Tony D

Really? Man, you should photograph for a Porn Mag with that photographic talent... You made them look absolutely huge! I think I have throttle-envy....

Those stacks will clear the brake master vac and master cylinder, right...

We did similar with the MS in the LeMons car, using a 'screw terminal board' as the interface between the stock harness and the MS wiring. Got that TB idea from the previous poster above me... For people who live in a 'smog controlled environment' the ability to retain the 'stock' wiring harness in the engine bay is a definite plus. I know guys in Long Beach who are now on their THIRD successful SMOG Check with their Bay Window VW Busses powered via MS and wired into their stock Bosch wiring harness. It makes living in the 'emissions world' nice. And as long as that concealing footwell panel covers it up and there is no 'ECU VERIFICATION' (like in Sweden, where guys have assembled their MS units inside the stock ECU box!) this proves to be a very nice way to have a performance car that wil lpass a visual and tailpipe inspection as long as you are willing to do the tuning requisite with the emissions levels demanded. Which is not all that much in cars without an O2 sensor!

Randy 77ZT is in Iraq now...

WOAH! What happened Forrest? You guys have a plane crash nearby and the fire department spray runway foam on your cars and property to protect it from the fire spreading??? What is this 'snow' you guys speak of, anyway? It was 75 here today, and this morning it was 65 in SoCal:mrgreen:

I sent you a PM at CZC. E-Mail me.

Four dead on the ground. A Korean Immigrant family. The father was away at work, the mother, infant, a 2yr old, and the mother-in-law (grandma) were in the house at the time and were killed in the incident. The mother-in-law had arrived in the USA only last week to help tend to the care of the infant and mother, as is common in Asian Cultures. In an incredibly magnamious gesture, the Father asked everyone pray for the pilot and that he didn't blame him. he said the pilot is one of "our national treasures" and was confident he did everything he could to direct the plane somewhere safe. He said that the pilot was not to blame, and that he wishes him well and hopes he gets through the incident well. That is truly someone who I would be proud to welcome to America, just from his words alone. To refer to a servicemember as a 'national treasure' goes towards the upbringing he had in his home country, and their precarious war footing day in and day out. I feel for both parties who survived the incident, they both are going through a personal hell I would never wish on anyone. When my son saw the late news report on the incident, he said "that motorhome looks just like the one we passed Sunday when we went to look at that truck down in San..." and stopped in mid sentence when he realized it was the motorhome we passed... He was silent for some time watching it and soaking in what 24 hours means to living or dying.

I'm wondering about wheel and rim hitting if the caliper is that close... have you tried this altitude with your prospective rim/tire combination BEFORE testing for parts that, by definition, will be inside the rim??? I think you have clearancing for the rim-tire to do, and that will solve any brake clearance issues. Brake clearance issues are usually referred to with RIMS and not the body! Am I the only one thinking this way?

Consider that someone along the line may have dumped a load of BARS-LEAK or other leakstop into the radiator and not read the directions. When someone does this without the heater being ON, the control valve becomes a nice place for the overage to settle out and totally plug the lines or valves. In some cases the stuff can actually plug the heater core. That's something to check.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have this exact same chamber configuration on an N42 out back in the shed. I don't know if I will have the time to access the thing to take a photo till Friday, but I'll make a note to try and do it. I'm going to be back home after dark today and tomorrow, and finding things in that shed is treacherous in the dark....

That's a funy statement "It's not an L28 Head" and using buffed Nissan and Identifiers as a rationale for that is spurious. It's a late-model L28 Head from the JDM, and if the combustion chambers are small, likely they have been welded. Usually based off an N42 head---which was the standard in JDM well into the 90's. They simply didn't have P90's there, the L28ET was not available domestically, and the P79 was not an emissions requirement. Almost everything in the JDM came with an N42, and in several variations that were not seen in America. The options for the head would be from an L26 (one year, and recalled for the most part, bery rare in the JDM and not EFI notched to boot!) or an L28 with an N42. It's an L28 head. It's just the chambers have been reworked, and the chamber volume dropped through the 3mm milling operation mentioned. I used to buy Dashracer 100 for between 95 and 100 yen a litre, and drove around happily heavily boosting on 8.5 CR. The N/A guys ran 11.5+ on a regular basis for street cars. During gas wars, the price could drop to as low as 25 yen a liter! When the yen exchange was 131 to a dollar, it was pricey, but for the first three years I was there and the exchange rate was over 200/250 to a dollar, it was pure heaven! Why pay a $ a gallon for MoGas on base when Dashracer 100 awaits for the same price just outside the main gate. Dorm rats need not apply. The mindset in Japan is different than elsewhere, and if you approach the work they did there from a non-Japanese point of view you will convince yourself of a lot of assumptions that simply are wrong. I should go take some photos of some 'street heads' I have out in the shed... there are people who would swear they were 'full race' but I can personally attest they were in cars that were street driven daily, and simply maintained. Then again, 50 mm Mikuinis were not a 'Street Carb' in the USA, either...

Friday is a good day to go... Sleep all weekend and keep your eyes closed. The more they are closed, the more healing occurs during the critical first two days. Plus, it's a rock-solid excuse to lay around for two whole days and do absolutely nothing. Keeps the wife's mouth shut about doing yard work...muahahahaha!

Yeah, that's what I meant, the train went under the road. I put the cars as the dominant feature in my last statement...LOL It was a "Car Overcrossing" to the Railroad....

Taipei 101 had the bottom floors and shopping plaza open for business/occupation well before the tower was totally completed. I didn't get to go close enough to it to see if the bottom floors were open, but I would assume so, it only makes sense.

That is exactly what I had done with mine! I had 'the river incident' in August. Open Enrollment was October. Unfortunately I was occipied till November to actually get the procedure done. If you have an FSA the great thing is you can (as I have done in the past) max out the disbursements in Jan-Feb, and then basically 'pay them off interest free' over the course of the year with your employee deductions each paycheck. Actually, when I was taking the 'no frills' medical at the last employer, I got $750 a year deposited into an FSA for deductible reimbursements, etc... That now sits around $2500 and I'm no longer employed by them, but the money is mine. That FSA will be used likely this month or in January for my wife to get the surgery on her eyes. I'm glad you mentioned FSA---I TOTALLY forgot about that account. Since I'm not an employee, I pay $3.75 a month 'serevice administration fee' which about wipes out the monthly dividend/interest from the money market fund it's invested into....

yes, 95 now 65... WOO HOO! That means my intake from parts "Down Under" is back on track... I suspect the "Fast Fours" website in NSW will be frequented by me again soon.... (Sorry!)

Most ATF is an SAE 10wt oil. This equates roughly to an ISO VG32 The 20Wt oil John C refers to roughly equates to an ISO VG68 If you are rural, and have tractor supply stores nearby, the AW-Hydraulic Fluids are similar specification viscosity wise to what ISO grades are available, hence an ISO VG32 oil (ATF) would be similar in consistency and properties to an AW 32 hydraulic Fluid. Same for AW 68 / ISO VG68 / 20Wt. As I recall, 30Wt is either ISO100 or ISO VG150... quite a jump. You are looking for hydraulic dampening, so the VG is relative---you can see the difference between 20Wt and ATF is an ISO differential between 68 and 32. Why do I mention this? Because now knowing the ISO / AW relationship, you can find ISO VG46 oils out there that 'split the difference' and knowing the ISO number will allow you to experiment on your own with known ISO VG grades where you will know the viscosity differential and can somewhat predict the difference in response. Some Compressor Oils like Sullair SRF 1/4000 are ISO 46, so that gives you another alternative. But finding a liter bottle of the various grades will allow you plenty of oil for a lifetime of experimentation. If you find oil of the same manufacturer, you can 'mix' grades to split the viscosity characteristics as well. I would never have thought this possible, but I got an E-Mail from Mobil Technical Department for a special application we had and we indeed were told to simply mix AW68 and AW32 to 'get' and AW 46 for testing at a remote site! I mean, we're talking hydraulic dampners in SU's here...so a little experimentation isn't going to have earth-shattering consequences if the viscosity isn't 'spot on'... happy experimentation!

You should update his website to reflect such....

What, was my crystal ball wrong? It's as accurate as anything else posted given the specifications listed... I just wasn't as verbose...or specific, in keeping with the spirit of the original post.

It's tall. When you see it in person, especially driving in from afar, it gets even more impressive. Taipei 101 is hard to grasp because you can't really see it from afar like you can driving into Dubai across the desert. I was more impressed with the indoor skiing area, personally. In August, to be able to go into a place so big that has an artifical winter environment is really mind-boggling. To even grasp it, I'd say you would almost have to be in the region in August to appreciate it. 46C and 100% relative humidity are only numbers on a page. It takes some doing to make flash-condensation on your own body when you walk from an air conditioned building... I am actually looking forward to returning to that area to check out some more of the CE projects that are ongoing. As far as 'our money' building it, that's a bit of an overstatement. If you know the history of the area and how the place came into being... They (the Ruling Emirates) seem to be using what money comes into the country in a way to genuinely take custodial care of the subjects / workers / expats that are there doing the work. The standard of living is very high, and to have seen it even 20 years ago you would never have believed it. I had friends that worked these same places in the 70's and the stories they tell are almost beyond belief. It has come a long way in a very short period of time. I would say it's a model of how a government should develop it's resources for the benefit of it's people given their rate of development at the time! You don't see a lot of 'disenfranchised' UAE Natives...

meh, I posted to the original thread at CZC...

let me look into my crystal ball... No, you will detonate on your sixth dyno pull, and fail the engine spectacularly with rod ventilation at #5. There will be fire. Please plan the video camera positioning and future you-tube post accordingly for our entertainment.

Good point. It is about he coolant flow issue, which helps decrease the detonation sensitivity as a side benefit. From the tests KTM posted, the temperature does drop when these mods are done...and overheating on the dyno gets less acute---which was the primary goal. Detonation decrease is another benefit, but secondary. Cogitating on it further, after reading Tim's comment...

My wife's uncle used to take pride in telling me whenever I came over how much MIG wire he used on the cab of this truck's restoration or that... it was an almost British-Like Pride in how much welding he did to 'restore' a vehicle: "18# of wire in this one!" What's the score on this project? How does it work with the segment bends in there?

I like the second suggestion...