Pop N Wood
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Thanks for the input guys.
Hit the pick and pull this morning and found a pulley off a V6 Toyota that will fit the smaller Denso alt. Traded the Denso alt I got off a Corolla for one from a 90 Celica that has the power lug coming straight out the back rather than from the side (the old one looked like it would short the power lug to the frame rails when the engine torques).
Also grabed an alternator off a 3.1L Olds that looks to be an inch smaller in every dimension than the F body LS alt. Has some odd brackets, but looked to be brand new.
I now have 4 alternators. One of them is going to fit.
I like your Honda bracket, but I am not quite ready to go to an electric water pump. I am pretty sure I can get one of these alts to hang to the side of the driver's side head. Absolute worst case I switch to F body accesories which will allow me to mount the stock alternator up high where the tensioner is.
Fitting this alt by trial and error is getting expensive. Don't want to hear any more smack about how expensive the JCI kit is.
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Hey Forces,
I have the air gap intake, a K&N 1 3/4 inch drop base 3 inch air filter assembly and it JUST clears my hood. Although I did have to use a 1/4 -20 nut and washer instead of a proper air cleaner wing nut for keeping it on the carb. Don't ask me how I know this, lets just say I have a ding on my hood now.
That looks good. Are you running an HEI dist? From reading the parts catalogs they make offset 14" cleaners that they say are needed to clear the HEI dist. Guess you had no problems?
I have my engine so far back a 14" is going to hit the hood latch, and the engine is so tall I think I need a drop base also. I have yet to find a unit that are both drop base and forward offset.
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I need to get a smaller alternator for my LS motor to clear my steering shaft. I got two Nippon Denso alternators at the JY. The one from a Honda has the proper pulley and probably can be made to fit. The second one from an old Corolla is smaller, but has a 5 rib pulley and a smaller shaft than the the Honda unit (so no pulley swap).
I notice Jegs sells East Coast electric super mini alternators, but they all have V groove pulleys. They also look a lot like the smaller of the two Nippon Denso units I already have.
So does anyone know of a small alternator with 6 rib pulley? Or does anyone have a source on a 6 rib pulley that will fit on a Denso alt with a 15 mm diameter shaft ?
How about a good source with the measurements of different alternators?
I have the engine about where I want it, but don't want to do the final weld up of the motor mounts until I get an alternator solution.
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Any one know if wide bands can be read with a multimeter?
I have 2 widebands I pulled out of the wife's minivan when the heaters went out. The sensors still work, just open circuit heaters throwing error codes. I was thinking of installing an O2 just to help with tuning the carb. At $250 each I figured I might as well use the wide bands since I have them.
I know the service manual says a dedicated "air fuel ratio sensor" tool must be used to trouble shoot them.
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How old are your stock springs? Reason I ask if the springs are old, you may already be riding lower than stock. New lowering springs could actually raise your ride height.
Having said that, MSA sells some springs that are suppose to lower your car an inch and a half
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I think the solution here is for some of us Hybridz members to stop by on a regular basis and drive your vettes for you. It is the least we can do for a bud.
Nuclear powered submarines have huge batteries they use for emergency power when underwater. They told me it was just an oversided Die Hard.
They had very strict maintenance procedures that had to be followed to maintain the battery life. Trickle charges alone will not do it. I don't remember all the details but the written procedures called for regular cycles of slow and fast charging and discharging.
Makes me think a computerized battery minder would be just the ticket.
BTW, the batteries I put in my Z when in storage all completely died and could never be recharged with a year of no use. They were completely disconnected at the time.
Let me know what unit you buy and I will get one of the same.
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Damn. Is that rear wheel HP or has is somehow been corrected to guestimate flywheel HP? What mods are on that LS2? You are doing way better than stock.
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$159???
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You do realize with an LT1 your car will already be slightly tail heavy. Unlike a 60's muscle car there is no real need to relocate the battery.
But if you do I would be tempted to run both a positive and negative lead back to the engine.
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That car will not run without a radiator.
Maybe that is why he is selling the kit rather than keeping it.
I doubt that car has ever been driven. He replace the upper raditor cross piece with an articlating strut bar. That thing must flex like crazy
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I have the book and it is well worth the money. They give detailed drawing to show you how to cut the mounting plates. No welding needed. Flat plates with some holes drilled in them. They also give you a lot of little details that can really kill you if you have to figure it out on your own. Like how to make the tach work and putting a resistor in line to the alternator.
The problem with the distributor is the HEI types will hit the bottom of the hood latch. You need to make a new latch bracket, get a catch from a ZX and add some 1/2 inch spacers between the cross member and the frame rails to clear that.
If you have a non-HEI dist than I think you can just move the motor forward a bit to clear everything. You will have more wiggle room if you go auto tranny and don't have to worry about the shifter.
http://www.summitracing.com sells the JTR book. you might get on that site and get the ISBN number and see if a local bookstore can get it for you. I know I shipped some phone books from Sydney to the US and it took over half a year to get here.
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Did they walk you out the door or try and sweet talk you?
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Too cool. Can't wait until I get enough torque to blow things up.
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http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=81151&highlight=firing+order
http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=67551&highlight=firing+order
Mudge taught me all I need to know.
Except the carb thing. Guess I didn't listen to him too well.
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This site has several guides detailing how to switch a car to run pure ethanol
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However, according to the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, if 100 BTUs of energy are used to plant corn, harvest the crop, transport it, and so on, 138 BTUs of energy are available in the fuel ethanol produced – a 38 percent increase in energy availability... They fail to mention that you will also get up to 34 % fewer miles to the gallon.
But if you are measuring the energy content in BTU than the 34% fewer miles per gallon are already taken into account. It takes more gallons of ethanol to get the same BTU's of energy as a gallon of gas.
There are numerous contradictory studies about the energy gain or loss from ethanol production.
BTW, it is completely legal to distill ethanol for fuel. This site has the government permit form you need to fill in. More interestingly, that same site says you can get tax credits for pure ethanol used by a buisness. So distill your own fuel and the government will pay you to run your trucks on it. I didn't know that.
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Not quite. True the angles need to be the same but the input and output shafts dont have to be parallel.
Cameron
If the angles are the same the centerlines of the shafts will be parallel.
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My brother and I both kind of phased out smoking by switching to cigars for a few years. Seems much easier to stop cigars than to cold turkey cigarettes. My brother did cycle through chew for awhile too, but that was too much for me.
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Shoes in trees or power lines = drugs (usually).
I have heard that too. Something about dealers marking where they sell.
The ones on the side of the road are proabably gym shoes that fell off someone's bike or got stolen from some smaller kid.
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Interesting and brief synopsis.
http://www.carbon-info.org/carbonscience/carbonscience_008.htm
Had never really thought of the water aspects. something Californian's have been living with for decades.
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Is that ground on the coil of the relay or is that a double pole relay.If it's a double pole relay power is going to dead short to ground on that pic.The reason for using relays is for heavy loads,small control wires controll the relay and heaver load wires threw the contacts of the relay.Make sure you fuse it properly.
I agree, your picture makes no sense. You show a switch jumpering the power to ground. you don't show the field coil on the relay. That is the part that energizes the relay.
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I have always wanted a short bus just like the one I use to ride to school.
Removing Stripped Bolts
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BTW, if all you have done is round the hex head, then first off try a 6 point vs. 12 point socket. If that doesn't work, a lot of times you can hammer the next smaller size of metric or standard 12 point socket onto the damaged bolt.
The welder trick is a good one also.
Another possible solution is to cut off the bolt head making it a stud. This only works if the part can then be removed allowing a pair of vice grips to be used to remove the remaining stud.