Tony D

yep... yep... yep... Do they still use the term 'ate-up maggot'? LOL

for some reason, this didn't post last evening: "Ours was built in a shed in Claremont"

You do know the 'WOT' contacts on the switch are active at 35% throttle opening, right? Probably a better idea is to use a latching relay and an RPM sensitive switch from an MSD or someting. (Aux Relay driver off a MS box...) Or a Hobbs Pressure Switch in conjunction with a dual-stage boost controller. Set the Hobbs to activate at 7psi, and open the dump, and use a boost controller with 5 and 28psi as your two normal driving modes. During low boost, the cutout is not activated, but once you switch to 'high boost' the hobbs will open at 7psi giving you a straightpipe for the rest of the time on boost. Maybe a slight timer delay on reclosing, and that would take care of lifting for shifts. Then again, I was always happy with a T-Handle next to the seat on the trany tunnel... New electric ones are nice, as you can use a small switch instead.

Yeah.... "Dighera, I always new there was something about you..." TSgt Smith, 18EMS Orderly Room There was an E5 Giveaway? I was one of two who made the cut out of 400 in PACAF. At that point, I was redlined for 'quality force' reasons. I guess being competent and meeting all fitness requirements other than being 'overweight' (with <7% BodyFat via Immersion Nomogram) was enough to disqualify you for service in 1989. My Shop Chief was livid 'Oh, we're going to fight this!' Chief, the only reason you give a crap about me is because you want to go to AWACS AGE and brag your troop was one of two in PACAF to make the Staff Cut in the career field (and I was #1, blew away the cut on first testing cycle I was eligible with minimum time in grade, and APR's that went 9,9,7,9... Not a great thing for WAPS) Some times I have to laugh at the rules they made back then. I hear it's worse now for some things. Nothing like entrenching bureaucrats bent on standards of inanity unparallelled in most Civilian Circles. It's not 'only in the Air Force'---it's more like "Only in the Gubbmint" it's like a disease!

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=154641 Links to the real useful synchroniser tools in the thread above. It's like going Italian: Once you've done it that way, you will never go back to the old way!

I do not have the confidence in the WAPS that would have me making that same statement! As a SrA I got E-5's on the Nuke Spark Plugs thing since I was relatively 'fresh out of tech school' I convinced them it was real. Somewhere on this site, there is a reference to the same scam... It can still fly today! When I tested for E5, the E-4 Buck Sgt that was my 'supervisor' at the time scored 37 SKT, 48 PFE... I was 98SKT, 98PFE, and the questions I missed I changed... But he was my 'supervisor'... I got him on a lot of stuff as well. It was always fun to use the T.O.'s like weapons. Especially when you can quote them by number section, and page as to why you're doing something. They always left you alone to go 'check it out' and usually left you alone the rest of the day trying to figure out 'how does he know that?' Er, maybe because I can read?

The movie evokes an emotional response. I have not made it to ONE meet at ElMirage this year. I am now outfitted with the portable DVD Player, Stereo, and Projector to be able to project movies outside on my trailer side. I'm betting the perennial favorite at the Lake will be "World's Fastest Indian"... Kind of like Rocky Horror Picture Show for Gasolineheads! LOL

"Dighera I need you to go down and bring me back 12 yards of Flightline from the Fab Shop" Nonchalantly went to the tool crib and checked out some large chains and the keys to one of the AGE Tugs. TSGT that sent me on the trip was looking quizzically at me from some distance as I hear my supervisor go ask him why I was getting chain... "I don't know, I sent him to the fab shop to get 12 yards of flightline (chortle chortle)" My supervisor FREAKS raspy wispers in a panic: "Man you don't screw with Dighera man, dat muffu**a's crazy, he's gonna go hook those damn chains up AND REALLY BRING YOU BACK SOME DAMN FLIGHT LINE!" Then they all tried to dissuade me for some time from going and tearing up the tarmac because I was ordered to do so... These guys with the detection device are the guys that go to the Avionics Shop to pick up an A-S-H Receiver, or spend time trying to activate the Kick Start or Voice Command NF2 Light Cart... the same guys who went hook and sinker for the Nuke Plugs in Packette Engines... Oh, the list goes on... Airman, Stand Down. Nothing has changed in 25 years...

Get the SK or Weber tool, 1000% better, and cheaper than what they want for the unisyn nowadays. There was a thread on this not too long ago with some photos and JC Whitney references to the part numbers.

Not at Bonneville they haven't. Or any of the other SCTA sanctioned events. Going 200mph is easy, buy a Veryon and go 200 mph. Now do it with people watching, in a set distance, over a two-way average with strict compliance scruitineering as to engine displacement, etc and it gets more select. There have been F1 Drivers who have come to the salt and gone away not only with no hat, they didn't even come close to the record they thought they would easily set despite the trailers of support engineers and technological help they received. I've gone faster in my street car that we have at El Mirage. Then again, it doesn't meet the specs for my class. Which is why I salute those guys going 161 in the stock body Z. That is SOME accomplishment! Going over 200 is not really the point, it's doing it under the conditions required, compared to others competing in the same class of displacement. Every year each and every one of the other places it could possibly occur, it gets easier due to technology. At the salt, every year, for the exact same reason it gets easier everywhere else, there it gets HARDER. It's not just going 200mph. It's breaking a record that is 200mph or more in the class. If you break a record and it's over 200mph, that does not mean you automatically get your cap. There are rules for the 200mph club that set more stringent speed requirements that are usually higher than the standing record. It's not simply going 200 that gets it for you. You have to go faster than someone else's record that is over 200 mph. And every year everybody is going faster, so the bar is continually moved higher. For the same displacement. For the same induction style. For the same body class. It's not like NHRA where you can run unlimited displacement and the guy with the big engine goes the fastest. There are people with 2 liter cars with the Red Hat. Bit more work there than using a 8 liter to go the same speed, don't you think? And the particular conditions that exist at Bonneville add challenges that are unique in the motorsports world. And that was the contention. Those other people you contend have gone over 200mph---all they need to do is take their car to Bonneville and run there to get that cap. But again, it's not merely going to that set bar speed, it's going faster than someone else in the same class as your car... or performing to the boards expectation of the vehicles capabilities above 200mph to the level they set. The statement wasn't inclusive of motorsport drivers, it was limited to those competing to the set of rules extant at the salt. Same as it ever was... It's a bit different than buying a Veryon and making the run out of AbuDahabi to the Airport saying "I went 200+mph!" Nobody stands in awe of The Stig and his feats of speed. But read the list of the 200MPH Club at Bonneville. There are names there that are like a who's who of motorsports history.

It's cryptic enough to go over my head as well Gary... WTF? I think the art of communication is truly dead. I can't find anything to link with that comment. I guess a reference to whom is was directed at, or if it was a totally unrelated Tourette's-Style utterance would go a long way to quell my curiosity!

"This has all been discussed before" Your ignorance of the function of the devices present in your ZXT manifold is not my problem to resolve. The part numbers have been posted here in the past. It exists, your ignornace of it's existence or not. Left Photo, thing capped and with the hose clamp in the intake manifold #4 intake runner? There it is. I get sick of arguing about wether something that is present in the manfold and can clearly be seen in photos of the turbo intake manifold with people who don't take the time to notice it's there. Or understand it's function. "Search" The photo above was found in like 20 seconds using the search feature here to find an L28ET Intake manifold...

That could be a near repeat of what happened to myself, the late Kevin Keskimaki, Pecker Pete and Eino Kangas in 1978. We were out back of his barn, overlooking his pasture with one old Bull sitting out their minding his own business, while we were cutting up an old VW and doing some crap to Eino's tractor. Up rolls a International Scout, and this guy jumps out, grabs a gunsleeve from the back, and lays across the fencepost and SHOOTS EINO'S COW! MOOO! Drops dead right there. We are all looking at each other like "WTF?!?!?" Eino says 'Pete, go call the cops, I'm getting my shotgun!' We go out into the pasture with Eino behind his double barrel with him screaming about what the f- this guy was doing shooting on his property. Punchline: Guy was from a 'large city down south' and was stationed at the nearby AFB. He got the free hunting license and was just in love with our rural scenery and this new hunting thing... This guy thought an old brown bull was...er... 'a spikehorn'. Biggest damn spikehorn I ever saw. Maybe he thought it was closer than it was, and that explained the size difference. I don't know. Sheriff showed up with Eino about ready to blow the guys head off for killing the damn beef. Ended up the guy got a citation for roadshooting (illegal in Michigan as well) as well as discharge within 400 ft of an inhabited structure (the barn) and eventually was ordered by the judge to pay restitution for the damaged livestock. The prior year someone who shall remain nameless fell out of their treestand and broke his whitetails back... It was not me, but I was in prime position to witness it. You guys don't know how great digital technology is---I would love to have digital shots or video of either of these incidents! I can't figure guys thinking they will violate deer in the presence of other locals with video and photographic means at their disposal. You won't get away! Not like the old days when the guys would load the kids (under 14) into the truck with 22's to go get meat for the local unemployed families every Christmas (33% unemployment in the area... yeah today is soooo terrible!) I digress...

I'm not up on all this pop culture stuff, but it's pretty pathetic they dismiss the guy ramming into another vechile while drunk... Especially when he pleads guilty and the BAC he had was a 0.29!!!!! I know personally what my view is to driving when lit like that. To have it impounded... well... In California there is a law that governs the sale of impounded vehicles. I would be curious as to the circumstances aroudn the impound, because normally anything impounded can be bailed after a set time. If not bailed, it gets auctioned. I dread to think what will happen to my inexpensive supply of cars if California ever figures out they can put the impounded cars onto E-Bay for sale at impound, instead of verifying bidders and payment ability at point of sale... I'm not shedding any tears for a drunk that runs into parked cars, no matter what he's driving, or what branch of service he served in... that's just weak. Who can I kill because of my time in the USAF, I already got a list... I probably shouldn't have asked the question I did on the auction...it's probably not what they wanted to hear.

demonoidCFH Not a lot there, but if you fancy an L twisting to 9500rpms you can hear it there...

Oh, you had to draw me to E-Bay, you (&^*&! Now I got 8 bids out... I have a problem.

Dude, the factory BOV is in runner #4, and with the throttle plate closed, there is no airflow into the cylinders EXCEPT what is coming through the BOV, and possibly an anti-stall feature from the AAC. If it goes into #4, it's lean? I dont think so... THEY ALL ARE! On drop throttle under boost, fuel cut shuts off fuel to everything - so a bunch of air pumped into #4 only cools the cylinder. And given #4 is somewhat detonation prone, perhaps the Nissan Engineers know what they are doing... I don't know why it 'bothers you'---think about it some more and you will be relieved to find the logic of what I state soothing. Like they say, a little bit of knowledge is dangerous... The fuel cut is not what makes it go 'rich' your inability to reintroduce the air you blow externally on your aftermarket BOV gives a false-flow signal to the AFM. You have to dump it BETWEEN the AFM and the Turbo, or into the engine (like the stock BOV does) or you go pig rich on drop throttle. "This has all been discussed before..."

Obviously you have not read a single word I said. You have two devices on the manifold: A BOV An emergency relief valve... The BOV (as I have consistently stated) is in the #4 intake runner. The Emergency Relief Valve is in the manifold plenum, and serves absolutely no function on a modified engine and should be plugged/removed. Either you have missed this entirely (and I can't see how) or you are simply ignoring it. My terminology is consistent and I have taken great pains to refer to the emergency relief valve in that manner specifically to prevent it's confusion with the other device being discussed. OTHERS may be incorrectly referring to the emergency relief valve as a 'blow off valve' but I have not. Mainly because I call it an emergency relief valve and it's a TOTALLY separate function from what a BOV does. Is this that difficult to follow?

I only play with 173.325 mph Z cars... For now...

Now you're getting it! Your FLOW will be MORE than you would be at a lower flow and higher pressure (think Pounds Per Hour)... What you will get is the inability to make any more pressure, but you will not be ANYWHERE NEAR the surge point. I figure right now, you hit a minimum flow point to surge the machine---your BOV pops as a result and that flow stabilizes through the turbo and humps you to another spot on the map (eventually) where your engine is capable of taking enough flowfrom the compressor that you aren't in surge. That one or two little farts keeps the turbo pumping. At a higher flow rate through the opened up head and with hte bigger cam, you will be 'lower' on the compressor map, and 'to the right' in relation to flow. PSI does not make power, FLOW makes power. Understanding this is the first step in figuring out how to make REAL power with a turbo car. It's not as simple as Corky says to just throw boost at it. 8PSI on a GT35R is like 17PSI+ on the same engine, with the stock turbocharger. You have to find the PSI/FLOW relationship that matches the engines capabilites or your power goals. Garrett gives horsepower ratings, and they are based on PPH of airflow. You have to calculate the flow capabilities on the engine, and match that to power levels. If your engine can flow well, then you choose a turbo with the matching PPH to support hte power, at the boost you calculate it will take to move that air into the secondary compressor (the engine). This is where plenum sizing comes in as well, because a small plenum can exacerbate surge issues because the centrifugal compressor can overfill the plenum quicker than the engine can digest it--it can spike pressures, and cause a surge. I digress... As JGK says, stay away from that .82, the compressor and turbine setup you have should be able to support (oh, let me grab a number out of my hiney...say.....) 658RWHP at around 17-25 lbs of boost. If you are running stock bottom end, limited to under say 6500rpms, then lop say 100hp off that, maybe 150. JeffP has run his head on a stock L28ET block and posted results on his web page or here I think. He was a little frustrated when he made more than 450HP to the rear wheels on his stock bottom end. Mainly because a large hairy inciter was there grinning and saying "I told ya!" LOL Nothing like finding out you spent $$$ on a bulletproof bottom end that will still break the pistons when you detonate, and finding you could have tuned the maps to that point on your old stock block engine!

After you're set like that with #1 cylinder, rotate the crankshaft 720 degrees, then pull it apart to measure the impressions in the thinnest part of the clay on the head of the piston. That is a direct reading of the piston to valve clearance at it's closest point. This assumes camshaft timing is correct according to the cam card...but 4 degrees one way or the other shouldn't appreciably alter the results. And that is all the maximum you should have to move the cam to optimize the setup. Valve clearance is per cam grinder's specifications, you quote numbers, but I don't know your cam. Defer to cam instructions.

How is RWD more efficient? Dude, no offense but you really do need to brush up on some research. John C pretty much hit it on the head with his post. I had a huge wing on a RWD car 30 years ago, and it was on there for many years before I bought the thing. We only removed it to drive to and from the track. "Unsightly" has nothing to do with it, Traction does... I beat 7.4L V-8 powered AWD trucks with a little 2.4L air cooled street passenger sedan that everybody laughed at when I entered it in the 'Unlimited' class. "HAW HAW HAW that there little thang? WE promise we won't run you over, just try to keep out of our way!" I believe that was one of the quotes at the time. When I lapped the field the first time before they had made the second turn on their first lap a lot of the laughing stopped. I think spraying ice all over their shiny trucks made them angry... "No purpose built racing vehicles allowed. No aerodynamic devices allowed. Street registration, mufflers, and current proof of insurance required. Studded tires not allowed." I mean after our resounding stomping of the conventional thinkers...hell it looks like the 'unlimited 4X4' class really had some serious limitations placed upon it! Actually, by removing the wing and leaving our mufflers on we could have competed, but I think we would have been turfed into the wall by the sore loosers. We would have dominated without the wing and megaphones... but we wanted to make a spectale of it, and the crowed loved us. The other competitors didn't... but screw them! I bet that is what he said after starting the engine and going out to set the fast lap as well...

Gilbert predates Dilbert by a good 20 years... (Gilbert Below) BEFORE ANYBODY SAY IT I KNOW I'M MORE THE "BOOGER" TYPE! (Booger Below) Admittedly I more resembled Ogre most of those formative years, with heavy Booger influences, and a dash of Gilbert in earlier years. Something changed in there to make me go from Gilbert to Ogre/Booger... I believe I will blame it on Ted Nugent. (Ogre/TonyD...no laughing...) Nugent:

Yep, exclusivity is sometimes misinterpreted by the hype surrounding the activity... Some stuff simply gets easier to do as technology advances. In the case of the 200 mph club, it's Catch-22. If you can go faster because of technology, so can all your competitors. And unless you break one of their records first...it can become increasingly difficult to acquire said chapeau... Pretty soon, I'm expecting the only realistic 2 Club Attempt left will be in J/PS... everything else will simply be so high up or in the 3's that a J car is the last displacement you will be able to break in at a clean 200.001 mph...LOL

crap, it didn't post... the clearance stated is fine, the only way to know where you're at is to physically assemble it and clay the tops of the pistons and go from there. I'd put in the flat top and check #1 before reassembly, and make the decision on which to reinstall from that check.