HowlerMonkey

Once you get it together, be careful when setting the toe. I am a lexus diagnostic specialist and saw many technicians butcher up the tabs that give the toe adjusters something to push against. The factory bushings that must move with the eccentric are knurled and very sharp on the ends which makes them resistant to moving as the knurls embed themselves into the crossmember netting you an eccentric bolt that just won't move even if loosened greatly. This causes the eccentric head of the bolt to ride over the areas they should be sitting in and you end up having to set toe forever thereafter by tightening straps between or pushing against the wheels to get movement for adjustment. Loosen them and get a pry bar to pry apart slightly the crossmember to move them out of their captive resting place slightly and tighten back just enough such that the heads of the eccentric don't pop over and get out of where they should reside. Great choice and I have friends putting 700hp on these diffs. in thier supra project cars where they couldn't find the 8 inch supra turbo diff.

It might go in easier if you tilt back of the engine down. Pull or push, it's not too hard.

I'm thinking Body Ground. Easier than taking it apart and cleaning is to get a pair of jumper cables. Put one of the pair on one side on the engine, the other on the body (strut bolt), and the two on the other end on the negative battery terminal and see if symptoms persist.

Or the breaker plate has broken. Look around the inside of the distributor for a small ball bearing signifying the death of the breaker place.

Sweet......ford comes to the rescue of yet another car marque. Back in the day we used ford "umbrella" seals on our big block chevys.

I've run them without the cooler and with the blocking plate still on the block for years but I do so knowing any restriction or blockage of the filter will not be bypassed.

People go to great lengths to get a good engine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XA_W0PTEOw

Measured the short tranny out of a pathfinder and it's 27 inches from bellhousing to center of shifter as compared to 29 inches for a fs5w71b from a first gen. maxima. I believe all the fs5w71b are the same dimensions but they may not.

I compared the shorty tranny out of the pathfinder and it's 27 inches from bellhousing to the center of the shifter shaft in neutral. The Fs5w71b I have is 29 inches but it does come from a first generation maxima so I'm not sure if it's shifter is in the same place as it would be in a s130 application.

This thread makes me want to go back to my high school and get all of their casting goodies out of the store room since I was probably the last person to cast anything there in 1980. Just awesome the lengths people are going.

Now that you've fixed the symptom, what do you think caused it?

Does that mean he can simply get an older odd fire crank that isn't "split" on the rod journals?

That plate is where you find the shifter on VG30 equipped Z31s and pathfinders. I'm bringing one of the pathfinder trannies that has the shifter where the plate is and will measure it against a FS5w71b and C.

It's because the limits were on venturi size.

I'll try to compare shifter location (distance from bell housing to shifter) with the short FS5R30 VS a 280zx tranny.

Overlap in valve timing would have to be significant to get any gains. Might work better in a rotary since they have a ton of overlap and also use ports like most two strokes.

Why not just throw a rear motor from a Lexus RX400h into the rear of a small front drive car.

Just saw a 1960s pontiac OHC six out of a lemans. If anybody's really adventurous, it might be pretty cool and complete at abc u-pull in west palm for about 150 bucks.

It's in a pathfinder and it's two wheel drive. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=451+Benoist+Farms+Rd+West+Palm+Beach,+FL+33411&fb=1&geocode=10181262965005460677,26.684952,-80.174620&oi=manybox&ct=14&cd=1&resnum=1

Just got back from there and the carbs are still there on a E88 head and unmolested. It's a manual car and tranny still there. There was also a FS5r30 shorty tranny in a pathfinder 2wd. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=451+Benoist+Farms+Rd+West+Palm+Beach,+FL+33411&fb=1&geocode=10181262965005460677,26.684952,-80.174620&oi=manybox&ct=14&cd=1&resnum=1

1996 nissan quest ecu is obdII and will run the L28et.

Mercedes Bluetec E320 is 200hp and 400ft pounds of torque. They are also sharing the technology with volkswagen who will be introducing models some time in 2008 using the technology.

The 3.0 was available in the S2 (1989-1991)which then got replaced rather then evolved to S3 status.

Ford found them helpful with mustang GTs in which noobs were revving the guts out of them on cold start-up causing piston skirts to slap right off. Yes, they are more "goof proof" concerning the care that the driver displays in warming up the engine.

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