200sx Web - Wide Body Nissan S14a

devastated at the moment, got everything back together with the car and went for a big a drive this afternoon after cleaning up the garage and finishing off some stuff around the house. Getting a miss fire as it comes onto boost, might be plugs, might be something else but will no doubt be further time and issues ahead.

Well what a day, after a somewhat slow start and getting to unigroup @ 9:45am but sitting around till 2pm with other cars in front we got the car on the dyno but not without a few problems earlier in the day. I was a bit worried with the rocker cover leaking as I had only just put the rocker cover back on after getting it coated and I hadn’t had the time to start it up till this morning as I was helping out a mate yesterday afternoon. When I started it up oil pissed out of the rocker cover just above the water outlet, I had to take it off again in a bit of a rush this morning as I was taking Michele to work on the way to the workshop but put it back on and it all seemed ok. I loaded up the trailer and left for unigroup via dropping Michele off once sorted I sat down with Yavuz and showed him the video clip of the miss fire and he said it sounded like it had dropped a cylinder not really an electrical problem but he was not sure. At least he didn’t think I was pulling his leg with the i...

after the rocker cover was scratched quiet badly a while ago i finally got around to getting it coated. I was originally going to do it myself and paint it but after calling craved coatings it was only going to cost me $100 and i could never get it as good as they could so decided to drop it off last week. Picked it up today and this is the result, I also painted the washers gloss black as they looked a little tired, came up a treat.  All fitted up

Miss firing and Manifold Crack

Installed the new replacement manifold today, took the time to also tidy up a few things and clean the engine up to be back to how it was before. New head to manifold stud nuts, new S15 manifold to turbo gasket and Inconel studs with oval nuts. New oval nuts for the turbo to dump. Also replaced the oil return pipe as it was cracked with a new pipe and heat shielding, also did the two breather returns and added heat sleeving to these pipes. The turbo oil feed line that had been leaking for some time now i also replaced the olive in the fitting and it works a treat now. The coolant needed replacing as well so worked in well.

Thought i had a gasket blown but turns out to be quiet a large cracked manifold. Explains the smoke in the cabin whilst driving around Phillip Island, thought something had caught on fire. I had thought it was just a gasket and even with the boost turned off i was trying to get as much seat time as i could so i kept going out for a couple of sessions. Cracked about 3/4 of the way around, surprised it didn't fall off!!!

We woke early as the sun was rising up and weather was perfect but cold - even better J .  I went outside to hook up the trailer but noticed the two rear tires on it were completely flat. Grabbed out the electric air pump and pumped both of them up then hooked up the car ready to head off. In the mean time Dave was cooking up bacon and eggs for breakfast and Martin was still crashed out on the couch after sleeping on it for the night, he soon woke up to the smell of cooking pig J We headed off about 7:30am from the resort and drove the short distance to the race track, we came in through the tunnel that goes under the track to see the pit’s a mass of activity with all manner of cars being unloaded from trailers and in some cases full on transporter trucks - V8 Supercars style. Found a spot we could unload and we organized a garage for the weekend - $250 later I thought we need to see if someone wants to share but could not find anyone. We bit the bullet and paid the c...

well what a day, left sydney @ 12:15am today and arrived in PI at around 2pm. We made a fair few stops and went bascially into Melbourne through a bit of a nav man falure that added about all up 1.5hours to the trip. Needed to fill up three times so far and managed 15.6ltrs./100klm towing the nissan with 3 blokes in the car. Problems with the trailer and looks like the valve stems are leaking and both are now flat so will have to pump them up in the moring. Really looking foward to tomorrow and the weather looks good although it has bascially rained since we crossed the border in Albury all day so it is very wet down here at the moment. Saw a B-Double on the freeway that had done a 180' in the wet and they closed a lane as they were pulling him out of the ditch where he ended up. Was amazing to see. Have taken a few photos of storm as we were coming into Albury Filling up with E85 :) Fridge filled up with essentials and some snacks And another at Phillip Island

Cover still needs to go on as it was something i insisted that go on as a bit worried about dirt and rocks damaging the set up

Thanks to Martin picked up some new sway bar links before heading off to Phillip Island. My rear sway bar is different to the std one so these would not fit the rear but the fronts look the goods and a lot better then the previous ones. The old Whiteline ones were pretty awful as well so when these came up i jumped at them. My old links a bit had-it  New Links New Links installed

fitted the load leveling kit i borrowed from dad to the new falcon today, had to turn the low tongue around as the trailer is to low and with it at it's correct fitting it makes the rear of the trailer closer to the ground making it impossible not to ground out the trailer. Made a list of what i need to take and slowly stacking up and ticking everything off in the garage ready to pack into eh car. Might put some stuff into the Nissan rather then the boot of the falcon as will have 3 people in the car and don't want to arse end dragging along the road.

well two weeks ago went for a little drive and after the car got hot it started to miss fire. It only happened on full throttle as it comes onto boost and after resting the car for 30min it was actually worse with the heat soak. Car is at Andrews and we have put the lambada meter in and took for a drive on an even hotter day and it didn't do it to the same degree, only very slightly once. Suggestion is that it is the plugs and to do with the E85