GTSBoy

You have the steering column fully extended already? I'm 197cm tall and have no need/want to bring the wheel any closer than what the original adjustment offers.

I think it just allows them to cast the manifold with shorter runners. Can't claim all the benefits of compactness and runner length etc with the turbo scrolls hanging out the other way.

No. Yes.

If nothing has been cut, then it is essentially just an alarm, not an immobiliser, and therefore should be less likely to f**k you around. Of course, it's less useful too, but that's the tradeoff with these things.

Probably reverse charged the first battery, blew the crap out of everything when it was hooked up, then with the crap blown out of the alternator, any new battery will make the same smoke show?

OP's car is in Bulgaria, so you can remove his from your Oz count.

Add front upper control arm bushes to the list of curses. At least we have glass headlights.

Yeah, I was aware of the daughter and other cop friend link. I was sticking it to you for your possible Freudian slip!

Is that because they're a bunch of pricks?

^^ Yuh, precisely. The behaviour exhibited by mine was so weird that I struggle to come up with better ideas than the possible UFO.

I'd have to be driving underneath one of the UFOs from Close Encounters of the Third Kind for that sort of inductive interference!

It's not a circuit! It is a spinning magnet dragging around a metal cup. It is a physical device. There are no electronics involved.

Model # of old battery? Model # of new battery? Photos? Next, seeing as it sounds like a pretty severe short, have you considered putting a multimeter, set to continuity/resistance, onto the main +ve battery lead** and seeing if there is much resistance to body earth? **without the battery being connected, of course, and with a new fuse in place.

Perzactly what I had to do recently when one of my original pair shat the bed after 20 years of use.

Apples and donkeys. The R32 speedo is mechanical. How does a spinning magnet in a cup turn the cup twice as hard as it usually does?

That actually sounds worse!

What else have you done just before that? Don't say "nothing", because dead shorts don't appear from nowhere.

Hack up and epoxy bodge job? Nasty.

I just wanted to bring this slightly back on track, and also disagree slightly with Tao. If Tao was talking about the Z32 AFM in the cooler piping - I would not do that. The old Hitachi plastic tube AFMs are not supposed to be put into pressure pipework. They are not really mechanically strong enough for it. The modern card style AFMs are easy to fit to pipework and everything about that installation is strong enough to handle boost.

Yuh, so while I'm usually the guy explaining how the speedo and related shit works, I recently experienced something which blew my mind and I can't think of how it happened. So, I'm casting it out to the braintrust to see if there's any reasonable explanation. Here's the story. I drove the car (R32 GTSt, R33 turbo gearbox) away from home, and the first time I noticed the speedo was once I was out onto the 60km road about 1km and 5 turns from home. I'm doing maybe 60 km/h. The speedo is reading ~120 km/h. I'm all "WTF is this?". I roll down the road and out onto the 80km section, where the speedo is gleefully telling me that I'm doing at least 150, even though I'm pretty sure I haven't even caught up to the mix of sheeple and mad dream boats doing anything from 70 to 100. I accelerate to see what happens and the speedo happily winds off the dial at 180. I stop at some lights. Take off, and......the speedo is back to normal. The brain is doing about 500 km/h trying to work out how this could come about. The R32 speedo is a cable drive. The connection is purely mechanical, right up until you get to the spinny magnet and drum bizzo in the speedo head. It's not like there could be an electronic fault that was double sensing rising and falling edges of the waveform or anything like that. The cup in the speedo head had to literally be getting dragged around against its spring with enough force to make it read about double what was really happening. So, has anyone got any brainwaves as to what the bloody hell could cause that to happen in the real, actual, physical world? The speedo drive was built from a Navara drive about 10 years ago when the car's big birthday transplants happened. The drive cable is only a few years old, having snapped after ~25 years of service. The back of the speedo housing is hale and hearty, no bits broken off IIRC.

Yeah, like, just drill holes from the discharge point of the compressor wheel back to the inlet.....nah that won't f**k up the compressor efficiency at all. It is not a smart thing to do.

Rotary idle brap tune brah.

Who knows? depends what's not right. The real problem is that it is currently working even though something is not right. That means that you have something else not right to compensate. So, you might at some point in the future make a change to something that you would have no reason to suspect would cause a lean out and destructo, but because of what you have now being twisted in some way, puts you at risk of unexpected destructo.

Why would you want to f**k with the efficiency of the compressor in that way?

Yeah, it's not fine. Might be worth a little dig to see if it's going to come unstuck at some point and ruin your day.