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I was wondering what comment I made to get the new Avtar...
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The GoPro Herocam (CLICK ME and not the Flash Ad on the bottom of the page...) was on sale at Costco for $169. The one everybody seems to be using, and for about $30 less. Not full HD, but really decent quality. For the length of recording it gives on a standard 8 or 16GB SD Chip, I can turn it on and off before and after runs. Editing is going to happen anyway.
Plus, it's cheap enough that if I shunt into the wall, on the side with the camera, I will pray just the chip survives....so I can YouTube it!
Now, in that case, I can see where wireless would guarantee the video survives. But I figure a breakaway mount will let the camera (or at least the chip) survive intact after the crash. Not that I plan on crashing. But capturing it is just bitchen if it does happen!
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MOT? It's not Oz, it's Texas. No MOT there, we shot a lot of British around 224 years ago to get rid of MOT inspections and governmental meddling in our business.
Heck, ain't Texas still able to start their own country if they so choose?
My bud would have loved that on his Titan, if the engine didn't grind itself to nothing recently (just outside warranty period...)
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At the firewall to floor juncture, making a 'c channel' with flanges to bridge the stock lap joint will help reinforce it as well... but that may not be legal for racing. For a street car you can do it, but racing usually has limitations so check the rules.
Datsun was better than US Manufacturers in moving that joint back from the firewall/floor junction.
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Yeah, the photos of the thing in action kind of should stop the 'does this thing work, anybody tried it yet' question. Someone took photos for the original site...
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Yeah, but they're not literally lunchtime browsing distance from my office!
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On solenoid valves: DEVAS
On four valve-per-cylinder SBC's...you don't need OHC's to do that, there ARE 4-Valve heads which use pushrods! No different than an old two-stroke Detroit Four-Valver Diesel.
"There is nothing new!"
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Something along the same lines:
Just for the record, Coates was contacted about doing a head for the Nissan L-Engine. R&D costs as well as protyping costs were offered to defray development costs on their end due to the acknowledged low-volume market it would cater to---they were unwilling to do the work. Even after an offer of 'minimum run payment' was made to get a one-off run of minimum production made just to supply people in the Datsun Community who were serious about the advantages of the Coates Setup. At the time I worked with a company who had a large investment with them doing rotary valve conversions for LNG service on large diesels in city busses. I was disapointed in their stance.
If you remember I put up some photos of JeffP's engine while on a Superflow Dyno. The shop where that occured... the owner made his own DOHC Chevy Heads. He has four sets. Next time I'm in the shop, I'll make a point to snap some photos and chuck them up here. unless something else tasty there distracts me again...
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Ooooh, "Office Close"!
Those Silicone "Hump Hoses" are what you will want on the outlet of the AFM, and inlet to the Turbo, with as straight a run piece of tubing between them as possible. Using mandrel bends if at all possible, with some straight runs at each end consistent with the 'pipe diameters' comment in the other thread.
Thanks for this link, I can see I will be stopping by after work next time I'm at the office!
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The Stock Turbo AFM is calibrated to take the inlet airflow before the turbocharger.
Placing the AFM after the turbo, under pressure, is a radically different flow and usually only done when someone is converting an EFI system from N/A to Turbo. This allows the standard condition flow monitoring of the N/A AFM/ECU combination to be effective with the addition of larger injectors and possibly a variable rate Fuel Pressure Regulator. It's old tech, though many of the DSM/Mitsubishi people like this with the MAF setups.
The most convienient location in an S30 without the AFM bracket is to invert the stock Turbo AFM, just forward or behind the radiator mounting bulkhead, using the hole for the left underdash ventilation vent (remove the plastic connector from the inner fenderwell to the hole). You can then use standard N/A CAI kits to get your filter off the front of hte bulkhead.
Make sure you use 'hump' hoses for the connections between tubingruns, as the motor will move on the monunts, and some flexibility in the intake system is required. Really, the farther the AFM is from the turbo, the less chance a backfire when cold will cause a problem with the shutter slamming shut and sticking. When it's close to the turbo inlet this is a possibility. Also, having a relatively straight run (about 6-8" on the stock turbo) is conducive to the best flow into the turbocharger inlet. Industry standard is 6 to 12 pipe diameter runs before a turbine inlet, and after any elbows before/after a metering device. So mounting about where the stock AFM is on a later model S30 is about as close a compromise to ideal positioning of the AFM as you will get. Imagine that, the Nissan Engineers did know what they were doing!
To be clear, airflow should be like below:
Air Cleaner-Tubing-AFM-Tubing-Turbocharger-Tubing-(intercooler-tubing)Throttle Body-Intake Manifold
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How will the dash lights work? Usually LEDs need PWM to 'dim', they either are 'on' or 'off', and don't respond the stock dash dimmer system using a rheostat.
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If you have the means to ship it yourself and don't get hung on the free shipping of a POV the military provides get one and ship it yourself. The main advantage to having someone there is they can "line up" prospects and then you can come with cash or line of credit in had to close the deal when you see the one you want.
You can't take more than $10K cash out of the country at one time, so the days of 'cash and carry' are gone. Big Brother has ways of checking as well, so wire transfer and bank reg familiarity will help.
Get your shipping company lined up beforehand, or have your brother do that footwork. Being near Yokuska it's a large port city and shippers should be plentiful. The biggest advantage you have is the possiblity to buy the car, get it on a three-day temporaty transport tag (or buy multiples to drive it for up to a couple of weeks---the 'red slash plate') before dropping it at the freight forwarder.
Shipping to major port would be cheaper than to go all the way to Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Duluth, etc. Driving in from the coast (New Jersey, LA, New Orleans) can mean a cheaper shipment. If you go with a single car in a dedicated 20 or 40 foot container it will be about $3500. Getting it knocked down to part of a multiple shipment that is shared to a major port like LA can get you shipping as low as $1000, plus some borkerage and agent fees.
Shipping the car in a dedicated 20 footer does have appeal because you have LOADS of parts space. But shipping a 20 footer costs as much as a 40 footer. If you can find two other guys who RELIABLY can come up with the money, and desire a car, you can get the per-vehicle cost comparable to a brokered single-vehicle shipment, with the added benefit of packing away body kits, and other bulky items which aren't cost-effective to ship otherwise.
If you travel business, you can usually fenagle a G-Nose in baggage (especially if you are at an elite status on the airline) on the way back...
Costs will be high for a good car, but having someone local may give you the chance to scout territory for less than perfect cars that a re complete and can be had for considerably less. I have seen guys with box skylines landed cost for $8K including shipment and spares! You have to look, and like anything those deals are out there...but infrequent. Sounds like you got 2 years to find it!
If you plan on your brother taking advantage of POV shipment, you will likely have to get it in his name NLT 13 months before his PCS orders.
PM me if you want any more information. I am on schedule to visit Quarterly. One of our agents lives near Yokuska, and another near Yakota. I could always try to meet up and go hunting with you... it would be an experience!
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At long last my largest lament on the Mustang has been remedied.
For the longest time I would complain that the Mustang was a competent chassis, but that the V6 they put in the base models (rentals) was a dog compared to anything else out there (for instance it's contemporary the GM GenIII 3800.)
Nissan put the marketing Niche of the 350Z squarely on the Mustang, and as a result Ford has responded (kudos to them!) to fight for the segment of entry-level Mustangs.
The old RS Camaro was a joke compared to the Mustang, but at least you could get it with the 4.3, and that was decent. The Mustang always suffered anemia. Thankfully not any longer!
As for the cessation of the Z32 in 96, there were emissions requirements that nixed it, plus it wasn't selling at all. Less than 10,000 units (Less than 5K in reality). Terrible sales coupled with rising emissions requirements in mid production cycle means 'no more chips for mr happy'!THE YEN RATE WAS IRRELEVANT---all the lovers of the Japanese Supercars want to blame that for killing the RX7, Supra, and Z32, but in reality that had little to do with it---it was an unrealistic sales model based on volumes that couldn't be supported. Just look to the Honda NSX---the Honda Supercar made it through the decade JUST fine, and only recently succumbed.
At least Nissan learned their lesson, and pegged GT-R sales closer to realistic levels like Honda did initially with the NSX. Had any of the other manufacturers done this they, too would have rode out the 90's like Honda did: selling a low volume nich car for MORE money than any of the others, but which sold steadily and consistently over it's design life.
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Intercooling a 5psi turbosystem is nice....but I doubt it's in any way 'mandatory'. 280ZX's will run all day long at track events without an issue.
Seriously, he will not need more than 5 psi to get the HP he desires. 7 at the max. At those levels intercooling is nice, but not mandatory.
As for 'backpressure' that's something that has to be measured. The turbos he has available in Europe were .82 A/R on the hot side, not .63 like the USA. With twin 3" exhausts off the turbos and a SBC that will likely peak at 5800rpms, each bank pumping 2.5 to 3.0L of exhaust gasses this is like two four cylinder stock Z engines.
There's a lot of tendency to overthink this stuff and overdesign it 'because that's what's right'---but those turbo cars lasted 300K miles, without an intercooler, so I'm thinking longevity should be fair in this application.
I would agree this would be a fail on a 383 with a US Spec Turbo (0.63 Hot Side A/R), it would likely work fine for a 305 streeter. But anything larger than that would likely be restricted bigtime. But with that 0.82 it's opened up enough. In any case it's like Frank said: getting it set up and then putting in a 383 will be later. At that time he can get a larger A/R (say 1.06) set of turbos.
But for trial fittment, and running around cheaply, a couple of ZX turbos will give him that power level, no doubt about it. They will flow 200bhp and still be in the sweet spot of the compressor end of the turbo. If he was trying to go to 600hp, then yeah...no way will the ZX stuff handle that reliably. But for only 400 (or 200HP per turbo) that's child's play! Hell, that's the RATING of the ZXT in Europe (200HP).
I'm not sure what the T28's came off of, but they are likely far smaller in A/R than the stock ZX units. I have seen a 'Twin Datsun Turbo' ghetto rigged onto a SBC before, which is why I mentioned it. The performance was surprising for the money expended. Very stout! And with EFI that can adapt to the lower temps of a non-I/C setup at 5-7psi, it should be far more reliable than a carb in that instance.
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key code is punched on the original key, and on the locks as well as on a sticker inside the glovebox.
Cut the glovebox and read the tag, that's the ticket!
Seriously, I've taken the door lock from the passengers door (usually less worn) and had a key made, which just happened to work on everything on the car.
But that's $35. Probably either way you will need to get the key made, and there is a good chance the tag on the box door will be illegible. I've seen more without a readable tag, than with over the years.
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Like JohnC said, it's not a head, it's an engine assembly---it goes back to them protecting their interests by controlling the build so they know the head is being applied properly.
It was closer to $100K to get the 'head', it came with the long block as well...
Hey, I know, I'll get JeffP to look into it. He'll buy it!
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Wait, is this where the OSG fans come and support the head violently while the SOHC Fan base comes and tosses out reasons why anything other than an SOHC is a pointless expenditure and any intelligent person would know this?
That would be my guess. Problem is none of the OSG fans has ever DRIVEN a car equipped with one, whereas I have...
"Try to get higher on the fence than THAT!"
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If you are serious about wanting to learn how to tune a Haltech, go to school.
Seriously. EFI101 is in Temecula, and they have CLASSES on each of the major EMS systems out there. It's just a matter of making the time to get there for their class schedule.
They have the dyno, the instructor is right there, you get classroom instruction on what the EMS is doing and then go tune (if you want to) on your own vehicle!
Anybody in the SoCal area that has an EMS system and wants to learn the ins and outs really needs to look those guys up, they have been around forever, and have travelling classes. All it takes is an e-mail or phone call.
You wouldn't believe it's this easy to just CLICK HERE
Seems to me there was a place in San Diego that had Haltech, something like "Performance EFI" or something like that---I won't make all the links for you, you got to do something yourself!
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Argh, yet another uninformed pundit telling the world what they should faint at...
"Been there, drove that. JeffP's car is more impressive with a SOHC."
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I thought it was a Chris-Rock inspired spoof at first.
Then I REALLY started laughing!
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"And Im not sure what you mean tony, I dont drive it like that every second I have the car. Its my daily driver, I dont abuse it. "
I would disagree. You are driving a turbocharged vehicle with no boost control, by your own admission. You are literally driving a first-generation turbocharged vehicle akin to a 1963 Corvair! Your foot determines boost as the wastegate is for all intents and purposes not controlling anything.
With the sophisticated systems you have on the car, their downfall is they go 'linear' usually at the end of a map. That means you add slightly more fuel as boost rises, which isn't enough. If you burned up the first motor, and are now on the second that's abuse.
I have run my flat-top N42/N42 since 1985 up to 21psi (and 17 as a daily driver). When my wastegate malfunctioned, I didn't drive it. Some people will say 'oh, I'll just keep my foot out of it while the wastegate is broken/nonfunctional.
Some people think playing russion roulette like in the Deer Hunter is good sport as well.
You will kill another engine driving the car like this. It doesn't need to go to 14psi to break, it can do it at 8psi. I have seen N/A engines detonate when they run lean and wreck.
It's just that underboost, you have absolutely no margin. It's your money, do what you want, but I view your driving the car into boost AT ALL as abuse. You can't possibly react as fast as a wastegate can. You have admitted it yourself with the 'boost creep' comment.
This discussion really has gone nowhere. You really need to read and comprehend the things that have been written here regarding what YOU need to do (not on your car, either!) because if that isn't changed, you will be blowing whatever you assemble.
Word to the wise on that one.
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But it's lame.
Buy a real camera, and get some decent pictures.
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Oh, where do I begin. Search "Bunghole Boss" at ZCar.com and you will find any littany of items.
I think the two best were:
1) Looks on his wife's GPS and then says that you live the closest to the shop of anybody, at 25 miles away. Second is the guy in Ontario who is at 30 miles, and the furthest guy is in Sanberdoo at 35 miles. As a result of this he will not longer honor anything more than 30 minutes travel time.
The Response: When the company provides me with that Helicopter Car to go straight over the mountians and I can skip the 215/91/55/405 Freeway I'll be here in 25 minutes. Until then, it's 2 hours billable time.
2) During a three page justification for more pay (including taking his company from 1.5 million a year to almost 8 million in 3 years and not getting the original rate of pay offered--all on SERVICE BUSINESS---including after 9-11) he proceeds to tell you how you're wrong on EVERY SINGLE ITEM. He uses phrases like 'I don't know what it is, maybe your parents raised you wrong.' Or when the service manager (who is there to SUPPORT his stance against you) says "no, that's what you said, I was there" the reply is 'You guys obviously don't know what I said, I clearly said... (service manager looks at me with a blank stare and a look of 'WTF?')
3) He shows up at 4AM to the shop when you are loading material for a job in Mexico, and starts quizzing you about black marks behind the shop and the smell of tire smoke in the building. As a result of you brushing off the idea that a stock F350 loaded to within 200# of GVWR could boil the tires for 50+ feet then responds with a 12 page single spaced memo with a lot of 'employee restores vehicle to condition and accepts termination' phrases in it. And when you prove through service records that not only do you have the best tire tread depth, the most brake lining remaining, and the MOST MILES ON THE TRUCK in the service fleet, he remarks to the girls in the office "I swear to christ Tony sits up at night trying to figure out ways to f-the company."
The Response: No, I have THREE HOURS UNPAID COMMUTING TIME EVERY DAY TO FIGURE THAT ONE OUT!
4) He spends thousands on a GPS/Tracking system for the trucks and INSISTS that you use it for your time reporting. Until he gets the time reports generated and they have roughly 70 hour weeks recorded (your ACTUAL time worked, not simply what you were CLAIMING on Time Sheets) Then his codependent wife will determine that the 'logisitcs required for upkeep of the system don't justify the costs.'
5) He sues you when you quit after putting up with nearly three years of his paranoid sh*t.
6) His BROTHER quits working for him because he can't put up with his paranoid sh*t. He only lasted 6 months. He did not get sued.
7) His WIFE's SISTER quits working for me because she can't put up with his paranoid sh*t any more either. She quits with the #1 Salesman and starts a company that competes with him for the same marketplace. Neither of them get sued.
8) You find consolidated company P&L's for the prior years and realize his cumbucket was on salary as president for $30K the year before you brought $220K a quarter in service business to the job, and afterwards got a nice reasonable raise to $176,000 a year.
9) You also realize the two kids he has also got put on the payroll for $30 K per year at the same time. But there is no money to pay for the trucks he promised to supply or any relief of the money you give up hourly to use said truck as a tool to make him money.
10) He argues with you about return of technical manuals, and then looses it when you return them to him with all your notes blacked out in dark marker, thereby depriving him of your intellectual property. "You wanted the manuals, you got the manuals, minus my intellectual property, just as I promised!" All hail John Galt, you insane cheap S.O.B.! DIE DIE DIE!
(And I just found out his gravy train distributorship got cut off. And of course...he's suing!)
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Oh we lookin' for you, you don't need to confess!
10 Signs Your Boss Is Insane
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Make sure to note the explanation to the below on You Tube. One day, he will see this. You can see 'I had a co-conspirator' to participate in the filming. My only regret was those Go-Pro HD Herocams were not available so Joe could get someone from the internet calling him to 'report me'...
He could slide under a gas truck and taste his own blood in slow immolation and I would smile. I can PM you my perfect death fantasy of him. It involves dry impaling on a pintree whilst skiing, and large carnivorous felines eating his extremities while still concious. I smile every time that image crosses my mind. There was no call for the torture he put people through. He is a bad person. No good comes from his existence. I wish him ill.