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Nice, Any pics of the car?

He's GE VVTi so will have the weaker rods, he'll need GTE one or GE non vvti if he's adding boooooost

Bloody heck, hopefully not much damage?!

I used Manley, fit and forget for upto 1000hp But if you have no intention of going above 5/600 then a healthy set of GTE ones with new rings/bearings will be fine

Keron SRD Whifbitz

I would say so, nothing but benefits with VVTi!

Power at the coilpacks?

Only the GE VVTi has weaker rods, GTE is strong as, but yes you can just swap rods and do a TT headgasket to lower the compression for boostings

Harley Whincop might still have one

Cars been running okay for the last 6 weeks now when it hasn't been raining! Having a weird misfire splutter that comes randomly for a few pulls then goes away usually at 5 or 6k rpm, very weird. It could be fine for 20 pulls then splutter for 20mins then be fine again. Also idles high 1800rpm when at a stop, if it idles fine then it behaves, when it splutters it sits at 1800rpm. Noticed 2 wires need repairing, one on coilpack 1 and 5: With new plugs it didn't fix the issue Then went to Brighton for Incarnation and it was hit and miss on the way down. But on the way home to SRD it was spot on, didn't miss a beat, Mike had a fiddle and went out for a drive and it pulled perfectly (typically!) while he was there. Got it home no bother.. other than an oil leak! Oil return on the sump was leaking, M6 bolts were then drilled and tapped to M8 Not a bad job, drop subframe, steering rack/column and back together and running in 2.5 hours. lv_0_20230509201425.mp4 Wastegate pull We are leak free! Was out all Saturday in the sun and it didn't miss a beat, then in the evening the splutter returned! So next plan is to change all the coilpacks and see if that fixes the issue, if that doesn't then I'll change all the spark plug connectors. Other than that I can't think of anything other then letting the SRD team tinker about and investigate, but hopefully we get it fixed before then! They have been super helpful so far in helping me get to the cause and looking at logs etc. Forecast to rain all week so won't be going anywhere anytime soon. On the plus side it was bucketing down with rain yesterday and the car held up fine traction wise on my drive home, was so surprised how it handled the wet without ABS and TC on the back roads and M1, was going past everyone. Just shows what a difference a new suspension setup and proper alignment can do!

As above, pretty much everything is worth doing at this age if you're doing a build. Don't forget core plugs

Sounds like alternator is dead If you do this at the voltage jumps upto 13.5+ when running then you have a bad/missing earth

Get a multimeter on it while running and see what you get. Might be a draining cells in the battery

Get a new one from Keron, SRD or TCB. Check all the terminals are tight and earthed up properly

I have a Baltic blue one with outside handle, speaker box and weather strip. No glass or door card. £200

Do you know what offset and wheel width you have atm? Put the current vs new setup on willtheyfit.com and it'll tell you how much more or less poke you have. So if for example it says your new setup is 15mm wider just measure your current inner arch gap to check that space is available

255/35/19 depending what offset/height you're running. Could go as wide as 275 if you have the space

Still looking:)

Still looking

Lexus will be a 2JZ-GE VVTi, has thinner/weaker rods but you can put the non vvti ones in

Like Redex? I've used Redex a few times on a petrol and diesel car, certainly made a difference in cleaning the crap out. Throw it in, take it for a decent run and sometimes you'll feel the engine stutter almost for a split second where the crap in the lines is getting chucked out. I haven't used it on a modern car tho

I love that shape Vette.. been hunting for a nice one for a while, hard to get in black here in the UK

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Welcome back! Do you have a photo of your old one, might still be around?

Oh man it just doesn't wanna leave you in peace!