Not long after my last post, I did find the laptop charger. Also discovered that the laptop battery was proper stuffed and would not power on. So I had to buy a new laptop, and all my tunes are stuck in the old laptop. Anyway...
I did get the zed fired up again and it idled perfectly.
Not long after that, I happened upon an Adaptronic select on the forum here (thanks Count Grantleyish, top seller!), and since I am obvioulsy not in any great hurry to get this bloody car working again, I decided to bite the bullet and replace Nistune with Adaptronic. Nearly got it ready to start too, when those bastards at Link ECU had a special this month on their Z32 plug in G4+.
So the Adaptronic was gone before it began, and I am currently waiting for the Link. At least alot of the wiring I did for the adaptronic isn't wasted, just needs to be re-terminated at the ECU (widebands and all the other external sensors).
In the meantime, I have also sold off my original Ross Metaljacket balancer, with a view to get one of the new ones with the trigger wheel already attached. Obviously all the bracketry and sensors that go with this will need to be sorted at some stage. Like everything, it all takes time and/or money, which I don't have much of either with now 2 kids under 1.5.