woldson

Shucks is where I've gotten mine. I thinking your local guy may carry them.

One down, five to go;) Looking forward to seeing your progress!

Well, according to my understanding the quench effect in a stock L28ET with stock N42 L28E flattop pistons would be almost nil. According to 1_fast_z the clearance between piston crown and quench pad should be in the .21-.25 mm range, and I have heard others say as far as 0.5mm (that was a SBC discussion IIRC) BUT you need it to be close. The stock L28ET but flattop combo has a deck height .050mm below the firing deck, plus your HG compressed thickness puts you pretty far away from the piston, Not doughting, just where did you read this? I kinda want to know why did they even bother to peanut the heads on the N/A's?

Well put. You bought it cause you like it. Is that not what your supposed to do? Besides, not many cars are even close to being all USA. Although Saturn may be with the new purchase.

Get a gator belt, hell get a gators for all your belts. Shocking how much noise is reduced. My gator for my alt was on my stocker until it died (alt), got a high output from zsepciatlies, (nice alt), used the gator. Now the v groove on the new alt is steeper then the stocker. The belt had to ware into the new groove and it is still going strong. Plus of course, the demand on the belt is greater then before. Very nice belts.

Very cool. Here in Wash. I believe it is illegal to run with your parking lights on. BTW, what the hell are parking lights really for?

I liked it, mostly cuse you can, therefore, you did;)

That is where I got my break lines from. A little spendy, but I was short on time.

My wife is a M.A., that oxy crap seems to more additicting then cigs. (I smoke, unfortuatly). Just be mindfull. Don't become one of those zillions of seekers my wife runs into daily.

Cool. Last couple days, comcast has been haveing weird issues. Sorry I missed you. I do want to hook up soon though.

Good job! Yep, the more you know, you start to think on higher levels and complicate the simple. Very human. Solution, think like a dork frist....

Good luck, man you sure have been busy with life!!!!!!!! You got alot of "stick to it" thats for sure. Talk about muti-tasking, hope you get things back to flowing a touch slower, wow.

Heehee, do the same thing for more cyls!

Scc or Sfcc?

Gheez challenger, beat me by secs....

Stand alone ecu, manifold, turbo, meth injec. Now understand just these basics and inquire why I may be wrong. This is for him.

Get yourself one of those obital batts and don't look back. (six pack looking guy) You can even get remans.

Hey at least I did a Mod on the car, just not fix exitsting. My wife loves the "cool" switches. Still wish it was something that made the car faster, not slow it down.........

My mom's subie will work a bit then stop. So I was at WAL Fart and saw a conversion kit for 34 bucks, 3 cans with oil mixed in and gauge, so I got it. The adapter screwed into the low pressure side, (can screw on to high pressure side as well), and had a sealant on the threads. Low pressure side is NOT the side that comes off the condenser. At least this is what I've came to understand. My zx has 86k on it and was stored properly before I got it. The O rings on the compressor were in fantastic shape so I did not want to break a bunch of seals that may be fine. I did lightly grease the o rings before reinstalling compressor. (ya know help to fight micro abrasions). Installed a 16in fan on condenser and wired it to a switch by the stereo, then reasoned that there is a switch in the atmosphere controls that engages the clutch, so I took that apart, found the switch, followed the wires past the plug and intercepted them and put them on a switch next to the fan switch. Main reason for this is that I did not want anyone activating the system without the condenser fan running! Added benefit I CAN RUN ALL THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS ON MY ATMOSPHERE CONTROLS!!! This is nice for the winter running the defrost and heat at the same time with the a/c! Had to use that yesterday, worked fantabluless! So only hitch so far, after second can of 134a the gauge was on the line of blue to green and the system was blowing cold air. After the third can the result was the same...... Did not want to get another, and, did not want to overcharge the system, so I left it. Ran the car hard Sunday seems to be working nicely. The big test is when it gets into the 90s. Seems like the system dose not take a "break" like the newer systems. Especially getting on it, the system will blow VERY cold, otherwise works better then I suspected. I will post up some pics later. I put on a econo belt for now because I did not want to get a gator if the system was not going to work. Now the system "blew" due to a lack of a condenser fan, (mech fan long gone for engine), the guy a smucks told me the is not a pressure release valve. He seems to be wrong due to the system holding pressure form the get go. My guess is that it is at the collector (accumulator?). If I have a small leak, time will tell, them I will have to take it in, possibly, due how slow it is. I guess I could use some soapy water. Will see. One last thing, I did not use teflon tape, or my favorite, pipe dope, due to the fact these are not tappered sealing threads. The o rings are the seal.

Seems reasonable at this point.

Contact Warren.

Got it finished up yesterday morning. Just need to write the whole thing up.

So a long time ago I blew the freon on my 83zx. So now I'm going to pull the compressor and drain the oil and blow the system out. Bought a conversion kit for 134a. Seems straight forward. Have an electric fan in garage that I will put on a switch in the dash. My zx has an electric fan as primary so I need the fan for the ac's condenser. (this is how I lost my freon) Any tips are most welcome. Need to figure out a way to pressurize system with air to check for leaks, any other oil that may be needed to be drained etc.... Now the only reason I'm doing this is for my wife, she drives the car more than I and ya know......... Also it is easier to get a hold of the 134a then r12. One other thing, seems like some have figured out ways to improve 134a's performace in formulation, any truth?

300hp was his "base" hp number, before forced induction. Anything is possible, however, can you go that high and than stuff that engine with lots of air......hummmmm. Starting to think, 2jz,........If so, talk to warren.

Long ago mine would sometimes too, yet without it I've never had vapor lock.