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Way to slow, but I've been running that HEL S13 -> R33 kit with a set of R33 GTSt calipers for the last 5 years, haven't had a problem with them. Obtaining replacement discs... that's a different story!

Updating an old thread, but this is finally sorted. Turned out that 5 exhaust manifold gasket studs had snapped, both the ones on cylinder 6 and 3 at the front as well. My local place wanted to take the head off and drill them out, so I told them to get stuffed and took it to a place up in the valleys, a place where the owner's project car was a 400bhp SR20 S13. Got them drilled out with a right angle drill, new manifold/turbo/exhaust gaskets fitted, it sounds lovely now. Now I just need to fix a grounding issue that has developed, and a sticky solenoid in the starter motor, pretty easy stuff by comparison.

Well it's been a while, but this job is finally sorted. Got the parts from irs.co.jp who will supply them nice and cheap and ship worldwide. Thanks Nic_A31 for the instructions. Only suggestion I'd make is getting that white centre clip out, I found it basically impossible to lever the thing out, what eventually worked for me was to tear up the top/sides of it with the screwdriver and then push the entire thing inwards. The seal is weaker than the clips! From there it's just the "simple" job of fishing it out from the gutter area, maybe not suitable if you have hulking great muscular arms but for me it was pretty easy to get my hand in there. Also glad I got to it when I did. The metal hasn't started rusting yet, so just had to clean up all the sloppy brown/black crap that's accumulated under there, pop the new clips in and hopefully it's sorted. Now I just need to get rid of that damp wet dog smell in the passenger footwell!

Hi, Thanks for the offer, however it's actually the front passenger door one that fell off. I'm not actually too fussed about it. The car looks decent enough without them, and forward visibility is improved slightly

What about turbo gaskets?

Well I can now confirm that it was actually the turbo gasket. It just finished blowing during accelerating up to 70 from a toll booth! I guess I should do both turbo gaskets and all 6 exhaust gaskets at the same time as it looks like a pain in the arse job. Are they the same for RB20 and RB25? Different sellers seem to disagree on this.

Panic over. I got my partner to have a listen to it. She is better at this kind of thing than I am. Results: It's only happening on one cylinder It gets better overall as it gets warmer. It gets worse under acceleration Conclusion: Most likely an exhaust gasket. Possibly also a noisy tappet. Annoying, but I have more important things to worry about.

Ahh, that wasn't quite my question though. Splitfire are claiming the timing needs to be adjusted from the default after fitting their coils?

Well I never did get around to posting pictures, but the windows don't seem to be leaking. I wonder how much I can sell the remaining three wind deflectors for

I've just fitted some Splitfire SF-DIS-001 coilpacks. Initial test shows a big improvement. The car now starts instantly and no more misfire under acceleration. Not bad for an hour's work. The manual has a warning saying that after fitting them, you may get knocking/detonation and should adjust the timing to suit. I'm fairly sure the timing isn't adjustable on these engines. Is that the case? Should I be disconnecting the battery to do an ECU reset, or is that not a thing on these ECUs? I'm also thinking that next time I go into that area, I want to get rid of the pointless cover. Literally the only use it serves is to provide a mount for the power transistor. Question is where is a good place to relocate the power transistor to? Should I just cut the cover down to just the last 4 screws as even this will make it less annoying to deal with as it won't conflict with the J pipe. Anything else I should know?

When it stops raining So in a week or so.

Ok, I've got the other 3 of mine off, and the chrome underneath looks mostly ok, just needs a bit of a clean up now. Only problem is the bottom edge of the chrome strip had a rubber seal. Looks like it's only between the chrome and the door itself, not part of the window seal, but on both front doors this was ruined and not recoverable, so I ended up peeling it off. Have I doomed my car to leaking for the rest of its life now?

Well, I have my car back now so will take them off. Luckily it seems the car has a chrome strip under the wind deflectors so if I polish that up a bit it should look quite nice. Those ebay ones are missing the chrome strip so will look odd on my car. I'll have at go at it, either tomorrow at the weekend, and see how I get on. Thanks for the reply.

Not happy today. So my GF has borrowed my Cefiro because her S13 is in for repairs again. She drives a lot faster than I do and the front passenger side wind deflector decided it didn't want to be attached to the car any more, preferred the front grille of the car behind. Any idea where I can get another one? These are the original purple tinted Nissan ones with the chrome strip on them. Alternatively, how do I remove the little metal prongs that it attached to as these are quite sharp and will probably make it fail it's next MOT test.

Anyone fancy buying these parts and selling them on to me? Nissan UK are bloody useless.