Tony D
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"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.
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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..."
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and get some pictures of the car and post theme here.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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!
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That has about 10X the mileage of the one in the Heritage Collection. It's not the same car.
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Wait for Pomona, and get with 'supercharger guy' -- you know the one! Right at the end of the row...
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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'?
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Tony you are forgetting my white turd:
-It did not smoke.
-From the general condition it was in when we found it .. maintaince stopped ... long ago (though it had recent dizzy)
-It had plenty of power ( i came 4th at the autox with sticky tires)
-It doesnt use any oil noticable
AND IT HAS A WHOPPING 370K miles
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!
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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?
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Getting only 8 volts back at the pump kinda worries me and after testing at the wire studs on the fuel pump I removed the wires and applied 12 volts from a good battery to the terminals and the pump didn't run or make any noise? Any thoughts so far and thanks.
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!
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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.
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It's a ZX Parking Brake Cable.
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The AFM is out of the photo altogether by 3500 rpms, the 'tuning' of it generally makes that number higher or lower by tighter or looser. After it's wide open (3500 stock) the ECU is on a purely programmed fuel curve of RPM and wether or not the WOT switch is closed or not. Red Herring there.
This is purely electrical.
Clean your connections on the EFI system completely and include the ones on the ECU and ECU plug.
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Cutting the glovebox is pretty easy, it lets you get to the lock mechanisim.
Other than that...'picking the lock' is not as easy as it sounds. I'd weigh the cost of the locksmith call out against that of the repop cardboard glove box.
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Anybody who has seen my wallet knows it's a "Seinfeld Special"...really thick looking.
Most of it is receipts, very little of it is money as these guys found out!
But if they spied it when I was paying for Mc DO & Mc Spaghetti...that may have been all they needed. When the 'cops' ask you to come outside to clear it all up, you generally take them at their word. It was all very low-key to start with, like I said, hindsight is 20/20. I have been walking the area today and don't see hide nor hair of them, and the local Mobils have Mossberg 500's, the Doublestacked 9's in holsters, and one had an AR doing traffic stops. All much different than what I saw. But the uniform top they had IS an official uniform for this area. I have seen at least four different uniforms now that I'm looking.
I think it was just one of those 'big wallet, big payoff' kind of targeting. That's all I can figure. The most I did between the hotel and the McD's was laugh at various nightlife scenes and decline numerous 'independent salesmen' along the way.
I swear to christ the English Language Instruction here must start with rote:
Rolex? Cialis, Viagra?
RayBan? Cialis, Viagra?
TOOTHBRUSH? Cialis, Viagra?
Save for the Toothbrush, which likely was just generic, I'm suuuure all the rest are 'the genuine article' for sure!
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More harm than good has been done by well-intentioned people being convinced that taking something apart is 'good for it and needs to be done'.
Given the quality of parts available today, including (and specifically)rings, the chances are good you will end up worse off after fiddling with the interior of the engine than had you left well enough alone and simply followed John C's advice.
Also, as for jargon, please understand vague terms don't do anything towards helping get an understanding of your real situation. You say the car 'burns through oil like water'...
From that statement, I'm now making the assumption that you have a massive fog of oil smoke billowing blue-white out the exhaust pipe and have to put in a quart each day to get back and forth to school 10 minutes up the road.
Is that correct? Then maybe you do need to do some work.
Or is it a quart every 500 miles? 1000? The WAY you drive will GREATLY determine how much oil it consumes. I have an 80ZX engine that has well over 225,000 miles on it now. I can go through a quart of oil in an afternoon of autocrossing, but normally will go 1500+ miles before needing a top up. To me, a proper overhaul will cost FAR more than simply putting oil into it. Oil is cheap, GOOD engine parts are not. Cost justification for an overhaul will likely NEVER be achieved on the cost of oil consumption alone. Something else will have to go bad unless it's really burning it 'like water'...
The driving style will dictate consumption. A quart in 1000 miles, or not even 1/2 a quart in 3300 miles (my 260Z). Neither indicates a need for overhaul.
Be specific, not vague, and you will get better advice. Be vague and you will get bad advice. To many people excessive oil consumption will always mean 'overhaul it, change the rings' and this has been drummed in their heads from years of urban legend and poor practice without regard for actually looking at the financials involved. Sure, you say it's going through it like water (whatever that means) and you will get the advice "change the rings, overhaul it"---as you make it sound extreme. An overhaul is an EXTREME measure for fixing ANYTHING (especially one item in particular when all else seems to be fine...)
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. Hell, I still have 185psig compression in all six! Why on earth mess with an engine just coming into peak efficiency and minimal friction just because it's consuming a little oil (key italics).
Meaning, how do you know it's burning it, do you really have that constant plume of smoke behind you all the time? These cars consume oil to some extent, it's unavoidable.
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but hey atleast you dont have a garage, shed, back yard, and house full of parts right
What's wrong with that? Just buy a sea container. I did.
Sigh, The P.I. has changed a lot...
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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.