Tony D
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"Why you talking loudly? Why you blame MCC?"
Because that is where the problem lies. Argue about it all you want, but THAT IS WHERE OUR PROBLEM LIES. If you want to fix it and progress with the startup, you will discuss this with your MCC people.
You may not LIKE the answer.
This does not change the fact that the answer is CORRECT!
CURMUDGEONS UNITE!
Don Potter was an ass. I liked him. He was a gawd. Rest Peacefully, Don, we only humbly carry on the legacy.
I digress...
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Sun Tsu's fleet is delivering my manifold, someone will find it and like Gavin Menzies, and will write a book about it's discovery!
Yup, hear the stories of the survivors of Sunda Straight, of the last Marine at the highest position on the ship refusing to abandon ship and giving the Japs hell to the bitter end...
To think that ship accounted for most of the American interments at Kanchanaburi is humbling.
It's one thing to read about it, to see the photos.
It's another thing totally to ride the rails, see the bridge, the cemetery, and know the history...
I digress...
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I like the drive up 395, especially during trout season. Some of the more remote stretches of road have...uh... "little imperial presence"
Speed Week and The Bunny Ranch...
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If you don't like the dessert outside of Vegas, keep driving, there's another one before too long, you can have that one too!
Salt Lake to SoCal is maybe 14 hours in a 260Z during the summer heat. Hooking through Delta and taking 50 in through to Tahoe isn't much better but the scenery may be more stimulating. Catch 385 south is a nice ride. 80 is about as stimulating as 15... Though on 80, outside of Wendover, if the time of year is right... and of course Pahrump...
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So that was a shameless butt-plug?
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"Door seals were thick, so thick that I had to really force the door closed, hard enough that I ended up shattering my driver side window."
You Too? Mine happened at MSA Auto-X one year after the seals were in for quite some time and numerous adjustments of hinges and latches just couldn't overcome it. Tried to close the door quietly several times, then finally SLAM-CRASH! Guy walking by gave me the classic "WTF's your problem, bud?" look thinking I was somehow P.O. and slammed the door so hard ON PURPOSE that I shattered it...
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"Going EFI means that I've also built some kind of beast of an engine, at least to me, that carbs just couldn't handle." Educate yourself, this is an inappropriate mindset.
Yep, that's EFI on a 71 Triumph! Not a 'performance' build this gent was after by a longshot, check out his car here: http://triumphowners.com/registry.cgi?sectionID=111014&vehicleID=108&i=8 or another high profile Triumph here: http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/index.htm He makes a nice synopsis here http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/TBI.htm
EFI has been in the USA mass produced on low-performance vehicles since 1968 (Not much lower performance than a 1968 VW Type 3!)
The technology has advanced so much that the self-tuning capabilities, and wear adjustments make for a car that doesn't need much of anything over it's lifetime. It's nothing about performance at all, other than 'trouble free'... Not perfect, just driveable any day of the year, anywhere, anytime.
I converted my SU's to TBI some time ago, more and more are doing it and singing the praises of troublefree starts, superior mileage and performance out of otherwise bone stock cars much older than our Z's.
Look at http://www.pattonmachine.com/ I supplied him with SU's to pattern his drop-in conversions so all SU's on Datsun, Toyota, & Isuzu 64-78 were covered! Latest blog was Andrew Jennings who drove from British Columbia down to Vegas in the heat of summertime (can you say "SU VAPOR LOCK"?) for the meeting of The Z Bastardz in his Patton-Machine Converted SU'd PL510.
It's about driving the car from -40C to +40C and never having to worry about anything, from Death Valley to Denver and never having to get out and pull a vacuum hose off to make it over the hump!
Been there, done that, don't miss it one BIT!
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The story of the Precison Parts in Thailand is an interesting one, have Oliver tell it to you sometime.... it's endemic of MBA Corporate Mindset and how it affects product availability, and how cross-cultural miscues compound an issue to people with money on the brain.
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Happy birthday you old fart! Welcome to the club.
Wait a minute isn't it tomorrow where you're at? Or is it yesterday where I'm at.
7AM 26 September Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia
Last port of refuge of the President's Yacht, The USS Houston and the Lost Battalion.
Waitaminit, you're over 50? JeffP is close... Oh hell, "Old White Guys" are doing speed parts again!
Imagine that!
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If only someone would let us section an FIA Head.... Those are Tasty! I know where several LY's NIB sit...they were quoted 35,000 Euros for the replication.
$5,000 American? "I'll take six!"
'THERE ARE NO RULES ON A PUBLIC ROAD!"
Uh... well... you know what I mean...
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Hobbs NM? Speaking in Spanish? Uh....commenting on Facebook about that got me a two week on the beach suspension from work. All I'll say now is "Hell Effing No!"
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BEWARE HANTAVIRUS AND BUBONIC PLAGUE
This isn't a joke, it's in SoCal to be sure. I have photos of the signs in wilderness areas about squirrels and other rodents. The dust can get you nasty.
There is a common cleaner the dealers use to clean AC Condenser cores...really thick foam. The new systems are so tight, mould and nasty smelling things that get you sick can live in them, so they have a foaming duct cleaning service available.
Might try to see who supplies them with the stuff and DIY.
The key is what is smelling is dehydrated urine and mouse shit slurry that has dried. Ever notice on a humid day it's worse? Because that high humidity rejuvinates it and you get that fresh-mouse-urine stank.
This is why they use the foam, it wets, saturates, and then will let the stank-slurry migrate to the low point in the duct where it can be sucked out.
Not extreme for me, but take the FSM and look at the part about Dashboard removal... the time you spent has already been exceeded... you can do this on a weekend: Pull the Dash Friday night and maybe Saturday Morning, Take the ducts out one by one and wash them in the sink using a long bottle brush or whatever to get into the krinkles (which is where it likes to sit) -- clean out the bottom of the heater and you MIGHT consider pulling the heater core to wash it out as well since you're in there. If in doubt, let it SIT in hot soapy water and agitate it to loosen it all out of there. Clean it a last time with Alcohol (you can sometimes use that Methanol-Based Brake Cleaner to wet and blast out stubborn clinging deposits... Dry it out, reinstall and that should be it. Especially with the heater core. I had a NEST on the top of the damn thing.
The thing you leave in there, WILL be the one with the biggest concentration of Mouse-Stank-Goo and it will haunt you on humid days on Haight St. until you clean it off!
I had a set of glasses that fell off my head into a 'river' in Indonesia. My glasses didn't sink, just kinda sat there, half immersed in that colloidal brown goo. I paid a kid 100,000 Rupyiah to wade in there (he did it Hepatitis Barefoot!) and get them for me. I went through THREE irrigation bottles of Technical Alcohol for cleaning centrifugal compressor pinions before I put them back on my head, and for the next hot, humid, sweaty three hours back into Bandung I SWEAR I could smell it on them despite knowing I got it all off.... Beware the psychological aspects of poop/urine/vomit slurry on your face or in your heater vents.
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No, never, and they don't park them in hangars at the Corona Airport, either...
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Can I put my CV in for the Head Impregnation Job?
Even at 50 (as of today), I can still probably do 5 heads a day manually, but I'll need the weekends off... You supply the 'industrial videos'...
I could use the extra money to buy it.
Hell, looks like the head I started talking about THREE years ago will be a reality before the manifold I bought and paid for two years ago...
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My stuff from "Black Dragon" was as Miles says: Gaps in the window corners (but sealed) and door seals thick and multi-piece crap....apparently they have fixed the door seals.
These usually all come from the same place..with the same results. Oliver at Z Man of Washington had kits when nobody else did. Veritable information fountian there if you get him on the phone on the subject of what happened with the aftermarket seals available here in the USA these days.
Nissan seals would have been the way I went if I was thinking.... my last weatherstrip replacement was in 1985, and those door seals did not hold up like the Nissan Pieces did for the first 22 years. Windshield and hatch never leaked, and the gaps are there up front... But they sealed.
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From across the pond....he speaks!
Ask Lebowski where my money is...if he doesn't tell you, urinate on Pluk!
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From Post 10, if it's been forgotten:
"If you have a tach freaking out intermittently, and it's good, then.....your input circuitry is giving a bad signal source to it.
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I watched as GM clung to carburettors using pwm controlled solenoids moving metering rods... Dismal.
When they went to TBI, while some carb holdovers existed (stalling when cold some times) it was a huge improvement, and used legacy wet runner technology good enough...
TPI came along, and dry-runners...and woah! The GM Tuning world hasn't looked back!
If you think carbs are "easy", you don't know carbs!
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There is a stick.
We hit people with it.
It is reserved for those who suggest pumping the pedal on a carburettor with no accelerator pump does anything worthwhile except make sure the linkage is free, and returns to origin.
Where is this stick? It's whackin' time!
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It's not erased, I found it just fine:
http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/119711-what-is-the-best-4l60-shifter/?do=findComment&comment=1121347
It's where all threads like that end up so the rest of us don't get tricked into reading them.
I suspect that this thread is headed in the same bin, as it should be...
"Reading is fundamental!"
And, it's "Who erased.."
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"so I decided to drop the 40+ year old SU tech and install a slightly more modern 4 barrel setup. "
I'm going to chime in on that one to say the following:
The Holley is 50's technology at best. That 4150 390 was available used when I was a kid, and that was 35 years ago!
The SU was used into the 80's on Hondas in the USA.
Don't think 'old' means "inefficient or obsolete"... Generally the separation between systems is due to a person's willingness to learn about what they have.
Personally, I'd gut either system, put a TPS on it, and make it EFI. I've dealt with enough carburettors to know I don't need that hassle in my life, digital is easier to quantify than analog any day of the week and twice that on Racing Day!
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It's a "STARTER CIRCUIT" gentlemen, it is NOT a choke.
Two different things altogether.
If you have a 73 or a 74 model, THEY have a "choke".... otherwise you just pull down the jet in the carb well to expose more annulus to engine vacuum and suck up more gasoline under suction dome down, cranking vacuum. If all is adjusted correctly, the throttle plates should open incrementally when the Starter Lever is engaged anyway...and you will get a 1,700 or so fast-idle when it starts.
If you don't have the manifold preheating, and carburettor water circuits enabled, and have plugged them, your cold running and drivability will be markedly worse than on a stock car...for no real performance gain whatsoever. What a deal, huh?
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" i have the knurled jet adjusters on both carbs all the way out."
So you have in essence stuck your jets all the way down by doing that.
Check your float levels and fuel delivery. I bet money you are sucking the fuel out of the bowls and hitting the 'built in rev limiter' that occurs when that happens.
I fought it for years trying to figure it out, and to my chagrin one jet was stuck down. Put it back up where it belonged and back to 7K like before I changed my head gasket!
I bet you are running the float bowls dry. Put a supplementary Facet Pump inline and turn it on and see if it does the same thing under load. I bet it gets measurably better.
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I probably have to stay overseas and expat tax exempt to buy a few myself!
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As I recall a Detroit Diesel 3-71 wasn't light, and a V8-71T was not light either.
Just because it's a 'two stroke" does NOT mean "it's missing the entire valve train"...