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I have had a thread in the turbo/supercharger section of the forum for years now. I am going to put this in the proper place, since I have it up and running. I got this car home the other day after about 5 years of being in different places. I picked it up from my dad's close friend here in Houston. I have known him since I was born. He built this car back in 1978. He flew Tom and his girlfriend into town to complete the build. He had added all that he could to the kit, virtually upgrading everything on the car, then letting it sit in 1982, until I got my hands on it back in 2005. Here is the thread that I started back then. http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php/topic/51708-new-toy/ I will be adding to this as I change the car around. I have taken the throttle linkage apart and I am making something to have a smoother action with the throttle pedal. I still have a lot of cleaning, and house work to do. I have a ton of parts to install that I have accumilated over the last few years. I will be adding photos of the progress as well.

what is the cost associated with the S14 tranny?

I got it sorted out last night at about 8:30 after a few hours after work of playing with it. I had Doug from Awsome Z come meet me at the shop. Stand up guy. He came over after his day was done and helped me. He walked me through the issues I was having. We got the timing set up correctly, set the dizzy as well, reinstalled the oil pump. I have to say Doug went out of his way to help when he could have just left me stranded or of had to pay for a tow to his shop, instead he stopped by on his way home and hooked me up. I was 2 teeth off and had the rotor starting at #5 and not #1. Not the last time I will mess things up.... My timing is currently set at 16 deg, but I know there is more in it. I just wanted to get the car on the road.

At home in the garage.....

Well I am done.... she is coming home today. After the fiasco with teh dizzy, oil pump and the gear I am just happy I am driving her for now. I still have a freakin leak on the front cover somewhere. At this point I just want to get the car home. The timing is set at 16deg. I know that is conservative but I need to be sure that I drive this thing easy. I have put 50/50, methanol/water in the water injection tank to help out with using 93 pump gas. The P/O used 110, and well I can't afford that at this point. I am not sure if I am hearing just the noisy valvetrain or knock when I get up over 5lbs. So for now I am on easy street until I can get the car over to get tuned and checked out. I have a busy weekend with family, and next weekend I am in the Tough Mudder race so I will not have much time to devote to tracing down this leak...... I will go get some more gaskets though.... Hopefully some time in Nov I can get to a shop to see some numbers on a dyno....

With the #1 plug pulled and at the top of the stroke I should be at 1 TDC..... correct? I have set the dizzy from there.

I had na issue with my oil pump leaking so we pulled it to change out the gaskets. In the mean time the f'n gear dropped out of position. We have now put the dizzy back in and the oil pump in over 6 times with it not wanting to fire up. I know it is out of timing. With it set at #1 TDC, the gear put back in place and the oil pump installed it does not want to fire. Blows a fire through the carb. So that tells me I am 180 out of time? Am I correct. I am trying to get this done before I have to pay someone to fix it. Help..... This is on a Turbo Tom set up with a custom Mallory dizzy, MSD 6-t box, and a Mallory coil. The car was running before we pulled the oil pump... S.O.S.

@vilian4life Where did you get your leds? I have been looking for something like that for an idea I have. Goo looking z.

Priceless. I further went through the boxes that i have from the purchase of my car. I now have located the install instructions, water injection install instructions, as well as a few adindems he put out. It turns out that the p/o had his own shop and did install the turbo Tom kits, and cartech kits. I have a letter with drawings from corky bell on different intake manifolds. Really cool stuff. I need to get a web page up and put all of this stuff out there for others to see and potentially use.

I am running pump 93 at this time. I really can not afford to put 110 in it. I have a good source of Methanol that I am using. I have switched the water to 50 water/50 methanol to help offset the octane difference, as well as help with performance. I am getting the methanol at $8 a gallon. I would like the diagram that you are using for your water injection so that I can compair it to what I have. I know my intake and exhaust are different than what you have, and what Tom ended up using. I my kit was from 78 so I think it was one of his firsts. He used a factory exhaust manifold, cut it , welded a flange on it for the turbo, plugged the lower end and adapted a wastegate attachment on it. I do have the big Holley on it and NOS. I will not hook up the NOS until I get all of the bugs worked out. I am just glad to have the piece of mind that all of the seals on the motor are new. I would like to switch over to the electromotive XDi2 system but as money permits I will make the change. I refuse to pay for anything with a CC dealing with this car. Great idea on the testing the water injection system, I will set the same thing up with my pancake compressor in when I get the car to the house. I did find a letter to the previous owner from Tom's girl referencing the spring. Luckily enough there was a small envelope attached to the letter with two springs in it. I also have the paperwork from the valve that they used in my binder. I started to go through all of the boxes that came with the car a few weeks back and put all of the literature together in one place. I also have all of the build notes from the motor, head, suspension, gauges. It was like opening a time capsule. I have the MSD literature, Stewart Warner gague literature.........I have recipts for the external oil cooler ( Mecca oil cooler) I was grinning ear to ear......

happiness is sort lived.... I noticed a oil leak on the front of the motor so I brought it back to the guys working on the car. It seems to be leaking out of the oil pump. So I went and got a new gasket for the oil pump/front cover area. As well as a gasket for the oil pump that seems to be leaking oil. In the process of puting it back together a gear fell out that spins the dizzy, and oil pump, keeping both in time... so now they have to pull the dizzy, set it back at TDC and set the timing as well as the oil pump correctly.... never ending saga..... I have been able to confirm that I do have a R180. So a swap is in order, that along with a better tranny will be added to the laundry list.......I belive that it will be a matter of time before I trash the tranny and the rearend. If I can grenade a 92 Chevy Z-71 manual transmission 5 times in a matter of 2 years I think the Z's drivetrain doesn't have a chance with me...... My goal is to hav ethe car back today to bring it home and start cleaning, installing misc parts that I have in the garage. Once I get all of that stuff out of the way I will start figuring out weak links.....

If time permits I will be going by Power Fab this sat to let Jeremy look at the car. I need to get it tuned, but for now I will have to take it easy and put some miles on the motor. When I got it 5+ years ago it only had about 5000 miles on the motor after the build up for the turbo . That build took place back in 1978-79. I have replaced ALL the gaskets on the motor, new fuel pump, new regulator, various new fittings, various new braided lines, new brakes ( rotors, pads, and Master cylinder), new interior carpet, New sets, New tires,new spark plug wires, Pertronix pick up instead of dual points, New spark plugs, new battery, New seat belts.... the list goes on. At this point I hope that it is reliable. The carb has some adjustments that need to happen. I want to put it on adyno, but not until I get some things ironed out. I just hope that the "tuning" part of this car will not kill me. I still have to get it registered and insured. I don't have any tail lights right now and I don't know why...... just one more thing that I have to take care of SOON. I might change out the rear diff fluid this weekend. If I do that I will not be going to Power Fab. I have a dash cover, and a front airdam to install on the car. I still have plenty of things left to do......just minimal time.

I am now driving a unregistered, un-insured, un-inspected car on the road. It feels good. I still have to work out a few bugs, but for the most part it is ready to go. I will get some video of it up soon.

I got a email from les. He said the hood scoops will be ready in about two weeks......

I have had to scour for fittings to adapt the fuel pump to the car. I have it ready to go in on Monday. I ended up buying a Holley blue, pump. Hopefully I will have the car home this coming week.

If it could go wrong it has...... Carb is still not 100%, fuel pump does on me yesterday I had to push the car back to the shop, the front cover was leaking oil, for some reason the water injection is not working even though the lines/ tank/ and valve are all clear. When I go over 5lbs of boost it detonates. It gets to 5lbs quick

Ohhh tell me what it is like havin a/c on these cars....... That is one option that I want....... I would drive my car more if I had it. For me there are more important things I need. Like a fuel pump, cause as newton's law holds true.... Mine went out as I was about to put it on the road yesterday......

Why not get rid of the fan/fan clutch on the motor ( less drag) and put a pair of electric fans to pull the air as needed. That way you can route the piping in front of the motor rather than over the top?

Any updates from Jason?

I drove the car this afternoon.... still some idle adjustments that need to happen. I am going to change the throttle cable linkage to be smoother, I am trying to get 2 90deg bends out of it by using some hard brake line tubing. I have not purchased the methanol for the injection, so we will just use water for now. I believe that it will go on the dyno tomorrow or friday at the latest. I am bailing out of town to go to the beach for the weekend so I might not be able to pick it up before I go. 5lbs of boost comes on quick. No problem. I like the car, it seems to be predictable. I think the weld for the manifold did not hold up, it looks like I am seeing some evidence of exhaust gas creaping out the mounting flange, so I will have them hit it up again........ With all of this work done I am starting to think I should have just gone with all updated stuff and dumped the Turbo Tom kit. Who knows working these kinks out might change my mind.

Where did you tap the block for a knock sensor? I would like to eventually do the same as well as add a O2 bung on my down pipe for a LC-1. I am a draw-thru carb so I am a little different...

Well if you are out of town or state and want to buy their brake set up, forget it......They are not willing to sell to anyone that will not have the kit installed by them in their shop...... They will not sell and ship out of town. The guy was kind of rude about it when I asked him. I had called them and left a message, didn't get a return call so I tried again today. He was not very receptive... A shame cause the kit looks pretty good.

ok....what about the 17" wheels any word on those?

A pic would be nice.

Those sizes are disappointing... to say the least..... I hope my patiene will hold out... other wise I am going another route.