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Wow 11 year thread dig! Good effort son!

enjoy

Yep that's my driveway. It's where the magic happens haha Also was hard to pass up at the price paid for it. I was ment to buy it a week or so before untill my ute sucked 4l of petrol into the oil sump and blew so much smoke I couldn't see behind and thought I had f**ked it haha

Ffs all this arguing about one thing then he ends up getting something different. This is like question time in parliment.

For anyone interested this how we setup the Atom to control the inlet cam

Yes but power and straight line speed is only part of it isnt it?

nice mods OP

A good introduction videos for those of you wanting to understand the basics of a cars handling ... cause and effect. A must for any enthusiast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lMFcMFvMM&list=PLcFpdjj4k8HGxNjOhQWqE7EeG5l8MbwLA&feature=share&index=3 http://youtu.be/Gt5lUDTj9d4 enjoy

For those interested here are some pics of our wedding and the cars

Well sorry guys. Bit of Ring failure didn't let us start. Is a real shame as we had some serious pace. Bit from James. To finish first, first you must finish. We started the weekend showing great potential in what the car could be capable of, the only problem was that the #1 cylinder kept dropping 10psi after every session, by this morning it was down to 150psi, much below the other 5. The drop in compression wasn't slowing us, it was the fact it was pumping the oil into the catch can and overflowing due to blow by. We decided to call it quits while the motor is still in running condition and rebuild it before the Hampton Downs round. With a bit of luck all that will be needed are some new rings and gaskets. A big thanks to Kayne Barrie, your advise was invaluable and its only because of you I now have a fully functional braking system, let's hope you are doing the Hampton Downs round so we can use it against you when we have a fully functional motor A big thanks to our sponsors Bimmersport.co.nz for the cool livery, we got heaps of comments about how good the car looked. A big thanks to Gull Motorsport, sure we didn't finish, but damn the car was pulling hard on Force 10, I would have never have thought the E30 would be able to out drag a Porsche GT3 before. Lastly a little blurb to let it all out. I am pretty gutted that cylinder 1 has decided to have issues, we were flying in the night session with old semi slicks, passing pretty much everything with ease, I even out dragged a few Porsche GT3's before passing a Juno round the outside at turn 1 (at 210km/h) in the dark. The next morning Kayne helped us sort the brake bias and then we fitted new michelin slicks, damn, without even doing a flying lap I managed to do a 1:14 flat, it was only when I came over the hill to do my flying lap's that I got the "oh sh*t this car has a lot of grip" moment when I managed to swerve around 2 cars coming over the hill without lifting at all from the hairpin onwards. The car would have done 12's easy and the fact we only had to pit once (others are 3-5 times) for fuel meant that we were effectively doing 2 seconds faster per lap relative to the other cars (a 1:10 effectively). I can't wait to see how the car goes at Hampton! And a little vid from our Night qualifier. Damn Porches and E92 M3's getting in the way Pretty much what you see in the Vid is what I could see. That Green light along the back straight was bloody annoying. Stupid Train signal!

Right so, JB Weld was useless, nothing more than glorified glue. Didnt really harden, was kinda like a blob of semi-hard paint and the moment i turned the ratchet it just twisted out. I then got angry, so out came the dremel with a cutting disk. I rammed the dremel in the limited space, and began cutting away. got a decent gash in it before i ran out of space. Smashed the living crap out of it with a chisel and instead of aiming to turn it, i aimed to cut the head off, so went hard. Began to get limited by space, again, so decided to change to a grinding stone on the dremel.... and went hard with that. More chiselling and by this point half the bolt was missing, and i could see the gap between the bolt and washer. I decided to try and remove some more metal from it with pliers.... "did that just turn?"..... sure enough, with a mighty twist of the pliers it slightly turned again. Spent the next 5 minutes turning it half a turn at a time, until it finally came out. GREAT SUCCESS. Now that i have that out, nothing stands in the way of removing the unit and FINALLY beginning the rebuild. I still begin this Saturday morning. The culprit.