silicone boy

So that's why they have such a big wing!

So Pete, when are we going to see your write-up on building a stealth Z car. I figure that with your background, you are the perfect person to build the first "Blackbird" 240Z. As a fellow anti-bling person, I would like to see carbon fiber body panels and the like, that would absorb police radar. This would be very handy in the Virginia area where radar detectors are not allowed.

Really?!! Anywhere in town that I can visit?

Goodness what was I thinking? I need a shrink!

I can tell you are--burned out that is. I mean, how else could you find all that minutia on the internet and post it here? Have to admit though, you are my favorite member of the forum because you keep me entertained.

I'm in the body work business. I mostly work with silicone, hence the screen name. I can't believe how many responses we have in just a few hours.

My wife is a lawyer. I tell her 99% of the lawyers give a bad name to the other 1%

I love that site. It's a must read for us amateur turbochargers.

As I have said before, those Turbomustang guys invented turbocharging on the cheap, and they go as fast as anyone. I got the flipped over header idea from them. You will really like how quiet a turbo motor sounds.

I think that T70 is just about perfect for your application. It has me drooling. The A/R is about right for a torquey V8. You won't get the boost down low, but you don't need it. When you would normally be running out of breath, you whiz right by the car you're racing with a big huge grin.

I think your headers idea will work out just fine for a front mounted single turbo. As for AR ratio, I don't really know, but you don't need something that spools up really fast since you have the low end torque. 0.7 maybe? That's always an unscientific question and there's a lot of subjectivity. You never know until you try it. I'm planning to turbo a 5 cylinder (a Hummer), and no one knows which ratios work best there. I'll just have to set up the turbo so that if what I initially choose doesn't work out, I can easily change it.

Dustin, A single turbo is much easier to pull off, obviously. I like my setup, but if I were forced to do it again, it would go with a T66 or a T70, plenty for a well built small block. You should easily be able get into the 10's without problems and drive it all day. Plus, you won't have to refill the bottle.

That's total sacrilege, and I'm in the process of raping an FD!!!! (under the hood that is)

I owe a bunch to the turbo mustang folks. They virtually invented turbocharging on the cheap. Take a pair of Thunderbird turbos (or Buick), flip over a pair of headers (or in this case, the stock Corvette headers) and you're in business. Some of those guys are making sick horsepower. BTW, I coated the headers, used the header wrap, and put on the heat shields. The more heat you can get to the turbos, the more thermally efficient your system will be. What kind of turbos are those?

Mine are still holding up. You just have to be careful and take your time welding the cast iron. This setup is very thermally efficient as it places the turbo right on the manifold, and the heat shield holds the heat it (I even wrapped header tape under the heat shields). Looks like you are going to have to rotate the compressor housings. Good work.

One of these days, I'm gonna write a book about how to get the best care out of your doctor. It sounds like you are dealing with some burned out docs, but maybe not. It is important to organize the presentation of your symptoms chronologically, a causally...."I'm been having this pain in my groin radiating to the upper thigh for the past two years. It is (dull, sharp, burning, throbbing, etc) It is (constant/intermittent) and is made worse by exertion/straining......." You get the picture. It's important to tell them how long because most benign processes will go away. If they persist, we need to investigate further...we need to rule out something bad. I think you are on the right track with your suspicion of a hernia, either inguinal, direct, or femoral, but other causes could also be possible. The urologist could have picked up on the hernia thing, but maybe you should see another one to rule out any other urologic causes, and a general surgeon to prove or disprove the diagnosis of hernia. You should also try to get some more imaging in the form of a CT scan. Good luck. Two years is too long for something like this to go on and I would keep at it. Don't give up on the medical system in Canada. It is a very good health system with talented physicians, you just have to be your own advocate.

It is straightforward. There are so many people now with the LS1 swap and it's such a superior engine, I would go with that one.

Awesome. Always a damn ground, it seems.

You should see the numbers that LS series motors are putting up RELIABLY, normally aspirated and with standard mods (heads, cams). Then add forced induction and it gets ridiculous from a practicality standpoint. Not to knock twin turbo motors. I have one in my Z car, but there are just that many more things to go wrong. I don't drive my car outside the metro area for fear of being stranded if anything broke down. Reliability is the main reason why I'm putting an LS motor in my FD3S.

I sketch a lot professionally when explaining a surgery to a patient. Ironically, these are the same kind of pictures I got in trouble for drawing in grade school when I was bored. Basically, they look like this: (.)(.) OK, that was lame, but you get the idea. I can't believe I get paid to do this sometimes.

Why is it that so many of us have both Z Cars and RX7's and choose to adulterate them with V8's? I guess it's because it's so WRONG

It's not so much that everyone is stingy, it's just that there are not very many around to swap, and not very many people have done it. It sucks being the first. I'm looking to put a V8 in a Hummer H3, but I haven't found anyone else who has done one.

I apologize. I got flamed on another board when I posted my latest project, putting an LS7 into my RX7. Everyone was telling me how I would ruin the handling of the best platform ever built, how I was taking out the soul of the car, etc. I'm no physics and engineering whiz,but I know that torque is torque and weight is weight, no matter how it's packaged. Welcome to the board Jello. Sorry for the not so friendly welcome. That's not what HybridZ is all about. It's the best forum of the many that I visit.

Newbie on his first post. There's a certain crowd that will never be convinced that a V8 Z will handle better than the 6. They don't understand polar moment of inertia or center of gravity. I was considering doing an LS swap in a Jeep Cherokee and I was shocked to find that the inline 6 in the Jeep weighs 100 pounds more fully dressed, with most of that weight in front of the shock towers.

Not to steal the threat, but has anyone actually taken delivery of a Warhawk block yet? My car is SBC based, and the extra mounting holes on the Warhawk would be perfect for those of us wanting to update to an LS engine.