so perfectly I may even put the counter balance weight back in and remove all my pennies So if someone wants a pair of barely used SGS struts cheap .......

Mark dyno'd my car at a touch over 250 hbhp on 95ron. Perhaps I'm losing a bit of performance compared to if it had been mapped on 98 but it runs really well. But as has been said, it's designed to run 98 (which I didn't know 'til after I'd had it mapped) so maybe on a stock map you'd be better advised to run 98.

who was out on the razzle tonight? Silver roadster, private plate, outside Cafe Italia.

Not unless someone's pinched it!! I'm on the motorsickle today

They'll give you a small increase in power but the best gains from a remap is the improved drive-ability. The smoothness and where the torque curve is. Optimising the fueling makes any vehicle drive so much better.

Fitting the wrong way makes the gate sit up so yes, they're on the right way. Mine used to work like yours, and with the weight, plus without the pennies on worn struts but not now

I didn't know this was possible? Anyone else's tail gate open on it's own with one button press? One button press would clear the catch, then just the lightest (one finger) assistance would get the tailgate moving and then it rose up smoothly where as now if you don't lift it as you press the button it stays on the catch, even then at half way up you have to give it a pretty firm lift to get it to full height.

In hindesight, not so happy with these new struts. Despite adding a stack of pennies to each popper and removing the tailgate weight I still have to use 2 hands to open the tailgate (I have to lift it as I press the release button) then once it's come up a foot or so I have to lift it against the restriction of the struts to it's full height. I complained to SGS and they said they'd sent me the non-GT struts so exchanged them for the correct ones. New ones were exactly the same. My old struts that I sent them worked perfectly accept on wet days when the tailgate would lower itself occasionally but even in that state, when you pressed the release button it would pop up on it's own and rise effortlessly to it's full height. The genuine Nissan ones are really expensive but unless I can get some good used ones I reckon that's going to be the way to go. Having to use 2 hands when you're carrying stuff is a major PIA.

Tail gate/ boot gas struts in good working order wanted for 2004 GT.