Tony D

Maybe pass out flyers at the Group Z Meeting, second Thursday of every month at Fuddruckers in Buena Park (same place for longer than I can recall, and that's 1991...) http://www.groupz.com

Look under the valve cover on the link I gave. Look closely... Muahahahahaha!

I am getting wood over the vintage engine. Oooooh so badly it is desired... The Moser is neat, but not in the same way the second one is! My preference runs to Schubeck's DOHC Efforts. If you see it, you will see why. http://www.schubeckracing.com/new2/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=12&MMN_position=52:52 (Secret)

I gave mine 1/2 turn preload as I recall. The biggest thing, as you noticed, was the quadrant angle not being correct. Should be very soft to the touch, especially with the S30 pivot setup. Make sure the linkages are the same, the arms are at the same angle, and that the throttles are all balanced---no difference in flow front barrel to back. if you have a twisted shaft the one will stick all the time. To compensate you end up having to open them all slightly, and that puts your idle speed all to hell! Best to idle them closed and use a bypass circuit for idle.

Cotter-Pinned Hammered-On lug nuts beats me, hands down. I stand dumbfounded! LOL

How about a "Daeron Mulligan" regarding the L20, L20A, and L20B. You see, FIRST there was the L20. Theromstat housing was on the other side, and valve cover was way different (More Mercedes-Like with hold down bolts in the center). THEN came the L20A... THEN, well later in 4 cylinder L Engine development came the L20B, and even later the LZ20. I figured I wasn't going to parse the semantics when he called it an L20, which was NEVER offered in any S30 Platform. It was started with the offering of the L20A. At least nobody claimed a 'four cylinder Z' they say they personally saw way back when in some guys barn that 'came from the factory that way, all original' (substitute 'Corvair' and the same urban myth exists...) Semantics? Semantics anyone? And L20 is not an L20A. And I'm sure Alan T. has some photos to prove that one. I know he does! LOL

I tried posting this yesterday but my fat fingers deleted it.... Got to taking a car apart this past weekend, and found the lugnuts 'mushy' to come off... Figure it was a past cross thread, dirt in the threads, whatever. But it never gets any better. All the way off thing kinda is hard to remove. Get it off, lug stud is O.K., lug nut? What? That.... That.... That looks like a Helicoil!:shock::shock: Sure enough, I peel it out and it's a thread insert. Someone helicoiled a STOCK lug nut. Meh, says I, and over the fence it goes to the neighbors never-mowed back 40. I don't want that anywhere around. Now, not to be outdone in a Cheap of Cheap, it went quickly to not simply cheap, but ignorant, then to fullblown stupidity. Long story short 13 of 16 lug nuts were helicoiled. 2 of the remaining three were thread-pulled and ONE COUNT'EM ONE was a perfectly good stock conical seat lugnut. I got three words to describe that experience, acronymed as follows: "W.T.F."?

Megadittos....

That Weber 45 is a colossal fail. They tried it on Corvairs and honestly had better luck reaming Jag 2" SU jets oversize and using hand tapered brazing rod needles to supply the fuel. A single 45DCOE no matter WHAT jets you run and WHAT venturis you run will not be able to supply enough fuel for ANY serious amount of power. Honestly a Rochester 2G would be as good.... come to look at it closer, that's a Crown Kit, with a Corvair E-Flow on it, using hte Clarks or Otto Parts adapter. I can attest that setup is sh*t! Your only hope on it would be to run a TWM ITB with some 1100cc injectors. THEN the frame of a 45DCOE could supply enough fuel for some power.... Yeeeech! Am I reading that right? $1500 asking price for a Non-Windshielded Z? MAN my inventory just went up in value by a factor in that case!!!

Make sure the engine doesn't have the 8qt Nissan Competition Sump on it... But even then, using the dipstick on level ground still works. Fill till full, run engine and check for leaks, stop engine, check and top off to operating level.

JeffP has Photos, but I'm thinking at this point 'not for public consumption' just yet...

My first car was used. My last car was used. I don't own a new car. My first car had a license plate frame that said the following, and it still applies today: "I drive this because I want to, not because I have to!" And I ain't Jay Leno. The less I spend on a canvas, the more I can spend on paint, brushes, and content. Many of the masters painted over their own paintings to save on the canvas costs. Their work endures. There were plenty of aristocrats of the same era that fancied themselves artists that painted profusely, each on a new canvas. Their work usually ended up keeping some of the servants warm in a fireplace somewhere in the castle eventually. You're just looking at it the wrong way!

Man, I have to WORK today and I can't devote time to this thread. Damn damn damn damn! I'll link JeffP to it so he can theorize, he has less work to do than me today (I assume...) Good questions. Especially about his 0.63A/R housing (or 0.82, I forget which).

I have been called an arrogant bastard for making that very same comment! How true it is, though. I guess people don't like being referred to a 'common' or 'average'! BTW, that OS Gikken Head is actually a $100K engine buildup as they will only use the heads they have remaining if they assemble it in it's entirety. $10K seems like a big discount! As for falling over themselves to buy a set... is this an official order thread now? I wasn't aware. I may have to send a P.M.!!! That will upset the wife to no end...but I think The Blue Turd deserves a distinctive induction setup from "That Horny Z Guy"! Will you have that cast into the flange, Derek? "THZG Casting Works"

5.25 Qts after starting the engine to circulate and to fill the filter...

Looks like a Grant knockoff of a Nardi

As it is, most manufacturers are unwilling to undergo any major product improvements during the projected lifecycle of a vehicle now as it is, because changing anything leaves the uninformed jury members open to the lawyer's question of 'why did you redesign this part? Obviously you thought something was deficient in your original design, therefore you were negligent in the original design. Vannilla Cars just like everybody else's through the liability avoidance 'guidance' of the legal department. The pervasive nature of this within the USA can not be discounted. It colors your life and vehicle/parts choices almost every day. You really don't notice it till you go away and come back to it. It's stark. The inability to get OEM replacement parts for light aircraft is an excellent example of it which can be deduced directly from the court actions. There is little other reason for the decline, when parts sales were steady due to the inspection/retirement cycles required for airworthiness. It's just a segment of commerce that goes away.

I don't see why you couldn't... Especially for the price! I should buy one of those MSA pipes for my wife's car come to think of it...

Do this where it's warm, it increases effectiveness of the solution. Though likely it wouldn't freeze at that temperature, merely turn to slush (unless it's C, in which case get out there and work!)

All I remember was it was specified as being for a Mitsubishi---I can't remember which one, maybe a Non-Turbo 4G63 from the mid-late 80's? This was 91 when I did this, so it wasn't anything newer than that! The rubber grommet on the PCV fit RIGHT into that hole with the pipe removed. I think it was a valve that stuck into the valve cover of the Mitsu as I recall. Might have been a Dodge D50 or Colt that I snared it out of in the JY. I am such a parts whore it's not funny. I have another drawthrough system (er... perhaps I should not admit this here, some people will gnash their teeth knowing I preserve old school technology...) And at various times have run the Crown, Modified Crown, Turbo Toms, SK, and HKS setups on my car. Add to that several years before getting into Datsuns, various VW and Corvair Turbo Ventures and you can see why I got hung with the name 'turbotony' which is my e-mail at some webservers...

My numbers were examples of pulling fuel after peak torque compared to what everybody seems to say which is 'Shoot for this AFR across the board'... Jeff and I dyno testing (and Bryan as well) have seemed to mirror the fact that the engines make far more power by PULLING fuel after peak torque than by keeping it as rich as it was coming UP to peak torque. That was the intent of the post, not to specify a magic AFR that should be used. I mean, you got to admit---there is NO WAY I would have EVER thought we would have cool EGT and keep making power to 13.8AFR! But it did, and it was consistent.

I used a Mitsubishi PCV Valve that plugged RIGHT into the side of the block, and removed the pipe entirely. The Mitsu valve was plumbed to vacuum in the manifold between carb and turbo and as I recall was restricted with a 0.063" orifice internally. The top of my valve cover had the deriguer K&N filter installed. But this was in my old Drawthrough days. Dark days indeed. Yes, it will pull out: channel locks may break it free, or you may have to clamp a vice grips onto it and knock the grips with a hammer to get it free. Tightening it back up can be accomplished by soldering on that end, or laying some thin braze to increase the diameter slightly and then sanding it down till you can pound it back in (if it's too loose for your tastes, use some pliable sealant if you didn't solder/braze all-round).

Put an additional linkage on the cross/transfer bar, and use holes in it to set your spring tension on the transfer bar for 'feel trim'. What you ARE missing is the stock return spring on the cross/transfer bar---it's a large coil spring that usually wraps around a specific spring arm, and is backed against one of the heim joints. It is a STOUT spring which makes the linkages pop up on release of throttle. One other thing you could investigate is removing your two springs and put a compression spring on your throttle cable (like an old VW) which would pull your quadrant back to a starting point set by a cable stop on the cable itself. Also, your throttle quadrant is set so that you will take a HUGE effort to move it off-idle the way you have it set. If you will rotate it anticlockwise as viewed from the firewall maybe 15 degrees it will take FAR less effort to move it off idle even with huge spring pressure. I set up my quadrant to have my pedal floorboarded and the ITB's at WOT. To do this, I had to alter the pedal stop on the throttle pedal inside the passenger's compartment, and lower the throttle pedal down to almost the level of the brake pedal (darn the coincidence there!) At idle, for smoothest pull the quadrant should have the cable tangential to it, you are bisecting the arc the quadrant will travel through. You may want to try rotating it 15-30 degrees anticlockwise before changing anything and see if you are still O.K... Like I said, you may have to lower the pedal stop, but likely it will make your setup operate FAR smoother than it currently does. Good Luck, Cheers!

Rolling Parts hit it dead on, Lawyers were actually applying modern day liability mentality to products Piper made and designed in the 40's. Their argument was they were liable for these 'negligent designs' some 50 years AFTER THE FACT. There was legislation passed capping liability...not sure on the details exactly, but it was explained to me as a 'statute of limitations' in regards to general aviation aircraft after a set number of years. Basically after a given time unit, the liability transfers from the original manufacturer to the maintenance companies keeping the bird aloft (or not...as the case may be!) It makes common sense, but it almost killed general aviation manufacture in the USA. Firestone 'low temperature rated' tires may be a slight misnomer. The inflation issues for a 'soft carlike ride' did not correspond to Firestone's load rating. Exploders did have issues in Saudi well before they had them in the USA, and running at 100+ mph across a desert at 130+ F can be considered "Extreme" but in the USA, the heat was not really the issue so much as it was improper inflation pressures. Same as the Corvair in the 60 when the lawyer nader argued that reading your owners manual is too much to expect from the average car owner. I mean, you spend $30K for something and you don't even read the manual? The issue of selling tires that are more than 3 years old as 'new' is both an ethical and moral issue, but we can't have that in business any longer, it's all predicated by lawyers and legislation. Prevailing wisdom is now (as taught in business schools) 'if there isn't legislation against it, push the envelope' ... they do, and actuarials do the CBA on potential liability and they go from there. Not a moral leadership whatsoever. "Who is John Galt?"

Ahhh, for the days when you would go to Nissan and put the Nissan Part Number in for the FRP doors (Hatch, Hood...) that accepted all the stock linkages (and the perspex windows were in stock ready for shipment as well...)