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Hyuri

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  1. Generally speaking... that's actually correct. Most H4 housings seem to work just so, with the low-beam filament directing its light primarily upward to be reflected in a downward-biased cone and the high-beam filament lighting in all directions to produce a (roughly) vertically-centered cone. The different filament locations also change where the light goes once it reaches the reflector, and it's somewhat complicated in ways that I've never taken the trouble to properly understand. Next time you get a chance, look at a standard H4 capsule: you'll notice that there's a shield partially enclosing one of the filaments. That's the low beam, and the shield is on the bottom when properly installed. Sealed beams, on the other hand, have no such shield. I have no idea how those optics work. If the light pattern produced by your lamp assembly is correct, and bright enough, don't worry about it.
  2. This is better explained by the fact that the imperial gallon has almost exactly 20% greater volume than the US gallon.
  3. I had the exact same thing happen to my car a few years back. The only thing I'd changed recently was to install a new Duralast cap and rotor and a fuel filter from Autozone. After the fire all I did was dig out some old plug wires and get a new cap/rotor from NAPA that I'm still running. I'm still not sure about the relationship, if any, but I haven't bought anything from Autozone since, and I haven't had any problems with new parts since.
  4. One correction: the standard pump is the M90.
  5. I believe the shaft is keyed one way, I know the TPS is (see picture), and I don't think the wire would reach the bottom anyway.
  6. Hyuri

    Seat swap list

    After Friday night, I can also add that this mounting, crappy as it may sound, will hold up to rolling an S130. And that stock seat belts in good shape will also hold up (literally).
  7. 83 N/A. Rock solid past 120 MPH, gets pretty squirrely above 100 with the windows down, somewhat more stable with T-tops off and windows down. All on straight, more-or-less level surface; speeds estimated from digital tach reading (accurate, but imprecise). Pulls pretty well even in 5th once it gets above about 3k. Runs out of go rather abruptly somewhere around 5k in 5th, which should be about 135, which I think is a fueling issue. Even at this point, it still feels steady enough to steer one-handed. (Before anyone jumps, I don't, but it feels that stable.) Only "performance mods" are a Z31t coil, and a PO swapped a 3.7 R200. Everything else, including the aero parts and drivetrain, is beat to hell stocker "junk".
  8. Seriously? Wow... The little residual oil left from filling has so far been enough for me every time, along with not monkey-torqueing.
  9. Yeah, but how many ... other-than-decent compilers are still floating around, still being used, still being written? Besides, it's just a bad habit to get into, assuming that the compiler will fix any performance hits your coding might induce. Better to code for performance in the first place if possible.
  10. Okay, if you're going to use , printf, and scanf, why not just go back to C? You're using a C++ compiler, but you're writing C code. Also, using pow() to square adds the overhead of a function call (and the overhead of the math library!) without any real readability benefit. And M_PI, while common, is not a standard definition. And heck, wheelman, most of my experience over the last few years has been C#!
  11. Just to throw it out there, RockAuto didn't blink at shipping a Bosal cat ("Not for sale in California"!) to my house in Southern California; it just arrived today along with my new front pipe and O2 sensor. Those magnets are just about my favorite part of ordering from RockAuto. Really.
  12. It is, indeed, related to the type specifier (%f for floats, %lf for doubles, %Lf if you want to get crazy and use long doubles) in your scanf calls. Different types, even of the same variety (e.g. floating point), can be stored in wildly different internal formats. If you're really going to use C++, try using STL methods like cin and cout. They make things much simpler - not having to remember the format specifier for each type you want to use is incredibly helpful. The basic library is also usually , not (canonically in C++, FYI). switch is also generally better than a sequence of if blocks, for exclusive selection off the same variable. There are some circumstances where nested if blocks are better for performance, but it can be rather tricky for generally minimal gain.
  13. Okay, so I feel really stupid now. First place I should have looked had them: JC Whitney. Naturally it was about the last place I looked.
  14. I was just hoping to find someplace online (preferably cheap) because my brother's bankrolling the repairs with his credit card and he's about 300 miles away. Otherwise I'll be dipping into my gas funds, and that's no fun at all. Kinda looks like I'll be going that way though.
  15. Like the title says, I need to find a source for 2", 2-bolt exhaust flanges, as on the NA 280ZX. I need and have ordered a new front section, including cat and O2 sensor, but I want to keep the muffler section if I can, and I want to be able to remove my exhaust without cutting it this time. So, yeah. The football-shaped ones, for two inch pipe. Anyone?
  16. Direct from the 1983 Datsun [by Nissan] 280ZX [Factory] Service Manual: the lubricant tables (cropped from page MA-8). Good luck finding API SE oil though.
  17. The original valve was probably damaged somewhere along the way and replaced during a top-end. I've seen this done a few times and was taught that it was a normal practice (replacing a single valve). As long as the dimensions and weight are within the same range as the other valves and everything fits and seals properly, I don't see it being a problem.
  18. The "family" in this case is light vehicle or heavy vehicle. The ref at VVC told us the rule of thumb was that a "light vehicle" is anything smaller than a 1-ton pickup, inclusive. Of course, the best option is to call the ref you'd be working with and ask them whether they believe it would be legal. Be prepared with detailed information on both vehicles ready (donor and recipient), and remember that many-if-not-most late-model vehicles include the stock transmission as "required emissions equipment"!
  19. First things you should do are: find out where the exhaust is leaking; figure out which rubber parts should be replaced (all of them) and which need to be replaced (the hard, rotting, cracking, etc. ones), and whether you need full shock assemblies or just springs; and price the 4 jobs (exhaust repair, exhaust replacement, partial suspension, full suspension). Get several quotes, and see how much you'd be comfortable doing yourself. Then figure out how much you can budget, and decide what your priorities are: what you need to do to be safe.
  20. First car I drove on a regular basis was an '81 F100. First car I "owned" was a '92 Corolla sedan. First car I had my name on the title of is my '83 280ZX. Truck's gone, but the Corolla is still sitting in the driveway in front of the ZX, waiting for me to pull the transaxle out of the parts car. Somehow I keep ending up with more important things to do instead. >_>
  21. I wouldn't be, but that seems be a close #2 in complaints related to launch control, following the breakage.
  22. Downside: just like launch control, goodbye warranty.
  23. First things I'd check: blend doors (is everything connected firmly, uncorroded, etc.?) and heater control valve (is it flowing? is it being held open, or is it slipping shut over time?).
  24. A friend of mine has a 2006 F-250 (FX4, crew cab, short bed, SRW) with the 6.0 Power Stroke, and says he gets about 20 MPG, down to about 18 1/2 when he moved across the country. SoCal to SC by way of Mobile hauling a (I think) 28 foot travel trailer with about 1/2 of his worldly possessions in it. And this is after an early mistake where, having recently upgraded from an F-150 and being short on sleep, he filled it up - with about 27 gallons of regular unleaded. I siphoned it out, he limped back up to the gas station and filled it with diesel, and it's run like a top ever since.
  25. I've had pretty good luck avoiding the blood and gore, but a few stand out: One day things just weren't coming together for me. I kept banging my head into the swing arms on lifts, as I'd get called over to help and they didn't have the lifts high enough... Anyway, after about 7 whacks (full body weight and/or full strength of my back behind them) in the first hour, they sent me home because apparently I was staggering around looking rather vacant and somebody decided a little CYA was in order in case I'd gotten a concussion. The other one was when we were moving some of the school's clip cars, and somehow I managed to roll one of their steel casters over my foot. Which was clad in a lightweight running shoe. How I never broke anything in that place is beyond me. . . . Wait, I have done the "stand up in the wrong place and take a chunk out of [my] back" thing at home. And then there were the chemical burns from failing to wash my hands after tanking some parts and prior to taking a leak. That was fun. Taught me to use gloves though!
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