jeffer949

Looking at your pictures make sure that the oil pickup is parallel to the oil pan bottom. With it angled like that its going to be a ways away from the bottom of the pan.

Im using the stock maxima oil pan. The diesel maxima pan should work also. It actually has more volume i believe and has a place to drain your turbo into also!!!

If your extending your oil pickup you can not drill the front dipstick tube hole. it goes straight through the oil galley. I was able to do it as i plugged mine first. You will have to make a dip stick tube holder in your oil pan. I drilled my block as Im way better at machining than i am at welding. What are you working on that you are front sump?

Something is not right if your getting knock out of boost. Have you verified timing with a timing light and not just gone off what the computer says it is? or your running way lean.

@Derek I just found your 85d thread on speedtalk forums!!!. Just glad there are people on there sharing knowledge still!

Hey Derek. Good to hear from ya. Yeah input a vfd on it. And it already has the variable speed feed. It also has the indexable cutters on the head. Which will be fine to start but im looking at switching over to a single pcd/cbn cutter. I might have to do a pulley change to get the sfm where it needs to be. But currently im waiting on a box to put the vfd and other electrical components in. Im putting it on the machine where the motor start switch ans box was.

I just wanted to share something pretty exciting in my world. 5 weeks ago I overheard a friend talking about how hard it was to get any machine work done. And it hit me..... I know how to rebuild heads I just need equipment. Did some research and found that 4 of the main shops in the area have sold out or retired. Told the idea to my father in law. And was just spit balling with him. I dont have the cash to start anything and it was just an idea.. well he gave me and my wife a rather large gift and I have now bought a storm vulcan 85b blockmaster and a winona van norman Ph-2000L valve ane seat machine. Still need a valve grinder and obviously tons of tooling. But im excited to see where God takes this. Been 25 years since ive done and work but am excited to get back into it. Plan to get the surfacer going and try to drum up some buisness to make some income to buy more tooling. I onoe they are not the best machines bit they are functional. Just wanted to share

Next I need to pull my current engine as I need the oil pan from it along with the new timing chain guilds and oil pump and everything else. Thats new from when i built it a year or so ago. With it being a front sump I'm going to look into adding some oil baffling of some sort. I cant remember if there is any. Need to button up my 4n71b Jatco from the 84 300zx turbo and finish the inner hub for my adjustable cam gear. But I cant finish that till I pull the old trans as I need the bellhousing. Then I go down the rabbit hole of needing a new driveshaft but also wanting to swap in a 8.8 out of an ford explorer... ..

Slowly been chipping away at building this engine. Got all the oil pickup tube mods done. Then used my cnc router to plot out where to drill my block for the cooling mods for JeffP's head gasket. I'm cheap and not using his gasket but modifying a felpro to have all the cooling passages. My router isnt ridged enough to actually machine the holes but it allowed me to do a spot drill for the hole centers. Then came back and use the correct sized drill bits in a hand drill. Then used a die grinder to connect the 2 holes on the oblong holes. Worked well. Some time after that i was working on m wife"s car but wanted to keep going on the engine so I took my heavily carboned up pistons and soaked them in Superclean. DO NOT do this!!!! It eroded my pistons and made them unusable. Talk about a gut punch. The pistons where within spec and perfectly usable. Well I didnt know what I wanted for Christmas But I did after this. My mom and Aunt said they would go in together and get some new ITM's for it and where nice enough to let me have them now. Pressed the old ones off. New ones on. Gapped the rings. And install.

Sold everything to a guy on zcar.

I'm not complaining to anybody specific. Ive been around this site for close to 20 years and back in the day it was so helpful. Now its dead. Is what it is.

Well. The above mod worked and its now front jumped. Had to make a new dip stick tube and then I started on making an adjustable cam gear. Turned the inner bore out and faced the rest so ill have a good flat surface for the aluminum inner hub to bolt to. I realizing noone answers questions on here anymore and people just use it for documenting their builds. Its really sad.

Im building a l28et and im converting it to front sump. I've already drilled everything and I know what im doing there. Wanted to run how im sealing the oil galley off. I the picture you can see my new pickup hole and dipstick hole. I have already put a Welch plug to the left of the small hole and plugged the old pickup. Next im going to put the aluminum plug i made that has a npt plug inside of it between the new pickup and dipstick hole. When I tighten down the npt plug it will spread the outer wall of the aluminum plug and seal it off. I will theb back that up with another Welch plug. Im almost sure it will work but I wanted to get some more eyes on it to make aure. Because if it doesnt work. Ill suck air and take out the bearings. Any recommendations on a sealer I should use if any?

Very nice. will be cool to see how tight it is in the engine bay!

Turbo oil feed line, block adapter, turbo drain. I really have no clue how much for this. I know they dont come up for sale much especially with the block adapter. It may be slightly tweaked but its really close to original shape. Will package on a bog enough box. $150 plus shipping?