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  1. 1 minute ago, silviaz said:

    Not for upper inner control arm bushings, not listed anywhere except for superpro polyurthene but that's pretty much the only listing I found and some website I think in Siberia. Nismo doesn't have them either. I checked, I don't think there is even a nissan part number for it because the diagram only shows the control arm, the bolts but not the bushings.

    Are the bushings you're asking about here stock elastomeric-squishy-juice ones?  Why would you want them?

    1 minute ago, silviaz said:

    Waste of money, I don't want to spend $500 if all I need to do is replace the bushings. It's unnecessary. In my case if they are worn, they have worn out before the rest of the car? 

    Don't be dense. I'm talking about a car that is at least 25 years old now and will not be around in another 25 years. And if the arms/bushes that you put in now last only 10 years (instead of the likely 20+), it is so far into the dim and distant future that it is not a problem that you need to concern yourself with right now, no matter how poor that you feel. It is a problem for future silviaz.

     

  2. The rails are not separate from the (presumably stock) seat.

    What it will take to fix it will depend on what is wrong with it. I've never seen this happen, so couldn't tell you what the most likely failure is. It could have something bent, or something broken. Any competent hacker should be able to fix either.

    Take the seat out and have a look for yourself?

  3. 9 hours ago, Rabster The Outlaw said:

    probably not connected and need to get the hicas serviced or locked out

    Good luck finding anybody, especially in the US, who can "service" HICAS. Just do as Niz advised and pull the smaller of the 2 plugs form the HICAS CU. Will disable HICAS without any other negative effects, and will kill the light on the dash at the same time.

  4. Perhaps a specific line saying to be very wary of communications with e-mail addresses proffered as "being how you contact this user". Part of the "make sure you know who you're talking to" that you already have, but a bit more specific.

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  5. I concur with much of the above. A few points though.

    It could have a Nistune in it and still have the speed cut. You're not forced to disable it!

    13L/100km on an NA 25 is terrible. As Greg says, that is a bad sign for your ability to modulate the throttle smoothly. If you apply a lot of transient throttle to a GTT, you could well use that much more juice.

    Just because you put a new O2 sensor in does not mean it is working. You need to check that it is working by connecting a Consult capable device and looking for the feedback swinging low-high, as you drive.

    Boost leaks will cost you fuel. No arguments.

    Suction leaks will NOT. Extra air only means extra fuel if the air passes through the air flow meter. So if you have a vacuum leak that is somehow not also a boost leak, then it is not causing more consumption. But otherwise see the point above.

    A highflow will NOT cause excessive fuel consumption unless you spend the whole time on boost. And then it might, because the 9 to 10+ psi section of the maps is excessively rich and retarded to prevent the rich from being retarded.

  6. 41 minutes ago, Tim32 said:

    I couldn't detect any resistance from any of the pins so it could be a dud also?

    Well, that would depend on which part of the test you're talking about. He's basically doing a rough transistor test there, which will reveal some possible problems and maybe not others. You have to know how a transistor works in order to appreciate what and how to test them.

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    The base is the switching input. That is is the signal from the ECU. It is obviously either there, or it is not, depending on whether or not the ECU wants to fire the coil. When it is ON, a current will flow from the base to the emitter, which is earth (and the emitter is a common earth for all 6 transistors in the package).

    The collectors are the 6x lines coming from the coils. These have 12V on them all the time. When the base is not fed by the ECU, there is no (ie very little) conductivity from the collector to the emitter, so no coil current flows. When the base is fed from the ECU, its little current flow to emitter allows the collector to also flow current to the emitter - ie, the resistance between C & E drops low, where it was previously high.

    From what I can see of that video, he didn't measure any C-E resistances. If he did, with the test gear he had, he'd only expect to see high resistances (maybe even open line) on C to E. He'd need to wire up a 12V circuit to feed the B-E and C-E properly and be switchable on the B-E side to be able to discriminate whether the transistors are switching properly or or not. The test he did really only shows whether the collector is properly isolated from the base, which only indicates one possible failure mode.

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  7. I've always wanted to do this to mine, Jap flag styleez. I just suspect that the boot is too short cf the bonnet for it to come out looking right. Ignore the graphics on the side and the bodgy edit to the front corner of the bonnet where I had to get rid of some other graphics. (And ignore the fact that it's a scale model!)

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  8. Nice.

    My 2c on colour.

    The grey/white options are better than most others. The R32's shape (flared guards etc) look far better in light colours than in dark colours. Dark makes all the width go away, unless the car is hectically low, and hopefully no-one wants that any more. I think this rules out BRG, as much as I like that colour for almost any project. A compromise on BRG might be a much paler version of the green - perhaps with a generous metal flake in the clear. Something really surprising that would probably make the curves and shapes pop nicely.

    Do not do the yellow. That would only look good as a track car with lots of other graphics over the top.

    I would suggest a solid white rather than a pearl white. I really like the white that my car is painted, which is not the original Nissan white, it was repainted in Japan. The white is just really really white. Not cold, not warm. Although, now that many white cars have that pearl/metal in them to make them pop, those whites tend to look really cold, and makes my car's white seem warm by comparison. Anyway, solid is good, and it is much easier to repair and match if needed. One of our Swifts had the tailgate and rear bumper redone recently and the shop.....simply failed to get the pearled white white to match. Apparently the sun was blowing in the wrong direction or the birds were facing the wrong way on the power line outside while they were gunning it on.

    Greys.... I'm a bit meh on those. Especially with all the modern solid greys that are around now that look like they dipped the shell in the E-coat tank and then forgot to put the top coat on. Just yucky. Even if the original grey was to my taste, I'd be put off by that association!

    Reds can be hot on R32s. The red that was on the various racing cars in the 90s in Australia and Japan works (like the Winfield and GIO sponsored cars). If it wasn't a case that is on every 2nd car on the road, I'd consider Mazda Soul Red, as it is a really amazing colour for cars with curves also. Just sad that it is so oversubscribed.

    I'd also be tempted to put a colour that Holden used on the Toranas back in the late 60s/early 70s. Called Linamint. An absolutely excellent green. And those Toranas were GTRs too, so you can say it's a GTR colour. There's another from the same set called Strike Me Pink. Probably a bit much for a Jap car though.

     

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