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    Taurus 2-Speed Electric Fan

    in SDS

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    I know I'm kinda late here but if you have to run more then the low speed of a Taurus fan then you have a heat issue and the fan is the bandaid. You really should look into a 4 core radiator and venting the heat from the engine bay. A vented hood or vented inspection panels will help a lot.

    pallnet

    sr20det aluminum radiator

    in Nissan L6 Forum

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    I have touched on this a little a while back. I ordered an aftermarket KOYO radiator for an SR swap into an S13. The hoses are in the right spot for the L28ET swap. Well it didn't workout because of how close the engine is to the radiator, the upper hose was resting against the turbo distributor cap. I pulled the SR radiator and replaced it with a new KA aftermarket radiator which put the upper hose on the other side, this worked much better for my L28ET powered S13.

     

    I took the aftermarket SR radiator and fit it into my S30. It will fit perfectly, mounts just need to be made. It honestly looks like the stock S13, S14, Maxima or even a bunch of other upper radiator mounts could be retro fitted to make this setup work, I'm not sure about the lowers but i do know I could make something work.

     

    HHUUMMM, I still have my S30 and I still have the SR radiator, I might have to look into a installation so that i can mockup some brackets for possible production.

    pallnet

    BMW Seats bracket fab (pics)

    in Interior

    Posted

    Ok I have to "come clean" here.

    I admit it that I've always scared the crap out of my passangers by telling them that the passenger seat was bolted in with aluminum brackets and the drivers seat was welded in place when they asked about my seat swap....

     

    The seats are F-IN Sweet!!

    Nice looking brackets but if it were me I would remake them in steel and weld them up, that's just me though. I make a lot of things out of high grade aluminum but I (maybe it's just me) draw the line when it comes to seat brackets, seat belt brackets and rollbar parts.

    Good luck

    pallnet

    SCORE!!! For my next L28ET powered S13.

    in Non Tech Board

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    Well I found a few S13 hatches sitting up infront of a few local's houses. I am looking to pick one of them up as soon as I pull the parted S30 out of the driveway. I already have my "L" turbo stroker, tranny and LSD for it but this week I scored these...

     

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    I have my 5 lug conversion for it as well. I'm thinking old school look with ZG flares and cage it too.

     

    See if you can guess what the wheels came off of, should be easy for you guys though.

    pallnet

    Cooling issues on new turbo build

    in Nissan L6 Forum

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    I forgot to mention that if you're rad. has some miles on it and the coolant came out looking more like "swamp water" then coolant, I would have it boiled out at a local rad. shop. If you have a buddy that works at an auto shop then pull a favor and have him make the call to the rad. shop for you to drop it off, pay for the job and pick it up. This will get you a few bucks off the job because they will charge the shop rate..;)

     

    BTW: I ran 8.9:1 compression ratio and turbo with my car. I had one cooling issue when I had the 76 hood in mid summer heat with a slight rise in temps, I went to the 78 hood with vents and with the other things I had done, the car was driven often in over 100' summer heat in southern Louisiana with no issues from that point on.

    My cooling mods:

    Local built 4 core rad. made from a stock rad.

    Large Hayden electric fan infront of the rad. on a thermostat switch.

    Nissan water pump

    Pink coolant extra long life (borrowed from work, don't tell anyone)

    New Nissan thermostat

    Oil cooler (custom job made from a 83 Jaguar cooler)

    Hood vents

     

    Hope this helps.

    Cooling issues on new turbo build

    in Nissan L6 Forum

    Posted

    A few things that come to mind.

    1)Adding an IC is one more thing for your fan to pull air through before cooling the rad.

    2)Fan clutches get weak and they look like they are still working

    3)An electric fan on the front side of the rad. worked awesome on my car. My IC was the same size as the rad.

    4)I have seen waterpumps that looked perfectly fine but when hot the impeller would spin freely from the shaft.

    5)A 4 core rad. helps bigtime. The nice looking aluminum ones on Ebay that are made for SR20DET powered S13's will fit in the S30 with custom mounting brackets.

     

    Hope I was able to help.

    pallnet

    Rough Idle (and SDS Roll Call)

    in SDS

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    It's been a while since I ran an SDS car but since I have 2 systems and plans for some motors coming up, I will be back in the saddle soon. I don't remember what I was running but it was close to Warren's because at the time we were both setting up our SDS systems and we helped each other to workout the kinks.

     

    Mine ran smoothhhhhhhh. No idle air valve here. and I had the "E" system.

    pallnet

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