Tony D
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I'm waiting for someone else to notice:
"but we make the block taller so we can run a longer rod"
And then ask about it. LOL
Shall I venture a guess it's similar to the HKS RB2.8?
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Speed costs money, how fast do you want to go?
All booked out... But I conspire to arrive in Melbourne this year with spare time intent on seeing the shop of you and Dave Ulbrick!
The two things worth doing on a trip to Oz.... Outside of Sydney, that is!
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When the WRX came out, Subaru was TOTALLY unprepared on how to market it!
Salesmen were CLUELESS as to what they had... The DAY they were unloaded at the dealer, I was there for a test drive.
I had the salesman literally SCREAMING as I test drove it. My wife and son in the back (my wife covering her face in embarrassment, my young son shouting "MAKE IT SLIDE LIKE THE Z-CAR DAD!")
I did not buy, but all the other salesmen were forewarned when the guy got out and I heard him say "Oh god, I think word it out, there's got to be more out there like him!"
Actually, I kinda like the Fiesta they are selling overseas!
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I've heard good things about USAA.
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Miles:
I think the post does EXACTLY that!
There have been SEVERAL people recently who have stated in their posts "where is this written?" Or "It doesn't say anything about basic questions in the FAQ or Site Rules."
People who get REALLY butthurt that they are told they should read their FSM, or go to a 'basic skills' website.
Their sense of entitlement tells them this is 'mean'---they should be able to get their basic information HERE, because THEY want it.
I believe the point of this thread is to remind people there IS a basic level of expertise EXPECTED of people posting here, and that while EVERYONE HERE is willing to help, the PRIMARY reason we gravitated to THIS PARTICULAR SITE was we CHOSE to not be inundated with this type of basic question on a daily basis, or wade through pages of them to get one nugget that is worthwhile.
Nobody is saying you have to be a professional mechanic, nor engineer to JOIN. But like most of 'the old codgers" here, we EXPECT that, like WE had to do: keep silent until you have something to ADD in a constructive manner. As my Auto Instructor in High School would say "If you are going to ask a question, ask a GOOD question!"
This was the guy that had a box of nuts and spark plugs next to his podium and THREW THEM AT YOU if you "asked a stupid question"---his method, while a reason for the police to be called TODAY, back then was very EFFECTIVE in enforcing what he wanted you to do before taking up class time with your question: THINK FIRST FULLY! (Also, many times as you saw him slooowly reaching for his box of pain, you quickly rephrased your question into something different...with him quickly pulling his hand away, his frown disappearing and a big grin appearing as he said "Now ZAT ist a gud qvestion!") Rudy loved to get questions from kids that had involved answers. Because it gave him a chance to really show how and engine worked, or why it was important to grease this or that. But it was never a direct answer, it was always a corollary to another bit of maintenance. Something he stressed: You don't fix just the customer's complaint--you fix anything and everything you find when you are in there, or inform the service writer about it. Rarely are things as simple as most would have you believe, even in those days. The car was a system...
Rudy was a big proponent that he HAD taught you all you needed to know (in Auto I), and if you just applied what you had been taught, and THOUGHT about your question first---you would likely solve it yourself---and he viewed that as the teacher's job. His view was not that a teacher was some magic see-and-say where you pulled a cord and he spewed out answers. He saw a teacher's job as one that gave you be foundation to make your OWN answers. And his role after giving the initial instruction was to guide you in the path of thinking it out on your own, and not merely "giving you a frankfurter for lunch." The box of pain was used less in Auto I than Auto II.... This is more like "Auto II"
It worked EXCEEDINGLY WELL for me. I have to think it works for others.
Unfortunately, in these days of instant-gratification, such a philosophy is not welcome by many newcomers (and some old ones...)
It's not a matter of wanting to EXCLUDE anybody. I think the mods want anybody who wants to LEARN to be here and do just that.
But what they want is please don't waste the classes time with this.
(As a note, during my Auto II class, Rudy was saddled with a PC Bit of Social Engineering. The Administration had deemed that a "Special Needs" child was to be placed in Auto II. Skipping Auto I in it's entirety. [Philosophy was of a College Educated Faculty "What can it take to be a grease monkey?"] The reason was a CoOp Job existed but the prereq was the kid have taken "Auto II" --- Rudy, after class, on lunch, while we were in Lab....basically gave this kid the entire Auto I course [foundation] to get him up to basic speed or do that labs in Auto II... Rather than just flunk him out. I would like to think most here would take the same approach---they could give that extra effort on an individual basis, but not a group-basis, daily! In the long run, the kid failed Auto II. The first failure grade Rudy had ever given. It distressed him greatly "Just too much to learn in too short a time, if he had been here as a Freshman, and I had four years to work with this one...I know he could get it, it takes him longer. He will not be rebuilding engines, but he can do the LOF, he can do teardowns, many things, he is not useless!" What I did not know was for another three years, after school, Rudy was taking this kid in after school and continued his training. As I left for the USAF, that kid took his job on the LOF rack at the local Chevy dealership.)
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Look using a pulsewidth line on an O-Scope at what your stock injectors do at -40!
Those injectors can supply 300HP.... You REALLY think they can't supply a priming shot at -40?
The ECCS-1978 JDM cars sold up north in mainland Japan did NOT use a CSV, they had fuel priming from the stock injectors.
Anybody who thinks a CSV is needed, do this test: Disconnect your Coolant Temperature Sensor....on your coldest morning day, with your CSV both clamped off from the fuel system, and disconnect it's plug.
You may start, but you will also chug along so pig-rich it won't be funny!
The computer is programmed for a cold-start regimen.
The CSV is a holdover from Bosh's first generation system which used 'wet' manifolds generally adapted to EFI usage in the early 70's. The CSV's function was to establish a tau layer quickly. It was quickly eliminated in later models because of the problems associated with it (excess flooding, and TERRIBLE emissions on startup!)
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Bo,
That doesn't look like impact, it looks like abrasion. The wires on the braid would cut from impact, they look abraded. Like rubbing not hitting. Though a repeated tick-tick-tick of impact over time would start to abrade...
Is there a mating "polished area" on any moving components that could contact it? (Caliper, Rotor, whatever?)
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Crud on the T/B bore is why the factory had you clean it each tune up interval.
It's also the reason the heat hoses go to there---keeps the T/B warm at small throttle openings. It makes that PCV Sludge freeze up solid---and your throttle can stick open a bit further than 1500!
Keep it clean, and warm, and you're golden.
The linkage itself is designed over-center---that is, it self returns because of mechanical loadings. But it depends on unbinding free travel to keep everything light and linear.
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There is a difference between 'thought' being opinion, and restating facts.
It was not my opinion, it was a repeating of stock cam testing on the dyno and observing power peaks.
People blame the turbo, and the cam on the "L28 not revving like an L24"---showing a TOTAL ignorance of internal combustion engines.
This is largely dictated by the cam profile, plain and simple.
Put an L24 cam in an L28, it revs like an L24.
Put it in an L28ET, and the power peak changes from the designed 53-5500, to what the N/A L24 peak is...
As I also stated, and which many here already know: if you choose a "cam" for an engine, don't waste your time on a STOCK GRIND for anything more than a CORE from Isky...
That's what "Tony's Thoughts" are on the Cam Subject.
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Use the proper gasket, no head work necessary.
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"I dunno if the CSV is not needed per say..."
I do, it's not. If you have fuel pressure in your rail, the initial batch firing of the engine at the rear of the valve is MORE than enough to fire off the engine.
Hard starting and extended cranking is usually related more to bad spark and low fuel pressure (like an empty fuel rail from bad fuel pump check valve and a pump trying to reprime the system) than of a bad CSV. Usually when they go "bad" people don't know for years.
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Reviving. I think I just killed my 81 external CAS. So your saying the 4 prong connector that comes off the 81 cas is the same connector that comes off the 82-83 cas?
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My 81 for whatever reason has a 4 prong/pin connection on the underside that is UNUSED , is it safe to assume this is an 82-83 distributor? And that I can just find that connector for the distributor and attach it to the other 4 prong connector?
OPEN IT UP AND SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING INSIDE
If this is so I will hopefully pick up a z31 ecu and maf
WON'T KNOW TILL YOU CONFIRM INTERNALS
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Each of the answers to both questions are in threads dealing with them, specifically.
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"15 years later, we still have little patience for laziness, ignorance, and stupidity."
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If you have a manifold that has a Cold Start Valve on it, there is your culprit! Extended Cranking with a CSV is one of the largest reasons for fuel hydrolock out there!
Disconnect it electrically, you really don't need it. It is flowing as long as you're cranking! (And the engine temp is below a given point, I want to say 150 or something like that...)
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Cardan Joint, please!
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Atsugi was the OEM Supplier
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"If one of "seasoned" experts from this forum had been able to drop by Ben's place, and shown him a few things in person, he would not have had a fraction of the problems he has had."
My iPhone crapped out before I made a corollary edit which pointed out that straight off I was also the guy who told him to get with the local Z-Club FOR EXACTLY THAT REASON.
I've seen this before, but you can only lead the horse to water. As stated, people need to know their limitations, many times ego won't allow that.
Working on things that twist to 74,000+ rpms tends to make someone really humble in terms of STOPPING when ANYTHING doesn't look EXACTLY like it should.
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ENG (UK) / Soumi / Vali....
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PM me with your contact number. When I'm in town, I'll ring you if it's during an event. Next I see on the horizon is Nostalgic 2-Days in Yokohama. Worth the trip over to check it out!
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As stated previously, you go by the fastener manufacturer guidelines, NOT the FSM which deals with ONLY the OEM Hardware.
"Being a Dick" by pointing out your culpability is rarely appreciated. Hence the pejorative connotation as "being a dick"...
Appreciate it or not, YOU had a lot to do with this due to not putting thought into your actions.
This was one thing Rudy drummed into our heads. He went through German Apprenticeship after WWII. You want to talk about HARD STANDARDS? What would YOU do if YOUR taskmaster was an ex-nazi storm trooper who survived Stalingrad? Do you think he cut much slack?
There is a reward for excellence. There is none for mediocrity...
As Peter Knaup once told me "my taskmaster was a dirty son-of-a-bitch, I HATED him. But because he was hard,I am who I am today, and for that I must say he was right in what he did!" Peter worked for Cosmodyne welding the seats that went to the moon on Apollo 11, along with many of the environmental weld nets for the life support systems.
Let me ask you: do you want yourself to be Apollo Quality, or Kia Quality.
The road to one is much easier, and dick-less! If you want to end up dick-less, then ignore the exhortations to put thought into every move you make. Trundle on blindly without giving anything a second thought.
It's worked so well to this point!
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Thanks Rossman, nice to catch one obscurata a fancier!
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Look to F1 and the old CART cars, they combined NASA-Grade honeycomb foil blankets and wraps along with secondary shielding at critical components, with airflow ducting.
The 280ZXT had that NACA Duct, which when the car was moving directed heavy airflow down to the turbo and out under the car. When you came to a stop that grille behind the NACA Duct allowed radiant heat from a highway run to rise straight up from under the hood and out.
Blankets are GREAT when you need to keep heat in, and not get nearby components hot. There are very effective blankets, the grey cloth units are used extensively on steam turbines for personnel protection. The foil stuff is even higher efficiency!
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I used the universal truck over the axle kit. More than enough for two S30's with over-the-axle pieces for my 510 Wagon to boot!
Test drove a 2013 Focus ST today
in Non Tech Board
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Well, uh, yeah... 4L Inline Six Turbo.... That's a no brainer. But it's not 'small'!