New Zealand Datsun Club

Haha, almost made it 4 hours without getting pulled over.

DJZ wrote:Haha, almost made it 4 hours without getting pulled over.

I bet it was a awesome 4 hours thoe

Haha, yeah. I bought the rego for it online at 6pm today but it doesn't look like it updates very fast and I didn't print out the receipt. I just have to show it at a cop shop and I'll get off it. I can get a reprinted rego label tomorrow.

Nice Redacted file there Daniel

CIA Styles

I suprised they dont invent a new offence, "Driving a skyline" 7 times out of 10 when I see a car been pulled over on the side of the road, it's a skyline. (Or one of their cousins)

On to the next round of problems.

So after the barbeque yesterday I went to visit Zac at Repco and let him take it for a drive, we discovered it seemed to be detonating a little bit which I hadn't heard before, this along with it feeling faster than it should made me suspicous so I thought I'd have a look at the wastegate actuator piping today. Also the factory boost gauge stopped working yesterday so I thought I'd investigate that too, turns out the vacuum line on it had broken.

Trying to get the wastegate vacuum line off was a pain in the ass so I thought maybe if I take the actuator off it'll help, took the R clip off the wastegate flapper and pulled the rod off and hello, the wastegate flapper won't move. Looks like after sitting for a year it'd rusted shut and I've been free boosting it pretty much. I sprayed the crap out of it with CRC and knocked on flapper rod around a bit with a small hammer and managed to get it free. It's still a little tight but hopefully that will improve now that it's moving, the only other option is removing the turbo which I don't really want to do right now, I'll save that for when I upgrade it.

I had to remove the O2 sensor to get the hammer in there and low and behold the ceramic part of the O2 sensor is completely smashed which seems to have been the rattling sound that I couldn't identify, it sounded like maybe a washer was stuck under heat shield. The only sensor I had lying around was the one from the RB20 which I don't really know the condition of, it seemed to rattle a little bit if I held onto the washer, might have to buy a new one at some stage. I've jammed the RB one in there for the moment so we'll see how that goes.

A freeboosting FJ! Sounds like a fun ride!

Bartman wrote:A freeboosting FJ! Sounds like a fun ride!

It's all fun and games till the motor goes bang

It's an FJ!