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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...
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Furthermore, you should really plan to install two dynomax bullets up front along with the dynomax turbo in the rear. When I first did the exhaust it sounded terrible with only one muffler in the rear. The drone was unbearable in the car and the exhaust outside also sounded terrible in a weird way. The twin bullets fixed it. ... hard to believe but the bullets up front made a "night and day" difference.
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 I know it's terrible to say, but some of Corky's stuff is really outdated.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.
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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!
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Looking to see who still has these. I know tony d does i have been in a conversation with him for about a week.
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!
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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"
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LOL, that's why I didn't say much either.
"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...
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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...
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lots of cardboard and tape...
My vote after that would be Greyhound as well...
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You could always take a front wheel drive engine/transmission and turn it 90 degrees. You one drive flange for the front diff, and one drive flange for the rear diff. I wanted to do this with a Caddy Northstar engine, and their 4T80e transmission (very strong).
Justin
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...
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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...
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If you want an interesting scale model, get one of a Deltic Engine.
The MANN is having issues, their service is sucking. Even Sulzer has issues once and a while--there have been issues with axial deflection and vibrations in the third order at two 120,000 HP machines they installed down in Baja Mexico to power La Paz in an island mode power grid system. The answer to keep them together till the primary gas turbines were back up were to load the hell out of them. By the time the turbines were back on line, the rotor bars in the generators were flaking out!
Don't even ask how I know that...
And MAG is right, it's a Two-Stroke. Heavy Oil Burner. But again, if you want a neat model, get one of the Deltic Engine. Much more interesting!
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"• Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using 'as in' examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss's last name to an attorney and said "Yes that's G as in...(10 second lapse)..ummm...Goonies"."
My favorite is spelling things that torture the idiot on the other end of the line:
That's "G" like in "Gnomes"
"P" like in "Phlebotomist"
"X" as in "Xenophobia"
etc...
Looks like I made the cutoff by 25 days...
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1) aluminum chip issue is discussed in the thread. (??? Concern of Aluminum Chips in Coolant... Anybody ever hear of alumaseal???)
2) empirically measured results are in the thread.
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I have noticed this on cherry bombs as well. The core for a 2.5" looks considerably smaller...when measured it was something like 1 7/8"!!!
Many mufflers are like this, buyer beware!
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Twin Turbo S30's in Japan in the 80's were running 125mm pipe...
And you thought 3" was difficult to package!
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Sulzer, ABB, or Brown Boveri..
Been there, done that.
My e-mail ain't 'turbotony' fer nothin'!
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Early gears that are nissan OEM are cast steel, and likely 'smoother' than the one in the photo here.
the later ones which are sintered can be seen in the machined areas, compared to the earlier cast steel gears.
If you've seen sintered metal machined surfaces, compared to to cast you can see it plain as day.
If I was at the house, and not in Oz, I could pick and photo what I'm talking about.
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internet ate my answer...dammit
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Z Tachs can drift, and they are "calibratable"...
Autometer gauge in my car is ATROCIOUS below 1500 rpm. Shows 1100 when it's really 850-900. It skims like that then around 1300, it starts getting closer, at 1500 its nearly spot on, and above 1700 it's dead nuts accurate to over 7000 rpms.
Usually they go 'dead' in the bottom and top of the range. Using a known good tach, you can verify. There is an aftermarket tach I picked up on clearance when Autobacs closed, that used an inductive pickup to trigger the tach, pretty neat for a 'check tach'...though my Sun Meter has a digital rpm pickup off the tach terminal of the ignition system, and I use that a lot more. Digital is sooo nice! No guess, it's 1475 rpms, man! (think Dennis Hopper voice for that last phrase...)
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I am dealing with an Apprenticeship system at this very moment. The principal of the distributorship is a Diesel Fitter by trade. The technician I am working with was an aircraft fitter. Both are Swiss, both were in the compulsory military service in their country, both went through traditional trades apprenticeship during military service, and part of that was university education. Both completed their apprenticeship, and continued to a complete Engineering Degree. One went on to get an executive MBA (which I said I would not hold against him), but made note that he was close to 35 when he started that program, and that he can't understand how anybody can get an MBA without ever leaving university and getting world experience.
We have discussed 'engineers' and their role in the world. One of the most startling things they noticed about American Engineers, (and this goes for University graduates in the USA in general) is their lack of experience in real world application of their trade upon graduation. Hand in hand with that is a feeling that when they are on a site they don't wear uniforms, and think they are managers.
In most of the world, a Bachelor's in Engineering is your entry level to a hands-on mechanical trades position, which augments your apprenticehip training. Further university training in financial matters is usually what occurs to get you into 'management'... There are only so many design and R&D positions out there, but somehow the graduates think they deserve a LARGE starting salary when they can't do anything! What most people in the USA get coming to service their mechanical items are high school graduates who have hands on experience and not much else. Not a lot of training, but some mechanical aptitude. Many of the mechanical trades mills now turn out people with little mechanical aptitude, and call them 'mechanics' or 'technicians' but who have little underlying knowledge of what they are doing other than simple component replacement. Maybe they don't need that to fix your appliance, or even your car, but...
Anyway, in response to their inability to wear a uniform (the comment came up because I actually showed up at their location 'flying the flag' in company logoware) was that by and large macademia tries to force into many students heads that 'higher education' means you never touch anything again, and that you are 'above that dirty work'---that it should be left for lower forms of people.
The response was first a look of shock, and then 'that's stupid, that's not the way it is!'
The problem comes from macademia lumping trades and labor into a general pool saying that we all can get rich never getting dirty. Sure, that's great, but someone has to do the hands on, and regardless of how you implement engineering controls and make the best SOP's, unskilled workers will only accomplish so much. I experience this where I have to supervise TCN (Third Country Nationals) in the middle eastern countries. Many times they are 'electricians'...they have a screwdriver and a multimeter. But give them a simple electricl schematic diagram and say 'go make this modification' and they stare blankly at the paper. You end up showing them what wires are needed to be moved, what parts that need to be procured, and then where all wires need to be landed.
I got into a lot of arguments when I first got out of the military because I was told 'it's not like that here'... I got so frustrated eventually I blew up at a manager and said "you hired morons then! I like to think I was hired for this position because I was qualified for the position, not because my mom was boffing the safety advisor and she wanted me out of the house!" (Which was the case of my immediate 'superior' technican... They jsut had bad people in positions with absolutely no theoretical background, nor education pertinent to the trade, and ended up with bad results. They figured if they couldn't get it to work, then it didn't. I can't count how many things I improved through simple common sense and applying basic engineering principles to things that were in place for 10+ years simply because people didn't want to rock the boat. We went from a 75% online capacity, to over 99.98% while simultaneously going from a $2.2 million annual O&M budget to $475,000! I did that, fighting every step of the way against the 'experts'...
Removing the generators from our prime movers was (I was told) an all day affair. I witnessed the process. Held my tongue at the stupidity I saw. Next time we needed to do it, I grabbed the newest operator we had, and got it out of the generator building in 15 minutes using two 4X4 skids and some grease...along with a holeshot from the Hyster Forklift.
Management and the work crew came in on Monday expecting to take a day to get the generator out of the building, to see it sitting under a tarp, in the middle of the parking lot with a LARGE sign on it: "2 Men, 1 Forklift, 15 minutes work. NO EXPERIENCED PERSONNEL USED." I refused to tell ANYBODY how it was accomplished. It most of all irked the idiot who had convinced everyone it took a day to do this.
It was where I forumlated the phrase "Just because you screwed your sister for 17 years doesn't make it right!" This was indicative of the attitude there, they did it without thinking.
This is a DISEASE.
Demming mentions it in his 14 points and 7 deadly diseases in 'Out of the Crisis'. The largest tenent of his theory is that the people doing the work know how to do it, JUST ASK THEM! And if they can't answer why they are doing something a specific way FIVE TIMES, then likely they aren't trained enough.
That one stuck in my mind: Ask "Why" five times. The Japanese call it '5 Y'...and it's the basis for some maintenance and operational theories. People who get P.O. over 'five why' usually don't know what they are doing, and need to be avoided.
Sadly, lethargy and sloth are rampant, and people just do what has always been done, without expending a siiiiiiinctilla of thought towards WHY they do what they do.
At another company I wrote to the national service manager decrying a manager who continually had "I ustas"---always saying how HE did a specific job. Usually these involved feats of strength well beyond normal people. (Read B.S.) My stance was if he wanted to tell the field people how to do their job, then maybe he needed to be in the field, and a REAL manager be put into his place...one that would concentrate on getting field people the tools and training they NEEDED to most expeditiously complete their jobs. That company I obfuscated my resume completely to land the job. Dumbed it down and omitted whole sections of education simply so they would not think I was 'overqualified'... I probably was, I was simply being lazy. I didn't want the responsibility and the volatility of management responsibility in a production atmosphere where I was saddled with responsibility but given no authourity to RECTIFY the problems I saw (mainly firing people who were infested with the 'old ways shouldn't be changed' mentality.)
When you can come into a place, make the plant record for production two weeks running, two years in a row (when the senior operator and manager were on vacation simultaneously and you were in total charge of all plant operations decisions) then get laid off due to politics... You just look for that job where you cruise the roads (or skies...or world) and are your own master as best you can be.
I digress... There are many facets to the problems here, I could go on and on with opinion, anecdotes, and other prattle...
What NOT to say when pulled over in the Z
in Non Tech Board
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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...)