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Eventually Life is about having fun, why crash doing 100mph when you can crash at 160mph and go up in a ball of flames. Much more dramatic I should have said, I was referring purely from a track perspective, save you writing an essay Radical was amazing on the corners but JP's VX straight line acceleration was brilliant for CC. Not too much and not too little.

Why settle for second best?

Yes it was a little loud at CC. Cannot preach how much of solid car this is. Would hate to have one without SC. Totally threw my expectations out the water. Utterly brilliant car!

There are no pending for sale items for approval. I also cannot see your item approved and listed under any incorrect sub-forums. My guess it just wasn't received?

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Get a last minute deal to Ibiza, whether on your own or with a friend. Have a messy but fun time and relax, get yourself away from normality, look at the positive and just rinse all that bad crap away. You need some decent current memories, something that will bridge the gap from the old. A holiday whereby you're away from things that "remind" you will make moving on easier. It's not easy, but trust me you'll be more experienced in working out who is the RIGHT girl for you, she's out there..... just a matter of time.

These haven't been bumped in a while. There is a small price increase to £22.50 as a result of Royal Mail! Plenty in stock!

Thanks for the supporting comments guys, it's a super tough project as the plan is always start again. But what we gain from start again is an improvement to the original spec, or we can re-visit elements later down the line to tidy bits up. Yes it's costly, but to be brutally honest, it's the passion to do something like this which is totally off the cuff. It's paying off as we progress, and to be honest I don't regret in any way, no mater what the news, to continue unless the greatest monumental brick wall appears. Although, we have some good contacts, a Facebook page dedicated to Zed and G LS swaps of every nature. Trust me some of the builds I've seen are totally off the wall 1,000bhp builds etc. I won't be such a stranger to this thread as we move forward, especially as we are so very close to shipping her out for electrics. As per my message, just don't store them at the back of your warehouse! It's not hassle, just a learning curve. A challenge, a story, a journey which identifies each every part of this build, so that when something goes wrong, we know exactly where to look. Secondly, there are no other V8's with a wrapper that take my fancy, apart from TVR and the Ultima GTR. Although I know firmly what my next project will be, and it won't involve building a vehicle but thrashing one round a track. I've decided after going out in Chris' Radical and equally that of Jetpilot's VX220, that track days are a blast. Even more so when you're in a Radical, bloody thing is amazing, without any shadow of doubt, NEXT LEVEL! Keep you posted folks.

We then head onto the Oil Filter relocation. This is a pretty simple process, or so you would think. The line fitment location isn’t the easiest to deal with, especially when they’re so close together. Not only do we fabricate parts, we fabricate tools, herewith below the SIKKY Spanner!! Anyway, lines are installed. Below is the custom fabricated bracket to mount on the chasis within the engine bay and within easy reach for maintenance. With oil filter fitted to the car. Notice at this point, the lines are heading upward, with a slight tension as they're heading into the bay. We shall re-visit this section with the usual *Start again procedure. Next step is to sort out the clutch. This resulted in approaching the *Start again topic on quite a few occasions, and still not complete – we shall call it work in progress. For this to work, we need to install a Wilwood 0.75 master cylinder. So we utilise the supplied Wilwood unit from Sikky. This goes swimmingly well, although I’m afraid everything else is a complete and utter ball ache. We found that when the engine was first installed, we had accidently damaged the remote bleed line on the side of the gearbox. A visit to “Thread and Pipe†to have another one made. Although this means engine out! (*start again) New remote line installed and the engine is back in. The process of bleeding the clutch commences! At the point clutch resistance was obtained after bleeding the system, a yell from beneath the car was heard “FECK!†implying there’s a problem. Clutch fluid is spewing out onto the floor. It turns out the clutch slave cylinder is knackered! Sorry poor pic time. What you see is a black rubber seal blown out of the slave (centre of pic). So, Chris makes some enquiries, which result in some negative feedback. The email goes like this “Wasso! The part number to your slave cylinder relates to a Cadillac CTS-V†The next few emails reiterate my denial and then horror to find out via the gearbox VIN number that I do in fact have a Cadillac CTS-V gearbox. This wasn't part of the original sale some 2 years ago. We have no way of going back to them now. Okay this is not a big drama, the TR6060 is the preferred transmission. It's just from a different vehicle. Question is; why has the slave blown? It’s blown potentially for two reasons. It’s either the wrong slave, because of the miss-match in gearbox and engine, or it’s just blown through age? We need to source a replacement, in which I now have a great source for ancillary/service parts. We also find out the Wilwood provided by Sikky is likely over pressuring the system and we therefore order a replacement 0.75 from Demon Tweaks. In the meantime whilst we are waiting on delivery Chris deals with tidying the Fuel lines and installation of fuel pressure reg in the engine bay whilst the engine is on the deck! Apologies, Chris still hasn’t sat his “how to take a picture†exam, hence his skillset is clearly mechanical based rather than photography. He then decides he's not happy with the oil filter relocation lines. Previously heading north and bending round with tension, back down to "Thread and Pipe" to get some custom ends fabricated. Looking real nice now! (The benefit of *Start again means we perfect the process) We are now at last weekend within our timeline. We have taken delivery of the replacement clutch slave cylinder, and master cylinder in she goes. Connect back the gearbox and engine, lift the engine back into place with the aid of Mr Bobster. She's looking sweet. The clutch bleeding commences once more. We lift the car, Chris is loading fluids, releasing pressure as we pump the clutch. Here we go again!!!!!!!!!! FECK!!!!! We once more have clutch fluid spewed across the floor as it drips and continues to drip from the gearbox!!! This is now a problem. We make further investigations via Mr Bizz and the recommendations come in for a LS7 clutch slave. Clearly the clutch slave that we had originally and replaced was not fit for purpose with the LS3. It would appear there's a distance issue from the slave to the clutch, whereby pumping the clutch pedal just fills the slave with fluid and subsequently explodes. GREAT! That's it WE QUIT!! Bob is in the neighbourhood and sniffs out some bargains, starts selecting parts as we decide this is becoming such a difficult project. So we tally up the parts including a rolling shell and head out for a curry and a few drinks. After a decent sleep but a fuzzy head in the morning we (me and Chris) sit next to the car pondering if this is the right decision! We shouldn't be quitting on such a small issue, yes it's complicated, yes we have a lack of GM parts available at our disposal, we lack high level knowledge of these engines..... But the show MUST go on LS7 Clutch slave is on order, additionally other parts for the next stages. Oh and an apology to Bob to disappoint him regarding those parts which are no longer available. Don't worry Bob the project isn't finished yet, there still maybe another opportunity yet! We have therefore finished the exhaust system, all that's needed is some heat wrap. We will also heat wrap any item which is likely to be exposed to high temps to protect from melting or causing a fire. The down-pipes will go through a further stage later down the line to be re-built by an external company that specialises in headers. Fuel return is done, oil relocation, coolant is complete. That leaves us the clutch and power steering installation. We are not out the woods just yet, there's still a few more weekends to go before we are ready to ship her out for electrics, ECU mapping and custom dash installation. The car will be returned after the visit to Emerald in a state whereby she's running. Not moving, but running, as we have a large number of other items to start such as differential, installation of big brake kit, plus some other bits and pieces. So this is where we are at...... it's been a monumental challenge, as you will have seen "Start again" appears a number of times. Frustrating, but we want to get it right. A big thanks so far to Chris and Kim for not just their facilities to work on the car, but the option to stay over as well. It's been great so far, and such a learning curve. Bob, cheers also for your help and vulture skills perfectly timed when a man is down and out (nearly!). Buzz man, for being linked into our daily drivel of confused and stressful communications. Updates to follow as they happen..... thanks for reading.

It's been a while to say the least. From around May of last year up until Feb of this year tools were downed, which was related to family matters and the construction of Zed Shed 2. There’s no rush with this project, and rightly so as it’s by far one hell of a project. The initial plan was for a couple of 3rd party companies to assist with the build, that being headers, down-pipes, fluids and electrics etc. A number of disappointments later, work has pretty much been done by Chris, with the assistance of Bobster when he feels in a good mood to face my complications! We took stock of how much had been done, and where we needed to be. The plan is to get the car in a position to ship off for ECU and Loom Installation (Emerald in Norfolk). The task list was/is as follows: Evaluation of down-pipes, potential heat issues, line routing for fuel return system Installation of complete fuel return system Install Clutch Master Cylinder and lines with remote bleed system Install Oil Filter Relocation System Measure and fit coolant pipes Rebuild Down-pipes *Start again (you will see why during the update) Some taster pics We started with combatting potential heat issues based on Version 1 of the down pipes. Chris felt the Power Steering pipes are far too close to the down pipes, and set to work in extending the pipes away from the down-pipes. Although, Chris being Chris, and the fact *Start again is clearly listed in the “task listâ€, he set about making 4 new versions of the down pipes until totally satisfied. New downpipes (manufacture and install) Drivers Side Passenger Side Chris felt the Motordyne TDX2 sat too low in the middle and set about creating a new support. Y Pipe “modification†Now in position with rubber exhaust support and additional fixing point on the transmission bracket. This is looking to the rear of the car. We then move onto the fuel return system. This entailed ripping out the oem fuel lines and replacing with the upgraded fuel return. Out with the old! Yes that is a cache of nuts stored by some squirrel(s), although never claimed by said squirrel(s). Although, fuel bucket replaced with uprated Walbro once the nuts had been removed!! New lines installed. We set to work and install custom hoses including extensions to marry up the input and output of the coolant system with the Mishimoto radiator. Continued >>>>>>

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123 from me Tim. Greeeeeeeeat video. Possibly needed a couple more effects that I know you're good at. But the movement was spot on. Favourite track, car, movie so you have really ticked my box of approval. Keep up the good work dude. Good luck!

Whaaaa?? I just think Chris likes using his tools. Whenever I'm there these issues never crop up. Swear he secretly enjoys pulling an engine. You are right though Chris, it's not so much problems though, more obstacles that are a complete bitch (that's me putting it nicely)

Anything is possible, depending on funds. You can LS swap a Zed on the cheap by using a LS1 or 2. Although it's the fabrication which is the pain. For simplicity a built VQ or standard VQ will give you the simplist route. Although it all depends on what you wish to achieve. My specification was: As new engine LS3 (when bought was only 2 years old and 10k miles) inclusive of Gearbox. Fully pre designed LS fitting kit The doors open considerably with this engine running a safe 550bhp and around 520ftlb of torque with intake, header and cam work. With the potential to FI in the future. So, no matter what the cost I'm going in feet first. If I wanted to swap just because the engine is tired, then I'd either sell the car or go for a VQ swap. No bother rebuilding unless you have other plans.

How deep is your wallet, and I mean HOW deep! Although, it all depends on your platform and what you wish to achieve.

Focal make some good speakers, they rank very highly with EISA. If you want HIGH end then Audison Thesis is where it's at, but that's just stupid money for a car. The only way you'd appreciate that sound is if the engine was off. What we're really talking here is the top end of mid range and the beginning of high end. My Audison AV5.1k was £1k on its own, then adding the digital interface was another £130. Car audio can get way out of control very easily. Bit like Zeditus. But there's a limit to what you can get from High Audio from a car.

Maybe I've been ripped off, cos that's cheap, on the basis you get an engine, headers, fuel return system, rad, fitting kit, intake, ECU prop shaft and loom (for starters) and fitting for all of that!!!!! What a load of tosh!

I'm mirroring the same build in my Zed into the Alfa, consisting of: Morel Elate 602 in the front Audison Voce 6.5 in the rear Audison 5.1k amp has the capability of running 1.6k rms Audison AV Digital Interface Audison Bit One iPad Mini Love it, wouldn't change it for the world and hence I'm mirroring into my daily.

Okay some simple blurb: The Motordyne is made of a two piece construction, therefore had to be bonded at the joints which weren't great. Whilst there's two weak points they can of course potentially create air gaps within the joints. My resulting formula was to create a singular construction which in effect cost more as there was a huge amount of aluminium waste. Their gaskets were bonded with some form of silicon sealant. This breaks down over time resulting in the gasket detaching from the spacer. They would also cut and anodise straight away. This means the laser cuts being rough would collect a huge amount of engine oil or debris. Dirty things after a while, and not easy to clean. This is all experience of having owned a MD myself. Therefore, singular construction, gaskets bonded avoiding silicon, polished then anodised results in a sealed, strong, whilst easy to clean and aesthetically pleasing to the modifiers eye. That's basically it really. Yes they were slightly cheaper than the MD in price, but then I didn't want to rip the community off. Thoroughly enjoyed doing them. Oh and exactly the same gains with my spacer versus all others.

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Sure did..... all went, all gone.... no more. Used ones are super rare to be honest.

http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/61659-p0300-misfirecoilpackinjectors/ I had the same issue quite some time ago, a non specific error code relating to a "miss-fire". Eventually I would receive a nominated Cylinder miss-fire, so I could then swap out the offending coil pack. Not to say your issue is related, although my guess is that Coil Packs are your issue. Taking the advise from Alex in the above link should help identify the offending coil pack. You can get used coil packs from the usual suspects, especially as new ones are NOT cheap.

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If I recall it died of a very sorry robot death! Thing is there were far too many restrictions. That thing needed knifes or hammers attached to the wheel doing 8000rpm. Not a couple of spikes and 1000 rpm. But I guess it has to be safe to a certain degree.

The only gripe I have is the presenters #notveryinteresting As above Razor was the ultimate machine with a huge amount of design and development, not just a box, wheels and a flipper. Loved it's "I'm hard as f##k" standing on its tail and wings if I recall, great machine. Although Chaos 2 which I think was masterminded by "George" as mentioned above. They won a number of series, clever machine but for me was just a flipper, all be it a bloody good one.