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I'm with Jmortensen. I thought the debats were great during the election, and well I've seen name calling and hissy fits over car related subjects. I can understand though if politics and religion become a chore to moderate more so than tech. subjects, but I love to talk politics and religion personally.
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Ok, so I stuck an '85 200sx slave on and as I was bleeding it from underneath(my friend was pushing the clutch) I noticed that it broke on the extend. Now I have my clutch pedal adjusted all the way and I'm trying to figure out if "that" is whats actually causing it to overextend and break, if so would simply fabricating a longer rod and giving the pedal more play fix the problem? It seems it would.
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I thought the big advangtage of this swap is that fact that it is FREE. The fact is he doesn't have a free sr20, rb25/26. I guess the question I'd like to know is, what is your real purpose for the car? Will it function as a daily driver? If so, I say swap it in if you have the means to do so. I don't have any car to drive, and if I got a free motor and could make it work, I'd be sticking it in for sure, especially if it was an na car anyway. If this is an extra car though, I'd like to know whats your purpose, other than "noone has ever done it before." Obviously noone has done it for good reasons. If you have a set budget (Free) and just want to roll, I say swap it in.
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Yeah but will it flash big letters that say "DANGER TO MANIFOLD!"?
Just kiddin. Thats pretty cool right there. MS is getting to be a more attractive system, especially if you're computer savvy. The cool thing about it is you can buy it for cheap and have another 500 left over for other stuff opposed to haltech/microtech.
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what year carries smaller slaves? I just talked to mike's z shop and he said that the collar in the 280z and zx were the same. I'm currently using a zx slave. Is the 200sx slave the one you are referring to?
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I'm ready to go the extreme solution and sell my car. Unfortunately I've F****d it up so bad its not worth a dime anymore. Anyways I'm trying to figure out exactly what motion is breaking the slave? The slave I have already has an adjustable rod, although I have the pedal adjusted all the way out because the clutch wouldn't fully engage. I don't understand how I could use a grade 8 bolt to lenthen it. If I were to weld a half in or so to the rod and then give my clutch pedal more free play would this solve my problem without having to change the t/o bearing? Or is my understanding of the problem way off?
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Ok now wer'e getting somewhere. PeterZ, you were correct, I did have to fully adjust my clutch pedal out. It seems that my problem is probably wrong T/O bearing collar. So you are saying that lengthening the rod will/might fix this problem without having to drop the tranny?
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Yeah I changed the T/O bearing when I swapped trannies.
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So are you suggesting I change the fork?
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After installing my new/used 280zx tranny, for some reason the slave keeps breaking, and leaking all the fluid out from behind the rod. I have tried 3 different slaves now and the same thing happens on each one. The first one it happened to was working just fine before I swapped the tranny. It will work fine for a few blocks/miles and then take an instant crap. I cant figure out what i'm doing wrong. One guy on zcar.com suggested that the rod was being overextended, but the first one broke (which previously worked great) without me ever adjusting anything. I did however adjust the clutch pedal afterwards because It wouldn't fully disengage. But lets say this guy is right. What if I were to give the clutch more play and weld an inch more of metal to the slave so that it pushes the fork sooner and doesn't "overextend" (if there be such a thing). Is there any other reason such a thing could keep happening other than my car being cursed?
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Have you come up with a budget of how much it would cost to finish? I know what you're going through. I am currently car poor, mostly because I lost my job though. So actually I'm just poor at this point. Fortunately you have a second car to drive around. My z's my daily. If your folks aren't bugging you to get the car out of the garage (like mine were) then why not keep it and finish it over time? If you're planning on going off too college though for a while i'd say cut your losses and sell it. I had a 57 GMC that I was building and had spent about 6k and many hours working on. My parents let me keep it in the garage till i finished college. I thought I'd get a good job after I graduated but I didn't. I ended up selling the truck for 4k and putting that money into my Z (which dissapeared quite fast). At your age and mine, its hard having such a hobby that drains the bank account when you have school to pay for and trying to get started in life.
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I say go RB just to keep my post relevant. However.....When the heck are you going to finish the hulk? Or did I miss something and she's already done(driving)? Dang I can't even get my one car running for more than a week. Anyway you already got a cool L motor car, although turbo. An L should never be chosen over an RB if its going to cost the same in my opinion unless however you plan on being a datsun mechanic and want to show off how much power you can extract from an NA L and wish to compete with the likes of Rebello, Subelt etc...
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So I've been looking at prices on garret turbos an noticed that none of the ball bearing turbos come in T4 (turbine). Is there any reason for this? I went to thagards sight as well as cheapturbos.com and noticed that thagard had a garret T04E and cheapturbos had a T4/GT40. There is a price difference of about $200 (the GT40 being the more expensive). Now I understand that only the turbos with the "R" designation are ball-bearing but the GT wheel design is still supposedly more advanced and faster spooling than the "E" wheels. Is this correct? The other option I see is the T04R wheels for about $100 more. I'm not sure the difference of an R wheel and a GT wheel (or really and E wheel for that matter only that its an old desing). So to put the question(s) in clear form.......Is there a T4 ball bearing turbo? and where can I learn about the difference in these wheels as to make an informed decision on turbo purchashing? I know I can call a salesman and ask, but I'm not quite ready to buy yet and would like to do some reading up unless there is a simple explanation someone here could give. If a 1.15ar housing won't get full spool ti'lll 5k then I'm definitely going to have to change turbos. Thanks
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bastaad, do you already have the dizzy and haven't swapped it out yet? Or are you waiting on purchasing it? BTW, I have all that stuff lying around (88 ecu and MAF) if anyone needs one. Just make me an offer.
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Very cool. I gotta come over some time and check it out. John Coffey's shop's 40 miles away? Where's that?
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This is a 3.1L
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hmm I was told it was a T04E with a P trim. I guess I'll have to tune the car and see how it spools and take it from there. I don't feel comfortable taking it apart to measure. If it spools ok, I'll just be happy not knowing.
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doesn't say anything on the cold side
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Ok so I bought my turbo from a dude from this site and really didn't know the specs past the fact that it was a t4 p-trim and that the turbo was quite huge. I still don't really know what all those specs mean anyway. While I was changing my tranny I noticed on the hot side it said 1.15 AR. Does that indicate the size of the wheel trim? Or the housing?
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Ok I'm on day 6 of my transmission swap and as I went to screw in the speed sensor, I noticed that the thingy you screw it onto was missing. I mean its just a hole that was plugged up with this plastic/rubber plug. BTW I bought this tranny from rising sun engines. I tried unscrewing the piece off my old tranny with a vise grip, but it does not seem removable. If it is, how do I get it off? If it isn't, my speedo doesn't work anyway, however I wanted to know if that plug in there will be sufficient, or will the heat from the oil melt it? Is there oil pressure in the tranny that would pop it out?
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I'm glad to see the justice system is being honored. Michael Jackson is a proven weirdo beyond reasonable doubt. Definitely not proven criminal though. I'm offended by the idiots who have called this "another OJ". Sorry guys, no blacks on this jury to pull that card. Hopefully Michael has learned this costly lesson. I actually think though that this case benefitted him because there was no payoff. People don't like when a guy doensn't face the music. The evidence was layed out on all prior alleged acts, jury deliberated, Not Guilty
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$25k? You gotta be kidding me. I'm not familiar with that motor. Is that supposed to be a quick car?
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AZ2FEAR
NOMERZ
SXZBST
RICETNZ ok I might be using that one so noone in ca take it
MPRTETR
HOLYRLR (If your religious!)
V8SBEWR or V8SBWRE
MYSTC6
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Hey Mike I was just curious if your 500hp motor would be smoggable. As for why, I know that for me personally I get the kind of attention in my z that makes me think I was driving an exotic, though not the same attention an exotic (or c5 for that matter) would get from the ladies. Unfortunately my car in never always running for one reason or another, but if I had a decent job it wouldn't be a problem. Although the vette is on bad-arse piece of machinery, it seems to be pretty common and driving a customized z gives you the feeling that you have something noone else has for miles. That comes of course at the price of all the comforts you mentioned.
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Actually Catman there was a discussion like that on zcar.com about Ford being "Gay cars" that turned into the funniest thread I had ever read. Although I love religious and political debate, I think dr. hunt is right. I'm personally a thick skinned person who is very hard to offend. But others are more sensitive than some, and really can't deal with heated/emotional debates. Also Dr. hunt made a great point about people typing things they would never say to person's face. Perhaps those who want to discuss these topics should end their post with first and last name, and a picture