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I usually go with stainless on anything after the intercooler that may exist in the engine compartment (read: anywhere behind radiator).
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Quick question.........
Is the oil filter bypass on the car or filter adapter still there?
That exact type of damage is the reason for the bypass' existence.
Some people remove a stock oil cooler and don't remember to replace the plug that sits where the bypass normally sits with a bypass.
Non-cooled cars come with it in the block and cooled cars come with it in the cooler adapter.
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Many gas stations have percentages of 10% or more alcohol and the fuel is still considered "gas".
A lot of fuel lines are shedding the inside diameter of the hoses into the rest of the fuel system.
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Cool...........I guess I'll be posting only on threads in which I have to time to read and dissect every single post.
I'll leave that up to the people with enough time to research for the sake of discussion.
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Depends on MANY factors and I don’t understand the point in this question as it applies to this discussion?
His post detailing that he wants to lean out showed up after my post.
That was the first mention of leaning since everybody else was talking about enrichment schemes.
I build nissan ecus and air flow meters for a living and have special testers for them and might be able to see how far you can skew readings from sensors before the ecu no longer does a mild adjustment but instead decides your car is cold and reverts to cold operation.
Sadly.......I am way understaffed and most of my free time is in 2 minute snippets so all I can do is post from my experiences and off the top of my head because I have no time for research.
Maybe this weekend I can give the definitive answer on a number of ecus for nissan Z cars.
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Was your hood open at the meet while the car was unattended?
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There should be no oil pressure in the turbo........unless the return line is blocked..........which is what usually happens to kill in this case.
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Just watch out for the porous castings found on some early bmw V12s.
I replaced a few shortblocks because of this in the 90s at Eurasian auto service in tysons corner, virginia.
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I used to sell that kit at electrodyne in the 80s.
I might be one made by FOHA (australia I think) but it is possible that our kit was made by xenon.
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Is there a baseline video with no spoilers?
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The fork to pivot bolt friction is a factor here.
Check the fork an pivot for galling and lube.
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Careful when adjusting toe on the IS300 or the crossmember suffers.
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Don't adjust jack ♥♥♥♥.
Check for the positive at the injectors when cranking.
If you have no positive, then the ecu bringing the ground won't do anything.
Many times when injectors are replaced, people will also replace the connectors..........with the key in the on position. Any touching of the positive feed wires to the engine will blow the fuse link or a fuse.
Also......pull a plug to see if it's wet.
If one has a bad connection to the head temp sensor, the car will go unbelievably rich to the point that you might not get it started and end up with wet plugs.
If they're platinum, they are less resistent to flooding than standard plugs.
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How much more duty cycle do you guys think you will get?
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I've seen a million forklifts (have 100 parked 100 feet away from my bedroom) and never a turbocharged L28 nissan engine.
The only people I see who purchased a "LD28T" engine were the guys who purchased them from marine powerplant builders.
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I was there 1988 to 1989.
I was a porsche tech at european car center for a few months but didn't like the fact that hans peter hetzelman required you to torque and paint every single bolt on the cars and you were not allowed any air tools or pliers of any type.
This made taking off porsche 928 rear axle nuts run because they required more torque than any 1/2 inch breaker bar could handle so we always wrapped them with a rag and tape to keep the flying broken breaker bar parts from hurting anybody or any car's finish.
I ended up buying a 3/4 inch breaker bar that I haven't used since.
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European Car Center? If so......I worked there before the Z shop.
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It can be done but you must wonder why most of the Z31 and Z32 racers are still using L28s in thier SCCA race cars.
Recently I've seen some V-6 but only very recently competitive.
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I used to be a marine mechanic and spent plenty of time being amazed at how strong the basic volvo 4 cylinder is.
Speaking of marine 4 cylinders, mercruiser has a "470" which is a 3.7 liter 4 cylinder made from half of a ford 460.
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At lexus and toyota I worked on those land cruiser/LX450 engines and all that I can say is that the car is not equipped with an accelerator pedal but rather a foot controlled volume pedal for engine noise.
Step on pedal, engine gets louder but not much else happens.
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Turbos are not compatible with non-turbos and you have to be very careful in trying 280z stuff mixed with 280zx since there were at least 3 different fuel pump rela schemes in the 280zx alone while the airflow meter does the duty on the 280z.
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I've got 4 ok turbo dished pistons out of an engine I recently bought from the classifieds but they were on a car with a 20G turbo with blocked wastegate which is probably what caused #5 to break a ring land.
That said, I might not trust the rod bolts on the assembly if I do mail one.
I'll try to remember to bring them in tomorrow.
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I had a P99 head that came off of a late production 1983 280zx turbo 5 speed.
It seemed identical to the P90a head but I never did study it in detail......just slapped it on a 280zx turbo I had.
I eventually gave the engine/tranny setup to Datsun Dynamics in 1998 but now I am curious whether it had any differences or if anybody else here had seen one.
82 zx bw t5 -> 87 300zxt
in Nissan V6 Forum
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A few things.
The 1987 300zx turbo comes with clutch type LSD and only after a specific manufacturing date.
The FS5R30 tranny that comes in the later turbos is far and away superior to the T-5 in most every single way as well as being able to handle twice the Horsepower the T-5 can.
So........if you really want to install this tranny, you will also need a different bellhousing (read case) for it since the V-6 does not share the same bolt pattern as the L-6.