GTSBoy

Yes. Pat yourself on the back.

Has that exercise been running the whole 5 years?

Alright then *champ*. Tell us. How did your idea play out?

Dunno. Never had to think about it.

This person is correct. These people are living in the 1920s.

I would suspect heat soak into the solenoid before all other issues. It sounds like a heat soak issue - the sort of thing that only occurs when you get it hot and then stop the car moving, so there's no cooling air over the suspect part. In this case the solenoid. Of course, it could be just about anything else. When my power steering went (permanently) heavy it was because the O2 sensor heater element burnt up the loom!

They must have had a special tool then. An Allen key with a nice curve/bend in it.

Surely there's room to poke a ball end hex key in there?

I would have agreed with Ben, except that the change is recent and it has apparently never had the shroud. If it was the missing shroud, you would expect the problem to have always been there. That would suggest that it is something else that has changed recently. So, back to my earlier list, starting with the others' thermostat recco.

Oh f**k!

Thanks for clearing that up.

Yeah. It was dumb. Is that the sort of answer you're looking for, or some confirmation bias?

So, it is one of a very few things. Thermostat, as advised above. Radiator compromised. Water pump vanes eroded away. Go forth and apply the logical procedure to work out what is wrong.

Just change the plug on the loom to a suitable Deutsch connector. It's not as if you're ever going to want to revert to a standard module.

Ball, like all RB singles. There is no such thing off the shelf. All Garrett, BW, etc turbos are intended to be MASSIVE upgrades on the shitty 1950s technology that defines the stock Hitachi turbo. No turbo that you will find on eBay from the usual scumbags is worth the $400 they want for them. If you want a good "slight upgrade" replacement, then Hypergear's lowest end highflows are the closest sort of thing you can buy. Oh, and there is no problem buying from HG all the way from the US. You do realise that the world is round, right? And it is therefore possible for planes to fly all the way around? It's amazing what they can do with cardboard boxes these days.

Is it cheap? (As in, is it significantly cheaper than D2 etc?) If so, why is it cheap? Those are the questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW8iAVwt_Yc

I think the main thing to remember is that when trying to "butt" join a (large diameter) wire, if someone was to propose splicing it together and then flooding it with solder, then it is bound to fail. Solder is NOT a mechanical joint. It is an electrical joint. It's mechanical properties are far inferior than its electrical properties, and joints that rely solely on solder (such as components on circuit boards, etc) do not have very tough mechanical mounting requirements. Devices that do have tougher mechanical mounting requirements will have twisted tags poking through the board as additional/primary mechanical mount points (or big fat solder pads with the back of the package stuck down, for mech and heatsinking). Big wires get crimped. End of story.

Yuh, the original WOFTAM, multiplied by double.

Sounds like every broke arse Skyline & Silvia owner over here for the last 25 years.

The number is a lot lower than that. Not even getting to 190rwkW without all those things.

You can't. Moving out of California has been declared by the state of California to cause cancer.

Sounds like modifying a GTR in California is just one of those things that you simply should not consider.

As if there's a 40k mile GTSt in existence anywhere in the world!!!!!

Say what now?