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I think your MAF is pooched.

LOL. I was gonna refrain from posting all that info but I thought... you know, if someone wants to avoid what my dad went through, I believe they have to rethink what causes the issue and what it costs for someone to have this type of surgery. I know that in Canada, the health care covers this procedure but it costs about 10,000 dollars here to perform. In the US it's 20,000 dollars. And I'm not sure what's covered there. Sooooooooooo.. while the operation is about 98% successful for those who are deemed operable, and not so successful for those who just have the money to do it anyway, I'm asking all of us to watch how we take care of ourselves and the people we care about. My brother is a little upset, as am I. We both know that my father won't change his habits, and will probably still eat the stuff he's been eating. They're just family recipes that my mother has been cooking for over 40 years. Nothing you can do about that, and my mom isn't very teachable. So I think I'm going to have to force my brother to step up and throw the bad stuff in the garbage before they eat it rather than just yell at them while they're doing so. I'm going to visit him tomorrow as he's all drugged up and probably looks like hell right now. And he's probably reliving the 60's with all the drugs he's got in him (I got him 8mm tape somewhere doing some things he shouldn't be doing!) I'll update as he gets better =) Thanks for the good luck, everyone

Just found out it was actually a quadruple bypass, with a minor complication with one of the arteries being sucked into the heart just a touch, but it was successfully reversed and repaired as well. =)

If you have bad eating habits and fill yourself with high cholesterol food, the valves near your heart start to pull in some heavy clumps of cholesterol that build up much like calcium around faucets and shower heads. The pressure leaves the cholesterol behind and it gets hard and forms plaque inside the main arteries that feed the heart it's blood. The blood cannot pass through the plaque, or can break off and stutter the heart valve in it's motion, and cause damage, because the heart is a delicate organ and sudden shock can make the heart have muscle spasms. My father's arteries were clogged for a week until he said "something's not right, i'll take it easy for the rest of the week and go to the doctors on monday", but my mom told my brother to drive him to the hospital ASAP, and they were clogged. So you have a number of arteries going to your heart. 4 I believe. If you have a triple bypass, they use a vein in your leg that is of no real need down there, and they use that vein as a replacement hose. they stop the heart from beating using a special vaccum/pressure device, and they hook up the blood circulation system to the device to continue the hearts job. The heart is then separated from the arteries and the new replacement vein is patched in... much like replacing brake lines. Three were replaced here, thereby making it a triple-bypass. Then the heart is slowly revived and the leaks are sealed immediately. Then the chest cavity is sealed up once the heart is back in place, and then it's stitched and the patient is sent to ICU. Alternatively, you can have an angioplasty which widens the artery temporarily using a balloon or something like that if it's just a clot of cholesterol. A problem with this proceedure, as well as a camera-drill procedure is that a piece of hard plaque can break off, cause a heart stutter, or be pumped straight through and enter the brain, causing brain damage. In order to inspect the heart valves, a camera is sent in via a vein in the leg, and all the way up to the heart. This is the same entry point and camera used in the drill-bit procedure, except it has a rotary attachement that pokes the plaque to remove it from the arterial walls. So yah, its a lengthy procedure. Bout 6 to 10 hours.

ha! you typed the success story while I typed an alternative approach. LOL. congrats

There is a way to adjust the MAF sensor synch with the ecu. It's part of a Z31 mod listed on AZ-Bum's and Xenon's website. There's a small aluminum plug that was cast into the MAF housing right beside the connector. If you slowly drill it until you break through the plug, (5.5 mm or so). you can use a screw driver to adjust a potentiometer to adjust the output of the MAF voltage to the ECU. Makes sense, seeing as they do get dirty.

try the first number :-/ 22630-44B20

are there two sensors there? because in the picture there are two, and perhaps they are in fact, different. :-/ sorry man, I can't guarantee this stuff, I select thermostat, and look at where it goes, and you can see by the picture that the sensor i listed is there.

i had to zoom in to see the shift patch. LOL

Just got word that the High Pressure line transplant went successful and the pump is operating in safe recovery mode! THANKS HybridZ!

The reason I mentioned that was because I was tossed across 3 lanes on Ontario's busiest highway in my fathers Corolla. Not fun!!!! especially when the person behind you thinks it's some drunk crazy dude in a Corolla! And ditto on the torque/streetability. A friend of mine was telling me not to get a lightweight flywheel for my car @ 11lbs... said I would have to spin it fast enough to go back in time if I wanted to make driving easy.... BUT OH WELLZ. Judging by the torque the standard 7.8:1 compression Z31 makes at 2000 rpm compared to all the other cars I've driven in a comparable power range, I'd say a 3.0 Litre RB with a light flywheel and 11.5:1 can leave on it's own if I'm not careful. Either way, lightweight first, add power second. =)

amazing clarity, but I'm iffy about the black-out you did

I'd go for the Purolator PureOne, but make sure your oil-pump is up to the task. It has the best filtration element, but it is somewhat restrictive because it's so dense.

YUGO GVX! and my neighbour used to have a fiat x1/9. kinda nice =)

It has to do with the hosting providers CGI Script Handler (which seems to be FastCGI). Perhaps there has been a new stable release that resets some non-standard settings that are retained from the original installation of the previous version. In other words. NEW SOFTWARE that possibly overwrote a setting that was exclusively set manually in the OLD SOFTWARE. No biggie. If you donate they'll go away.

could be limp-home mode that the ECU is sensing from the AFM. bummed AFM?

Ahhh, i've never had the chance to look at the nissan competition catalogue. If it's 3000 for a full rotating assembly, then I'd say that's a fair deal... considering they're OEM performance branded internal parts, one would expect to pay that much and get pressure cast aluminum pistons, proper rods, and a set of new bearings/rings/fasteners. I'm not discrediting the fact that they work well and they perform as advertised, and as shown... but if it's "no shortcuts" this time around... I'd put my money on a well cut box of 2618 slugs with gapless rings, and a proper bore/hone to get the wall clearance as tight as possible to avoid piston slap and as loose as possible to avoid ring bind. Heck, even a set of 4032 or the TRW VMS-75 alloy would be better suited than cast pistons =/ *taps arm*.... *injects veins with "while-im-at-it" drug*. aHHHHHHHHHHHhHhHhHhHhHh

He's 63, looks 53. He was treated for kidney stones about 5 years ago, and now his bad eating habits and lack of exercise have caught up with him, so today during the morning or afternoon (could be happening right now), he's going to undergo surgery. He needs a dog or something Thanks for the luck everyone! I'mma bag it and bring it to 'em!

Hey Z'ers and Z'ettes. my pops has just been sent to St. Michaels hospital to undergo a triple-bypass surgery. He's been waiting on it for about a week now, and they finally found an open time-frame. Wish him luck! (and take care of yourselves!)

nope. .036 - .038 is right, I think. Every person who has ever built an SBC or an SBF looks at the RB values and wonders if there was a typo.

You basically paid for "Sketchers" pistons, at a "Nike" price. There is no way in hell I would pay 3000 for a piston/pin/lock/ring set... unless it's made of titanium or some other space-aged metal, or was forged by Mojilnor under the watchful eye of Thor. Not even if it was from Nissan Competition branded. Lets say that was what... 10 years ago?... LETS JUST SAY. I don't want to bring the passed into this, but I bet there were cheaper and stronger pistons at the time. But THAT is not important now. The pistons held up, but I think they're passed their time. Giving them to an L4 datto guy at a good price is a great idea that didn't even cross my mind. You got your fun out of them, 3000 is good for the fun you had I'd bet... and they're still alive. But... i would just get newer forgies. They're way cheap now. And can be made with the proper pin-boss sizing so that you can keep you rods that you got. 2618 alloy for a 99% track duty engine is what you should be running, with a semi-loose fitting. The heat will get'em to fill the bores when at operating temp and the gapless rings will hold them tight and leak free. Are you running any sort of fuel "monitoring" devices? AFR Guage? EGT Guage?

I should send this video to everyone in my grade 10 shop/tech class that called our group's similar idea "stupid" or "retarded". if I could only go back a decade

lol gaht dangit!

not worth it unless you have an advanced EFI system that will pull back timing or do some weird electrical whirrs and bleeps to get your piston from the top of the bore to the bottom....safely..... repeatedly... ...and in one piece.

hey, ross machine has a drill bit that they sell that will make the injector holes a one-gun ordeal. costly bit at 120 bucks, but if you plan to run these... and your customers find out what you're really doing, you can make back your customers lost time!