Tony D
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Target of Opportunity... saw them of really high quality (Not to mention they had the proper Watanabe Crest on the valve caps...) so I HAD to get a set.
Next time, the matching set of valve stem caps GOES WITH ME before going in for tire checking and rotation. Someone saw them the last time and apparently needed them more than me.
And that was in 1992. It's taken me a while to find them again...and there they were on a blister card hanging in a parts store!
Of course the lightweight separate conical washer lug nuts were out of stock in Nissan Thread (plenty of 1.5 Toyota Crap...) so no extra set of those. Damnit.
As it was the bill was 24,000 yen and I only left the store with one medium sized bag, and I will not be anywhere NEAR my weight limit on baggage going back home!
Now, if there's time to go to that shop advertizing the G-Nose Parts I could rememdy that 'excess baggage' situation...
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Goin' Fishin!
Look, I CAUGHT one!
Now the place was so kind as to prepare it for me!
So off we went, and later that evening I ended up here:
Dorothy, I'm not in Tennesee!
This (these) got to be a dead giveaway!
Any specific guesses? I'm not asking for you to pull dyno numbers out of the air...
It should be pretty easy to nail down geographically to the city and country, and depending on how closely you observe things, to Highway and Exit...
And on another note, this one I found entertaining, almost "Photo not needing Caption":
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Yeah, but did you get the thermal printer that was available with the Timex???
<Tony D Factoid/History>
Some may know one (several) of my e-mail addys are 'turbotony' at domain name...
When I started in vehicles, I turboed just about anything that moved. My Corvair had one, my Beetle and Bus had one, and I sold a lot of engines with conversion kits out of my parents garage (bought and shipped from Turbo City in Orange CA, to be specific...) So it wasn't a big jump to be called 'TurboTony' by your car friends.
Well, some of us are old enough to remember where this story is going. One day someone walks into the computer lab, and notices the first thing I did was push in "The Button".
Well it wasn't long before my car friends noticed the Computer Geeks ALSO called me 'TurboTony'
And from there, the rest is history.
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I bought metal hex valve stem caps, and a bitchen valve core removal tool with a screwdriver grip on it.
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That is describing a standard N/A spec engine in several different JDM applications. That a turbo was added (all that turbo stuff is an external bolt on!) to an N/A engine should not be a surprise.
No Nissan Turbo Engine came with liners in the exhaust.
If the L20ET came with liners, why in the WORLD would they bother with the P90 or the O5L? From a corporate bookeeping standpoint that would make ABSOLUTELY no sense.
The ONLY reason a P90 or O5L head exists was for Turbos. Otherwise worldwide the easiest thing to do would be manufacture and stock a single universal head: the one with liners in it.
Beware of making assumptions that anything coming out of Japan through a used engine outlet or in a vehicle was the way it came from the "factory" unless you were the one taking delivery in person when it was new!Using your criteria, my Maxima Wagon with the L20E and Y70 Head sitting in the JY in SoCal was a factory fittment as well. Professionals doing work will leave no trace.
Remember I worked for an OEM (and still do in a different field...) and there are things that happen before cars are delivered (and in some cases back in a service bay while the customer waits outside due to 'insurance regulations') that would make people shudder. And from all appearances, they look "Factory Stock and Fresh" when they see them up on the rack the first service call after buying them!
Ever consider the reason most shops have the 'Due to Insurance Requirements we regret to inform customers that they are not allowed on the workfloor' is more with someone observing an arguable negligent act by a 'competent tradesman' which could result in far more litigation and liability down the road than any simple slip-and-fall? But I digress...
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On an aside...
a microdrill on the pressure side of the regulator will introduce an air leak to the manifold. But a small one. On a MAP based system that means you use minimally less idle air bypass. under boost you have a miniscule leak of air.
But on shutdown if you see fuel leaking...
It sounds stupid I know, but take a look at that 1-80 drill set and see if you can live with a vacuum leak that big if you wrap a piece of foam over the body of the reg...
"Tatletale Hole" There are ways to set these up so they don't vent externally as well but it's far more complex.
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You got it to work right without disassembling it and cleaning out the aluminum chips before installation?
Wow!
To have it work long enough to fail two diaphragms looks like great service life from MPE!
On another note, diaphragm failures (premature) are usually chemical or stress related (if the materials are up to par)...
If you haven't twisted the diaphragm so it's not pinched in operation, then that leaves chemical attack and materials (which could be inter-related.)
What does the failure point look like? Does the diaphragm look cracked and brittle, or is it abraded? Is the elastomer rolling apart in little balls and all mushy, or flaking off in chunks which have sharp edges to the resultant particles?
A photo of a failed diaphragm would do wonders if you have one.
All that being said, I don't know that it's the fault of alcohol being in the fuel, but more a choice on cheap materials being employed in the construction. I have seen similar things on knock-off BOV and Wastegates made in China versus being made in Japan. The 'rubber' diaphragms were just crap on some of the Chinese Stuff. In some cases, putting a Japanese Name-Brand repair kit into the Knock-Off Body solved the issue pointing to substandard materials (it looks the same, but doesn't PERFORM the same) on the part of the Chinese Engineering Team. Or on the MBA's that decided to go with SBR instead of High Temp Red Silicone because it was 20 yuan cheaper per unit...
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Depends on what you desire for 'documentation'---in the years before civilian internet what do you do?
The Electromotive car could with ease, boil the tires from the entrance of the back stretch at Riverside, to the entrance to the corner at the other end at speeds approaching 160mph... and that was with heavy aero downforce.
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If think if they say it made 1100HP (from the mouth of the dyno operator, engine builder, and various other team members from the era) I really have no reason to doubt them.
That, and the fact that Nissan Corporate spokesman made a BIG deal about the VG30 being (and I quote) "the first engine of this size to make 1100HP"...
And the fact that the same Nissan Corporate spokesman got VERY perturbed when I mentioned the #83 Electramotive car making that kind of HP from 200CC's less and almost 10 years before... His response was 'they were a privateer'...
No dispute on the number, just an annoyance that a number not widely known outside corporate circles at the time (non-disclosure arrangements usually do their bidding by having people keep quiet long enough that whatever they were going to blab about no longer matters, or long enough that anybody interested will have stopped asking about it by then!)
When the same number comes up from several different people who were at different points on the project, it's 'independent verification'---kind of like finding references to Thai Trade Delegations in Chinese Texts for ventures to the Ryukuan Kingdom which cross check to Okinawian Scrolls to confirm a date in a Thai Stone Inscription which only uses Bhuddist Circular Time References and Anamistic Character reference for the year.
Before the internet, there was a way to tell what the truth was... unfortunately that's becoming a lost art, and fabrication of the truth is becoming far too easy for lazy investigators!
<EDIT> Seriously, do you think a handwritten list of water brake measurements would be accepted? If they even exist now 28/29 years after the fact? And even if they did, would there be anybody who would look at them (uncorrected) and do the interpolation in their head? I mean I could see some people here looking at the raw data and from familiarity going 'woah!'---but unless it's a nice Mustang Graph people will look at it like just another sheet of handwritten ledger entries and gloss over with a ethereal sales executive's 'So what am I looking at here, guys' kind of exhortation...
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Nothing can not be solved with a liberal application of high explosives...
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O5L is the turbo head. Someone mislabeled or mis-sold the Y70, it was an N/A head.
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Hey! Waitaminit, aren't you the guy asking if we shouldn't lighten up a bit? It could have been a Homer-Doh click of the post button, and now in a panic he's lost control and is running around the room flailing because the exit post button doesn't immediately appear to be present to log back on and complete the thought.
Or it could simply be a post-hit generation ploy to get to the magic number for classifieds...and he realizes now these posts in this forum don't count for that total so the gnashing of teeth is happening.
I was once told I "was a very bad man!"
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Well, there's a post from the Union Carbide Flagship Plant hometown... any particular reason? Anything you wanted to add?
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Find a Running Clean 70 for less in better shape and buy it.
I don't think you will.
Depending on what the VIN was, I'd be interested in it! It's a mirror image of my 70, HLS30-06330!
That is by no means an outrageous price for a running car in that overall shape. Especially in that neck of the woods.
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Is it oil, or is it sooty goopy solventized gasoline that looks like oil?
My question was never answered, other than an ASSumption that the 'gauge reads right'...
Likely something is incorrectly wired, and the ECU is in "Limp Home" mode---does it rev above 2200rpms?
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Precisely...
What gets me is Ron's honesty: "We just did a BMW Grind to have something to offer. People were happy, but it wasn't right. We learned a lot working with Electromotive. And we incorporated what we learned and did all our cams for Datsuns over based on what we learned! There are still people who want those original grinds, they made power, but the stability wasn't there like the later grinds. It's funny to see our original stuff still being sold, they do make power (shakes head) but what are you going to do (chuckles)..."
Paraphrased
"We kinda screwed up just to be in the market. We learned to do it better. We made it right. People ripped us off then, and are still selling that old stuff, even if it isn't right!"
What a breath of fresh air.
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Oh, and my tastes in music are pretty wide.
Ted is a mainstay, but they range from the above mentioned Gollumisim to Onedakoza and various indegenious beats from the jungle (akin to strangling a cat manually with percussion accompaniment.) I can usually select something that will keep me enthiused but drive off just about most people.
I don't do Country, Western, or any combination thereof.
That does not include Bluegrass...
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It's just that the word is not "Mute" (that means silent) it's "MOOT" (meaning the point is no longer an issue, or fake)!
It's not "A Muck" (something akin to mud), it's "AMOK" (insane ranting and out of control actions).
If it was a mispelling, it's one thing, but it's the totally wrong word.
It can be summed up like this:
The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind.
The girl with colitis goes by.
No, its
"The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind."
And
"The girl with Kaliedoscope eyes."
DIFFERENT MEANINGS ALTOGETHER!
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If it's near "E" you will have problems.
If you put in a lift pump and about a 2L surge tank with the return line flowing to it, you can extend your tank pickup right to the bottom and suck down to nothing in the tank and never miss a beat. Just make sure the tank is TALLER than it is around. Kind of tough to do in the space at the back of the Z.
The #75 Cunningham Racing Z32 had TWO surge tanks, almost 48" tall! They were fed by two pumps apiece, and then the main pumps went forward each fueling one set of injectors. The tanks were about 3" in diameter, and went from the top of the skid plate under the car to literally touching the roof skin!
They did NOT want to suck an air bubble into the main fuel pumps under boost. That engine was capable of making 1100HP, and in most races was restricted through two 26mm intake orifices on the turbos to only 760HP...
The key to not sucking air is not allowing the fuel to slosh away from the pickup, a Tennis Ball Can would be almost the perfect size for a stock car, some 3" aluminum tubing with a conical bottom (slosh baffles at the top of the cone), with the fuel picking up out of the bottom of the cone, and fuel feeding in tangentially midway up the tank with fuel return off the top...piece of cake. Now make it fit back there with two pumps and an R200...
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Install it like a VW or Corvair and they won't come loose.
Chill in LN2, heat head to 275F and have a heavy-press interference fit at THAT temperature differential.
If they kept my 140 Seats in place when my CHT said 600F, they will stay put in a water-cooled Datsun!
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I think I would give the I.T. guys back at corporate a hemmorage if I used something non-listed on the company laptop.
And out of respect for the mess they likely would have to clean up eventually, I don't press the issue and stick with non-squiggily IE...
'Cause that's the kind of guy I am.
(Like the Tie-In with the earlier pontification?)
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Atari! That was the decision we had to make, Atari or Amiga (Commodore...)
We had a 'friend' who sold Ataris but I never trusted anything he said, so I went with the Amiga.
Batted 1000 on that decision, BOTH never went anywhere in the end. But my graphics and video editing were a hoot back in the days of the Video Toaster...
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There was a commedian (Daymon Wayans) who performed a hilarious sketch on "In Living Color" of a "Nation of Islam" inmate who continually used words improperly.
That was hilarious, because it was a comedy act lampooing people in the real world who do it. They use the words improperly (or grossly out of the proper context) and end up showing their true ignorance.
"The Baginification of the, wait. Let me reconsummate. The ***inafication of the moment is overwhelmed by the viliscimitude of the cortex in which it is being eaten!"
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
"A Muck" is right up there with "Baginification"...
In it's right context it hilarious. Outside of it..."not so much."
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Maybe the valve bent and then when it returned to the seat it caused the seat to become dislodged due to uneven strike?
Cleve
highly unlikely, I have seen severely bent valves just tear up the seats. Bent valves don't drop seats, improper installation (or cracking) does.
I have VW's and Corvairs, I know about loose valve seats dropping!
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Diary of one's daily posts.
I think that was an Ozzy Album from the early 80's...
I Bit the bullit on a 406!! SBC 530 hp and 665 nm tq
in Gen I & II Chevy V8 Tech Board
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But at least you didn't have us 'guess your horsepower'!
You came right out and told us: 530RWHP "on the bench"---which, I guess, is similar to us guessing...
I'm telling you, STOP THESE GUESSING GAMES RIGHT THIS INSTANT!
You are a BAD man! A very, very BAD man!