mtcookson

very awesome... i'll mark you down. thanks!

i've just used a good pair of sunglasses and haven't had any trouble. not too dark yet not bright enough to hurt my eyes. probably the best and safest thing though would be some oxy/acetaline torch glass (they make a light shade glass for when you use a cutting torch). i bet that'd be the safest bet if you want to protect your eyes. i definitely wouldn't go without anything as it can get pretty bright. at the very least, wear some sunglasses.

hell yeah!! i want one of those things real bad... along with their shorty shotgun... but that thing isn't allowed in kansas... (i hate ****ing politician assholes... they need to be shot lol)

the idiot governor in kansas basically did the same thing. they aren't totally outlawed but we don't have right to carry/conceal laws that have been proven to work. stupid bitch... (is it a coincidence that this was done by women...??)

those are some serious ass wheels that thing has... holy shit!!

[sales man pitch] and you, yes you!! can do the same thing!! post now and i'll throw your name into a list of people who would like a conversion plate to bolt the Z32 TT tranny to the VH45DE. get it now while the offer is hot!!! [sales man pitch] i am trying to set up a list of people who want (and will pay) for a conversion plate to be made. lost has had one made but to make it worth the machinist's time we need about 10 people or so who wants the plate.

how much power will the stage 3 hold? quicker240, i'll make a list and put your name on it. thanks!

how much would something like that run?

err... yeah, that's what i meant. lol sucking air in through the bov makes it go lean.

the only downside with the T56 is you'd have to almost mix and match to get the correct clutch setup (correct spline count and size of the input shaft, correct bolt patter on the flywheel for the clutch, and correct bolt pattern on the flywheel for the crank).

just hearing the name makes really good ides run through my head. without reading i know right off that a very good thing about doing something like that would be keeping the bov shut when cruising with partial vacuum (this would keep from having to do some tricky tuning to keep the car from running lean due to metered air being released. other things would probably be quicker response time. i'll read it now and see if i was close. lol

yeah, the hose on my bov came off once and every time i let off that throttle there was some major compressor surge (at only 7 psi). it actually sounded pretty cool but that turbo didn't last long at all. i pulled it off at one point and come to find out the blades on the compressor and turbine were ripped clean off at some point. (i only had compressor surge 2 or 3 times!!) i'm still blown away that i didn't score the cylinder walls of my engine from those damn compressor blades flying through there. i believe another common happening with compressor surge is ruining the shaft that the wheels are bolted onto. on some turbos that have larger shafts (like the holset turbos on the dodge ram cummins diesel engines) and those hold up a bit better to the compressor surge (especially considering most of those trucks don't have a blow off valve). there is still a chance of wheel damage. (the holset hold up pretty well to it due to some crazy designs... like for instance the newer holsets have cast titanium compressor wheels... they developed a new way to cast titanium and have good results and such from it).

an engine's maximum efficiency is at its peak torque. if you have a low peak torque (i.e. a couple thousand rpm) that should be where its peak power is. most 4 cylinders have a high peak torque (4,000 rpm or higher). for instance my VG30E's peak torque is produced at about 2800 rpm. i can cruise on the highway at that rpm and get over 30 mpg. my brother's 240sx at the same rpm gets way less fuel economy most likely due to its higher torque peak. now, you're probably thinking well for instance the new Corvette gets peak torque at about 4,000 rpm and gets great gas mileage on the highway. being a V8 it would have a lot of low end torque compared to a 4 cylinder, which means its at a higher efficiency at a lower rpm than the 4 cylinder. that's pretty much my take on it. a lot of it has to do with the afr as well as other things but that's one of the bigger things that i've read about.

technically a blow off valve is always necessary to keep from ruining your turbo. if you don't have one and lift the throttle on any vehicle there with be pressurized air trying to find any way out that it can. when the butterfly slams shut the boost no longer has anywhere to go into the manifold so it quickly goes whichever way it can.... which is back through the turbo. this can cause your turbo to slow down, stop, or even worse spin backwards with enough boost. this is called compressor surge and is very, very harsh on your turbo.

yeah, i was just curious if anyone had heard about it. being a very old hybrid z with wide fenders and have been owned by john mellencamp i would think somone would have heard about it. lol i'm not sure how true it is or not though.

since you'd have to use a spacer to bolt the the tranny to this engine you also must have a spacer on the flywheel to make it all work correctly. that should make the starter engage properly.

this is a very common confusion and i don't know why... you still lift the throttle on a car with an auto tranny... if you didn't you would never stop going. lol if you boost and lift the throttle you'll still have compressor surge without one. the absolute only difference between the auto tranny car and the manual tranny car is that you lift inbetween shifts. on both cars you always lift the throttle to slow down. on some manual cars with a sequential tranny you don't lift between shifts so it would be exactly like having an auto tranny.

I've done a tiny bit of gas welding and would definitely go with MIG over that any day. You can get some pretty good welds that are smaller as said above... but the extra amount of time it takes to do that is just not worth it in my opinion.

Speaking of welding here's a good thread on welding thin metals http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=98442 I personally prefer MIG over flux core. The welds are definitely a lot cleaner and easier imo.

Probably not easier to put in the car per se, but it will make it a whole lot easier to mount up the 300ZX Twin Turbo transmission to this engine. It will probably save people many headaches trying to get someone to machine one from nothing. The nice thing about using the TT tranny with this engine is that the TT flywheel bolts right to the crank. That way you can just get a TTZ clutch kit and bolt it right up. No messing with different splines on the tranny or anything like that.

A decent MIG welder with a 75% Argon, 25% CO2 mix will never go wrong. Its actually the only type of weld allowed for chassis repair on cars after wrecks and such. MIG is generally stronger than TIG, but not as pretty. You can, however, made MIG welds look pretty good. Probably the strongest point of TIG welders is they can weld thinner metals than MIG and are a lot better to use for aluminum. So basically... a MIG welder would probably be a good choice. Its the easiest to use and will get you quality welds with just a little practice. Miller welders are probably the one to go with. You can probably find some good deals for them on eBay.

i think i have it deciphered. "For sale... piece of shit ricer honda."

how did you do the compression test? pull all of the plugs and keep the throttle wide open while cranking?