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I like it because it's different, out of the box thinking. What I really like about it is the STEALTH factor. You could make the install very stealthy, by keeping the stock intake piping and air filter up front, and have the turbo pipe from the rear come up underneath it. The other thing I like is the heat sink (turbo housing) is not in the engine compartment. I'm wondering if some inventive souls might tackle the turbo-to-TB piping with a mind towards making it transfer the heat out of the compressed air. You have alot of length of pipe to do it in.

Sucks - same thing happend to my neighbor who borrowed a power washer from our neighbor - except the engine siezed. sjhafa- Doug has no honey do list - one of the great things about being single, huh!? I spent 4 hour painting about 10 square feet in the bathroom today. Somehow, I turned a simple job into a long one. Taxes didn't get done, Tires not rotated on the DD, garage still a horrible mess....

At first, all I could find were links to (of course) the atrocities that the US coalition have put on the Iraqi people (sigh - dirt on the US SELLS!). After looking around a bit, I found that that most liberal bastion of the WHITEHOUSE.GOV (snicker) had this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/news/20030404-1.html Of course, they mention "Human Rights Watch". Oh, boy, I had to get a beer to be able to read some of the hand wringing there about how badly we're treating the Iraqi people (PULEASE!). Anyway, the recent stuff on that sight about Iraq, is of course how the new Iraqi government and army are commiting human rights violations. Then if you dig deeper in time you begin to find the real stuff on Saddam's regime's reign of atrocities: http://hrw.org/reports/2004/iraq1104/4.htm#_ftnref47 "During the past thirty years, the government of Saddam Hussein engaged in three wars and numerous campaigns to repress the Kurdish, Shi`a, and Marsh Arab populations, resulting in the disappearance—and, most certainly, the deaths--of between 250,000 and 290,000 people.47 By February 2004, the Combined Forensic Team of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) had collected information on 259 mass graves in Iraq. Of these, U.S. military criminal investigation teams had conducted preliminary assessments of fifty-five sites by February 2004.48" http://hrw.org/reports/2004/iraq1104/4.htm#_ftn47 There's a bunch more. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/cnn-iraq.htm http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/iraq0205/ http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/02/26/iraq10216.htm http://hrw.org/campaigns/iraq/basra/index.htm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/02/16/iraq10185.htm http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/24/iraq9725.htm "Of the dozens of potential defendants, only 12 have been brought before a judge so far – by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq instead of the Iraqi Special Tribunal. As a result, the defendants have been charged only for crimes that are punishable under Iraq’s penal code. That is why Saddam Hussein has not yet been charged for international crimes such as genocide. Much evidence has been lost. Coalition forces failed to protect mass grave sites and government ministries that housed important state archives. Looting, and the digging up of mass graves by families desperate for evidence of relatives who “disappeared†under the Ba’athist regime, have destroyed or tainted a great deal of material that would have been critical to prosecutions." http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/04/iraq9589.htm I've not seen this movie, but this guy lines up with my thoughts over the Main Stream Media's slanted coverage of the Iraq issue, and the protestors: http://www.iraqitruthproject.com/ Well, he says its a documentary, but he has an agenda. Same thing as Moore (who on this site claims his 9/11 isn't a documentary, more of an oped.)

And what about the deaths and human rights violations of Saddam, his sons, and his government over the past decades? I could say that we ALLOWED those deaths by not putting a stop to Saddam earlier. Are the 1500 U.S. soldiers deaths that are some how more important than the multitude more of Iraqis killed over the years by Saddam's regime for no reason other than they didn't like his government and might have said something against it, etc. The U.S.'s proclivity to go into other countries to try to help the innocent people there (Somalia, etc.) is well known. If a U.S. citizen doesn't want to be put on the spot to defend the rights of others in a foreign country, they know they shouldn't join up or be in the reserves. Somehow, I think that U.S. soldiers who don't want to be in Iraq are a small minority, for just that reason. In fact, the few I've spoken with actually are glad to return. I'm not sure the following applies to you or not: Is it your values, or your pacifist tendencies? It's very difficult to tell the difference between one feeling or another. Only critical thought can help get a real answer on this. I tend to be a cold calculating person first, and one bent toward emotions second - because I learned long ago that following my feelings only sends me down a road that I later find was foolish and self-serving. My advice is this: Forget about your feelings. Do some critical thinking about the facts. You've made some good points in that last paragraph: -Saddam and his regime were a self-serving sadistic bunch who killed and tortured 10s if not 100s of thousands of people over the decades before we ousted him. His people lived in a constant state of fear of the government; fear that they would be tortured and/or killed for next to nothing or stating their opinion. -More soldiers will die. More Iraqis will die. Balance that with the death and zero human rights that the Iraqi's lived with before we took Saddam's regime down. My use of the term "senseless deaths" was a joke really - all deaths are a waste of human life. One is no more important or senseless than the next. Time has no bearing as well - 100s of thousands killed by Saddam's regime over 4 + decades are no less important than the 1500 US soldiers who've died, the thousands of innocent Iraqi's who've died in the crossfire, mistakes, and retaliation from insurgents, or the dead, misguided young sons of Iraqi fathers and mothers who've been brain washed or otherwise coerced into being insurgents. They're all dead, and all important deaths, no more senseless than the next, IMO. The number of true devils in this war can probably be counted in the 10s. Some would put Bush and his guys in there, others would include people like our italian journalist liar (I sure do). Some would say al-Zaquri and Osama Bin Laden. Question: What should put a cloud over your head? Innocent Iraqi people who've been tortured and/or killed or had their loved ones killed or taken away for decades? Innocent Iraqi people taken out by the insurgents for collaboration wiht the coalition? Friendly Fire deaths on the coalition side? A wedding party killed through a mistake on the part of the US commanders? US soldiers dying in overturned Humvees because they were ill-trained on the consequences of driving them too fast, etc.? Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who die each year in the US due to auto wrecks, drug use, etc.? I'd hope the answer would be none of them. Life happens. Sometimes the bad stuff is avoidable. Sometimes it's the consequence of trying to do some good. Once we allow are feelings to run our thinking (e.g., cloud over your head), we lose objectivity and make poor choices. These are the people who based on their emotions have very strong opinions on things (with no real objective thinking to back them up) and go out an make a bunch of noise at protests, etc. They make a bunch of noise and usually make themselves look pretty foolish. Ask me if I give a good crap about whether we've found WMDs. No, on the other hand don't.

I know what you mean. I know a certain off-beat (read thinks outside the box) GN guy that thinks of air-to-air intercoolers as heat sinks that end up heating the air after they're initially heated up with the hot charge from the turbo. He uses several extra injectors along the way from the turbo outlet, even in the plenum to do the cooling, using the heat of evaporation of the fuel to do it. Not to mention adding a bit of richness safety (not too much). According to him, it works quite well. Sorry, no data. He's also a king of reverse engineering and then modifying the programming of the GM ECUs to do what he wants them to do.

I got this idea from Jim Biondo: 1995-97 Toyota Tercel DX mirrors http://alteredz.com/image/body/mirror_installed_frtv.jpg I have a writeup with pictures on how I did it here: http://alteredz.com/TercelMirrorMounting.htm Personally, I think they fit the styling of the car well, don't vibrate and have a large enough glass spot to be usable. Especially if you adjust your mirrors the intelligent way: http://www.smartmotorist.com/mir/mir.htm "Exterior rearview mirrors - As for the side view mirror or mirrors, most people adjust them so they can see the side of the car on the inside edge of the mirror. If you adjust your mirrors using that criteria, are you aware of the huge blind spots that you've created? (Now is the time to take another look at the animated diagram at the top of the page.) Consider the view when the side view mirrors are set up as just described. Essentially, you have created "tunnel vision" to the rear. Your side view mirrors overlap much of what your inside rearview mirrors sees and you've also created blind spots. What in the solution to tunnel vision and blind spots? Simply adjust the side view mirrors just beyond the point where you could see the side of the car on the inside edge of the mirror. With this setup, you almost completely solve the blind spot problem. It takes a little while to get used to, but it is an improvement. Some quick tips: For the driver's side mirror: Place the side of your head against the window, then adjust the mirror until the side of your vehicle comes into view. For the passenger's side mirror: While sitting in the driver's seat, lean to the right so that your head is in the car's centerline. Adjust the mirror until the side of your vehicle comes into view." Sorry, a bit of a rant on a favorite peeve of mine about cars. I get in cars my work has in it's motor pool and the mirrors are always adjusted in the "too narrow" configuration. Redundant data is nice (what is directly behind you) but adjusting the side view mirrors to see a copy of that and leaving blind spots to the side of the car is unintelligent and dangerous IMO.

Well, here's some interesting info on "senseless deaths" in Iraq, nonetheless, from one of the sources that I was referring too. Just goes to show you generalizations stink: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-03-17-humvees-usat_x.htm

To coldly put things in perspective, think of how many people die accidental deaths everyday, or how many people die at the hands of people they know (most murder is by someone known to the victim). Along with those who die in Iraq (both coalition soldiers, and innocent Iraqis at the hands of both sides), all fall into the category of "senseless deaths". You'll find the number of people dying senseless deaths outiside of Iraq pales in comparision of those outside of any connection that the coalition is in Iraq. Again, the main stream media has oversensitized too many people about deaths in Iraq (on both sides and in the innocent middle), to their own advantage.

I was just wondering if having the fuel in the mix upstream of the valve so much farther than with port EFI you were getting some cooling effects. Heat of evaporation, etc. Maybe the surface area of the air box helps dissipate heat also. If any of the above is correct and you are satisfied with the boost at something like 15psi, possibly an intercooler would not give much of a cooling effect. No sense adding complication if it's not needed for performance reasons. Then again, if you were to race it in the 1/4, it might help to have an intercooler - or hurt if the cooler isn't big enough and just causes a heat sink effect after a 7 seconds or so of WOT under racing conditions.

I used QuickTimePlayer 6.5.2. Worked fine.

Me thinks the blowthrough carb might help him run more boost?

Sounds and looks great! One thing that was cool was hearing the audio go from the left to the right speaker as you went by the camera.

Awesome - it's over so quick!!!! . You must be dying to try that on a 1/4mile track! BTW, you need to put that in our Timeslip Database (click HybridZ at the far left of the bar across the top of the page, select Timeslip).

Flow isn't the whole story, as we all know. But dyno and drag strip performance is the bottom line (if you can keep the changes in all the other variables the same). That's a great idea. First the before/after porting flow numbers, then the before/after valve work numbers. Some people don't understand just how important the valve work is to good flow. You'll have the data to show your port work improvements, and your specialist's valve work improvements. Write up a web page on it!!! You are so funny. Your Z28 is faster than my 240Z, but I think I'll keep my 240Z. I want your Z28 in ADDITION to my 240Z . But you knew that!

Jamie, nice to hear that you do the testing on your work and use precision methods for doing the work! So many times I see people either buy heads and believe that they are bolting on a potential for power or others that just pull out the grinder without ever testing their work on a flow bench or dyno. (e.g., See the threads about Canfield heads that vendors supply with their own lousy valve work that make them flow much worse than they would if bought directly from Canfield already assembled.) All that needs to happen is for my old Eclipse to bite the dust and I'd be buying that Z/28!!! In other words, I'm not doubting your expertise! Oh, building the RB26 might be boring to some, but I don't think 600-700 hp would be boring to me!! Cheers,

Very nice to hear. Is this info on head mods thoroughly documented somewhere, with testing what works and what isn't worth while to do as far as mods? Still, even though it may be that mods to the head is well documented on how to get increases from head porting, minor details in how the valve job is done can make vast differences in flow, and hopefully power production. Pete

Did anyone read this? Pretty interesting.

Look at the blog I posted. The Iraqi people are some of the most thoughtful and intelligent people in the world. The rules of their islamic religion don't run their lifes to the point that civil war is inevitable. That's the media saying it is that way. The incredibly shallow media.

Check this out: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1363469/posts The Main Stream Media is, IMO, an even greater evil than the insurgents. They've shown the side of the story that they knew would piss off the most people and bring in the ratings and MONEY. All while keeping their owners' and editors' leftist slant. Our Italian journalist that should have been killed but wasn't is an even worse cancer. If you turn off your brain and listen to the MSM and take what they present you in aggregrate, you end up with an incredibly inaccurate picture of the true reality of what's going on on the ground in Iraq.

I think it was about $150. Prices for this stuff varies alot.

Jamie, this isn't a slam. You may well have done testing on your work, but unless you've done before/after flow, dyno runs, and/or drag runs under controlled conditions on your porting work, how do you know if those heads were any better performance wise when you were done?

Great point about the two relay setup - I sat down after seeing this post and saw that you could get away with just two relays (if the one doing the XOR logic and the high speed winding current switching had a SPDT configuration): Like onovakind67 pointed out, if the high speed relay (Form C) fails, (and the terminal 30 to 87a connection is part of the failure) then this circuit would totally fail to turn on the fan in either speed. There aren't any VF7 Type C relays (Form C, SPDT) available from what I can tell, so if you did want to do the above circuit, you'd have to find a SPDT relay that could handle about 60 amps across the normally open contacts. That's why I used two VF4s in parallel for the high speed function.