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Hi All

I stumbled across this site, and must say glad I did too. Nothing like a chat with people who know their stuff, and others like me lol. Well, basically I bought a 96 GTST RB25DET only to help out a friend in need-although I do love this funky little rocket!!! I know bugger all about such cars although give me the ol' Holden ute and not a problem. They paid 30k for this a while back...then spent 30k on it :P. She only sold it because the ex has given her the raw end of the deal, and she got the kids too.

Prob is...as I have read in some of the other posts it does sound a little similar but not completely. Yup, she seems to almost pause/break down (but not missfire as i know the term) when giving her a gut full of fuel. At about 4500rpm the problem starts, just yesterday a mate who knows a little about things (he used to own a Baby Godzilla?) asked if I can smell fuel as well. Only yesterday about an hour before he asked, yes I could but only seems when the aircon (it defiinately comes thru the aircon) is on, and when the car has been started for the first time in a few hours? After a couple of minutes the smell dies down a bit, either I get used to it quickly or it stops all together. He reckons it could be the Air Flow Meter, which turns out is actually off a 300ZX-the last owner said because they perform better?? This thing has gauges and gizmo's that are well beyond my knowledge-to the point where I am almost too scared to push any of the buttons on anything lol. Maybe it's me age catching up with me :happy: The Trumpy Daytona has taught me a few things but lmao...

Problem two...I live in the Pilbara region of WA so there is NO-ONE up here that can do the diagnosis for me via the computer and it is about 1650km's to Perth (or tally that in $$$ to transport her down and back?). Any one with any suggestions, hints, advice, or just wants to swap words for a chat...please feel free to reply. Any info at all might be of use to me at the moment...when it comes to this little car I just put my hands up and go to experts, but there seems to be none around when it comes to running gear.

It is a nice machine, and while I have had no issues getting things done to it, I would rather not start buying parts just to see if maybe it was that.

Thanks all, and I look forward to being part of such a select group of Aussies :)

Buck

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hey dude, for starters you are best to list the mods the cars has, so we could possibly rule things out from there.

things like what ecu, what turbo, you have already said it has a z32 air flow meter, etc.

also find out how old the spark plugs are. it may be that they are a bit dead.

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Way to go they are a great car, the fuel smell issue is fairly common and from what I have studied on here it is nothing to worry about unless there is an actual leak, I get it in mine, The flat spot could be a number of things, tune, sparkies, coils, dirty injectors, fuel pump and I'm sure there are more, with 30k spent on it only complicates the analysis, so, as mad082 said, list them all up if you can.

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