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I wish I could help, but the camo zzzap doesn't even HAVE an ignition switch anymore. You have to turn on the rear defrost and then a seperate switch for the fuel pump, and then push a starter button...probably shouldn't have revealed my secret Biff Tanner start-up procedure on the internet....

Here's some of the pics of John's old car: And here's John at age 5 doing what I assume is some frame strengthening to the Scooty Puff Jr. (anybody besides me watch futurama?) (In John's defence, I'm not sure I was supposed to post that one, but hey, I calls 'em like I sees em.) And these are the new car:

Terry, you've got an Aristo? With 2 Jay-z's in it? You are balling out of control. VIP tuning!

I seriously doubt that head would fit. There was also a thread awhile ago about a turbo ford falcon engine from Australia that I still think would make for a good swap.

Apparently, Some guy started a car company JUST to produce that design. He had always loved the stratos, and that's his personal design for it. Kind of wierd, and I think he sort of missed the mark a little bit.

That Miura looks great, but it also doesn't look finished somehow, still too concept-y for me. Anybody see the Lancia Stratos throwback?

I like the color on that green one.

www.kodiakracingwheels.com is another place to have custom wheels made. I called them about resizing my Hoshino Impul RS-III's so that I wouldn't have to use my adapters anymore, and it was going to be $1200 just for UNPOLISHED rim sections that I would use my old center sections on. I don't think these prices are especially bad compared to that. Plus they look really good.

That's awesome! I wasn't able to get the picture to display at work, so until now I had no idea what this post was about.

here's one for you Olie: If you can bypass the ignition switch and get it to run, you've got a problem with your ignition switch. Those keys seem pretty average, but that little piston and con rod might need to be lightened for better performance.

Tony D, you were injecting fuel in front of the compressor like a draw through? Was that supplemental to the regular fuel injection, or did you just have a draw through carb setup of some kind?

I've seen Saturns that will turn themselves off if the keychain is too heavy. The weight of the keys actually pulls the key back into the off postion. You don't strike me as the heavy keychain type, but the lock cylinder could be pretty worn out and not holding the switch in the proper position. The switch itself could still be good, but it's not staying at the proper angle, maybe.

I'm convinced that a lot of my fume smell came from my unfiltered SUs. I haven't finished my MS install yet, so I can't be sure. Putting a grommet on that hole is a good idea though.

That would look good in an rx-7...

I second that notion, brother. I think the caps that came on my 280 are some of the most stylish wheel covers I've ever seen, I was even fooled when i first saw the car from a distance into thinking they were in fact the real wheel style. I had some other wheels, otherwise I'd have been tempted to just keep them. Oh, and welcome to the boards, new guy! It's a lot of fun, especially here in the Non-Tech forum. *edit* I just re-read that, and I just wanted to clarify that I didn't mean for that to sound like you should stay in the Non-Tech forum or anything, just that there is some good humor going on here every once in awhile. Also, the tool shed is pretty funny sometimes too.

You could always drill the carb manifold for injector bosses with one of these: available from MSD: http://www.msdignition.com/fuel_10.htm or you could cut a larger hole, and epoxy/weld in some of these: Also from MSD: http://www.msdignition.com/fuel_9.htm Do you actually HAVE one of these motors? That would make for a cool project.

Olie, do you think it might be either a faulty ignition switch, or the column multifunction switch? If it runs while you are holding the key in the on position, perhaps the culprit is a worn out lock cylinder or ignition switch?

I'll let you know how it goes. When I went to get my KA24 TPS from the boneyard, I neglected to pick up the other end of the pigtail, so now it's decision time on how I'm going to wire it. I don't really want to cut the plug off and hard wire the tps in, but I just don't have time to go back to the junkyard and get one. The harness you're describing sounds like the 78 harness, but I can't be sure. The fuel injection relay is different on that year. When I was trying to get it to work with my stock injection, I was never able to get the car to start, so I put the carbs back on. I finally got tired of the carbs and decided it was time for megasquirt. The unit is assembled, but I need to finish construction of my wiring harness now.

how does that work, exactly? Brass is an alloy of about 70% copper and 30% zinc, both of which are metals.

Wow, what a great web resource! Although my kit came packaged differently (each different bushing set was in it's own bag with it's own "instructions"), the list of included parts hasn't changed. Thanks Larry!

It doesn't say what kind they are on that person's cardomain page?

Time for a Megasquirt, Olie, that's what my manual said when I checked the troubleshooting section.

Don't worry, every time I open the hood I thank myself for not owning a Z32. I love those cars, but not enough to go through all that. I just wish I was a little more interior savvy, that's the biggest eyesore on my car. Aside from the gallon of bondo that isn't looking too good either, but that's neither here nor there...

That's a sound hypothesis...I'm inclined to concur (I hate working somewhere that I don't believe in the product-makes it hard to sell).

They ARE that bad. They develop a whine after a few thousand miles, and the first thing they try is a fluid drain and fill, which is about $100 just for the 5qts of fluid and the syringe of VTI additive (we refer to that tranny as a VTI internally, everybody else calls them CVT's). If that doesn't fix it, they replace the case cover, which is the part with the band and pulleys on it, as well as the cooler lines. In parts alone you're now close to $3,000 (that includes 5 MORE qts and another additive), not to mention the shop time at $84 per hour plus misc. fees. I think that job pays something like 11 hours, so you're almost at $5k if it's out of warranty. They extended the warranty to I think 70,000 miles on that part only, but pretty much EVERY VTI tranny that leaves the showroom ends up in the shop at one point. It just can't handle the 2.2 liter engine I guess. Which is sad, because that's not a super strong engine anyway as far as 4 cylinders go. I haven't heard how the other manufacturers' CVT's are doing, I just know that I wouldn't recommend ours if you plan to keep the vehicle for a long time. sorry for the thread jack. In other saturn news, we just released a new sedan called the Aura that is surprisingly quick for the money late last month. My dealership hasn't sold a single one yet, so they'd probably make you a good deal if you want one.