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from what i've found, you just pull that ignition box off your dizzy, and hook the wires from the MSD (purple green) to the red and green on the dizzy (green to green, purple to red) if your car's carbed i think that's all you need to do besides hook up your coil and tach. If you have an old style tach it won't work though i don't think.

lol i'm suprised i didn't see you say that earlier

it's a motocycle gang style that has bled into cars

It also reminds me of a similar Motorcycle style.

was that an old Z i saw in there? awesome video and nice music to go along with it!

just out of curiosity, how does it run when you unplug the TPS? on my Z because of the issues it was having, the TPS was making it run worse (bad injectors, wrong afm, etc) unplugged it and it ran like a dream. of course, now that i've got it all fixed i need to plug it back in and adjust it.

haha DUDE that's so funny. I remember seeing that a while back and went "wow someone doesn't know what their doin" awesome that Chris got it.

Dude, you guys didn't know? the diving board front spoiler, the 5000lb downforce rear wing, and the wickedly long tail pipes is that "tight JDM" look that everyone's always going for!

I invested many hours today. I saw a few cool Z pics. and about 10 billion oldschool GTR pics. I also noticed i saw a few cars multiple times throughout the years from them going to all the shows, which i thought was interesting. and the Yankee Tade Z kinda made me cry a bit.

those look pretty nice. I'm going with stealths route and putting a G-nose on my 78 as well haha

that looks really awesome actually. I notice all the comments about his speaker placement. up until recently, I thought the speakers mounted in my center console were STOCK, because of how well they were installed. from the looks of it they cut the console, made a bracket for the speaker, and put on a plastic grill to cover the speaker, that blends in such a way that it LOOKS factory. whoever did it did it many many years ago.

not really. it's not really that nice when you want to start changing things. if you just want a stock setup it's ok. but if you went to a megasquirt system you can map out the entire rpm range and everything. and apparently it also picks up quite a bit on it's mpg. I suppose because a MS system is a lot more effiecient throughout the rpm ranges. the MS system is totally programmable and iirc you can use the O2 sensor to map out the fuel ratios. not sure if how much the O2 functions with the computer though.

hey tony, slightly off topic, but where did you get that whale tail?

I think it's the character of the car that gives it the name. Ya know? to me, a lot of cars already have a character, you just have to find a name that fits the cars personality.

hmm, well now that i know the potential for the stock engine, and because of my low income, I think i might just hold off on the turbo setup and make a fun fast stock engine. from the sounds of it, it just takes a LOT of fine tweaking to the stock setup, and lots of time and mild changes to pull out it's hidden potential, eh?

i think for now you should just dyno it to see where the power is now, then scrap all the stock ecu components and megasquirt it. iirc just putting a bigger cam into a stock engine will cause it to not run like it should because the ecu has no way to compensate for the change.

it will help a LOT. the stock efi system is just that. it's stock. it can't make adjustments on its own, and if you change anything in the engine (boring it, bigger cam, turbo etc) the ecu is stupid and basically your car won't run like it should. i think you NEED to megasquirt your car to be able to get the power that the stock system is stealing.

i don't think the ECU has any say in the fuel pump kicking on. BUT what year is it? that's the big thing. the different years have different methods of running the fuel pump.

you could always grind the notch, spin it, then JB weld it so it stays put.

I'm getting about 600ish total this year. not as much as i planned but i think it's because I had to do 2 returns and do partial residancy or whatever for both. last year if i claimed myself I would've gotten back all of my taxes, and this year i made less than last year, which is why i think that might have something to do with it.

oops sorry forgot to tell everyone what mine was. It's a twin cylinder airplane engine http://www.enginehistory.org/air-cooled_cylinders_2.htm

so that would be the equivilant of us making the turbo mount to the intake AND exhaust manifolds, with the TB in front of the turbo... on our Z's HOLY CRAP....there would be 0 piping at all. the downside is no IC. but that would be crazy. intake and exhaust manifolds only, no piping at all. I guess one way would be to have a small IC integrated into the intake manifold, with a scoop on top to blow air through it, but i doubt it would be effective.

well I'm glad to hear 15-20psi is safe on a stock engine. I plan on putting headstuds and good rings on my turbo build, but i'm only going to run 12ish psi

Harumi.（春実) it means Spring Beauty. my car's build date is 5/78 I like it XP being half japanese I felt it was fitting to give her a Japanese name. her birthday is coming up soon. She'll be 30 years old. I'm going to tease my little sister (turning 16) and ask her to give Harumi a present haha.

speaking of valve design, I sort of would like to see a Coates rotary valve head on an L-series and see how high that would go haha. and Raami, AWESOME job making that block brace.