capt_furious

Shocking! Positively shocking!

Yeah, not really rice... ...more along the lines of... corn.

SNRRRRRK...oh, man...I need to check in more often. This is a riot.

Ordered two insulators and no mounts. Hope I did the right thing.

I assume the 'bracket' that MSA sells typically doesn't need replacement and the insulator is actually what one would change given the opportunity during a swap. Is there an aftermarket mount for the L motors that's better than stock, or should I go ahead and order a set of insulators? Anyone know of a less expensive source? (yes, I searched!)

Thanks for the help, guys. I'll try a combination of all of the above. My primary concern was gumming up the carbs with lube where it shouldn't have been. ...thus far, my solution has been to get her started, then back off the choke, pop the hood, and hop out to give the jets a tap upward. That gets pretty tedious after a while.

...Bueller?

You've got to be a pretty gutless tool to hit someone's vehicle and just take off. My dad has had it happen twice, once right after his car come out of the body shop (after being sideswiped by a biker that was going 75+!) and the other right after he bought a new car. I had a very nicely restored '68 Plymouth Fury...I tried to keep it away from other cars when I could. I remember walking up to it in a parking lot once while a family in a sedan was leaving from the spot next to my car...all of the adults were hustling the kids in to the car. One of the kids grabs the rear door of their car, flings it open right into my car, so hard that it bounces. The mom is standing there watching the whole thing. I stop and GLARE at them, she says nothing. I'm speechless at this point that a mother wouldn't reprimand her child for doing such a thing, and they just jump in and start backing out. I look at my door while they're transitioning from backing up to driving away, and there's a big fat paint chip with a ding under it. I stand up, yell, 'HEY!', and dad guns it and drives off. Unbelievable.

(just to preface this, I did search, both here and in numerous places on the web) Discovered this today after trying to figure out why my plugs were so fouled on #1, 2 and 3 and the other three looked fine. Turns out setting the choke makes the jet plunger stick in the down position, causing rough idle, stumbling and really bad mileage. Giving the plunger a tap upward resets it and the car runs fine. Can I just lube the plunger to get it to move more smoothly? Is there a preferred lubricant for this application? Thanks in advance.

Mike, that's a good spot for it! Why hadn't I thought of that? I've been putting off welding the lever bracket to the trans tunnel for months because I'm not confident I can get it lined up properly with the console. I broke my old console in half while yanking on the thing and thankfully had a spare console. I didn't want to repeat the process all over again.

How 'bout an early '80s Toyota Hilux? Common, reliable, capable, fun, available with a diesel or a gas 4-banger. Put on a camper shell and you're set. They came out with an XtraCab in '84.

Wow, nice job on the modeling. Let us know how it goes. You've got a potentially huge market here, and not just with HybridZ. Collectors / stock resto guys would jump all over this.

...exactly.

Wow! I'd drive that at the drop of a hat at that price! ...shame I haven't got the dough right now.

*sucks in air through teeth* Oh, dear God...that's...yeow. pffffft. 'Hot Rod'...lawl.

I think what we're seeing is the usual ebay battling over something. I NEVER let anyone know I'm after something by bidding on it. I'll let an item go until the last second, and put down the maximum I'm willing to pay for it. If I lose, that's fine, I wasn't willing to pay that much. The advantage of this is that the price doesn't get driven up by people trying to outbid each other, because they never get the chance, and they don't know anyone else is after it. My name is A.J., and I'm an ebay sniper.

Looks...interesting. Nice use of the stock manifolds.

Agreed...I didn't buy my Z so I could sell it later, I bought it because the price was right, there's a sizable aftermarket, parts are(or were) cheap, it was well-made and got good gas mileage. Zs started life as affordable sports cars, I'd hate to think they're going to start commanding high prices(although we'll probably see it soon, just as InitialD made the AE86 Corolla a collector's item, Wangan Midnight looks poised to do the same thing to the Z). And aux, the car you posted MIGHT be worth 3/4 what he's asking, but you know better than I do. I had some guy tell me my car was worth 5 grand not too long ago, I had to resist the temptation to laugh.

I'm wondering if there's a way to run something like this in a purely mechanical fashion, using engine vacuum as the governing factor. The first thing that came to mind when I was reading the thread was a sliding sleeve like the ones on the Mazda 767B shown above. The sleeves would have to be pretty lightweight, it may be too much mass to move using engine vacuum. Fiberglass or cf tubes on a common plate(maybe CF with aluminum reinforcements), using a single-acting vacuum piston with a 'draw' stroke(vacuum being applied to the rod side of the piston), working against a return spring. As RPM increases, more vacuum is made, the piston extends further. You wouldn't get the fine control of an electrically governed unit, but if it was done right, you might be able to achieve a similar level of effectiveness. ...sealing the sleeve to the walls of the intake to prevent a leak(which would reduce the effectiveness of the variable intake) might be a problem.

Don't know about the outlying area, but the base gets occasional surprise delivery shipments of nuke cruise missiles. ...I can make fun, I are one! And from what I can remember of LA, it's HOT and HUMID, and the state bird is the mosquito. The best repellent is a 12 gauge with birdshot.

You're both wrong, the manifolds are on backward!

That's been the primary reason I've heard for cross drilled rotors being a bad idea(besides the fact that they don't help much). ...the McLaren F1 has 'em, so does the Carrera GT(carbon!), so they must be good for something... Slotted rotors are likely a different story. Probably much tougher to crack.

Yeah, I must have read that 5 times while looking at the smaller version, wondering if I was reading it correctly. It's a magazine. Turbo has strayed pretty far from what it was before the 'rice' craze of the '90s.

pim-pressive.

Man, it's probably not even a good idea to ask, as that indicates a desire to explore the idea further. *waves to the friendly BATFE agent now brought here by an NSA sniffer program*