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Dang........the automatic is 4 times the price.
I've been running a stock L24e (1984 maxima) oil pump after putting the turbo stuff on it and have done 50,000 miles on an engine that now has 277,000 miles with no trouble.
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I've put a l28et into a infiniti M30 in place of the VG30.............and it's much easier to work on.
It seems the Leopard/M30 with the VG30 was not well thought out and it's near impossible to reach most anything you work on while the L28 is a piece of cake.
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They are very similar cars with the same rear suspension.......except for the R180 that comes in the maxima.
That's easily remedied with a R200 using the S12 200sx turbo R200 mount.......bolts right in.
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A gl10 rear wheel drive would be cool but nothing was cooler than than driving the air suspension XT turbos because they would raise the car when you hit the 4wd button and there was another button that would raise the car further.
So you come up to an intersection all jacked up, and hit two buttons and the car settles down a few inches.
You can do that in the Lexus GX470 but you have to be going below about 30mph or it will automatically lower to stock ride height.
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WRONG- Pathfinders always had a front diff separate for the tranny. I just helped one my friends do a WRX 5 speed tranny swap on his SVX.
SVX had the front diff inside the tranny, like all modern scoobys.
No......not wrong.......I've rebuilt both because I worked at a nissan/subaru dealership and specialized in tranny rebuilds.
The tranny is a 4EAT which also went into certain mazdas and fords.
Regardless of the case and application, the transmission assembly is the same is still called a 4EAT.
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Unplug the head temp sensor near the 5th spark plug.
You will probably find it corroded and making bad contact.
When that happens, you get exactly the symptoms you are describing.
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The extra connector is much like the "spout" connector on a ford.
It allows the ecu to affect the advance of spark.
The module that has two connectors is E12-92 and the single is E12-80.
I believe just going to the E12-92 module will retard your spark 8 degrees so the distributor will have to be advanced and possibly loosen the bolts on the bottom of the distributor for more adjustability.
Other than needing to advance it, it should run the same but there could be slight differences in the advance curve.
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I never knew why manufacturers don't release their baddest cars in a market (US market) that is known for craving performance cars.
Renault and Peugeot released lame cars in the united states and let europeans have the kick-ass rally cars.
I imagine things would be different had they released them here but I still think they would have had the same longeivity issues..........but........many americans forgive that kind of stuff if they get the performance they crave.
Either way....... I never liked the fact that chrysler/mitsubishi cashed in on the "EVO" nomenclature.
To me, a real "EVO" is......
Ford RS200 EVO
or
Ferrari 288 GTO EVO
Lancia Delta S4 EVO......which is the car that killed group B rally racing by being so damned fast.
I believe chrysler used "evo" moniker with "lancer" which sounds a lot like "lancia evo" much like GM is re-using famous engine designations like "LS1" (originally a 427) or LT1 or LS7....etc.
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At Z-shop of miami we used to get cars that were never driven hard which would come in sounding like they had serious bottom end problems.
We would take them out and run them hard with high revs and the noise went away.
Apparently the very small space between the piston and the head would stack solid with crud at TDC and running them up and slightly beyond redline would liberate said crud.
RE: Squish.....
I'll bet a lot of big block chevy guys look at the L88 closed chamber heads a lot differently than they did way back in the day when everybody said open chamber was the way to go.
There was a good article about at least a decade if not 20 years ago where Jim Feuling (olds aerotek engine builder....1000hp quad4) did some big block chevy heads that could run something like 11 to one compression on 89 octane making like 700hp......Wish I could find it as it had lots of discussion of "squish".
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XT6 did not have turbo.
The XT6 shares a distributor rotor with the Z31.
That was the 1.8 liter XT 4 cylinder.
The SVX would have been cool except for the bizarre little windows and the fact it weighed a ton.......and they shared a tranny with early pathfinders which never lasted too long.
I loved the S12 except for one thing................the seat was so low you could feel if a penny had slid under it. I'd hate to run over some debris and have to explain ass damage.
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It was at Palm Nissan on military.
They moved to Royal Palm Beach so I will check if they still have a specialty and performance shop there.
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Score of a lifetime!!!
Make yourself available if they need you.
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It's easy to "caulk" with a mig welder and think you just welded something.
I use a gas torch to preheat my work sometimes.
This does wonders if you're mig welding thick stock.
One thing many people screw up is the building's ability to pump enough current to a welder.
I always try to stay as close to the main breaker box as possible.......which is necessary because I use a 110 volt 140 amp mig welder.........It's not as big an issue with 220.
Before anybody slags the 110 welder, it is a 140amp welder with 100% duty cycle and weighs a ton.......the only one I've ever seen with 100% duty.
In 110 welders, it's all about the transformer.
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Job is probably still available for a technical support representative since I am now gone which means.............they don't have anybody within the entire company that is ASE certified or even knows the first thing about car.
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The gassers were....
1st.......3.321 : 1
2nd.......2.088 : 1
3rd........1.308 : 1
4th........1.000 : 1
5th.........not listed
I have a maxima 5 speed but the haynes manual I have only lists 4 of the ratios so it may be the ratios for a 810 4 speed....which should be a fs5w71a.
Lots of bad info. in the haynes for this car which lists 1977 to 1984 years covered.
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I had to do it Hetfield style including the "yeah" at the end of most sentences.
Great album.......It almost made me switch over from Black Market Baby and the punk scene in DC to metal but the big haired metal chicks I love so much had not yet descended on the metal scene.
Henry Rollins used to serve us ice cream back in arlington.
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I doubt he needs that since the lobes of the cam are up instead of down when the rotor is pointed at number one...........unless his spark plug wires are not in the right holes.
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Most of the time, that kind of tach behavior means you have a body ground issue.........in most every other car......maybe not in yours, though.
It doesn't cost anything to connect a pair of jumper cables between a strut bolt and the engine to see if the problem goes away.
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LOL at Shift00 making a medical conclusion from a picture.
I was actually concussed at the time the pic was taken.
I was sore all over but the next day I woke up with my right lower leg tingling and terrible back pain.
The trauma caused swelling in my spine that damaged some nerves and I'm lucky I didn't wake up paralyzed from the waist down.
The back pain slowly subsided in 3 years of me working out daily and the tingling only subsided after 14 years.
Damaged nerves will many times repair over time.........a very long time........long enough that even though I now have what seems like full nerve action in my leg, I will have many more years before I undo the muscle atrophy that resulted from the nerve injury.
If you ask me, $50,000 was not near enough.
I also suffered a double hernia partially because the owner of the pathfinder I was test driving after service was very short and had things behind the seat meaning I was in an unusual driving position because I'm six five.
Customers complain when you even move a mirror so I usually try to not move a seat because we had another technician who crushed a $10,000 briefcase when he moved the power seat back into it.
I bent the steering wheel and the brake pedal because I was sitting at an a red light and had time to tense up as I saw the car coming toward the driver's door.
Thanks for playing Shift00.
I drive this turbocharged maxima all over the area soon to replaced by this M30 with L28et.
Yes those are 1984 300zx 4 lug wheels with 215/50s that bolt straight on with no spacers and they don't rub though I should have gone with 225/50s since they won't rub either.
I'll be taking it to moroso very soon with a for sale sign on it as it does the rocking horse down the quarter mile.
Any west palm beach guys know what happened to the Z car performance shop that used to be part of the nissan dealership on military near southern?
I'm out of words........I've used my daily quota.
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At this time, I work for nobody but I spent a long time wrenching nissans.......mostly Z cars.
My last job killed my soul and I need to recover.
That one pictured ended up on it's side during a nissan van demolition derby.
Imagine a bunch of technicians who know there is a very large parking lot full of vans that will be going to crusher and you can imagine what kind of stuff went on.
If they had bad shocks, they would do wheelies and stoppies.
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Sikaflex is good stuff.
I used to use the 241 sikaflex at hatteras yacht custom yard and you had to be sure you really wanted whatever you bonded with it was in it's final place because you would surely never get it off.
We had a guy bond teak to the top of the transom on a multimillion dollar yacht and he had put them such that the lettering was opposite of what the owner wanted.
They had to cut it and re-glass the top of the transom because the owner came in after they pried it off and it took mucho glass with it.
Nice build........I covet your rotisserie.
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This is one I've always wanted.
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Yes. Metallica covering "Crash Course in Brain Surgery" or "Breadfan" by Budgie and giving Budgie credit for writing the song is different than saying that you wrote it. I did a little more digging and there isn't too much debate to be had. They've lost lawsuits and paid back royalties. I was just surprised. I guess this is not a new issue for the band, but it's new to me.
Excellent!! I'm glad someone else remembers that album.
I sang that song last weekend after teaching a friend the riff because he challenged me that I couldn't sing "real metallica" and then went on to play riffs from the black album.
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I haven't seen one since I prepped the last one for the crusher at our dealership (VOB nissan) in bethesda, md in 1994.
I snagged about 20 primo captains chairs from these.
They were so bad and that nissan bought them back from the customers because they would catch on fire shortly after being parked........not good if it happens in your garage.
I did two campaigns on them that essentially replaced most every rubber part in the engine compartment including seals, pumps, and many gaskets and didn't pay jack ♥♥♥♥ under warranty.
A year after doing the campaigns, we prepped them for the crusher as nissan made some good offers to get them off the streets.
Yeah that's my dorky ass after finding a camera under one of the captains chairs and only half an hour after being broadsided in a pathfinder which eventually netted me a $50,000 settlement.......minus lawyer fees.
Z31 VG30ET into an S30 project outline
in Nissan V6 Forum
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If you front mount the turbo and get rid of the crossover pipe in the quest to move the engine back, you will also have to run a different plenum as the stock z31 plenum overhangs the crossover pipe.
Maybe a pathfinder plenum would work.
As far as trannies go, you might try the z32 tranny and leave the engine forward which should put the shifter exactly or a lot closer to where it should be.
The FS5r30 when pushed back might be larger than the tunnel.