Tony D
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"(T)his is exactly what I meant... I wasn't asking about HG failure."
"So y'all telling me the internet lied?"
From the two above statements, how is that reconciled?
From "So y'all telling me the internet lied?" and a link about gasket failures, posted nebulously after Xnke's head gasket blowing we are to NOT infer the concern was head gasket blowing?
"Verily I sayeth unto thee: be clear in thy statements and inquiries; lest the wraths of JC be upon ye and scrutinized be thee therefore, a reasonable time afterwards"
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Ball Bearing Turbos have very little friction compared to journal bearings... The GT35R pins freely at idle, but neither my L20ET nor the L28ET stockers spun nearly as easily as that big honker!
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I have recently been called "The Antichrist" by someone...
So figured I best start acting the part!
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Personally it's 06330.& 06225, one is RHD, one is LHD.
Made an offer on RLS30-000039, was a very nice car at the time... Not so much now.
Subsequent owners were parts vampires...
Technically I owned S30-03471 as well, but I don't want to relive that episode again...
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Seen 00006, 00008, 00036, 00051, 00205, 00743 (broke in two after approx 120,000 Auto-X miles!)
FairladyZ's well, any PS30 is low VIN... PLUS 00238, 00768, 03471 (all here stateside)
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Bought Mirrors for delivery locally. I'll pick them up in a couple months....
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Draw whatever conclusions you want, don't put words in my mouth, though. Call it what you want, a SINGLE photo of a SINGLE failure does not prove donkey crap.
There is a hell of a lot more to a head gasket failure than who makes it...
Simple answers for Simple People is not the hallmark of a learning establishment that I've ever seen.
You wanna open the "Church of Z" and start preaching (And on the third day FelPro was invented, and it was bad, yae tho they torqueth the head, failure was in the eyes of the Lord, and sayeth he to anybody using the banned gasket "I am the Lord thy god, I lead you out of the land of Chevy, you will use no gaskets before mine, and if thou shalt, so ye will be riddled with the bane of fire rings, seepage of the oil, and thy combustion gasses releaseth to thy waterjackets whereby they escapeth unto the heavens...")
But that ain't my style...
And thussly He came amongst them, usething the forbaden FelPro, and annoited was He with the boost. And boosted was he, speaketh He to all who would listen: "I have gone to the mount, and boost was his name, and verily no spite was rendered unto my FelPro! Yea tho the false prophet calleth and sayeth FelPro is forbidden, I have tasteth of the fruit of knowledge and have boosted unto the heavens and no such plague has beset me! Verily I keepeth a flat head, and flat block, and most importantly torqueth as directed, and retorqueth regularly to prevent the turgid and rancid embedment whilst keeping a weather ear to the heart and lifteth my foot whence evidence of the deto-debbil comes haughitly laughing with his hoarse tik tik tik laugh, like a serpent of the desert barren lands. And by avoiding thee the temptation of planted foot in the face of the serpent, so have I avoided the downfall bespoken by the prophet...
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I know where HLS30-00400 resides...
And on the net, there is a Japanese guy with S30-00002...
Know several three-digit cars in SoCal
Two of which are in my back yard.
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Organic Filters -- that's what I stated, and they are not cheap. Particulate filters on top of that.
A SCBA is nice, the turbine packs are cheap enough now... if you can spend it... My full face respirator was bought on the cusp of these coming down in price and there is a conversion fitting for my mask to hook up to my cartridge hose (cartridge hooks on my belt, it's a German Unit uses HUGE cannisters!)
But my cartridge selection is based on MSHA and not something some guy at the counter at the paint store says! Screw those guys like you said, they're there to move products out of their store.
Though the logic would say a dead customer doesn't repeat!
One thing to note on this stuff, and someone alluded to it earlier stating "lacquer just takes longer"...
ANY of these compounds have an exposure level, and a threshold limit value... I knew guys who worked for YEARS without gloves in PD680 Vats in the military. Then, one day their arms 'felt tingly'... One guy said that and then went into shock.
Senstization can happen with these compounds. One minute you are fine...but the next second you reach a concentration limit in your body where BAD things start to happen QUICKLY! Usually when one person has a reaction like this, everybody takes stock...
If you have been doing it for a while, keep alert for the signs...numb tongue, tingling in the tongue or lips, getting a blotchy rash that day, hives, any number of symptoms that say you are having a sensitive REACTION to chemicals. If may be small this time...but the next time, if you don't take extra precautions to ventilate, or use a SCBA---it may be your LAST time!
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If your AAC is late model, there will be a screw on it, you can apply vacuum till you get the speed you want then screw it in to raise the idle to that point permanently. Z31's have this type of valve, and some L28ET's that had the valve replaced later on in life.
Alternately, on one application, we did as you inquired about and ported the AAC to manifold vacuum, when you drop-throttle the valve opens and raises your idle. It worked so well we didn't use the other AAC we had with the screw. It idles just fine like that.
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Sprintex / Lysholm Screw Inlet Noise routinely exceeds 130 dBa
Centrifugal inlets work to get above 110 dBa
Turbofans like GE F100's can be over 120 dBa at idle speed, right around 15,000Hz and get quieter under load!
They're loud and irritating because the frequency of the passing elements puts it dead smack in the auditory range of humans.
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FelPros blow out the side just fine as well...
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Which edge? It's changing the cam timing of valve events. LOTS of work for bullsh*t return.
Buy a cam regrind for $100, using a 460 lift and you will have more power with less hassle.
Better yet, go out to dinner with a friend and do a proper performance tune-up and you will likely recover more HP.
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Paeco - Birmingham Alabama
Slover's Porting Service - Los Angeles California.
It ships UPS in a nice wooden crate, no problem.
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That's a real Race Cam you got there, by jigger!
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Seriously, it goes up and down, but no lie it was $643 a ton for mixed metals. The guys with the Sanford & Son trucks were piling it HIGH!
You just have to be very very careful about ownership, and what state dismantling laws are in existence. If your neighborhood busybody calls you in and the cops show up and find you with three firewalls and no paperwork...
"CHOP SHOP"
Buh Bye!
"The other downside to putting the engine in and all is that you have to make it relatively safe to drive which means fixing brakes and signals etc."
There is no downside, put the engine in and to the point where it starts. END JOB SELL. You will make nothing materially more for the car fixing that crap than you will over having it run.
Ask yourself this: if all the above things were working, and the engine DIDN'T run....Which would you pay for?
And frankly, once I do a power-on check rarely is there anything serious that needs attention. It's sold as a complete car, not a driver. Big Difference!
You can get away with that on a 240, probably not on a 260 or later vehicle. unless it's really nice looking. And then you wonder why they took the engine out in the first place!
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I like that. Very bitchen!
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Uh, not before Ray.
Bees Wax works well also.
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Hobbs switch at 5psi in the ignition circuit...loose oil pressure for real: kill engine NOW!
On hard, extended turns it is possible to starve the engine and smoke it... Most people with money in their motors and who must run a stock unbaffled oil pan run a Canton Accu-Sump to give you the reserve necessary for high rpm oil pressure stability in turns.
There is virtually no oil pressure at idle anyways. Use a big bore sensing line on your mechanical gauge, and you will get. Better readings.
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" As much time as I spent there (60 hrs a week minimum, and on call 24/7) it got to be a manipulative thing, using those insecurities against me to avoid pay raises and demand more productivity/hrs."
You need to read Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"!
"The Fountainhead" is groundwork, but either stand on their own merits.
"Atlas" explains the mechanism you describe in a co-dependent manner.
When I quit a job, at Christmas that year I sent the entire engineering group a bottle of Capt. Morgan's Spiced Rum, with a rub-on decal of their company logo affixed to the treasure chest.
I was a pirate, and my partner and I took $2.2 million in service work from them in the first year. Upon my first available opportunity, my only words to the national service manager was "In retrospect, $21 an hour wasn't all that bad, relatively speaking--now was it?"
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Unless you got a friend that pays decently for a rolling chassis ("decently" is defined as above what was stated for a complete running car in the latest post...)
All depends on your market and environment.
East coast guys spend stupid money doing rust repair when the rust free chassis are still this cheap on the west coast.
In other parts of the world, prices are higher...but REMEMBER THIS: watch the price of scrap guys!!! You guys insisting on running or complete cars are only worth $500 are sending good cars to the crusher! A complete car can bring over $1,000 scrap price if it's large enough.
I had a trailer with rusted panels and chopped up ZX body parts which was a PITA to get rid of until the day I read mixed scrap was $600 a ton!!! He'll, no more looking for unlocked dumpsters to fill the night before trash collection! I trucked that trailer down to the scrap yard and picked up close to $1,000 for CRAP! My only lament was I didn't have the time to clear out three more cars which are complete rusted hulks. I need the parts, but the chassis can go bye bye... I'll get more from the scrap man than selling it outright, I'll take it down with water-filled mismatched wheels and tires, and wet sand wherever I can pack it!
It's common in Adverts I saw when searching back east for a full size van "price firm, I can get this much driving it to the scrap man, but it's just too nice a vehicle to waste like that!" Stick with terminal cheapness, and you WILL see nice cars scrapped!!!
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"As physicians, people like to think we are the most stable, functioning individuals on the planet."
I don't.
Does that make you feel better?
LOL
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Unless you're like me and has a buyer for rolling shells at a decent price...
Muahahahahaha!
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I agree. It's all preference really. I don't think any s30 mirrors actually came in chrome, just black.
Yes, they did. The sport option parts catalog had them listed, and into the 90's those chrome Nismo mirrors were $49 each, while the black units were $150 each!
Those mirrors are Toyota parts from my recollection. Still stocked in Asia. I wonder what the agent in Brunei wants for a set...hmmm,m,
Anyone heard of the "I.T." trick?
in Nissan L6 Forum
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"Replacement" cams are allowable if they conform to stock specifications.
There are plenty of "stock spec" cams out there that pass tech inspection but give better performance than the stock Nissan Bumpstick.
Like I said, "it's a lot of work" and I don't run IT, I wouldn't waste the time if I was, I'd use the stock-spec regrind...
There are plenty of Chevys running "launcher" cams that induce valve float, butconform to all duration and lift. Specifications of the OEM. Nissan never provided ramping rates, and you play with that...you can do a lot, just liketheclaimer Chevys!