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    Are these solid P90 lifters?

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Slightly off topic, but the SOHC VG, and many other newer SOHC Nissan engines, use lifters much like the pushrod V8s, and no pushrods. They are infact legit lifters in these engines, where the cam pushes up on them, they push up on a rocker arm which pivots on the rocker shaft and pushes the valve open...

     

    ?

     

    I must have missed that, need to look at the next VG in the junkyard, but from what I saw they appeared to be direct acting cam lobes to rockers. The R-G series Toyotas use the other common OHC cam lifting via shims and buckets.

     

    Some of them may be haydraulic lash adjusted. But since they are direct action below the cam to the valve and depress the valves, I don't see calling them 'lifters' but 'hydraulic bucket' or some permutation thereof.

     

    Got a photo somewhere of those VG Lifters?

    What sort of information do cam grinders ask for when you want a custom grind?

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    So what you want to do is rip off Kameari? To get their knowledge and apply it to your needs without paying for their expertise? Pay the $1100 and shadow profile the cam then.

     

    THAT is what a grinder will need to know to make that cam.

     

    Very disapointing to see someone so blatant in their desire to rip off someones R&D... and that others are helping them do it.

     

    Ron is very knowledgable. Read the Racer Brown articles on cams (especially about the L-Series Cams...) and realize that bore, stroke, lift, acceleration rate of the valve......

     

    There is FAR more to what determines a cam's profile than simple numbers. If you want to rip off what they make since it's 'proven' then buy the thing.

     

    Then, once it's in your hands, you can do whatever you choose. Shadow profile it, and give the CNC tapes or tracer profile to some cam grinder to make a knockoff replica for you. That is the only way you will get an exact replica of the Kameari Cam. Each grinder will have their own approach to how to grind for a particular purpose. If you give them lobe center, duration, and lift, along with opening an closing times....ha ha ha: GOOD LUCK! There's a BIT more to it that that. The ramps are what make a cam stable.

     

    The power a BMW cam profile will make with the EXACT SAME duration, lift, and event timing is TOTALLY different than what a properly designed assymetric ramp Racer Brown, Sunbelt, or Iskendarian cam will make.

     

    The industry started with BMW Grinds on L-Billets (Isky did this initially to get a product to sell...) Soon others copied their profiles. Some use those same profiles today. Isky doesn't. Last Monday, Frank280ZX and I spent an hour talking with Ron Iskendarian in his office discussing the L-Series Cam, and how Isky derived their grinds. How they were given no information from Nissan. How Electromotive and the other Privateer Teams were 'on their own' to get power grinds. And how they spent time shadow-profiling the cams, and reverse-engineering the assymetric ramps from the original cams in L's. While we were there, 'The Camfather' Himself walked through and said "Hi"... Later, Frank said "Was that who I think it was?" My buddy Larry, who was in pain and sitting in the truck outside said when we came out "Did you see! Ed was in there, he just came out the door and drove off!"

     

    I guess when you have personal contact with people, the thought of ripping off their hard developmental and research work doesn't seem as appealing.

     

    Save a few bucks. Loose you soul. For shame! :angry:

    Are these solid P90 lifters?

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Hydraulic Lifters are inline with the pushrods, and transmit linear motion. Thereby "Lifting" the pushrod to the rocker arm, which pivots and pushes down on the valves.

     

    Lifters Lift, Rocer Arms Pivot.

     

    This is akind to calling the ballstuds on the Small Block Chevy 'lifters'---they are nothing more than a pivot so the rocer arm can transmit motion to the valve tip.

    L20A injectors, where to find?

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Actually, it's an L20E...

     

    There was an L20, which was a 6.

    Then there was the L20A which was an evolutionary workup of the original from the "Cedric Custom 6" of the early-mid 60's.

    The L4's started and were prolific L13, 14, 16, 18, 20B (the next generation L20...)

     

    Then came the 4 cylinders LZ18, 20, 22, 24...

     

    And the L20B was not just Carburetted, they had an EFI Version in the JDM...Very tasty manifold, BIIIIG runners on that plenum. Some guys will cut down an L28 plenum to 'make' and L20B/E plenum manifold, but the runners are puny by comparison!

     

    The L20E had 17# injectors, while the L28 were 19#, the L20ET used the same injectors as the L28 N/A.

     

    How much are they worth to you? B)

     

    If you have a set of six, send them to RC Engineering. RC can clean, flowmatch and get you anything you want in the way of injectors.

     

    I could go on and on.... :D

    Good bye Mazda 3, you were a good little car

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    I guess I just don't want payments since it was paid off long ago

     

    Perhaps your recollection was mistaken. You were actually in the car waiting for someone while it was parked and after the accident, in a daze and shocked you immediately exited without anybody witnessing it.

     

    And MAN does your neck, back, and testicles hurt now...

     

    I hear Larry H. Parker will fight for your rights to be ridiculously compensated for your injuries...

     

    You could end up with a new 370Z with a full Greddy Turbo kit on it, and no payments.

     

    Depending on how much those testicles and back/neck ache... :P

    Are these solid P90 lifters?

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    Just a bit of pedantic OCD here, but what or why are you guys referring to them as 'lifters'?

     

    I mean, they're pivots. Adjustable Mechanical Pivots, or Hydraulic Pivots. I'll even go so far as to say Hydraulic Lash Adjusters.... But damn, they're not 'lifters', they don't LIFT anything! They're a fixed-point leverage for a fulcrum.

     

    It is a direct-acting OHC design, there are no 'lifters' in there, only rocer-arm pivots.

     

    Yes, this is up there with 'Freeze Plug' and 'irregardless' for me.

    Fined for being a gross polluter in a S30?

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted · Edited by Tony D

    omigod, the smiley function is taking all the ( b ) sections and turning them in the B)

     

    This was not my intent.

     

    Oh, and on this:

    "She either thought that it was the right process, or she knew that both officers made a mistake, and that they should've sent me to BAR. However maybe because the officers made a mistake, she decided to let me off with a fix-it ticket since I did fix the smoking."

     

    She KNEW both officers were wrong. She CHOSE to hit you with the $25 ticket figuring since you didn't read the CVC, and didn't realize their mistake, you would probably pay the $25 fine, and think you got a deal.

     

    Your appraisal about having two ignorant cops is probably right. Thats why YOU should start reading the CVC while you take a dump. You start going 'HOLY CRAP!' and then when the Buena Park PD gives you a crap ticket, you can ram it up their hineys and actually have the judge scold the cops for their ignorance! :D

    Fined for being a gross polluter in a S30?

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    Your ignorance just got you screwed!

     

    27156(a)Is operation of a gross polluter. Matter of fact it's obvious nobody here has done ANY homework so lets look at the CVC (which is what I was asking for BEFORE you went to court!)

     

    Gross Polluter: Air Pollution Control Device

    27156. (a) No person shall operate or leave standing upon a highway a motor vehicle that is a gross polluter, as defined in Section 39032.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

     

    This is what you were cited for? It's not a VALID TICKET! He SHOULD have cited you under (B), and sent you to the referee. That is why the judge acted so suprised. You just paid a $25 fine for a fix it ticket which was INVALID. In fact, if the referee had looked at your car, and found you have removed required emissions devices, it's proof of (d) & (f) below! As I was inquiring, section (g) delineates the correction procedure.

     

    (B) No person shall operate or leave standing upon a highway a motor vehicle that is required to be equipped with a motor vehicle pollution control device under Part 5 (commencing with Section 43000) of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code or any other certified motor vehicle pollution control device required by any other state law or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to that law, or required to be equipped with a motor vehicle pollution control device pursuant to the National Emission Standards Act (42 U.S.C. 7521 to 7550, inclusive) and the standards and regulations adopted pursuant to that federal act, unless the motor vehicle is equipped with the required motor vehicle pollution control device that is correctly installed and in operating condition. No person shall disconnect, modify, or alter any such required device.

     

    © No person shall install, sell, offer for sale, or advertise any device, apparatus, or mechanism intended for use with, or as a part of, a required motor vehicle pollution control device or system that alters or modifies the original design or performance of the motor vehicle pollution control device or system.

     

    (d) If the court finds that a person has willfully violated this section, the court shall impose the maximum fine that may be imposed in the case, and no part of the fine may be suspended.

     

    (e) "Willfully," as used in this section, has the same meaning as the meaning of that word prescribed in Section 7 of the Penal Code.

     

    (f) No person shall operate a vehicle after notice by a traffic officer that the vehicle is not equipped with the required certified motor vehicle pollution control device correctly installed in operating condition, except as may be necessary to return the vehicle to the residence or place of business of the owner or driver or to a garage, until the vehicle has been properly equipped with such a device.

     

    (g) The notice to appear issued or complaint filed for a violation of this section shall require that the person to whom the notice to appear is issued or against whom the complaint is filed produce proof of correction pursuant to Section 40150 or proof of exemption pursuant to Section 4000.1 or 4000.2

     

    (h) This section shall not apply to an alteration, modification, or modifying device, apparatus, or mechanism found by resolution of the State Air Resources Board to do either of the following:

     

    (1) Not to reduce the effectiveness of a required motor vehicle pollution control device.

     

    (2) To result in emissions from the modified or altered vehicle that are at levels that comply with existing state or federal standards for that model-year of the vehicle being modified or converted.

     

    (i) Aftermarket and performance parts with valid State Air Resources Board Executive Orders may be sold and installed concurrent with a motorcycle’s transfer to an ultimate purchaser.

     

    (j) This section applies to motor vehicles of the United States or its agencies, to the extent authorized by federal law.

     

    Amended Ch. 27, Stats. 1994. Effective March 30, 1994.

    Amended Sec. 1, Ch. 325, Stats. 2007. Effective January 1, 2008.

     

    Additionally, read closely the section on fines for 'corrections':

     

    Proof of Correction of Violation: Transaction Fee

    40611. (a) Upon proof of correction of an alleged violation of Section 12500 or 12951, or any violation cited pursuant to Section 40610, or upon submission of evidence of financial responsibility pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 16028, the clerk shall collect a twenty-five-dollar ($25) transaction fee for each violation. The fees shall be deposited by the clerk in accordance with Section 68084 of the Government Code.

     

    (B) (1) For each citation, ten dollars ($10) shall be allocated monthly as follows:

     

    (A) Thirty-three percent shall be transferred to the local governmental entity in whose jurisdiction the citation was issued for deposit in the general fund of the entity.

     

    (B) Thirty-four percent shall be transferred to the State Treasury for deposit in the State Penalty Fund established by Section 1464 of the Penal Code.

     

    © Thirty-three percent shall be deposited in the county general fund.

     

    (2) The remainder of the fees collected on each citation shall be deposited in the Immediate and Critical Needs Account of the State Court Facilities Construction Fund, established in Section 70371.5 of the Government Code.

     

    © No fee shall be imposed pursuant to this section if the violation notice is processed only by the issuing agency and no record of the action is transmitted to the court.

     

    Somewhere in the back of the pulp edition of the CVC there is a list of violations. If what you were cited on your ticket does not correspond to this list, you can get it tossed. Likely 27156(B) is on there, and (a) is not... Too bad for you you didn't respond earlier.

     

    And to clarify, you WERE NOT TICKETED AS A GROSS POLLUTER, you were ticketed under the gross polluter section of the CVC, but (a) ONLY applies to the vehicles stated in that section --- i.e. those identified by section 39032.5, which REQUIRED A TEST AND FAILURE. Not a summary judgement by a roadside official with his eyes. He SHOULD have tagged you under (B), and that, is a hard lesson to learn. You could have skated on the $25 Ticket. If you had a friend with a Smog Check and were running Collector Car Insurance, your 73 would only be required to pass a sniffer test, and if you passed and weren't a gross polluter, you could have used that as evidence to prove you were not in (a) as well, and punctuated that with the 'I should not pay any fine whatsoever'....

     

    Technical, yes? Welcome to how they get you. Read the verbiage in the related sections, there is a LOT of 'If the investigating officer DECIDES TO TAKE ACTION.' Nothing COMMANDS him to if it does not immediately impact health and safety! Total discretion.

    Webers run cleaner than EFI?

    in Miscellaneous Tech

    Posted · Edited by Tony D

    Statement?  You did notice this in the subject>?

     

    Sorry, I wasn't paying attention in school when simply tacking on a "?" to a statement is considered proper form.

     

    You Suck!

    You Suck?

     

    Two different meanings.

     

    Do you Suck!

    Do you Suck?

     

    Two different meanings, and different than the first two. (BTW, "Statements" can be classified to all FOUR above...)

     

    Now:

    Do Webers run cleaner than EFI?

     

    Webers run cleaner than EFI?

     

    Which is a QUESTION, which is a STATEMENT?

     

    Floor needs mopped front to back.

    The floor needs to be mopped front to back.

     

    Which is correct? Dropping articles and prepositions might be cool in Philly, but I refuse to endorse someone who says 'he disrespected me'... It's 'he was not respectful' or other permutation. Regardless (or would you prefer irregardless?), a dropped word changes the meaning, regardless of a poorly tacked on punctuation. "Do you suck!" doesn't even make sense as a sentence...So in the same vein Do Webers run cleaner than EFI" does not simply change from question to statement with the addition of merely punctuation. At least not in proper English. Written or spoken. Even with inflection, your intent of asking a question would still be taken as a statement for refutation if uttered according to the punctuation alone. It's the dropped 'DO' that makes it egregious.

     

    You made a statement, then tacked on a question mark on the end. Not proper form, not a question. Interrogatory statement perhaps, but still a statement.

     

    Which you then backed up with anecdotal quips involving your nose and different setups.

     

    I think what I said about sums it up pretty well, poor anecdotal stories drawn to make a flawed statement.

    If it makes you happier:

    Poor anectotal stories drawn to make a flawed interrogatory statement.

     

    But a statement nonetheless...

    130mph floating issue

    in Windtunnel Test Results and Analysis

    Posted · Edited by Tony D

    But does your tach go up to 10k?? HMM??

     

    Actually, mine does!

     

     

    This was not 300Kph, though... :D

     

    Watch out for Urethane at serious speeds---unless you reinforce it the damn things will fold under and deform like crazy on a hot (or not so hot, if you are going fast enough!) day!!!

    Need help identifying light switch

    in S30 Series - 240z, 260z, 280z

    Posted · Edited by Tony D

    Photo Big Enough?

     

    Looks like a Late RHD Switch. The connector on the end will determine suitability, I think later models used a different connection (my 77 GS31 takes a different switch than my 75 GS30, for instance---the only difference being the connector to the dash harness.)

     

    Nothing special save for the plastic stalks. All the same switch components exist on LHD Stalks. As long as the plastic stalks are in good condition, you can swap components from LHD switch assemblies to 'rejuvinate' one that is no longer working.

     

    Done it many a time!

     

    But I'm curious why it "won't work" on a 240? The steering column is universal. With the correct surround, it will work just fine on a LHD Car, you will just be switching your signals with the right fingertip instead of the left. Someone who talks on the mobile a lot may find that useful...

    difference between branded aftermarket parts

    in Miscellaneous Tech

    Posted · Edited by Tony D

    "Sure everyone knows if you can sell a product for less, that's business."

     

    No, actually this is illegal in most commercial codes. If you can DEVELOP and manufacture/sell it for less is one thing. Imitating a product blatantly ripping of design features or outright shadow moulding aero parts for example...is a violation of most commercial codes. But most companies don't have the resources to back it up and spend $50,000 on a trial that will go on for years with the imitator eventually simply declaring bankruptcy and then opening up selling the same product with another name on the front of the building. Or adding a bump, ridge, or imperfection in the mold to call it 'their product'. (How much does Microsoft spend on Piracy, or MAC on rogue clones...and how much money do they have to dedicate to it???) Morally it's bankrupt, and the people that support it for the sake of 'saving money' will pay the price in the end.

     

    As for the commentary on JDM and markup prices. They have a set culture which allows them to do this. The reason you can go to any small town and find at least ONE speed shop that can get you ANYTHING is because of the strict control of retail pricing and markup between manufacturer and end seller. While the American Model is to buy at wholesale-direct prices from big stores, when's the last time you found S30 Aero Parts in stock at you local speed shop? Common to this day in Japan? Why? Pricing models that SUPPORT this kind of stocking. If it sits on the shelf for a while, and it's marked up 500%, the flooring costs will make it worthwhile.

     

    If you only mark it up 3%, it either moves, or you go out of business!

     

    I have watched this in Automotive Circles now for close to 35 years, and when I was initiated there was a lot of education from suppliers about patronizing them so they can have the profits to put back into developing obscure parts nobody else will do. I will name names: Cal Clark at Clark's Corvair Parts. While all the other manufacturers have gone out of business, or Cal has bought them up to keep their product available he still provides obscure and impossible to find NLA parts LONG after Chevrolet obsoleted them, and the mass market chains stopped providing CORRECT parts. Get a Corvair Alternator from Autozone and see what you will pay. Then take it apart and see if it's RIGHT!

     

    The support and technical assistance you get from the INNOVATORS requires support. You nickle and dime them, and they go out of business. When they are all gone, and you end up making the stuff yourself, don't cry about how all the vendors dried up.

     

    "Don't begrudge a man a living." is how I've heard it said in the U.K., and you find guys there who will still cast custom heads, and make body panels for long-extinct cars. That attitude is not present here in the USA. It is in Japan.

     

    Beware of chasing the 'best' price, many times it isn't...in the long run the price you pay is far more expensive. Morally, and in the continued availability of parts.

     

    BTW, quickly do a CPI cost revision for something like a G-Nose from Nissan circa 1990 to the present day. Before the yen dropped from 268 to 131, a G-Nose from Nissan IN JAPAN was around $1500 (around 400,00 yen) US, and in the USA it was $3000. Inflationary pressures would have made that $1500 now cost $2600...

     

    With the current rate of exchange that price (in Yen, in Japan which is what it would still be around...) would be equivalent to $4600 (5300 at Nissan if they kept the same yen markup from the original pricing, if Nissan kept the same markup adjusted for inflation on the DOLLAR cost it would be near $10K!)

     

    Look at what they replicants cost. And what the improved American Parts cost here on this shore available from ONE parts source.

     

    People remember what it cost 20 years ago and think today's price is outrageous. They never stick it into the CPI Inflation Price Indicator and find out that what was $3000 in 1989 would have t0 sell for at least $5265 today to simply keep up with inflation! If it's cheaper today than yesterday...someone's cut costs or changed content...or both!

    Webers run cleaner than EFI?

    in Miscellaneous Tech

    Posted

    Yes, it's an oranges to apples comparo, the reason such anecdotal snippets are best not turned into irrational jumps to judgement.

     

    People now committing suicide have been in CLOSED garages and have failed to kill themselves due to CO percentages being catalyzed to nothing. And most will tell you that if the injection is working and calibrated properly the catalyst is along for the ride until you make a transient (accelerate, decelerate, etc) at which point 'scrubbing' occurs. Later four way catalysts actually result in cleaner air out of the vehicle than what went in in some bizzare cases! The Engelhardt Catalyst Company was working on Low Temperature Catalysts for the radiator fins and taking hot engine bay air on some Loncolon Mercury products because the latent HC in the ambient air was enough to throw the emissions readings off enough to skew and fail a federal testing regimen!

     

    It's a flawed anecdotal comment not thoroughly researched with a hasty conclusion drawn to make the original statement. Empirically it has not been proven, but then again a 30 year old system being compared to something new and adjustable is not the best thing to start with...

    Help Identifying Triple Weber Intake Manifold

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted · Edited by Tony D

    I knew I'd seen it elsewhere.... Thanks, Alan! :D

     

    In ever-Japanese fashion, I have a nice decal adorning my tool box that says "F.E.T. Kyokuto"---they were all over the place 84-89!

     

    Just got another F.E.T. manifold via EMS from Mr. Okamura.(the one with the balance tube and "F.E.T." on the removable balance tube cover...) Heading back to KIX to meet him and take the train over to Hiroshima for some work at JFE Steel on 8 May... Just in time for the next crop of new magazines to hit the news stands. Means I have to pack an extra bag, that weight allowance is a killer when you're packing solid books in there! :P

     

    Egads, I just realized that is the same manifold on my old HKS ITB's! (The one in this post!)

    Slavaged title...Bad?

    in S30 Series - 240z, 260z, 280z

    Posted

    Lot of speculation here on salvage titles. Got news, you have an old car that gets a dent in it....say a daily driver 280Z with flat paint that blue book values at $1500-2000.

     

    If that dent costs more than 50% of the blue book cost of the vehicle to repair (in this case $750-1000) then you will get a check for the car of the blue book value, and usually minus the 'salvage' value of the vehicle, generally aobut $500. Meaning they cut you a check for $1000 if you are on the low end of the scale.

     

    You retain the vehicle, get roughly enough to fix your car, but since it was written off as a cost saver by the insurance company, you are saddled with the 'salvage' title.

     

    WHY it was salvaged is more important than the title saying that...it can always be 'washed' to get rid of that tag...

     

    Having had a car salvaged, my insurance stated salvage vehicles are valued at 50% of blue book. When I bought my wife a 1993 Geo Prisim (in 1994) blue book was $12,000 for the car, I bought it for $3500 as it was chop-shop recovery front of one car, back of another, and drivetrain from a third. LAPD had the car reconstructed and used it in drug stings for 6 months putting 22K miles on it. I got it for half salvage blue book, and when my wife was hit 5 years later the car was again 'totaled' and the insurance company wanted to pay out 'salvage value' for the car, which was blue-booked at $7000 by then, but they only paid $3500.

     

    My wife then sold the car to a Mexican for $600 and a baby goat. With the $600 we bought a male goat, and feed. Within 6 months the goats bred and produced triplets on the first mating/gestation cycle. We sold each of the babies around easter to more Mexicans (mmmm, tender easter baby goat....) for $150 each. We then sold the pair (Leo and Geo---Geo being the female named thusly due to the car-connection, Leo named because it sounded too cool) for $575 to someone else who was jazzed to pick up a known mating pair of goats that had a propensity to produce multiple offspring.

     

    So for me, 'salvage title' is not something which turns me off. I did pretty well by it, and you can too. Generally in CA a car in that condition would maybe sell for $1500 if it was running and driving with current registration. That it doesn't run and has incomplete registration means half that would be fair (again, if it was running). Not running? Maybe $500 would be my offer, and likely that would depend on what I saw when I inspected the car. There aren't a lot of connections below 'the water line' in a Z, as you described the damage. RUST would be my primary concern.

     

    I wouldn't give a second thought to 'salvage', on a 240Z, despite what some have said---it won't matter near as much. Collector Cars aren't playing by the same rules. A 280Z though isn't a 240 (facts are facts) and are viewed like other cars for the most part, so this may or may not affect resale if you decide to go sell it at a later date.

     

    I would have NEVER sold the Geo had it not gotten in the accident. It looked like hell, my wife had put over 120K miles on it, and it still started and drove fine...but we needed a small truck, and the profits we got off the sale of the car put us over the top to buy a Y2K Frontier Cash on the Barrelhead. So still no car payment, haven't had one, don't plan on starting to, either! :D

    L26 with MN47 Head

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

     

    Absolute, total and positive bullshite. This goes to show that a high post count doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're talking about. That is some anal bloviation in that post. First class fertilizer!

     

    In fact, if I'm in a junkyard, and see a good cam it's easier for me to simply undo the towers and take the whole thing---I've several heads from Japan that had been milled top and bottom for true, and the towers have gone missing, so 'spare towers are a good thing'!

     

    If they are welded to repair the bearing surfaces (?!) you could line-bore them to restore an individual tower. Or if they had bearing inserts added (?!?!?) you could line bore them...

     

    But knocking them around with a mallet will get your alignment juuuust fine. Been doing it for 20+ years without incident. And this is not a 'screwing your sister' example, either!

     

    If the towers were so critical....how do you correct top of cylinder head warpage? Replace the head with a new assembly????????? This is common machine / millwright practice here, nothing rocket-science level involved. Apparently the poster hasn't actually come out of mom's basement to work on an L-Head in the real world... B)

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