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Can't we all just get along? A Machinist I once met called an adjustable wrench a "fitall".

I would rather not ship mine off,either. However, If a hybrid z-er were to be in my area, I would be glad to do some datalogging or just monitoring for them.

I include myself in the "Goober" category, too - don't know why that term popped into my head ... I just looked on the box that my WBO2 sensor came in- It's Bosch P/N 13246. The sensor itself did have the correct NTK part no., however.

Hey guys, Here's the staight scoop. I bought a '95 Honda Civic VX (1.5l 3-door) sensor fom the Parts Bin (part no. C5010-75044) for 125.00 and used it on my FJO WBO2 - same part as what FJO supplied -NTK L1H1- works fine. Also, NAPA part no. ECH0S791 is the crrect NTK sensor. I was wondering if there would be a big rush to buy these sensors once the average goober caught on to it, and bought a spare.

I too have an '89 Pathfinder 4WD that I love dearly but it is DOG slow. I've often thought that that the VG30dett swap would be what it needs. I'll be following your project with interest. Do you guys know if that motor will bolt up to the stock Auto trans?

Turbo, wastegate, and downpipe are finally on the car. .63 turbine housing machined to fit a cut-down P-trim wheel (exducer is 2.7"), worked T04E compressor housing with 60-1 wheel, builder says this is a "59 trim". This thing must be close to the ultimate hybrid, at least going by the size of the turbine wheel - there's very little material left on that housing! Turbonetics Racegate, 3" downpipe. Just got the car running with this setup this morning and didn't gat a chance to drive it, have to wait til Sunday for that. Oh well, I'm ready for Alabama now!

If you smell gas when you pull the vacuum hose to the regulator off the manifold that tells me that the diaphram in the regulator is bad. (gas on the vacuum side of the diaphram). I made a fuel pressure guage once by getting a hardware store 100 psi water pump guage for about $4.00 and with a tee fitting and some 5/16" injection hose,and inserted the guage in the fuel rail's inlet line ( the one from the fuel filter). I always worried about that guage being deteriorated by gasoline and it never gave any problems through several years of use. It would certainly be good for occasional short use and will be accurate enough to find gross fuel pressure problems. Fuel pressore should be 37psi at idle, 43 with the fuel pump running and engine off.

Tim, Buddy is a mainstay of my collection, and any blues afficionado worth a damn has lotso BB. It's pretty interesting how so many of those guys (John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins,Luther Allison,Buddy, Jimi, Stevie, etc. and on into the current bunch of artists) used to jam together and build on each others' stuff. I'm convinced those people who put down the genre as 3-chord nothing to it have never really listened. It's real life.

I'm a serious blues fan. Just today I was listening to an album by Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughn - Stevie was playing guitar licks of Jimi's originally done in performance with Albert way back. Sounded so much like Jimi it made my hair stand on end. I too have a great sense of loss. I'll have to find that program.

I didn't have very much trouble getting my NA daily driver running - created a program from scratch using the manual's recommendations. I can e-mail you my current program if you want- I'm almost positive it will work on your system and get you started. The car this program runs on has an NA L28, moderate cam, and 250cc 280ZXT injectors. You would have to modify it for a 2- or 3-bar map sensor and fatten up the fuel in the boost areas for turbo use - pretty minor changes. Shoot me an e-mail if I can help.

Cody,my manifold and turbine housing have the same size openings that match the stock gasket.I'll be making another pile of filings making both openings the same size as the spacer and Turbonetics gaskets. Donna, yes, lotso fun.

I too am using a 1/2" spacer to give enough clearance for the T04E compressor housing I'm using. My next question was going to be: The opening in the spacer (It's a T3 Flange from Turbonetics)is about 1/8" wider than either the manifold flange or turbine inlet openings, and about the same height. Jeffp, are you saying I should port out both pieces to match the spacer opening? Seems like a big amount of material to remove.I noticed turbonetics' nice steel turbine inlet gaskets do match the larger opening of the flange....

Nice work and good pictures. I took some of mine but had the lighting wrong to show inside. My manifold is done similarly - I too am wondering how much material can be taken off the Bumps inside the runners, especially cylinder #2 and #4 positions. I concentrated on "streamlining" these areas rather than massive metal removal. Lotso iron was removed - I think I picked up about 1 sec. fron weight savings. J/K but there was an really impressive pile of filings left.

The turbo distributor needs the L28ET ecu to function. Possibly the later Haltechs can work with the turbo distrib with the built-in crank angle sensor? I use a 90.00 rebuilt '78 distributor and it has been doing well. I think that most used Z dists have some kind of problem (most have the breaker plate advance bearings siezed or dropping out) after 25 + years - IMO it's not a bad setup.

HKS EVC-EZ. Inexpensive and easy to adjust.

My manifold porting is in progress - I'll try to get some pictures to post. Good info is in an earlier thread in this forum -

Just back to the FL heat from a trip to NY Catskills- One thing I didn't mention (I did this swap about 6years ago and forgot ) was that originally I used a stock Z differential mount with enlongated holes to mount the t5 to the ZX turbo crossmember in place of a transmission mount. On my car, this combination lined up perfectly. I later welded more metal onto the differential mount (carefully so as not to melt the rubber) where it bolts to the t5 to make the whole thing secure, since the diff mount isn't quite as wide as the trans mount and the mounting holes wound up more like shallow slots. If you start to piece this together you'll see what I mean.

Greetings from the New York Catskills. Ive heard the same about extrude hone - not worth the money unless you need every ounce of improvement possible. Concerning my wallet and that kind of magic, I should be known as Merlin. The wallet is magical enough.

Thanks James- I'll be porting next week after a weekend trip with the wife - Don't you hate it when you have a project going and have to take breaks for the obligatory family stuff? Once again, I appreciate all the good help and advice.

I'm looking for some pointers on porting a stock turbo manifold. I've heard talk about smoothing and blending the area behind the turbo flange, and am also wondering what can be done with the manifold's weirdly shaped ports. Any help/advice would be appreciated. Thanks,

I used the turbo driveshaft in my '77 t5'ed car- shortened the driveshaft 1" and used the turbo diff input flange. Also I needed to use the ZX turbo trans crossmember because the t5 rubber mount needs to be offset. I've just changed to a 3:36 gear from a 3:90 - I'll let you know how that works out. It seems a little slower off the line but pulls way harder on the top end.

I just checked the Haltech web site- the E6k is a better unit than my F9. It includes ignition timing control and accepts an inductive input (like the '78 distributor's pickup coil) directly. You can also rig a crank trigger if you want. This unit would be an excellent choice for a turbo car.

I used the stock 78 distributor feeding a MSD 6AL's magnetic trigger input, then took the MSD's tach output to trigger the Haltech. I've been really satisfied with the setup- I like electronic toys and have a MSD Vari-curve controller wired in to modify the advance curve of the distibutor. My Haltech is an F9A. I'm almost positive that all the haltech units use the same software - It's very intuitive and user friendly.

I have a Haltech on my '78 NA (soon to be supercharged) and like it. You can't get an ECU that's easier to program, plus, the sequential additional injector capability (for more fuel under boost) is unique as far as I know for ECUs. I can help with base maps to get you running.

Those wheels look like the Enkei model 92 that I have on my '78. Riken also made a very similar wheel but I don't know the model.Both models have been out of production for some time.