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I believe Alan Thomas provided the translation of the characters the last time this manifold was posted up online.
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the bathurst series would be a good start, why not just find a cable network that shows the aussie and NZ races? heck hamilton runs the supercars aroudd the city streets like the Monaco GP.
Maybe do a race round washington DC and the capitol, GTA rules, 100 points per congressman and 500 points per senator?
Deathrace 2010: DC!
I'd watch that, and with the definite time limit before senators and congressmen are 'sent to the streets' to particpiate in mandatory competition against constitutents who are driving high-powered cars, I can see a healthy feeder series locally as well!
If we could only get our footy rules to come in line with down under, we could fix that snooze-fest as well!
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Well, he did have that escape cottage on the lake, with the Chris Craft...
Guess he was doing O.K., since he got it back from his second wife after the divorce...
If THAT doesn't take decent income, I don't know what does!
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Doc O was a great guy, and a big reason I decided to do what I ended up doing.
Guy was old, like 65, big as a bear. Had cancer snips from his nose and ears from spending so much time on the lake.
Always came back with a story from the prior week's consultations. He did 'neat things' like design a device to walk down the legs of oil platforms in the gulf. It used triplex pumps to pressurize the water into high pressure jets to blast the corrosion off the legs down to bare metal. His biggest challenge was working up the compound to inject into the water that, when exposed to saltwater and bare metal, had an affinity to the bare metal and would coat it like paint when combining with the saltwater.
He brought back lengths of pipe from that job, and had me sink them to a specific depth around his gate because he had a suspicion that a particular make/model of car kept backing into and ruining his gate. Sunk those posts to allow the rear axle to slip over, but then catch when run the other way. It worked. One morning a 67 Impala was dug into a hole with the axle half ripped-out from it. "This is what happens when you repeatedly mess with an Engineer's Gate" is what he told the guy!
Back in the 60's he sued the gypsum company on the bay and went to MI supreme court to regulate the loading hours of their ships. They contended their company was there before any residents were there. They were wrong. He had his place there in the early 40's, before their dock came in in the mid 50's. Recently, the local town council allowed different loading hours after the company talking heads appeared in front of them using the same argument. I was shocked to find out old timers remembered the Doc when they used his MI Supreme Court Case to get the loading hours put back to where they were originally. Guess if you wait long enough....
He was a real character. Had free cable TV in every room of the cabin, AND the garage, PLUS weather-resistant cable connections on the deck, and near the beach by the dock. That was because he owned from US23 down to the lake, and the cable company HAD to cross his property to service those south of him. They sent a letter for free access 'in perpetuity' Doc Responded with a letter saying he got as many connections, and all services offered by the company free of charge, and for all subsequent owners, lessors, and heirs of his property 'in perpetuity'... All I can think now is 'man that's the ultimate cable modem / playboy channel beach-house! Had the first 50HP Mercury Outboard ever released to the public, serial number 1 or 2. Was on that Chris-Craft. Man, about this time of the year(first weekend in April, usually Easter Weekend) we would be out in the water of Lake Huron putting in his 125 foot dock...
Yes, it was as cold as you think it would be at that time in Tawas Bay! Three years I put that thing in the water in Easter, and three years I took it out the last weekend before Bowhunting Season Started (Michiganders know when that day is....) Yes, the water was as cols as you think it would be at that time of the year as well...
I digress, but as you guess, he really made an impression on me. The first engineer I dealt with that wasn't behind a drawing board all day, or in an office all the time. He went into the field and solved problems. And that was SOOOO cool!
Now, what the hell did he start with me? 106 Days in the USA last year....
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Talk with the V8 Supercar People in Australia.
More Road Courses...
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Four Cylinder?
How about a Six?
205 to the rear wheels out of 1998cc's and under 11:1 compression...
Looks better in 480p resolution, big or little!
Yeah, non-crossflow SOHC here as well...
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Cos error.... Damn, we DO use that math!
I'll never forget working a summer job for a brilliant Chemical Engineer, PE, PhD, Professor Emeritus at MSU...we were cutting down some tall trees at his lakeside retreat one weekend. He says "How tall do you figure these things have gotten, do you think they will reach the house?"
So I pace off a distance, turn around, move my arm and sight along it, and state "82 feet Tall"
He looked at me, and with a scoffing tone said "Well, Hercules, why do you say 82 feet?"
"My pace is 11 for 30 feet, I walked out till I got a 45 degree angle, sighted to the top of the tree, calculated my shoulder is 5 feet tall and the Tan45=1, so that makes a right triangle with two equal sides so add the distance from my feet to the last angle being about 5 feet, and the last angle is 82 feet from the base."
His shoulders slumped and he just looked at me and said "I'm an engineer, I know that! Why that didn't occur to me puzzles me."
Dropped it with no cares, as the house was 90 feet in any direction from the base of the tree. The tallest point was 7'9" from the house. I was off by 3"! Yes, the FIRST thing he did was take out the tape measure and check the clearance from the house. He just kept shaking his head. Coolest guy in the world to work for as a summer job.
After that little incident, I got the key to the gate, the Chris Craft, and the Beer Cooler
Math: "It comes in handy once and a while!"
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I know we gained 3mph at 140 by ditching that littel BRE-Styled Decklid Spoiler...
At 173+mph, I'm thinking Hood Pins may make a difference, especially when they are measuring my speed to three decimal places.
It is all a matter of degrees in the form of competition you have chosen to participate. I laugh when people tell me to lighten my car to make it go faster. I put 250# of concrete in the spare tire well on top of a fuel tank full of 16 gallons of water and went 4mph faster than I did without it in there! Didn't have wheel spin problems either...
Little things matter. And Matter More the faster you go...
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Distributor Mechanical Advance Curve is abvailable in the FSM.
I can't recall if they have a chart for vacuum advance as well, but I think they do.
Yes, I'm still up, I haven't reverted to the west coast time in the USA...
I only returned on Friday. Sorry I didn't get a chance to call and say 'bye' Mark...
I went to Fours -vs- Rotaries and did some posed photos in front of Atlas Copco Blacktown that third weekend. And I did get my shirts at HD B-Town before I left.
Pete, you didn't answer the phone...
Yes, 0404611119 was me! (Expired on the 13th....I've been using my excess Vodaphone Minutes here in the USA to make international calls---you know how Vodaphone offers "$1200 in call credit" and you figure nobody will EVER use that much? In a bit over a WEEK I made a concerted effort and have gotten it down to $200 by my calculations...muahahahaaaaaa!)Maybe next startup...
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I really get dejected when people make ignorant commentary when they have never used something.
I have used the Colortune for over 30 years now... Bought the first one when they were still using Anodised Aluminum Tubing for the Riser/Shade and Stainless Steel Mirrors (not the plastic and vapor-chrome crap on my last set...)
Yes, I bought my first set in late 1977 or early 1978 to do jetting on Flat Six engines. In the early 90's I lent them to someone who shall remain nameless, and I lost my original set. While in Wales, I REPURCHASED a set of two to continue quick tuning as I always have. At the time of the original purchase, and even today, they are about the least expensive reliable way to tell what your mixture is, and they are REPEATABLE from engine to engine and test to test. If you were dyno tuning years ago, this was faster than the Gas Analyzers in some cases... And transient effects of accelerator pump adjustment was ALWAYS a dream for EGT, and until the Horibas got fast, AFR Sensors were too slow to pick that up till comparatively recently.
While you say EGT or AFR will tell you all this----you tell me how you're going to do it for $160 (pair of two Colortunes, but that's my preference you can do just fine with one...) now try doing AFR or EGT in 1979, 1989, 1999, and even up to last year and give me the prices on those two respective analysis instruments. In 1978, and into the late 80's AFR was thousands of dollars to reliably measure. EGT was and is still several hundred dollars for multiple cylinder setups...
If you take the time to learn how to use it, it's damned decent for a tuning tool. FAR more accurate than 'your nose or guessing'...
You want quantification of results, the AFR where you see visible black smoke out the tailpipe on an L-Engine is around 10:1. You get a consistent "Any idiot can see this is orange" 'orange' flame in a Colortune around 12:1, which is where they tell you that you are TOO RICH... If you use it and start to understand the orange licking means around 13:1 the progression makes easy enough approximation. But they won't say this in the brochure from 1995...or 1977. Someone with WBO2 who has both can quantify it that way.
Don't need to drill any holes in anything to use a Colortune.
Don't need a battery connection to use a Colortune.
Basically all you need is a spark plug wrench and one good eye (or one good eye after correction...)
From my experience, it is what it says it is, and considering when it was originally conceived, it's a brilliant little tool! I have no complaints. The addled youth of today may not have the skills to adequately master it's nuances, though. Just my bit of personal opinion there, it doesn't have LED's, it doesn't flash at you or make noise. It requires you to observe something closely for changes. The closer and better your powers of observation, the better you will find it works.
Have the eyesight of a syphalitic one-eyed pirate and an attention span of a Ritalin Test Case, and you will likely be disapointed. Then again, you would likely try snorting the anti-seize and white deposits from the O2 sensor in that case as well...
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Older 18RG or 2TG are bolt-in JDM fittments for that chassis.
Seen Nissan FJ20ET's in there, as well as any number of late model Hondas with 240HP on tap.
Check out the Japanese Classic Car Show albums (http://www.japaneseclassiccarshow.com/) they have a buttload of Celicas/Corollas/Coronas with replacement for the Refrigeration Powerplant R-Series SOHC donks we got in the States...
One day, I'll scan some of the photos of my 77 Liftback (powered by a 18RG-R from a 73 GSS Corolla, all 145HP worth!)
There's a reason I stuck with the Z's: The Toyota couldn't handle it!
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Translation of JeffP into Dead Languages for Romans:
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa
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"Location of the tip is irrelevant in THIS case."
Please explain, the way you wrote it, it appears you have a different exhaust system on it now than before, therefore making where it discharges pertinent...
Unless the 2.5" non-cat setup was on the car with the ECCS as well.
A five-gas will tell the tale. Fumes into the car are more than just mixture or fuel delivery...
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I would agree on the cast impeller comment. I have seen stamped steel items go away in less than 6 months after installation if the coolant has gone slightly acidic! I stopped using them altogether after seeing several do the exact same thing.
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Hey man, I was definitely planning on using some form of molded plastic or ABS. I'm not sure what material you were envisioning that is so fragile.. Fiberglass???
I contacted a few plastics molders and they were only interested in jobs of 10000 or more. I think thats a bit out of my league for now.
The problem is the cost of developing an ABS mold. If the demand was there, and I could convince a bank that there were 10000 people dying for these things, then maybe we could get this thing done. For now though i think i may have to figure out another way.
Well then, it looks like you have handily answered your own question!
Just buck up enough for 10K units, and you can give them away cheaply enough. Don't use the bank, though interest would run up the costs. Just do it cash. You'll get your money back eventually. Probably. Maybe.
Dash caps are available out there, I believe they are ABS already...
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I am pilloried there more and more regularly.
John Galt has become my hero...
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Ahhh, the butt dyno of the nose...
Stick a gas analyzer up the tailpipe and do a 5 gas on both the setups tuned comparably and tell us what you find...
Then do it again 30 seconds after startup at 30F
Then do it again 30 seconds after startup at 130F
Then do it again 30 seconds after startup at -30F
After that, start to draw conclusions, and then we can move on to 'under load' testing.
BTW, is it possible your 2.5" exhaust moves the tailpipe to a proper area for exhaust? If 'not smoking' is a criteria (that is below 10.5:1 AFR, btw, on non-catalyzed L-Engines...) you may want to re-evaluate that butt-dyno-nose of yours!
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I don't see running cooler at 75 than 55 as an issue, so the 'I haven't figured that one out yet' was more a rhetorical question. I don't spend much time trying to figure out why it's working so well unless someone is paying me to figure it out! Common sense would say higher load would generate more heat, but my temperature won't start to rise until extended running near 'go to jail' speeds in CA...
Even then, it only comes up to 180/185F.... And that's with a three core radiator!
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Those are MIKUINI carburettors (click and enlarge the photo, and this becomes obvious), and came on Toyota 2TG and 18RG engines into the early 80's. (Please understand MIKUINI PHH Series Carburettors are SOLEX LICENSE, All the early Mikuini Carbs had SOLEX on the jet cover originally as per the license agreement...)
They work fine on the L-Engine, it was a common swap in Japan since they were so plentiful. These aren't the 'latest' version used in the 80's on Camry's and etc, but late 70's carbs. They only have a couple of emissions components. If you get a standard 'square top PHH' cover, it will replace the Toyota Cover and they will be indistinguishable from non-emissions carbs.
Later carbs have some wires connected to the cover to warm bimetallic strips for some EVAP and Starter functions.
Earlier carbs from Toyotas have 44mm bores and spacers to make them 'neck down' at the front to 40mm. Usually people will run without those (that's what the front dimpled bosses on the carbs are for, guys....the ones that aren't drilled on the 44phh and later 40phh's!) as the carb flows better without them, you use 44mm velocity stacks.
Man, I can't count how many of those I've put on Z's and Skylines when I was in Japan. The FET may have a hood clearance issue, depending on the height of the crossbar heim joints. I just picked up another FET manifold like that off Yahoo Japan Auctions (thanks yetterben!) and was looking at it in the box today! I have plans for this one...especially for the price I got it for!
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The attached file should shed some light on what is up regarding 'coolant flow testing' currently underway...
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I've run a 350HP+ Turbocharged 240Z in SoCal Deserts since moving here in 1989 and with a three core radiator have NEVER had cooling problems. Understand where "I'm coming from:" If there is a problem that is making you overheat on a basically stock turbo fix that issue first before moving on to this modification series.
Jumping to this as some "miracle cure" for an engine which should NEVER overheat is NOT the right way to go! This is akin to putting a band-aid on an aortic hemmorage caused by a needle puncture. You stop that little irritation on the surface, but inside, you're falling to hell quickly!
The troubleshooting procedures for a car doing what you say yours is doing is clear cut. Putting this modification will NOT solve the issue.
Identify, Verify, Isolate, Repair, Operationally Check
Given what you say, my SWAG is your fan is a POS and not doing the job, and/or the radiator cap has taken a crap/is leaking. My electric fan will kick on at 170, cool the engine to 155 and shut back off in the scenario you describe. I run cooler at 65 than I do at 55. I run the same temperature from 30mph in 5th gear to 55, where I get a little bit cooler. Up to about 100mph when it starts adding some heat to the 175-185 F range into the radiator. Old 1989 vintage MSA 3-Core Radiator.
People tend to put a lot of stuff in their car thinking they are doing something better than stock, when in fact its not very well thought out or engineered nearly as well as the OEM piece removed.
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A roadside officer can not 'tack you as gross polluter' --- he can send you to a mandatory REFEREE STATION for a check, and the REFEREE can tag you as a 'gross polluter', but a law enforcement officer does not have that power, that resides ONLY with the BAR. Gross polluter does not have ANYTHING to do with a court appearance!
Please post the EXACT CVC VIOLATION as listed on your ticket. You are either not interpreting what is being told to you correctly, being misinformed, or simply posting B.S... one of the three.
If you are misinterpreting his saying you need to go to a referee station for a smog check before your court date, best get ready to ask for a continuance to do so when you arrive in court.
But what you were cited for is CLEARLY written on the ticket. I really want to know what you were REALLY cited for now. Given the re-read of your original post, it sounds like he sent you to the referee (show him your smog certificate) and have another cop sign it off. You make the assumption he told you something you didn't need to do: get a smog certificate. They CAN tell you to do this on ANY US vehicle from 1954 and newer, and any Import from 1966 and newer. Yes you have to go to the smog check (referee) if they tell you to, there is no 'exemption'...
Seriously though, post the CVC section you were cited under, it's on your ticket.
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We've all heard that "there is no such thing as a stupid question." Obviously there is such a thing as stupid response.
Don't ever, ever EVER go to ZC.C, you will be shattered beyond belief, Sparky!
You WILL see stupid questions (yes, indeed, they DO exist) and those stupid responses as well!
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Samurai syndrome? Swerve a few times with a high CoG...
I owned a Samurai for years... I owned a Samurai... Never came close to flipping it, sliding it sideways on a regular basis. I never seemed to be able to get to that 37.5 mph speed it took to get it to flip like CU determined. I guess the answer is drive slower or faster and you're fine, just don't go anywhere at 37.5 mph.
Samurai flipping is like Audi Sudden Acceleration (or is that Toyota now, or ZXT's in the early 80's...)
More media hype that truth to the real world experience of the owners.
He was a real character. Had free cable TV in every room of the cabin, AND the garage, PLUS weather-resistant cable connections on the deck, and near the beach by the dock. That was because he owned from US23 down to the lake, and the cable company HAD to cross his property to service those south of him. They sent a letter for free access 'in perpetuity' Doc Responded with a letter saying he got as many connections, and all services offered by the company free of charge, and for all subsequent owners, lessors, and heirs of his property 'in perpetuity'... All I can think now is 'man that's the ultimate cable modem / playboy channel beach-house! 
Need ideas for a progressive throttle on Derek's EFI manifold
in Nissan L6 Forum
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The Chris Craft has elaborate bellcrank linkages as well. It was directly related, but I edited that part out since it was incongruent in my idol worship of Dr. O.
The inference to be drawn was get a divorce, remarry a trophy wife, and ALSO get a place on the lake to relax with a bellcrank-actuated Chris-Craft Vintage Wood Hulled Boat.
You have to read closely to pick up the genius in some of my posts. Like looking at photos in the How to Modify Book, the answers are right before you, but I can only present the water to the horses....it is up to them to sniff and lick accordingly...