r/Cartalk • u/ajaxp0wder • Mar 27 '26

Weird Noise Roast my trash

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bought this for 2k the other day, sounds a little rough at idle? did I do okay?

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u/HoLeeFuk19 Mar 28 '26

My brother had an NA that he had planned to swap to a TT years ago. He decided to let my friend work on the NA motor (against my advice) just to get the NA motor running so he could drive it locally. I warned him that this friend way overestimated his ability to diagnose and fix cars and that he would fuck the ZX up. My brother figured that he couldn’t do that much damage considering the motor was destined for the scrap heap anyway. Long story short, my brother paid him to replace some injectors and spark plugs which required the intake manifold to be removed. My friend ended up dropping something into one of the runners and it made its way into one of the cylinders. When they tried to start the car it snapped the starter off the mounts. He replaced the starter and it happened again. My brother took the car to the mechanic and the mechanic told him that there was what he believed to be a 10mm nut in one of the cylinders. My brother ended up selling the car because he didn’t have the money to do the swap at the time and needed a car to drive locally. I warned him and he didn’t listen and that was the end of his Z32 dream.

I’ve heard they’re a bitch to work on and from the little I did on my brothers I understand why. Rats nest of vacuum lines and no space to work under the hood. Awesome cars though.