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    I Like Beer.

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    ...Rogue's Shakespere Stout' date=' Brutal Bitter, and Dead Guy Ale

    ... [/quote']

    :iagree: I'm a beer snob.

     

    I love Dead Guy Ale. Every February the Rogue Brewery has a wharehouse sale and I stock up on Dead Guy.

     

    I also love Deschutes Obsidian Stout and Black Butte Porter in the cold months. I used to drink nothing but Widmer's Hop Jack Pale Ale in the summer, but I can rarely find it anymore.

     

    It's suprising how easy it is to brew your own. I can brew a fair copy of Full Sail's Nut Brown Ale. Mmmmmmm. Beeeer! :cheers:

    Auto Rotisserie Plans

    in Miscellaneous Tech

    Posted

    If you're talking about my 'poor mans rotisserie', yes, I believe I picked it up at Harbor Freight. Because, the uprights on engine stands are angled back several degrees, I had to use the blocks of wood to make the uprights perpendicular to the ground. I got the pivots set at exactly the right height and perpendicular and the jury-rigged setup worked perfectly. I was able to rotate the car with one hand and lock it into whatever position I wanted.

     

    It worked well, but if I had it to do over again, I'd spend the time building one similar to the yellow one. Nicely done.

    SON OF A... $%#&@!!

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Gosh.. Mark I hope you did not go up with the dynamite too !!!!!!! A few 44 mag rounds would work for me.

     

    He he.:icon56: No, so far, the car and myself are both still intact. I decided to stay out of the shop for a few days and do anything non-automotive related. I didn't even cruise the HybridZ forum for a few days (got to be a record for me. I was flirting with withdrawl sysmptoms).

     

    I'll probably pick up a helicoil kit this week and get back to it next weekend.

     

    Thanks for the offer of the short block. Hopefully, I won't need to take you up on it. How's the GTO project going?

    SON OF A... $%#&@!!

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Sounds like a good excuse to do an engine swap.....

     

    Yeah, Its tempting. I've got a fresh 355 and T56 sitting in the shop, but that is slated for the Velo Rossa...

     

    Now that I've had a chance to calm down a bit, I think I'll just end up inserting a helicoil or timesert into the block. I just wish I could come up with a method for drilling/tapping the threads perfectly straight w/o pulling the motor...

    SON OF A... $%#&@!!

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    I am going light a stick of freaking dynamite under the 260!...:mad:

     

    Several weeks back, after getting this field muffin running for the first time in 10 years, I lost a lash pad, keepers and bent the #5 intake valve. I finally get all the parts, get the head back together and today I am torquing the head bolts... Yeah, you guessed it... one of them strips out on the last torque iteration...

     

    I followed the ol shop manual verbatim: 29ft/lbs on the first pass through the sequence, 43ft/lbs on the second pass. The manual says the final pass should be anywhere from 47 to 61 ft/lbs on the last pass so, I split the difference and go 55ft/lbs. I get to the last bolt over the #1 cylider and, as I'm slowly tightening, I get that really bad sensation you get when the threads start to pull... Oh, Crap! So, I backed the torque wrench off to 40ft/lbs and tried it again... spins fairly easily. So, now I have a stripped bolt/hole in the block.

     

    Anyone have advice? Should I use a 1/4 stick of dynamite placed under the full gas tank or should I see if I can buy a fair quantity of C-4 and really put on a fireworks show? :banghead::fmad:

     

    Seriously, advice on the best way to go about repairing this? Helicoil? Should I even attempt a helicoil w/o pulling the motor? I'm afraid of not drilling/tapping the block perfectly straight...

    Hemmings top 20 for under $20k

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    A list from a group of guys who obviously like to work on cars. Most of those cars would not win any awards for reliability...

     

    I've owned and restored 5 Fiat Spiders. True, reliability can be questionable if they aren't maintained. I had a '77 Spider that was so reliable that for 2 years I made it my ONLY transportation. I drove it daily, took all over the northwest, took it to college, up to the ski hills and everywhere else I wanted to go. It never once left me stranded. That's either a testament to it's reliability or proof that I'm just a lucky moron... :bonk:

     

    My friends still insisted on calling my car "Tony" as in: Fix It Again, Tony

    Whipped!

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    1969 Datsun Roadster, SR20DE conversion with 5spd. Needs very little to be a great daily driver or a blast of a weekend car. Over $6000 invested $5000 firm

     

     

    I'll take that! Wish I had a few extra bucks hanging around...

    Piston damage...

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Larry -

     

    Thanks for the pictures and piston offer. I'm going to put this thing back together (after I drain and clean the tank) and get it running again. After that, I'll be checking the cam lobe wipe on the lash pads to make sure I'm not running off the end.

     

    Now, back to the garage... :redface:

    Piston damage...

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Bastaad - I'll bet you are right on the money. I can all but guarantee that old gas varnish was the problem here too. I had the same scenario, car sitting for 10 years, decided to cut-corners and not drop the tank and clean it, drained the old gas and put in 5 gallons of new stuff.

    Everything was gummed up from the SUs to the tops of all the pistons and everything in-between. Lesson learned. I stopped at the local Nissan dealership this morning and ordered up a replacement intake valve, keepers and upper spring seat. I'll be dropping the gas tank this week...

     

    Damn, cutting corners can get to be expensive and time consuming! :twak:

    Piston damage...

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    So, after a fair bit of work, I finally get the 260Z fired up. I picked this thing up for waayyyy cheap and towed it home a few months back. It was in a lot of pieces and came with many boxes of new and used parts. It's got an N42 block and head and I'm running 4-screw round top SUs. Anyway, the guy I bought it from had the head re-worked by a local shop years ago before the whole project was shoved in a corner of his garage and forgotten. The head had obviously been tanked and cleaned. The valves looked like new. The cam looked like it was original with minimal wear. Anyway, I looked it over, did a cold check on the valve lash and it looked to be in good shape. I planned on doing a hot adjustment after I got the carbs adjusted and synched up. I got the car fired up and it seemed to run pretty darn well right out of the gate. I synched the carbs and did a few turns around the neighborhood. There was no valve noise beyond what is normal for the L6 motors I've had in the past. I was pretty happy.

     

    The next morning I go out to do some more work, fire it up and... WTF???!!:shock: A TON of bad clattering! I quickly shut it off and pulled the valve cover. I found two lash pads and the keepers (split colletts) for one valve. SH!%@*!

     

    Pulled the head and found this in the number 5 hole (not the quarter - just the damage):

    piston.jpg

     

    The number 2 intake valve didn't lose it's keepers, just the lash pad so, there wasn't piston to valve contact. I'm considering reinstalling the lash pad on number 2 and replacing the bent intake valve on 5. I don't know if the rebuilder put in incorrect lash pads, or if I screwed-the-pooch when I checked the lash when it was cold, or??.

     

    I'm leaning toward not replacing this piston and seeing if I can make this bad-boy run for now while I scare up another motor to rebuild. Opinions on my cutting corners?

    Politics and Religion - Banned

    in Announcements

    Posted

    Personally, I never get involved in those types of subject discussions on this site (or almost anywhere). In fact, if the thread title suggests that the thread is political or religious in nature, I won't even open it up. That's not what I come here for. I only opened this thread becuase it suggested I'm not alone it my attitude.

     

    That being said, I'm not against those types of discussions on HybridZ. I know that there are some well educated and thoughtful people here who I have respect for. I know others feel the same and may want to debate these types of subjects with folks they respect. HybridZ is an automotive based forum, but like it or not, it has become an online family to many members, and families tend to want to discuss subjects that have impact on their lives. A little spirited debate can be pretty educational. As long as people converse in a respectful manner, and those subjects are contained in their own forum and don't clutter up the rest of the site, it's cool by me.

    Tim240Z signing off

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    ....what a catastophe!!

     

    Are you referring to your vacation??!! Nothing sucks worse than getting all geared up to relax and have a good time then having your parade rained on! Hope you had at least a decent time...

    Fuel Cells

    in Fuel Delivery

    Posted

    I ran out to the garage to take a look under the VR. There is about 3 to 4 inches of clearance between the cell and the mustache bar. I took one other pic from the side to show the sump. I still need to finish up the cell frame and get it painted.

     

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    Fuel Cells

    in Fuel Delivery

    Posted

    You might be ok facing the sump forward, but even with the sump and the foam there could still be some risk of fuel starvation under hard accelleration on a low tank. On a street car I guess the risk is lower.

     

    EDIT: The other potential issue that occurs to me is that facing the sump forward may cause the mustache bar to interfere with the fuel lines. It would depend on the size of your cell and how you mount it.

     

    Hiding the fuel lines isn't a concern for me since the rear tub of the Velo Rossa body kit completely hides the sump and the lines when it's installed.

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