Tony D

N47 with q-pads is from a Maxima L24E. N47 with that same area slightly domed is from an L28 for the required combustion chamber volume to keep CR lower. "MN47" is an internet fabrication, there are no castings that say that, they are all merely "N47" Same as non-us spec N42's with no injector port cutouts and carb-only bolt flanges on the intake side, and some N42's with chambers that look just like your N47 there (but with square exhaust ports!) There is stuff out there...

So using my belt sander to grind up my magnesium VW cases into powder probably should be kept on the other side of the garage away from my Fulminated Mercury and Tric...

PHAT if one must use it, the boob-to-hip relationship was skewed north, hence 'boobalicious'... If there is 'the back' as referred to in other early rap songs, then they are by definition not 'boobalicious'. I once got into a problem with a friend's wife because said friend commented about "big t-t's" on some MTV dancers. His wife, wearing black spandex (and who should have never worn black spandex) took offense and jumped on him saying "those aren't big t-t's, these are big t-t's!" as she flappled them about his face. My comment, beer in hand, from another comfy chair in the room was simply "Sometimes it's quality, not quantity, that counts Debbie." His face was that of "My god man, RUN NOW!!! FOR GODS SAKE RUN!" Her face was the typical Sicilian Stare of "I will kill you for that, but not now, not in front of your wife and child, but you are marked for death, and death will find you...oh yes, death WILL find you at my hand!" True Story, they live in Arab, Alabama now and she lost like 100# so the comment apparently had a positive effect!

"I'm saying I have yet to see a tool from a chinese company that meets my standard of quality. Some of the usa companies that outsource to china..." Stop it right there... You may NEVER KNOW the manufacturing origin, yet are stating none you have handled yet has met your standards. But somehow if the Chinese Tool sports a US Maker on it that doesn't qualify as a Chinese Tool anymore. Sahib has blessed the production! how wonderful. "Refusing to buy from a country might be racist, but that's not what I'm saying." "Might Be?" It is, and inferring that everything produced there (even though you have not tried everything produced there, you have based it only on limited exposure) is EQUALLY racist! This can digress into sterotypes used in the 30's in a wonderfully amusing Hitler reference to follow the Internet Guidelines an an analogy...but I won't go there... You won't see the forest through the trees on this one, I'm not going to try. I stand by my statement. And as a producer of product sourced in China for competitive realities, I know damn well there is plenty of competition out there who has no 'White Man's Oversight to Correct their Inherent Asian Inferiority" that are PLENTY competitive with QUALITY product coming from China. In many cases, country of origin is obscured pretty well. You are satisifed with Chinese Products (and yes, even tools) every day of the week, you just likely have no clue you are using them. As in John C's example above.

So Methylene Chlroide and 1, 1, 1 Trichlorethane are not longer acceptable for use? Damn, what am I do do...

"ARRRGH!" "PSI" "PSI" "PSI" The TURBO CURSE! NO NO NO NO NO! A larger, more efficient engine WOULD NOT "use less PSI"! Listen, and FOLLOW CLOSELY: An L28 stock will take X POUNDS PER HOUR of fuel and air to make 300HP. An L28 with an Isky cam and Ported Heads will still take X POUNDS PER HOUR of fuel and air to make 300HP. "PSI" is NOTHING but an indication of RESISTANCE TO FLOW. "PSI" does not give you HORSEPOWER! "FLOW" gives you horsepower. It's Pounds per HOUR. "PSI" is a static measurement, nothing more. You can have 8psi coming out of a T28 and 8psi coming out of a T56... which do you think will support more horsepower? They are both "PSI" The larger, more efficient engine will SHOW LESS "PSI" as it's restriction to flow is less, and therefore will work in a different pressure ratio zone than a smaller engine which may be less efficient, or simply have a reduced runer diameter restricting flow. In EVERY example you gave above, the SAME turbo on EACH engine would HAVE to flow the pounds-per-hour necessary to get 400HP from the engine. The airflow will be exactly the same (for these purposes). Because of differing flows through the engine though, the pressure ratio it operates at will be dictated by the resistance each individual engine takes to FLOW that air into the combustion chamber. If it's restrictive, then yes the PSI may raise. Likely you will see more PSI on the 1.6 than the 5.0... A prime example of this is JeffP's engine, making 380ft-lbs of torque at 4000-4500rpms at 8.39psi of boost. Take a look at what a stock engine takes to get there (with a near stock turbo) 16-18psi? But what if that is a GT35R on there same as Jeffs? Then you have a big-phil style surge issue in the midrange because the engine simply doesn't FLOW enough air to support the minimum flow requirements for the turbo when it's spinning at whatever speed it is---it supplied more air than possible for the engine to digest. So boost builds. Problem is boost builds realllly high, and due to the flow restriction of the engine at 3800-4800 rpms, the turbo experiences midrange surge at 25psi. It does not at 17psi. A ported head and cam would/could solve this---letting more flow in and keeping stable flow at that pressure...but because it FLOWS MORE the PSI SEEN will be LOWER. It's a double-edged swort, you flow more and lower your pressure ratio because the turbo puts out the same flow, but now you are using more. Pressure drops, flow rises, you make more power, and you don't surge... A larger exhaust housing will help, only because the turbo slows down, pushing less air, and maybe matching the engine's needs better. Problem is at the top end you may have lost something...and for SURE on the bottom end you lost boost threshold and made the engien 'more peaky'. Had a BOV system like we've been discussing been implemented, the engine in it's stockish form could then TAKE 25psi without surging (excess venting to stabilize flow at that pressure ratio and turbine speed) and therefore make more power than previously because you had to turn it down to 17 to prevent it form surging. In fact, you could downsize the wheel on the turbine to up the wheel speed allowing HIGHER pressure ratios, and more flow consequently (normally this would mean more boost pressure, and it does, but in the former iteration you couldnt' do that, you would SURGE SURGE SURGE. Now you can dump excess air, and run a higher psi and flow into the engine than formerly possible. Confusing, no? And I'm swamped at work and can't concientiously log on tomorrow because I HAVE to get more paperwork done! It may be monday before I get back on here, realistically...

I think that $5K Budget is right in line with a Rebello Engine Long-Block...but you would have to ship it.

I'm a really funny guy!

Well, something else just got put on the 'to do list' for the visit in February...

I got some 'hybridz' based link like someone posted them on the board then linked them. Odd. It seems to be working now from either source. Give me SOME credit! I'm "Mr. Stolen Website Lurker" of the first degree when it comes to posted photos. I cringe when I see someone washed them like a lot of mine are: downloaded and then uploaded and show as 'hybrid' links only!

"This is neither a good or bad thing, its just the way things are. " Yep! The customer drive the market, then the customer complains about the market he gets!

Wow, they stole a recipe. And then did a Milton Burle about it... "I know a good joke when I steal one!" Strip to the waist and it's carving knives at noon in the cafeteria! PMS is working overtime in that crewe!

See that gap? Pry on it and your screws are revealed.

Wow! Doubly important...

"The manifold I have is made by TWM but its design doesn't take into account the starter circuit and lever on the rear of the DCOE for some reason...the linkage standoff gets in the way. " That would be because TWM is a fuel injection outfit, and their manifold was designed to use their ITB's which merely are the universal Solex/Dellorto/Weber bolt pattern. They don't have the protruberances out back like the carbies do! Weber does make a stamped-steel cad plated block-off plate for people eliminating that function. Most of this is covered in the various Weber Tech Manuals out there. Redline Weber online may be able to supply the pieces. It's pretty straightforward to eliminate it's function... lock the plungers down however you choose (there may be an 'elimination kit' available) and block (or not block) the area at the back where the lever and mounting casting formerly were.

Generally yes. You are now confusing flow with PSI tho... They are interrelated, but not directly as you would think. You don't pick a pressure ratio, IT PICKS YOU! Follow me here: What you need to know is power needed/desired at that point---if you want 200HP you need the airflow in pounds per hour to support that horsepower. You need to know the VE of the engine at that point, so you can calculate the perfect capability of the engine breathing. Then, the disparity between what the turbo has to flow, and what the engine CAN flow will result in the PSI present in the manifold and therefore pressure-ratio you will need to run to accomplish your power goals. You are looking at it from the back end of the equation. First you need to determine horsepower, then determine fueling and air requirements, then actual engine efficiency, and where you would be on whatever map you choose. The engine will only flow so much, the disparity between what it will flow and the flow required to make the power you want determines the PSI needed to reach that goal. THEN that pressure ratio will be charted on the map, and speed/flow balances can be determined. Personally I would shoot for the lower speeds at first if possible to move to the centermost portion of the map, and then where the map has the 'dogleg' on the left side, UP the turbine speed to the 110,721 to get the advantages of the higher pressure ratios. Really though the charted line overshoots the 'sweet spot' of the centermost island of efficiency. That is really where you want to operate the compressor.

I'LL BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT IT!!! It happened this morning. I roll up to the Circle K, and this Highschool Boobalicious thing comes up with her BBF in some late model swarfmobile and chicky is eyeing my 260Z (The Blue Turd)... As I roll out of the car (let's be honest...) she says "What kind of car is that?" It's like a G-6 Kiddo! (I make the hand-motions like in the video while saying it...) She immediately makes a little piggy noise (and my brain gets unclean thoughts...) and says to her BBF "See, it was! I thought it was! Just not shiny!" So it already begins. I guess we are cool now since our cars are featured in a Video. I heard the BBF say "What's a 'Datsun'? I never saw one of those before." (Egads, and he's porking boobalicious piggy noise girl...youth is wasted on the young!)

For every 'terrible chinese' story out there, I can give you an equally good story. I deal with suppliers in china, I was at our casting manufacturing facility on the 25th of October as a matter of fact. ASME code is ASME code, certification is certification. MARKETING is what drives 'cheap', and when people want a CHEAP (they will say 'inexpensive') tool, there will be someone there to market it to them. I am in the process of picking up 60X Pocket Loupes with dual light sources, true-white LED and UV LED (for Zyglo Dye Penetrant Inspection)---the units I found at a kiosk in songjiang were asking price $5 each (35 Yuan), bought two and tested them. Quickly ordered more if they could get them. In bulk we are now down to 20 Yuan...just under $3 each. What does something like this MARKET SELL for? Wouldn't have a clue, but likely for a damnsite more than $3, or even 10X that amount. Same goes for our castings. We market the Chinese Castings, but retain our American Suppliers for the 'No Chinese Content' customers. Do they have a justifiable reason? Well maybe... Then again, when they are using Sinopec for the construciton of their facilities you wonder why the anachronistic requirements? There is SHITE OUT THERE FROM ANYBODY! To draw a broad brush across a whole Country of more than a billion people on the account of a handful of 'experiences'.... Yeah, I'd say it's Racist. China is mentioned, not a particular Chinese MANUFACTURER. You are discriminating SOLELY on the basis of national origin with no other discriminatory criteria. Bad apples exist everywhere 'Made in Japan' meant 'cheap junk' when I was born...except for transistor radios and cameras. That list expanded quickly in the coming 10 years. The learning curve for each successive nation industrializing is shorter and shorter. Kia and Korean Cars is a great example. Now the next wave will not be China, it will be India. Stuff coming from there is routinely shite, doesn't meet spec, and in some cases is terribly, shockingly sub-par even when dealing with 'reputable' businesses. But it's sooooooo cheap you can live with it till they get up to speed. My point being, just because it says "America" on it doesn't mean it's the best. And just because it says "China" on it, doesn't mean it's the worst. "India"....I'm keeping my mouth shut and seeing what happens over the next five years. But from the past 10 dealing with the suppliers there the problems aren't getting resolved like they have been in China. And they should have had a much better base to start form if ethnocentric stereotypes are to be believed...

I think the easiest route for a 400HP L6 is to pay Dave Rebello the $8000, and supply him the block and head, carbs and E-Motive HPV1 setup and go from there. In about 6 weeks (more or less) the crate show up with a dyno sheet and a completely tested, waranted engine... That's how you get records at Bonneville, so Burton tell me! Do the math on Top Speed, CD, Frontal Area, Altitude at Competiton Point, and correct for sea-level and you will be amazed that the long block can be had so cheap...so easily!

Link? Maybe I should put a stop on my list next visit...

Empire Z meets tonight at the Dennys Parking lot in Ontario Mills Mall 8PM to whenever I10 and the Milliken off ramp.

what shop in Japan?

Amen bro... I lust for the TD27 or Direct Injected 3.0 Diesel option offered overseas! I got 15mpg like clockwork in my petrol F250, and in the F350 diesel got 17.5 towing, loaded, or empty! But it's not like I want to drive that hulk every day! Getting 35mpg from the diesels and having the small truck for everyday usage would be GREAT! Why can't Nissan/Ford/etc see this? I mean, they got Diesel RANGERS overseas...

Wow, quick switch! First it's like off Studebaker and the 22, then it's downtown L.A....

Neat! By furniture precise, does this mean you are covering them in thick padding and foam with dead-animal topcoat to cover the gaps and unfinished interior components held together with more glue than is necessary?