Changed the coil packs the "mechanic" said was the cause and still doing the same thing. Will not hold an idle or anything, even with foot on gas. Won't rev past 2k. I'll pay someone to come look at it if I have to.
Yep. Been arse ****ed for the last time by z owners. Barely had the motor going for 30 sec and opened oil cap shit ton of blue smoke. comp test 120 at the highest. This was the last straw frankly. I spent over 10k on the v8 swap just to be dicked over by some arsehat who said he was a mechanic and it was just a coil. The whole reason I swapped it was so i could have a runnibg car to start my new job next week.
Sorry to hear the news. Lesson learned the hard way I guess. NEVER buy a used engine unless you can hear it running & compression test it. Given the difficulty in obtaining a good used engine these days it may prove to be more economical to purchase a written off vehicle.
Nah its now the 4th time this has been done to me. Over being nice, the next **** to rip me off gets their head caved in. Plain and simple.
And given that I have forked out over 20k for literally 2 months of driving, I reiterate, these cars are shit. Never going to be stupid enough to even look at a z as a decent car again, especially after owning a reliable supra that has caused me literally no grief and cost 5k. I used to defend z's tooth and nail when the skyline lads used to have a crack, turns out the morons were right.
They're not truly bad cars, it's just that their being compared to supercars is at its truest when talking about reliability, need for servicing and cost to refurbish. If you'd had one under warranty you'd have loved it. Same deal with the late 80s porches, ferraris etc., absolute nightmare to own 20 years down the track if you aren't will to pay retail price to get it back together or get learn them back-to-front yourself. Holden Astra, now there's a truly shit car. P.S., re: Skylines, the early RB25s have the same issue as your new headache, the piston rings are only good for 150 thou and valves are a bit shit.
I truely believe that the Z's lack of reliability stems from the fact they are so hard to work on, not just having a tight as hell engine bay they have 2 turbos and enough pipework to keep a gas works engineer happy, this enventually leads to a lack of maintenance and people selling of poorly maintained cars cheap, which are bought by kids wanting a turbo car but not having the funds for better looked after cars, that trash them some more and sell them off cheaper. eventually get bought by someone who is happy to spend some wrench time but then discovers that theirs is not the only car/engine in this situation and has a bad run of luck getting sold lemons left right and centre. Sorry to hear of your situation, it seems like you had all the right intentions and got all the wrong luck.
Man I feel sorry for you. I bought Skyline as I didn't wanna go trough all this shit on the first place, that was like 10 year ago when these cars were so much younger. (I new some people that new the car inside and out and recommendation was to stay out) But all goes to the show... I like it and I had to have it... You wanna reliable car... don't buy something that went trough so much punishment or... Buy Toyota hilux While mentioning Supra my sister is the owner of one such example and it all was fine until few mounts ago when she started having problems with the searing pump that locked out. That that lead to balancer being ripped apart and that somehow caused one valve to leak out... Head than had to come off to be fixed... after that break calipers suddenly locked up... found out that calipers had shit loads of rust in them and that rotors were too thin "wrong type" as well I found out that someone discovered ABS totally (that is comment fault with supra's btw)... Too much issues appeared out nowhere too much to mention here but again ... Old car it is inevitable...
7 years over 20k spent 4 z's vs 5k 1 supra not a single issue and not a speck of rust and no prostate lickers screwing with me. This clown has cost me a car and now a job. Frankly I have only been screwed over by z owners, had rotaries, s13's you name it and even my s2 rx7 had less issues than all 4 of my z's. Sorry these cars are utter junk compared to other imports. My ROTARY was more reliable. Lesson has been learnt, listen to the bogans who bashed these cars
I was sold this car on the condition it was running as described by the mechanic selling it. he said he did all the tests required like comp etc. The fact is I have gone out of my way several times to help people on this forum with their z and somehow I end up always getting shafted just to get ripped off yet again. like i said, 4th time a z owner has screwed me, so if anyone else wants a crack pm me for my address. I have now lost the job I was due to begin tuesday, i have a paperweight where my v8 z that i spent countless hours and thousands of dollars building used to sit, and there is absolutely no legal recourse available to me. This was the last time. I have trusted filthy human beings one too many times. As for luck, try 30 years of constant bullshit where people have ripped you off, literally stabbed you in the face, run you over and youll begin to understand my rage toward people. It's no longer anger, it's now genuine rage and disgust for this species.
Totally with you there Stu. I bought into one with no mechanical knowledge what so ever. Learnt pretty much everything on it from changing oil & spark plugs to engine swap / loom change / interior retrim / suspension mods and settings etc. Hell of a learning curve but now working on any other Jap sports car seems easy in comparison. Explains my recently developed love of S chassis. They are just so damn easy. Everything within reach and one size down from the zed which means it takes less effort overall to remove nuts and bolts. Some of the cars out there are well past their use by date and need attention for pretty much everything. Their cheap price reflects this which kinda shatters a lot of dreams.
I have to say that all my friends have always had a good run with rotaries as well. Look after them properly (not hard to do either) andthey are a good engine as far as I am concerned. in fact I was looking for a first gen RX7 when I my Z.
There's 2 kinds of Z owners, ones who just wanted a cheap hoon car and selling off their rubbish, let's call them group #1 and the enthusiast / stubborn ones who spent too much money already to turn back and end up keeping it, let's say this is group #2. When they do sell, it's a good car but it's not going to be a cheap $5k car. Your persistence is admirable but it just sounds like you've bought from the wrong people (i.e group number 1) who neglected the cars, patched them up for a quick sale and you're picking up the bill. Really sorry to hear it mate. No such thing as a reliable car. My supra had a cracked diff carrier and was single wheeling when I bought it. Replaced the diff carrier, put in new clutches and heavy duty spring which cost me $1500. With all the new found grip, it then proceeded to blow the clutch which was another $1200 and I had driven the car less than 2 weeks. Obviously when buying cheap you expect these sort of things. Your NA Supra is reliable for good reason, there's NOT a lot to go wrong since it doesn't make enough power or torque to stress the driveline and the 2JZGE is bullet proof and will even handle boost if you bolt a turbo on it and give it enough fuel.
Was in no way cheap. And I trusted him because he was a mechanic and that's that. I have not had steady work in over 3 years and the first opportunity I get was all riding on this car being sound. Now both are gone. I also made the mistake of selling the supra to my sister the day before this paperweight arrived so I didnt have to pay for both cars. This is what I mean by the last straw. I pretty much sold everything I owned to do that conversion for nothing.
