Tony D

valve stems need to be longer to acconodate different cam height and still use a decent thickness valve lash pad...

Be VERY careful about comparing what is in a NEW DESIGN and one that is over 40 years old... I have NEVER seen a cast impeller eaten away to a nub after only 6 months in coolant that has gone acidic. "Oh hey, it's a new water pump, I just installed it last fall before I put it up for the winter---can't be that!" Pull pump, stamped impeller was rotted to nothing but vestigial nubs on the bearing shaft. This has happened more than once to cars I've worked on (L-Engines). I will not run a stamped impeller any longer because I feel I can't trust their reliability. I test my Ph 2X annually, and have seen corrosion on stamped impellers that scares me in my own cars, so they are a definate NO NO for my list of things to never use unless absolutely necessary!

BMW wants line working wrench turners. And from UTI you just might qualify for that...which is a backbreaking tedious existence of slapping on parts and moving on to the next job. Yep, you can make $100K+ at a busy shop. Until it slows down and your flatrate jobs dry up. Or they decide to stop paying you commission on the parts you sell. Remember that those 'starting salaries' are just that... As a line worker, you will be hammering away on your body until Carpal Tunnel takes over, or you can't do it any more. Without further education to fall back upon, you end up the next broken down line mechanic working the service writers desk lamenting your cut in pay. I've seen it all too many times. Many of my friends are now in their mid 40's and mid 50's trying to do jobs like they did when they were 24. It wears you down. They ask me what openings we have where I work, but unfortunately none of them have the educational background to do the engineering analysis. They are great wrench turners, but it really limits their opportunities. If we had purely hands-on supervision of overhaul work, I might be able to get them on...but unfortunately they don't have that engineering background and they lament their broken bodies and back pains...worrying about wether they will be able to keep the pace up till their kids are out of the house. And education makes for a great fall-back when your older. I could not go from school to design work. It drove me nuts. I had to go out and work with my hands. Curiously I found that overseas I work in hands-on jobs with plenty of Masters and Bachelors of ME. Some have advanced degrees in Finance (The Engineer I was doing this last Stud Exchange/Retrofit was ME with an Executive MBA from the former parent company for the place where I work now!) When was the last time you saw ANY MBA in America with a pair of coveralls twisting a ringspanner and torquing the splitline bolts on a piece of rotating equipment? For me, working line work when I was young, I decided the inbred malice towards formal education from my co-workers was a sign of the times. Those who didn't wish to learn have a hard life now. But the resistance to education on an advanced level persists in many professions (especially in America where there really is no apprenticeship system). Even where an apprenticeship system exists, "Technical Colleges" (Like UTI, Basically) are getting people advanced journeyman tickets without any supervised work experience. They are coming into the workforce with a certificate of competency but without any practical application knowledge and have to work with guys who took the 'old route' of being an apprentice for five years, while going to college concurrently and then working under the supervision of a master tradesman for anotehr 18 months before being certified. Question is who do you think is 'more qualified' to do the work---and which kind of person do you want to be? For myself, the only thing I ever wanted was to be thought of as 'competent'---and in many cases didn't put any educational information on my resumes at all, just what I'd worked on. It's totally backwards from the 'fast track' route of getting far more money up front...but to be honest if I looked at one more bracket for an MJ-1A bomblift I was going to take an axe to work and start smashing cubicles. I liked the fresh air. I learned a lot that I wouldn't have being stuck in a cubie, or being straight salaried engineer away from the productin or field problems. I loved cars, and thought I wanted to be there, I had friends who went to GMI while I went directly to work on the line (had my SASE Certificates in Brakes, Tune Up, Overhaul, etc... by the time I was a Junior in High School). I decided I liked working on cars too much to 'make a living at it' and decided to go into other areas of mechanical endeavour, keeping automobile mechanics as my 'getaway'... And you need a getaway. You can PM me if you want, I got more to say but it's late and I got to be up in the AM for the drive down to Rayong to see some customers about some electrical controller problems. As an aside, after being in Australia for the past month...I called my brother and told him he was AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT for wavering on the opportunity to take a position in the I.T. Department of GM Holden in Australia. 3 Week Flyback every 6 Months, killer salary, and secure position on one of the only profitable segments of GM in the world...what a fool! The only thing I can add from that is if you are offered international assignments, TAKE THEM! The rewards in your career will be many because of it. You won't have that expansion opportunity at a local distributor, generally. That's OEM Level Stuff.

"A little bit of detonation from 4K on up" can blow a head gasket to the coolant side just as quick as you read this sentence... DO NOT recirculate the #5 & #6 clyinder head vents to the inlet of the pump, that is NOT where they are supposed to go! They go to either the radiator, or the lower theromstat housing. Ideally.... well, there is another thread dedicated to all that stuff, so I'll skip repeating it here.

That 'style one' catch all by '240z Master' is misleading as well. My 72 and 73 240Z's have the fore-aft pin attachment like my 260/280/280ZX. Maybe the early 'screws into the bottom up' is just for the earlier cars, and automatics, but by 1973, the mount is pretty much standardized till the end of the S130 run. For Standard Shift cars, that is...the Automatics ceased getting a different style mount at some point as well. Which I think is where he's getting the '70-73 Type 1' designation.

I gotta go with AK-Z on this one, swapping of the L28 bellhousing to make it sit correctly is what people going the other way do. The engine mounts determine the attitude of the engine, and the transmission is set from there. Since the oil pan on the engine is usually not changed...you are stuck making the transmission line up to the bolt pattern of the engine, not the other way around. To get a gearshift in the center of the hole with a KA sitting in the proper angle relative the the stock oil sump, you need a KA housing on an L28 Tranny (and that swap is covered in detail elsewhere, in reverse as mentioned above.) Or use a KA Tranny instead with all that entails, subject to fore-aft positioning of the whole assembly.

If the money is what drives you, you will be miserable no matter where you go. Usually it works the other way around, UTI certification, job, then night school to get the degree and take on more responsibility and more challenging projects. It would likely be an asset to be in the training department, actually being able to do the work you devlop training criteria and lesson plans for with an OEM. But then again, that's the 'teacher's salary' job in the OEM world.

For some of us, it's nostalgia weeked from Grandpa's Cabin...or a visit to your neighbors house at the end of the road... Excuse my, ahem, 'Rural Northern Roots'... You know you've been civilized when you realize you live in L.A. but think 'Oh, I did that' when catching Red Green Reruns...

Cheating is such a hateful word... Then again, has he been sanctioned for what is alleged? If not, was it really cheating? It's like a bear in the woods that knocks over a tree. Two questions there that people have been debating for the ages...

Baby Snakes? Or is it BAY-beee SNA-AAA-kes? (Sounds like the title to a movie...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZM52hYbTVY

Real life quote, with like 12 M16's pointed at me: Cop: What do you think this is, the Indy 500" Tony D: No, they go round and round to the left (making swirling motion anti-clockwise with my index finger pointing down), I was going to the right (reverse my finger motion while looking him straight in the eye)... Cop: License and I.D. Card, Airman! Joseph Clementi (Passenger in the car at the time): Gag, Gasp, 'we were going to the right', snicker, gag, gasp...you're going to get us court-martialled! True Story. I can see it like it was yesterday. All those M16's all pointed at me. I was bad. I was a bad Airman... BAD AIRMAN! BAAAAD AIRMAN! Cop was PI$$ED when the duty watch commander told him he could only write me for 'breaking traction' since nobody actually SAW me doing the donuts in the empty parking lot. All they saw was the curling smoke above some shipping crates, and the sound....oh the SOUND of Mikuinis on full wail at about 6500 rpms. "We could hear you, we could see your smoke. We KNOW what you were doing!" Yeah, well, better luck next time! (Probably another thing you shouldn't say to the cop...)

BOOM! Click Click, BOOM Click Click, BOOM Click Click, BOOM Click Click, BOOM! "Nothing Honey, just taking out the trash!" The thing that is disgusting is if someone did that, they would be the one in trouble. There needs to be a law allowing societally transgressive idiots to be culled from the human herd whilst in someone's home unannounced and uninvited without repercussions upon the culler... "Ted Nugent is my Hero" Good to hear you got out of that vertical, Dr. Hunt. This is very bad, indeed. I don't know that I would be so charitable. Then again, I don't investigate with a .22, either... Glad you're not in irons. Hopefully he will be. I could think of a better, cheaper solution...but it's 'morally reprehensible' or so I'm told by 'civilized' people...

I have said the same thing for years, if the thing is too noisy, do what the OEM did and put a premuffler/resonator on the thing. It can really knock down irritating noises, and not cost a lot of HP (if any at all) in the process. As for Mr. Bell and 700HP on a 3"... Testing on someone's car on this forum says otherwise. Down maybe 100HP I'd be prone to agree. But 700? People with N/A 2.4's in the 200HP range are finding 3" is the minimum acceptable, I think some of his quotations are more 'ballpark guesses' than the result of hard testing and real world observation. I know it's terrible to say, but some of Corky's stuff is really outdated. His book is well over 20 years old now, and at that time was using 10 year old data. Time to move on from some of his myths. Some of them are especially pernicious.

Look to industrial compressor TWebb, the plenum sizing is very similar to that used when sizing a receiver for a reciprocating booster compressor off a centrifugal or screw compressor running on a capacity control system with only 30% capacity turndown. No throttle plates, but the dynamic compressor feeding a positive displacement reciprocating compressor is the same thing. This goes only towards volume considerations, flow in each runner is likely a science I'm not even going to get into!

Translation: Tony D is a parts-hoarding bastard who won't part with his, so help a brutha out, will ya! Seriously, someone help him find one, mine are 'spoken for', and he got the need bad. I can't help (Bastard!) so someone has to!

Likely your answer is to bleed off flow. Likely your RPM is too low to take the flow the turbo is putting out, and that is causing a surge. Cracking the BOV and letting it blow off would return stable flow to the comporessor section. Porting the hot side would only work if you are having a problem that the turbo is not able to bleed exhaust and this is causing an overspeed of the wheel. If the wategate is closed because you are calling for more boost, then the only way to eliminate sugre at that point is to bleed excess flow off the compressor side to reach the stable flow point of the compressor. It seems counter-intuitive to blow boost to make it stable, and make the turbo come on harder, but that is what you might have to do. Another issue is if you aren't flowing through the engine well. This raises the boost level higher than the surge point at lower rpms. Till engine demand matches flow capability of the turbo, minflow surge can occur at well below peak natural surge point. A centrifugal compressor can surge at ANY pressure (as you are finding out!), it's all a matter of flow. Keep it flowing, and it will stay happy. Blowing off flow is likely cheaper than making your engine able to handle the flow through the combustion process...

Didn't sell at $5500, and it was a documented JWT build with receipts and the JWT Build/Serial Number Plate. Why would he change to Webers from a set of sorted Mikuinis? That makes for a terrible blowthrough setup. The Mikuinis are far superior in the blowthrough application. The EFI swap is not as expensive as you think. If the engine is complete, just a set of ITB's and you are on your way. NEW ITB's can be had out of Australia in 45mm 'economy' packages with all linkage, tubes and pipes for fuel, TPS mounts, etc, for $1700 AU... meaning multiply by .82 to get US$ price. Shipping is minimal. I ran out of time to have my Pro set shipped to me while in country, otherwise I would have done that. Got busy with work and had no time to make the call and get them on the way. Too late now, leaving in a week and don't need $2000 of EFI hardware (state of the art or not) showing up behind me for the guys at RotEq to mull over 'Eeeh, what that bloke Tony have mailed to us here?' Add megasquirt for $400 and you're styling with none of the carb headaches.

I was in Japan when the first R32 GT-R came out. I made the drive down to the Naha Prince Dealer to see the only GT-R on display on Okinawa. It was already sold to someone on the mainland, so it was display only, take your number, wait for delivery... Much like when I was home on leave and saw my first Buick Gran National, I thought "This is a decent family car I would own." I left Japan late in 1989, just as word came of the GT-R being entered in rally and other races in Australia. When it won the Bathurst 1000 they called it "Godzilla" for the dominating way it ate up the V-8 competition. I still have that article on the wall in my shed, xeroxed in B&W. It sits next to the framed Inglese Manifold Ad in B&W 'Manifold Destiny'... Today, walking the paddock of Eastern Creek Raceway, NSW, I came across a car. It looked like, no it couldn't be...but there was the Sandwich Board declaring this was, INDEED the original Godzilla that won the Bathurst 1000km. I was agog, slackjawed and speechless. Along with two other GT-R's of lesser provenance. Then it was gone. Gone to the track. And I watched Godzilla rampage. And he was AWESOME! It was a good day down under. I never thought I would see the all-conquering Godzilla GT-R at a 'Muscle Car Extravaganza' old timers event. But there it was, 1/2 a lap ahead before the first lap was over. Coming down the front straight screaming and spitting flame making a noise, I thought, which sounded eerily akin to a trademarked and registered Toho Films special sound effect. It rampages the competition like a monster let loose. It spits flames. It makes eerie roaring noises of a pitch not natural to the V-8 loving crowd. A sound that made their blood run cold... There it was, Godzilla, coming to eat you! So they BANNED him. But Godzilla Races on. You can not kill Godzilla. Godzilla lives on!

Yeah, before buying it, I'd call and talk with Jim or Clark. There are some of these engines out there, he used the HKS Plenums on them and Mikuinis, not Webers. There was one on e-bay that sdidn't sell for well under 1/3 that price. With the advent of EFI, those carbs are an unrequired pain. Add some money for ITB's (about $350 a piece, new) and replace the carbs, then get a decent EMS for driving the injectors you supply and your world will be FAR better and happier than with jets, emulsion tubes, and heat soak issues in SoCal Summer Traffic...especially with the crap gas you get today. In the 90's, the last bastion of carburettor-friendly fuel was Arco Phosporous Blended stuff, and Chevron. They were the last to say 'bye bye' to carby fuel. 76 makes carbie fuel for off road use... so does VP and ERC... But you pay dearly for it compared to what normal EFI ready pump gas sells for today. Go EFI, and never look back. Nostaliga is great, but driving it today also reminds you why you're a bitter old man at the same time!

I have often been the source of Jacking... The engineer who is on this retrofit project in Australia with me did his first five or so years out of university working on Sulzer Designs. 102 rpm ship engines. We are like two peas in the pod talking about stupid designs that never worked, yet were built and then pawned off to the people in Service to do field retrofits to keep in service. What do you do when the noob design engineer makes a dampner for a 12 cylinder (like the one in the 'if anyone opened the link' post) that ended up being 1 meter larger in raduis than the clearance from the centerline of the crankshaft to the decking of the bilge... Resonances and axial deflections because counterweights were not of the proper weight. Crank counterweights that had undersized bolts on them that shear off, allowing the counterweight to act like a milling cutter on the block, from the inside out. Eventually nearly cutting the engine in two? Oh yeah, take a job in field service engineering boys and girls! You may get dirty, and you may end up eating grubs in Papua New Ginuea... but the catastrophic failures you get to witness are pretty spectacular! LOL There I go, sitting awake in a Hotel Room at 1AM, jacking again... Guilty! I think it's time for a shower...or sleep. Whichever. "I digress"

"There are others here like you...you will find kinship!":twisted: Hi, My name is Tony, and I am a Camaholic...I have been stock cammed in my daily driver for 158 days now...

I'm probably not someone who should comment on what other people think might be streetable. I found a 2110cc VW Turbo with an extremely rough idle of 1800rpm and a power band that started at 4500 (with a 10# flywheel) to be extremely entertaining. Rapping out the engine to keep the plugs clean at stoplights was grand fun... My opinion is useless in this matter, yet I blather on incessantly just because...

lots of cardboard and tape... My vote after that would be Greyhound as well...

Incorrect orientation, dude! Transverse up front, driving the front wheels. Transverse in back, driving the rear wheels. Throttle Cable and Shifter Cable synchronisation is easy as pie after you make the frame cradles. Gives you a bit of power in reserve as well as the ability to put the front engine in L1, and the rear engine in R and do some totally awesome AW zero-clearance burnouts...:burnout::burnout:

I sold my Mobyvan on Christmas Day to a guy up in the valley. Bastige came down with cash, but of course $500 short. "It's christmas man, give me a break!" First I mentioned his obvious hipocrasy over not being christian, yet asking for the christian disount on christmas. 'Dude, you're Jewish, what the hell do you care it's Christmas?' was the phrase I used if I recall. So he paid me in a check. I said (ON CHRISTMAS DAY) "If this check bounces when I cash it next week, I know where you live, I will come find that van, and take back the $500, plus the bank's fees from it!" He seemed shocked I wasn't as 'christian' as I should be, I suppose, both with not giving him a discount, and expecting a check to be good for the sum it's written for! It bounced... I went and found the van. Firestone R4S's were $147 each. I got my $500+ NSF fees out of it, so to speak. I then went back, and asked the bank to hammer the check again, figuring I still had 'change' he owed me. It cleared the third time. But he was out a set of new R4S's.... He's lucky I didn't find him...I had my Axe Handles along...