Tony D

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."

I thought it was a Chris-Rock inspired spoof at first. Then I REALLY started laughing!

"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.

But it's lame. Buy a real camera, and get some decent pictures.

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!)

Oh we lookin' for you, you don't need to confess!

No, it was a false-wallet impression 260DET. I already mentioned I screwed up by not following my own protocols. I rarely go out with anything in the wallet, I usually only have my US Driver's license and whatever creditcard I will need. Local cash is loose in the pocket and usually inventoried and segregated. Generally I survey what I will order, do a total in my head, and like you mentioned go to the toilet first. But it was 1130, and I got the hankering for McDO and Mc Spaghetti. Hadn't had anything all day to that point. I figured it was a 'quick jaunt' to the McD's (I can see it from the hotel entrance straight down the block!) As such I slipped my shoes on, and went down there. I figured I would be back at the room by midnight at the latest. I didn't have my celphone (which is probably why I still have them!) It was a 5 minute trip to get some munchies and go back to the hotel room and revied PID drawings for a HAZOP meeting I have in India next week. As soon as the guy flashed his gun the FIRST thing that went through my mind was 'F! I got $400 in my wallet instead of with my passport back in the room.' Second was 'they don't get the wallet no matter what.' I had the pesos, and there was no reason for me to have that cash on me AT ALL. Usually I carry local cash in a separate loose wad in the pocket and don't take the wallet out. But this time it was enough that I had to pull a 500 peso note out (about $10) to get change made at the counter. Honestly I've been back to there 3 X now to eat lunch and have had no issues. I was just there at the wrong time when they were operating. If it wasn't me, it would have been someone else. Frankly, I'm kind of glad I had the money, as one of my ATM cards DOES work here, and there is no daily limit. They could have gotten FAR more strongarming me for that had I not had a decent haul of cash in the wallet. They actually let me show them the compartments, they DID NOT take the wallet. I kept it in my hand and handed them the bills. This saved them from seeing my Platinum UA card, Citibank Card, Capitol One...and three different ATM cards (none of which are SIM Chip Enabled as they are all US Banks!) Given what the potential loss was....I got off light. But if I happen to see the guy again in the next four nights I have left here, there may be something in the papers. Now that I'm relatively sure on the non-official status of this guy he's marked. I'm Italian. I may run across him in 5 years. If the circumstances dictate I could get away with something, I will 'respond in kind to his kindness' then.

"Ive never taken the boost over 14 (the first day I got the car I did unaware), the boost continues to rise on my wideband and would stop I imagine at 17psi because of the 17psi spring in the wastegate, basically I have been keeping an eye on my wide band and when it gets to 10psi, I let off the throttle.. " You don't have a wastegate. You have a foot. Your foot is FAR too slow to stop damage. You will kill things driving it like this, and will continue to do so. This is NOT how a wastegate works, your foot is not the boost control device (unless it's the winter of 1964 and you're in that new 1963 Turbo Spyder driving in it's second Michigan winter when you hit a bump and the muffler falls off. WOW what a SURGE OF POWER! This is GREAT! I'm going to drive it around all the time like this! Waitaminit, what's that noise? How the hell did the crankcase to head studs pull out like that? Is this warranty Mr. Goodwrench?) Seriously, for the list of things you have on the car, you are running 1950's technology boost control.

RE: Turbos for a 305 wrong for a 350. If you size the compressors for optimal horsepower of 450, and the A/R on the exhaust side to be optimized for higher rpm operation on the 305, the result will be supercharger response on a 383. A turbocharged 400hp 383 is childs play, under 10psi. Especially if you have a decent cam that lets you get some useable rpm from the engine. Keep it below 6500 for longevity, run it at 5-7 psi of boost, and you're going to be amazed at what you can get from an SBC and a couple of small hairdryers. Actually, technically, for a 305 OR a 383 you could use twin stock Datsun Turbos with internal wastegates (one on each bank) to suppor 400HP relatively easily. You got the manifolds, you got loads of turbos with .82A/R hot side housings. Just some tubing to equalize turbo wastegate signals and you're set. No intercooler, no rpms over 5500rpms, 400HP and low cost. All with crap you already have in the barn. "Pleased to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste..."

Oh, don't buy it for a second. The Dutch were whoring and raping for CENTURIES before there was an America! Remember 'New York' was 'New Amsterdam' for a long while. It's where the term 'slave wages' was coined. See, the Dutch didn't want slaves living in the city where lodging them was far too expensive. They paid them 'wages' to get a small flat or house on the outskirts of New Amsterdam. But they still owned them. (The first commuters in America were slaves---nothing changeds in 300+ years!) And if the local indigineous tribes happened to kill a few now and again that's what the Dutch had insurance for... No great loss, 'We're covered for that!' Sucks to be the dead, but then again it always did. But hey, it's only money right, the underwriter took his chances and lost the gamble no bonus for him that quarter! This bit of useless trivia and historical fact (who said there was no slavery in the north, usually someone from the N.E. USA!) brought to you by countless hours of time on a plane... Don't even get me started on the VOC!

Aren't the glovebox screws on a 240 INSIDE the flap of the glovebox door. You may as well just cut the box. (And I don't mean ritual suicide in a white robe...) They are available, and once you have it open by whatever method, you can change it to one you have a lock for, or fiddle to your heart's content! The glovebox door is not usually used that much, so the pins are usually very sharp, and you will need either the 'master' key or something very close to what is supposed to be in there to get it unlocked.

The FSM, which is avaialbe for free download is available in the FAQ via links. This will answer your question on everything regarding this issue.

"The previous setup was Exactly the same only difference was I had dished pistons n42 block, which I blew the ringlands on.." Well, another tidbit of knowledge gleaned by The Extractor: THe other system didn't run without detonation, either. You need, as has been said from the beginning, a lower pressure spring in the wastegate. Or another wastegate. JeffP runs a 3psi spring in his. You can make a 3psi spring run 17 psi, you can not make a 17 psi spring run 3 psi. As far as 'running above 17psi' that's really irrelevant. If it's doing more than 10psi, the engine will blow based on 'tuned to 10psi' referenced earlier.

Am I being accused of NOT participating in a verbose response? Pshaw, man! Loquaciousness is my stock in trade! Rant on I say, rant on!

That has about 10X the mileage of the one in the Heritage Collection. It's not the same car.

Wait for Pomona, and get with 'supercharger guy' -- you know the one! Right at the end of the row...

AWESOME! TOTALLY F-ING AWESOME! That is a mandatory appliance for tailgaters. Exactly what I expected. The perfect automotive accessory in L.A., not to mention first class nosethumbing at the greenies out there in Priuses who give us hateful glares as we pass them in their greenmobiles. FOOF! FOOF! There's the CO/HC Offset for you commuting in that eggmobile, Trystian!

I see nothing wrong with it. I like the center exhaust exit and the radio console treatment to be sure. If this was his vision of the car, and he executed it the way he wanted, who is to say otherwise? Especially here. I mean, I know places where people would spit on your "foreign car" and in the same breath praise your decision to put "the right engine in it, a Decent Chevrolet V-8"... I guess small minds exist everywhere. As for the flame thrower comment...you obviously have never driven in L.A. on the 91 Freeway as you fail to see the importance of that feature for driver's on-the-job education.

I'll stick with simple killing, raping and killing in the Dutch Tradition is something I neither had the time, nor inclination to do in this situation.

That uniform caused hesitation. Like I said, hindsight is 20/20. The pistol isn't that big an issue if they aren't cops. If they are, and I get carried away not only do I have a dead cop, I'm the foreigner that did it. If they were in T-Shirts I would have given it a go at the top of the stairs and gone from there. That was my opportunity. After you're in the car, it's not like Arnold and Sly movies, especially with a rotator cuff that's questionable. But freestanding and within 4m on a holstered gun and civilian dress... I'd have taken my chances, the odds were far more in my favor than most people would think. Speaking of criminals, anybody see that Rodney King got arrested AGAIN for driving 'under the influence of PCP'?

From my prior post: "Like John said, there are plenty of us out here with 200 and 300+ thousand mile cars running just fine on the stock bottom end. " Forget? Methinks not! Specifically mentioned, not till you hit 400K. And to add to Frank's point, that car was 5th fastest of the day at the MSA Auto X that year, behind 4 purpose-built Auto-X cars! The last three of which were within .75 of a second of each other's times!

Wow, that looks a lot better than it did when it was in my shed... Who did the painting? And why the barelegs? Folkert deciding to get sexy and go cruising for chicks in the Vette later?

Thought: You have answered the question, /Obiwan Voice/ "Trust your instruments, Luke!" The only way testing works is if you believe what the tests have told you. This is the largest problem I have training people to troubleshoot. They follow the procedure, find the answer, then blindly look up and say 'now what'? You have followed the procedures. You have a component which fails the test. Replace the component. This is not a sarcastic commentary, but I KNOW you're thinking to youself right now: "It CAN'T be that easy, I found it so quickly." Yes, it really IS that easy!

A Holley Red, Blue, or now Black will detonate like hell on a blowthrough turbo at 12psi in the manifold. Those pumps can only make 15psi, and for a 10psi turbosystem I would consider them marginal at best. The stock EFI pump will support fuel flows at higher pressures and is FAR quieter. By 3.5psi, I mean 3.5psi referenced to manifold (same as the EFI cars, set differential across the orifice.) You need a boost referenced FPR so that the setting you set stays where it's supposed to be: 3.5psig above boost pressure. At 10 psi, you should have 13.5psig fuel pressure to the carbs. If you don't manifold reference, you will start running lean at "0" manifold pressure, and progressively get worse from there. In extreme cases I've seen boost pressure blow into the gas tank and blow a vent line off due to no FPR and using a fuel pump with no check valve! Like I said, read yetterbens post.