Bigpower

gary@apt wrote:sounds like bearings gone to me and its touching the housing,

pop it over ill have a look

I don't like the sound of that

I'll pop over this afternoon if thats ok?

Sooo today I found some time too look at the hoses etc. made sure everything was tight, no leaks etc. Gave it a couple of revs, hits 0.6 bar, bingo! All sorted Take it about 100 yards down the road....no boost :( When I got home & turned it off I could hear the turbo slowing down, really quite loud.

Bart wrote:has the boost pipe come off the back of the boost gauge?
we had that problem once and it turned out to be the above.

Nope, my boost controller was reading the same as the gauge.

Cheers guys! It was late Saturday night so dark & was checking on my own, well missus was with me but was as useful as a condom vending machine in the Vatican! I'll have another check on the hoses tonight when I get home My mobile has died so I hoped Gary would see it on here :) (Work are tracking p...

Hi Guys, My 200 isn't well :( Was taking the missus to work Saturday night, pulled on to the dual carriageway and got up to speed, wasn't giving it too much of the heavy foot (0.7 bar) & everything felt fine. Then got a roundabout, as I pulled off it there was a squeal sound from the turbo...then no...

Checked out Switzer, that GT-R isn't their most powerful, some nice vids:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SwitzerPerf

Ben wrote:This video is sweeeeeet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4e3GoxZYIY&feature=plcp

Wow! Loved the sound of it!

I'm surprised at stock brakes with that much power thou!!

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I lost alot of love in my car due to lack of time, money etc. & new projects at work, which in turn made me also not come on either the sxoc or here. My 200 has been of the road for 6 months & I drove it for the 1st time last week and I'm back in love :D hence why I'm back on here! I think just gett...

Ben wrote:Then found this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzxcPhQPrew&feature=plcp

it's worth watching more of the vids by these guys ... really good.

I've just been watching a few of those, lovely cars! I'm in love with the Buick in Part 2 of that video!