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Im sure there are other places that can do the same thing you wanted griffen to do, and on top of that, you would be paying probably the same thing when everything is said and done, if you go with the JTR one and teh waterpump, and whatever else you may find that you need once you're done, no? what'r you gonna save? 50 bucks? and spend a couple headache coupons?

lol i had the same feeling. but it looks like fun nonetheless. PHIL GO GET SOME TIME SLIPS!

I see you like George Michaels. I guess your car was subject to the old "wake me up" right before you got it to "go go"....

pull your fuel pump fuse and burn all the gas thats still in there by cranking and trying to get it to start a couple of times, and clean off your spark plug electrodes after that. if it's been flooded or rich, you probably have a lot of deposits all over everything in there, which is making it hard to start. then lean out your map by 10% increments, and try again.

Thats what I've been trying to say! now post some of your setup so that they can see what we mean. LOL and some updates might be coolz0r

that was my point for posting the diagram. it was a rudimentary way of solving a problem that doesnt exist, or wouldnt be beneficial for the time involved in doing such a modification. The ribs would strengthen the frame rails themselves, no doubt. but how hard would it be to find a bar stock that is thick and wide and tall enough to fit PERFECTLY within the confines of the baddog rails, from front to back, to be welded in as a structural support? I dont think that's possible to find, and would require a lot of work, and just add weight. bigggggggg minus here. There's no question that ribs would make the baddog rails see less twisting, but then again, if you're going to that extent, like i had said above my posting of the short diagram: Im all for the box frame rails on their own. they're thick as you want them to be. and stout as you make them. tie those into the rockers at various points, and you got yourself one helluva reinforced undercarriage.

what's a good size to make those jacking plates, in order to spread the load evenly, and is using a holesaw the cut through the rocker, and putting a small diameter metal tube inside to bear the weight a good idea at all? just wondering.

lol yours and mine, both. There There <3

my last name is Care, and I couldn't care less for this thread.

couldn't you use a Z32 or a Q45 MAF?

you know how we do, up here in Kanadur =)

Any recomendations for an RB motor with N/A setup. I'm going to be building an ITB RB30, possibly over the summer, since financials seem to be working quite well. Any recommendations? I'd like to have the option/opportunity to move over to a turbo setup, should I not feel satisfied with the ITB3.0, so the capability to items and retain the same functionality would be ideal. Raff

im going to be getting an s14 fron suspension, and using the power steering rack from that, but then again, im replacing the factory crossmember and suspension links, as well as my front frame rails, so that might not be of any help. put some muscle into'er!

ewwwwww, cooties. *sprays dreamweaver anti-biotic on you* all better =)

someone must have gave her some ex-lax or something. haha, fuggin' narsty

that's quite beautiful. it reminds me of alot of the cleaner s13's floating around. I like the black wheels with all the black trimmings. really ties the car in nicely.

I'm game. I'm a full-time graphic designer =)

there were those mystery Dohc L heads that were floating around before, in some japanese advertisement. so now that it wont be the worlds "first", he can take as long as he wants with it

it's already been done before. let him take his time if he has to! I was thinking of making a aperture-blade type throttle body. I know it would be a lot of work, but the end result would be some cables attached to a single cable, that would pull them all and open the apertures evenly. the problem is the air velocity, and the thickness of each blade. I'm sure I can get it to work if someone cut the metal out for me, and I'm sure it would sound brilliant when on an RB30DE, but I'll have to wait to test my theory.

i love the xb because it looks like the nissan cube3 =)

another thing I forgot to mention, but if you dont tie the floor pan into the ribs with proper penetration, or you make the holes too small, or too big, they may not hold well enough if the chassis happens to twist (and it just might, in a hard turn), you will probably here some of those welds pop free, or possibly rip the metal a little bit. there is a room for error here, and it can be done. advantages are questionable. alternatively, you can rib the baddog rails and just NOT weld the ribs to the floor pan (make them sink in, and not flush to the weld face of the original rails). That would add just about the same rigidty to the chassis. if you rib the chassis with ribs in close proximity to eachother, then I wouldnt bother tying the floor pan into it, as I dont think the floor pan would be going anywhere. or poping and twisting. or you could even rib them evenly, and do every 3rd or 4th rib tie into the floor pan, if you'd like. but again, the floor pan isnt really structural steel. it can hold some weight and stop some binding, but if the frames cant handle one type of force, your floor pans are going to feel the brunt of it anyways. so just rib up the rails if you think they're too flimsy. that adds minimal weight, and will add enough strength that would pay off instaead of welding in a steel tube all the way down the entire rail.

that's definately something we have a lot of here too. I'm sure like any part of america, certain people who want to make a cheap living and are fine with it decide to take crappy jobs of people who hand out licenses to friends to help them out, and thats where bad work gets done by other people who are not nearly as well trained as you are, but dont mind working for half what you did. that's one thing that pisses me off, but I chose to stick it out and just decide to do everything on my own, and try my hand at as many other things I can do, while working a slow daily grind at some other place to keep me runnin. My brother went on UI and he had to go to this stupid monthly meeting, and he didn't get his first cheque for 5 weeks, and it was miniscule at best. So he trudged for the summer, playing world of warcraft, and rationing off gas money to take himself and his girlfriend out. Look on the bright side of things, DL. If i can add anything that will make you feel better, it's that I didn't have a job for 16 months. I quit it to finish school, and ended up taking a loan out of OCAD for a small amount. I had no credit cards, or no credit for that matter, and I still don't. I had bills to pay, and I had absolutely nothing to my name, after spending all of the money on print outs for school projects. They became more and more intense, and better than most of what everyone else was churning out, so they cost me ALOT of money to pull of. I am still paying that loan back. I had got into a scuffle with the parents, and I left on an impulse (literally 3 minute decision), and I'm now living with a friend. I stayed here for 2 weeks without talking to any of my immediate family. even my OTHER relatives knew i was out and about, but my parents had only begun to feel the reaction of the hearsay from random people who know me or call at the house for me, "wondering if he's around" to see what they would say. fast forward form october to january, I've now been working a job since november, making enough money to buy tools and have fun on the side, with debts still creepin. I get two paycheques a month, and the first one goes to my debts and my monthly fees, and the second goes to bank. I would have never thought it would happen this way, and now my parents are talking to me, and we're actually closer than we were before. THIS, IN JUST LESS than 5 months. My family was miserable for as long as I can remember. I guess removing me from the equation made them happy that I wasn't around. So one final thing I'll say that has always inspired me, and the words I live by ever since this whole thing happened: "When oppurtunity knocks, answer the damn door" I added the "damn", because it reminds me of how long I HAVE waited on things that could have been done at a better time, and would have saved me a lot of anguish and slacking. Hopefully you get the same use out of this saying as I do. Like I said, we're not too far from eachother, so just gimme a holler if theres something you need, man!

DIY

well hey, if you need someone good to take the zee of your hands, I'm not too far. I would take good car of it for you =) Heck, I need someone to machine parts on it anyways, so I guess I'd just go seek out your help when I need that done. PM me if you want to work something out, I have some money I can give up in hopes of getting another "un damaged" chassis.

is there anything I can do to help? perhaps I know people that might be looking for someone in your field. we're not too far apart =) and you're a zee'r