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Dry sump? Is that like where you don't put oil in, and leave the car parked in the garage because it's worth so much now and is like a beautiful museum piece? 😛

Sounds like AFM or TPS issue. What are the voltages at the TPS like? Have you done any diagnostics other than slapping parts at it?

I am actually chuckling about that out loud!

Its an RB26. It won't have oil pressure that long... 😛

From videos and photos of them coming apart, I'd be adding a loop near the front of the shaft too. Have seen the remains where it has let go, been caught by the centre loop, but shaft is happy to bend about 90degrees at that point and proceed to slap the shit out of everything as it dies a catastrophic death.

You need to visit Ipswich. Plenty of clapped out R32 and R33s running around here as daily drivers. And when I say clapped out, they're how you'd look at a VN, when it's the year 2010...

I want ZF, with either LS or Barra. In the cruiser. Want more lazy power/drive for towing. God I'm getting old!

Can't remember if you've done the diff yet, after my 33 went under water, it was full of water a long while later. Drained and refilled with oil. Mine hasnt been moved under its own power yet though, but inspection camera before refilling and it looked like it should be all okay. Let's hope bearings are fine ha ha!

Sounds like a potential ground loop on the sensors. The 2500 has the sensor grounds go back to the ECU yeah? Are there any grounds that have been looped together, OR grounds in the sensor wiring to the chassis / motor? The alternator one is a bit weird, does the same thing happen on the road? Is it definitely dropping voltage based on boost, or is it just RPM dependent?

Those didn't work. Depending on if you're on a phone or PC, you can click the add files button, select each photo one at a time (pick one photo, tell it to upload, click 'add files' again.) It sounds like a few things are unplugged, one is possibly the AFM (or wrong AFM) or the TPS. I've had the same issue before too leaving the temp coolant sensor unplugged, but that only became an issue once the car got hot. To know what the base idle is doing, unplug the IACV (electric plug to it), and see if it'll start up, and what the idle tries to sit at. It will be interesting if it can even start with the IACV unplug, and that would be a big clue too if the idle screw is set too low. Will wait for the pictures to load again so we can check plugs.

With the idle, have you reset the base idle screw with the IACV unplugged? Very likely the base idle is set far too low. 10 seconds sounds about right for the ECU keeping the IACV open at about 1000rpm, then it should settle for about 650-750rpm (I can't remember the exact rpm point). If the base idle is too low, it can cause the car to stall.

I buy oil buy the 10L drum. It's a square drum. Comes with a tap. Works the same way as above, but normally more economical to buy per litre. However, you need an intermediate dirty oil drum for your first change, as chances are, your car doesn't need 10L in it. The cruiser is great for using the drum. It from memory is 9.3L of oil to fill. And it gives no f**ks if you give it an extra 700ml, and bam, you've got an empty 10L drum Oh and then on top of that, I've normally got a 20L empty drum around that I tip used oil into from smaller dump outs if I do t have an empty 10L. A few weeks back I dropped to the tip about 150L of used oil.

"Rattle rattle shriek crunch", could really be RB26 Engines though...

There is 100% no denying, a car that doesn't have a lot of power, but has grip, and brakes, can put a lot of cars to shame, especially as you can push them so aggressively, without fear of all the power putting you in the trees. When you're having to dance around the power, especially at a track you don't get much opportunity to go over and over and over. Lower powered cars that make up for it on the limit for grip are GREAT! IMO, unless you're building a car to race a specific class, the best car for motorsport, is the one you have, and can afford! (Or a cheap car, like a Swift, or Excel, or Corolla)! Then just go do laps and have fun!

Sometimes Japanese rust is stronger than Chineesium steel...

Woah, De Ja Vu...

Vids of skids not loading. You know it's at about this point in time a YouTuber would have taken it to the drags, or on a 1500km road trip right?

The best part of my setup is, we only have two sites. Our head office where I'd put every thing has plenty of internet capacity. We're on a 200/200 dedicated fibre. Even better, there's only like 6 people in the office at most, and the other office has 2 people in it (likely 3 soon). The majority of our work is in a custom piece of software, as it is part of the backend of the system we provide to customers. For our arrangement, on prem would be wayyyyy easier, and a VPN tunnel site to site is easy for me to manage. Scaled at many many sites, or quite a few hundred employees it's starts getting a bit different for all people outside the head office. However, everything in the cloud becomes worse for the people who operated previously at the site that held the servers, as now they're at the mercy of their internet, and not GBPS internal network (f**k the idiots who hook a desktop PC up on WiFi or permanently sit at a desk using a laptop and don't go remotely with it). It really does come down to the business needs and structure as to what is best. For us, 365 is mainly being moved to for office apps, moving email from Google to Exchange, and setting up "Active directory". Otherwise we have a ticketing system with support that runs on our own cloud system, or the sales process sits in a CRM we pay for. My biggest push back for having most of the shit turned off and saying no when people want new shiney things is "that won't meet our security requirements, or efficiency gains, so all you're requesting is money spend to open us up to security issues, or to make our staff less efficient" Which is funny when one of our core values is "To do more, with less"

On the topic of 365 vs OnPrem. I'd love to have everything as OnPrem. They've made shit so much harder, and more confusing using 365! I have done IT as a tech, and in sales. I used to get told off a little for not doing what I had to (dropping the$$$) to get sales through quickly. Yep, my sales on a full overhaul of a customers site (servers, network gear, PCs, etc) may have taken an extra month to get completed, and about 2 hours more of my actual time, but the people giving me grief on not getting it done quickly also couldn't work out how my profit margins were always sooo good. I knew the value of what I sold, so sold it properly. Work also got told to jamm it squarely when they started doing tracking of every little things you did at work. There was no way I was ever going to entertain that idea for them. Thankfully in my current role, IT stuff is more one of those side roles I just do for the company. And the owner values me highly for it, and the engineering work I do. Which means I get rewarded pretty darn well

I'm glad you could confirm those Duncan! I couldn't remember if when I had my 044 in the 33 if I still had the standard fuel pressure reg, or my SARD reg in it.

Ill go with end of Jan. I think he wants his roof first...

Does the R32 FPCM slow the pump down at idle? If it does, what happens to your fuel pressure at idle if you give it constant 12V. My thoughts on fuel being the issue also won't explain the dash at the same time.

You know something we've all over looked? The fact he said "fuelled up, went to the shops, then came back out and it started doing this" Go get some fresh gas from a totally different servo, jerry rig a fuel pump, and run the new tank supply to the fuel input at the motor. There's every possibility you've got really shit fuel, thats possibly full of water etc.

Ha ha ha, so you're telling me I'll hate it forever? 😛 As we don't use it, and don't need it for ourselves, the only time I need to know it is supporting a client to get it running, as I do all of our client integration support. However building dashboards into Teams is interesting, and something I'll have to look at. We're presently moving over to 365 for exchange, giving all the office software to all staff, and ditch Skype for teams. Again, that's a me job right now too I've already set some automation from our CRM I to teams, just wanky shit someone wanted within the company to let everyone know when new sales occur. *Rolls eyes* just more stuff to distract other teams that already get distracted too easily 😐

Similar to a video I watched on YT recently. They were like "that sounded really weird..." They took it one step further though. They forgot to put cylinder 1 spark plug back in after checking timing.