Robbo's New Chapter

Discussion in 'Member's Garage' started by _Robbo_, Aug 25, 2013.

  1. attycuz

    attycuz Member

    That is a nice looking zed man. Good job indeed
     
  2. Romonski

    Romonski And Justice For All

    nice but needs more low
     
  3. _Robbo_

    _Robbo_ Active Member

    One day when I can afford new coilovers.
     
  4. Romonski

    Romonski And Justice For All

    that makes more sense ;)
     
  5. _Robbo_

    _Robbo_ Active Member

    In need of an update.

    Well its been nearly a year since i last posted anything here, alot has been happening behind the scenes. I bought another zed, yes the one im now parting. Spent 2 weeks pulling 2 motors and getting it running then to find no one wanted it so part out it is; anyway, The reason for that purchase for the tt motor!
    So I asked a mate to borrow some space at his factory and the work began,
    The cars met for the 1st time
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    Both motors ready to be pulled out
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    Motor 1 (TT) out
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    Motor 2 (NA) out
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    So we pulled the gearboxes off and threw the auto TT box onto the N/A motor and poped it back into the black zed.

    Skip foward 2 weeks and i find myself with the motor just about ready to go back into my blue zed. After hitting some of the parts with paint and the entire motor with 8 cans of degreaser i was left with a motor looking a lot better than it did when it came out
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    I trhen thought it would be a hell of a lot ewasier to add all the zspec bolts now before I put the motor back in, so after a few hours of undoing bolts and replacing them one by one I had this
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    And so here we are one week ago, The motor was going in, after 2 hours of jacking this jacking that wiggling it finally dropped past the crossmember and i could bolt it all up.
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    and so the beginning of hooking everything up, the inter coolers, boost piping intake piping vacuum lines, electrical system

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    threw some more of the burnt copper paint colour id chosen for the accents and brake calipers under the zspec coil pack brackets
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    So now I have a standard tt motor with a few goodies Ive picked up alonng the way.
    16 row oil cooler with braided lines
    Aftermarket top speed fuel pump
    PWR twin pass rad
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    Full length rad guide
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    hks SSQVs
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    And so it was ready to start after a week of working any chance i got; turned the key and it wont start. The starter inst working properly and haven't worked out why. So that is it for now until i can actually get it running and a few more future plans to come to life as soon as i can figure out how and when. Keep an eye out.
     
  6. Vader

    Vader Just another guy

    Don't know if it's relevant, but the alternator loom between NA and TT is different.
     
  7. _Robbo_

    _Robbo_ Active Member

    is it? whats different?
     
  8. _Robbo_

    _Robbo_ Active Member

    It was running!

    Got the zed running! Ended up being in need of a new battery Great news but was only running on 4 cylinders on the way home. So we limped it back to the garage.
    And so begun the search for why its running like crap, 1st i grabbed a sard fpr, And then we had it runnning much better. Still not perfect but better. So we put new plugs in and made sure all the coilpack and injector connectors were in properly. A little better but still not perfect, and only boosting to 3 psi.
    Ended up with another miss on cylinder 5. So I bit the bullet assuming it was the injectors, sent them off to get cleaned and new orings/pintle caps thrown on. Are due back this coming week and we will see how we go.

    Whilst i had the spark plugs out i gave it a comp test coming up with the following numbers:
    cyl 1 150 psi cyl 2 155 psi
    cyl 3 149 psi cyl 4 150 psi
    cyl 5 150 psi cyl 6 155 psi
     
  9. badxtc

    badxtc kirby's bitch

    And id like to take the time to thank alex for giving me the comp tester because his good like that . So thanks alex your the best.
     
  10. _Robbo_

    _Robbo_ Active Member

    This^^ But seriously thanks alex!
    I will bring it back, ill shoot you a message soon
     
  11. badxtc

    badxtc kirby's bitch

    Hahahahaha its no problem man just having a stab at ya. When your ready all good.
     

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