bubbleguinea

lord no thats not my crank...its the one out of the F54 block i just aquired for my stroker im going to start to build.... got the block...got my head....(on car now) got my crank...got my pistons.... now all i need is rods

this is going to sound stupid, but is this crank OK or is this crank shot??? you can feel the grooves easily...this is the thrust bearing area....

tonyD, thats what i kinda thought...perhaps my back injector (s) are not quite running to full capacity...but i dont understand why my AF ratio would be good if this was so....unless i just richened it up to compensate for it, and i didnt realize it... ill test the injectors when i start the head swap.... im in the process of paininting the new spare engine and getting it ready with a new timing kit and gaskets...then in one long day im going to pull my short block, install my head on the "backup" junkyard engine, and figure out whats wrong with mine....

yeah...it was acid dipped when it came back from the machine shop...(block)

prox, thats what i thought... its just i dont understand what to do... ive got turbo oil pump, and temp never goes above 190degrees..... theres got to be something else up with it...maybe i just need to recheck timing and all that...and get some hotter plugs...

Sooo..a few of you know i used to have some headgasket problems back in the days...untill i figured out my head was warped in the rear two cylinders.... well....recently right before SEZ, my felpro gasket blew again by the waterjacket on the rear cylinder...i defaulted that to being a crappy felpro gasket.... well- i was supposed to leave for basic training in the Marines Corps on may 14th, but my recruiter didnt get my paperwork finished in time, so now im leaving in september....and i never told anyone this, but right before i was supposed to leave, something very bad happened to my engine... it started to smoke like hell through the PCV, and idel real rought....well, i kept driving it for the past month, cause i needed to have a car to get to work with Paul (Majick) at Main auto parts....well ive been driving on what i thought was 5 cylinders till today... i finally did a compression test, and ive got 225psi in the first 4 cylinders, and 125 in the rear two...then it got me to thinking... the only time ive ever had a problem blowing gaskets, it has been in the rear... when we went to the dyno, my AF ratio was spot on....so i know my car is somewhat tuned right via SDS......but the only thing i can think of is detanation!!! how could this happen? i guess it blew the rings this time, cause i torqued my head down to 70ft/lbs instead of 65, so the gaket couldnt have blown real easily... for the pro engine builders, and thoughts on whats up? could my rear fuel injectors just not be squirting that well, but still maintain a good af ratio?

those look like my hood scoops!

you killed a polar bear?

brrap..... good point about water freezing in all directions... i guess we were just really lucky that it poped the two plugs out....both on the passenger backside of the block.... we've never put antifreeze in the old ZX....its a piece of crap now, and its not worth it...its doesnt freeze that much down here in GA.... but my car, thats a different story i guess maybe the term freeze plug just got coined from some lucky guy like me and thought that thats what they were supposed to do? long live core plug!

its ok

pc men or women

i thought you sprayed hairspray in the end of it and lit it with a lighter?

yeah, that doesnt look like a .50 cal pistol either....either way...i thank the lord every day i grew up in ATL with cars and girls instead of guns and deer.

BRAAP....i know you're stuck on calling them core plugs but.... here in kennesaw last december it was below freezing overnight, and when i came over to my friends house with his wrecked but driveable 280ZX (poop brown SEZ car) we saw liquid on the ground (after it had warmed up).... low and behold, we never put coolant in the block, just H2o, and two plugs poped out!!!! we looked in the hole, and it was solid ice down there! saved the block! we reinstalled them (same ones) with sealant, and crakend the car up....5 months, no leaks, and engine runs fine... sooo... for the rest of my life, due to my experience, ill call them freeze plugs! agh!

the .223 round is a piece of crap IMO....i own an AR-15, a MINI-30, a mousin-nangat, a marlin .22mag, a ruger 10/22, and another .22, i think its a mossberg.... the AR is the funnest to shoot, but its just such a small round. i would think quanity of bullets would take down a wild hog with an A5...and still, they look 100 times more bad ass than any other rifles...check out http://www.tapco.com for some upgrades

kevlar Mini 14 (5.56) or AR-15 (5.56)

bubble is my 2+2 sexy, or are coupes sexier?

thats not a photoshop...it made newspapers and television news....its the real deal.....1050lbs...hahaha

easy fix... ill sell you my AR-15... ive got two 30rnd mags attached to each other...just learn to pull the trigger fast, and learn to change the mag fast, and you can take it down with 60 well placed 5.56mm shots

so why doesnt someone just buy them, try them on a dyno, and if they dont work return them???

good think it didnt let loose!

T-Tops... Isn't this game like that game we play with circle of death, or is it called flip cup?

2550 (without me, L28, 2+2, full interior)

no prob!