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Stuff I'm working on.
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Looks like you had a pretty badass weekend.
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I really did! As much fun as I've had in a while. Alot of my travels as of late have been for family loss or similar so this was good to just go have fun.
I forgot to bring my camera home yesterday so we are a day behind. Yesterday was Euro day apparently. We got B58 BMW for an exhaust, a Porche for an exhaust and a air cleaner kit also.
I just got done hanging out with these people on the ice, why do they follow me home?
Porsche Up in the air and getting started.
All the factory bits. Gotta admit alot of this is really well designed and looks very free flowing. I'm not a fan of these cars but they are not the worst top work on.
Moving the exhaust valves over to the new muffler set. Everything bolts up pretty easy.
Muffler case installed and going together. this reuses the factory cats and muffler valve actuators.
All done and pulling it out. Jake did a great job!
The BMW got a similair treatment.
Again swapping over the actuators. That and prepping the new valvtronic exhaust to install.
Lining up the tips and the rest of the exhaust. Starting to look good!
That was yesterday, Today we did some stuff and things I'll catch you all up on tomorow!
Good night guys! its date night, I'm going to take the girl to dinner! Have a good rest of your evening.
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The Camaro that we swapped the cam in made it onto the dyno today. Made good power after we got a few things sorted out.
Pulling the car onto the rack.
Starting the tear down. Other thasn the cold air kit, its minty fresh.
During the tear down!
New springs, some .660 lift TSP springs.
Installing springs on car. Some air ibn the cylinder and a decent spring compressor makes the job pretty easy.
On the dyno
We hit a few issues. Issue one is we picked up a wicked miss around 4800 rpm or so. The car came in with a set of aftermarket wires that I have no faith in. I new set of delco's and all of our missfire counts went away. Thats a good thing.
Also in the picture is the MAF that above about 6K hertz went full ******. UGH! Swapped that and we are back in business.
Next issue we had was the KNK sensors were PISSED!
There is no world where this thing should be knocking at 12.2-1 afr and 14.7* of timing. I HATE **** fuel.
We went ahead and put some decent premium in it and after some tuning we got a good running motor.
The log from the last pull I made on it.
Thats 6K, 22*'s, 12.5 afr. No knk and everything looks great!
In my experience this should be 425RWHP. And we get.............................
Funny how consistent all this stuff is actually. Stock on our dyno most of these things make around 350-360 rwhp. So this is about a 65-70 rwhp bump in my estimation.
And it sounds bitchin.
Pulling the car onto the rack.
Starting the tear down. Other thasn the cold air kit, its minty fresh.
During the tear down!
New springs, some .660 lift TSP springs.
Installing springs on car. Some air ibn the cylinder and a decent spring compressor makes the job pretty easy.
On the dyno
We hit a few issues. Issue one is we picked up a wicked miss around 4800 rpm or so. The car came in with a set of aftermarket wires that I have no faith in. I new set of delco's and all of our missfire counts went away. Thats a good thing.
Also in the picture is the MAF that above about 6K hertz went full ******. UGH! Swapped that and we are back in business.
Next issue we had was the KNK sensors were PISSED!
There is no world where this thing should be knocking at 12.2-1 afr and 14.7* of timing. I HATE **** fuel.
We went ahead and put some decent premium in it and after some tuning we got a good running motor.
The log from the last pull I made on it.
Thats 6K, 22*'s, 12.5 afr. No knk and everything looks great!
In my experience this should be 425RWHP. And we get.............................
Funny how consistent all this stuff is actually. Stock on our dyno most of these things make around 350-360 rwhp. So this is about a 65-70 rwhp bump in my estimation.
And it sounds bitchin.
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When i wasn't working on the Camaro i was tearing down the motor for the 67 Nova that lost oil pressure last week. I w3as at the very end of a pull and the oil gauge dumped to zero. I killed the e4ngine and was kinda put into a holding pattern. Its not a matter of what we should do next, but a matter of who is paying for it. ATK said they would pay us to figure out what went wrong up to a point. I figured **** it. The motor comes out. We can set around and pontificate on what we all think is wrong, we can guess, we can debate ect, but at the end o0f the day, pull the thing and tear it down. This will give us a definitive answer. then we can figure out where the money comes from. Lets start getting a Nova back on the road anyway we can.
This is a "new" ATK performance engine. Complete with warranty and a price tag to match. I have used them in the passed along with companies like Admiral and Blue print and they are all fine. Never really had any mentionable issues with any of them. Its small block chevy ****.
I found a few issues during tear down and that's a good thing. I need a smoking gun here for why the low oil pressure.
Number one was a loose oil pump. The bolt had probably backed out a full turn or so and there was around a .020 gap between the pump and main cap. Initially I thought this was the issue but after tightening the bolt and temporarily reinstalling the pan a few quarts of fresh oil, my manual oil pressure gauge said that the oil pressure was still lower than expected and took awhile to actually register on the gauge. So while the pressure was better, this was not the issue.
Grabbing the pump and giving it the business.
Sorry about the noise but there were hot rods running!
I pulled the pan back down and rigged up a oil reservoir i could put the oil pick up in and spin the pump with a drill to look for oil leaking internally back into the pan.
BINGO! huge amount of oil bypass out of the front of the engine. Made a ***anic mess but it pointed me where i needed to go. A fire hose of oil dumped from behind the front cover. We are onto something here!
Pulled the water pump, balancer, and front cover to get a look at where its all coming from. And i found it!
The upper oil gally plug is missing. This pumps all the oil down this galley and back into the pan and causes no oil pressure. the pump is still pumping and oil is still moving somewhat through the engine, but no pressure.
This was actually kind of a surprise for me cuz i never found a galley plug. It should be in the pan. It has no where else to go and the pan was clean of any big chunks. When i drained the oil initially I was looking for glitter or debris and never found any.
Looking around a little more and I ended up finding the galley plug.
It has become one with the timing set.
I get it **** happens. I hope there is a quick path to getting this thing back together. I personally wouldn't have any issues with a new timing set and staking the **** out of the new galley plug, but I also understand where the customer may not want a engine that has 2 very obvious oiling issues inside of 30 minutes on the dyno. So we will see.
Anyway, that's what i got for the day fellas, hope you all had a good one!
Night!
This is a "new" ATK performance engine. Complete with warranty and a price tag to match. I have used them in the passed along with companies like Admiral and Blue print and they are all fine. Never really had any mentionable issues with any of them. Its small block chevy ****.
I found a few issues during tear down and that's a good thing. I need a smoking gun here for why the low oil pressure.
Number one was a loose oil pump. The bolt had probably backed out a full turn or so and there was around a .020 gap between the pump and main cap. Initially I thought this was the issue but after tightening the bolt and temporarily reinstalling the pan a few quarts of fresh oil, my manual oil pressure gauge said that the oil pressure was still lower than expected and took awhile to actually register on the gauge. So while the pressure was better, this was not the issue.
Sorry about the noise but there were hot rods running!
I pulled the pan back down and rigged up a oil reservoir i could put the oil pick up in and spin the pump with a drill to look for oil leaking internally back into the pan.
BINGO! huge amount of oil bypass out of the front of the engine. Made a ***anic mess but it pointed me where i needed to go. A fire hose of oil dumped from behind the front cover. We are onto something here!
Pulled the water pump, balancer, and front cover to get a look at where its all coming from. And i found it!
The upper oil gally plug is missing. This pumps all the oil down this galley and back into the pan and causes no oil pressure. the pump is still pumping and oil is still moving somewhat through the engine, but no pressure.
This was actually kind of a surprise for me cuz i never found a galley plug. It should be in the pan. It has no where else to go and the pan was clean of any big chunks. When i drained the oil initially I was looking for glitter or debris and never found any.
Looking around a little more and I ended up finding the galley plug.
It has become one with the timing set.
I get it **** happens. I hope there is a quick path to getting this thing back together. I personally wouldn't have any issues with a new timing set and staking the **** out of the new galley plug, but I also understand where the customer may not want a engine that has 2 very obvious oiling issues inside of 30 minutes on the dyno. So we will see.
Anyway, that's what i got for the day fellas, hope you all had a good one!
Night!
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Camaro auto? On my truck we did truck 6.0 with 823 rec port and all ls3 intake/TB/injectors/accessories etc. long tubes and a tr6060 all from a 2010 Camaro. TSP stage 2 ls3 cam and springs/pushrods/trunnions. 438 tire, just curious how their dyno numbers compare. From what I’ve seen using all the same components on a ly6 vs ls3 is like 20 hp lower. Does the auto cause 30 hp extra loss vs stick in a 5th gen? Or are my guys numbers potentially inflated?
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What are the chances that the front upper main bearing and front cam bearing took damage from the chain getting tight enough to mold the plug into the sprocket? I personally would not risk slapping a chain on it without checking those bearings myself. Guess it's the customer's call though....
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If I was the customer I would want a new engine, he paid the no BS price and now has BS with this engine. I would send this one back and get a new one. Who knows what else was not correct that could show up later.
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More to the point if those 2 bolts are loose, what else isn't torqued properly? Id kinda wanna every single fastener and make sure they're good.
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Sounds pretty close really. This is stock manifolds with a cat back, so thats less than ideal. Also if it was a dynojet, they historically make more due to the lower amount of load. But in this case the results were pretty close. Thats what 2.5%?
I don't think anything is "inflated" per se, maybe he let her cool all the way down and gave it the hero pull treatment. Or just as likely, your engine runs really good and whoever did it knew how, and did a good job.
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Got two done today. the bronco and the Chevelle. the Chevelle runs a tkx trans and I am quickly coming to the conclusion its my favorite trans. The 6 speed stuff is nice and all but the tkx just shifts better.
The Chevelle runs a distributor from Progressive Ignition. I had never heqar4d of it before. Looking into it, its pre3tty ****ing cool! If you run an HEI or plan too, this thing is pretty dope.
progressionignition.com
Real time output, bluetooth, built in rev limit, boost capable timing curve. Its pretty dope. I see a world of applications here for sure. if you are looking for computer controlled timing on say a blow through carb, or similar, this thing really works well. i was dubious to start but i shouldn't have been. Its a good piece. And you can tune it from a phone. Car ended up makeing around 310 rwhp out of a boring to drive SBC. Thats pretty great honestly. Looking forward to a rip around thye block come monday.
Then there is this ****ing thing.
Bronco with the new Holley sniper2. Runs good. This one was a bit weird I had to build a goofy knoll in the VE table when the convertor pulled together to keep it from going lean. The intake must have some distribution issues. The graph looks weird but it runs great. Sometimes you have to do what the motor likes not what makes sense.
It was never going to be a ass kicker as its just a 302 but if you concider all the drive train losses from this thing it still runs pretty damn good.
I was able to finish up the running board/rock slider install on the 2023? Toyota today as well. Kind of a boring job, but its still work that needs doing.
Getting them test fit and squared up.
I'm not a welder, I'm a dude with a welder.
I think they turned out OK. By no means some great project, but they all can't be. I hope we got the correct car cuz they are never coming off.
Then this thing showed up for next week.
Scout with a 392 and a Holley sniper2. Should run good after a bit of work. I love me a Scout! My buddy Logan had one that was pretty terrific. I had a Travel all once that was basically my apartment for 6 months. I loved that ****ing thing. This thing is looking pretty fresh and dialed. I'm hoping for a quick round trip on thye dyno and then onward and upward.
Well, that was the friday of the week. Hope you all had a good time, got alot done, held up your end and kicked ass.
Night!
The Chevelle runs a distributor from Progressive Ignition. I had never heqar4d of it before. Looking into it, its pre3tty ****ing cool! If you run an HEI or plan too, this thing is pretty dope.
Progression Ignition
Fully electronic timing control. Tuned with your smartphone or tablet. Wireless Bluetooth connection
progressionignition.com
Real time output, bluetooth, built in rev limit, boost capable timing curve. Its pretty dope. I see a world of applications here for sure. if you are looking for computer controlled timing on say a blow through carb, or similar, this thing really works well. i was dubious to start but i shouldn't have been. Its a good piece. And you can tune it from a phone. Car ended up makeing around 310 rwhp out of a boring to drive SBC. Thats pretty great honestly. Looking forward to a rip around thye block come monday.
Then there is this ****ing thing.
Bronco with the new Holley sniper2. Runs good. This one was a bit weird I had to build a goofy knoll in the VE table when the convertor pulled together to keep it from going lean. The intake must have some distribution issues. The graph looks weird but it runs great. Sometimes you have to do what the motor likes not what makes sense.
It was never going to be a ass kicker as its just a 302 but if you concider all the drive train losses from this thing it still runs pretty damn good.
I was able to finish up the running board/rock slider install on the 2023? Toyota today as well. Kind of a boring job, but its still work that needs doing.
Getting them test fit and squared up.
I'm not a welder, I'm a dude with a welder.
I think they turned out OK. By no means some great project, but they all can't be. I hope we got the correct car cuz they are never coming off.
Then this thing showed up for next week.
Scout with a 392 and a Holley sniper2. Should run good after a bit of work. I love me a Scout! My buddy Logan had one that was pretty terrific. I had a Travel all once that was basically my apartment for 6 months. I loved that ****ing thing. This thing is looking pretty fresh and dialed. I'm hoping for a quick round trip on thye dyno and then onward and upward.
Well, that was the friday of the week. Hope you all had a good time, got alot done, held up your end and kicked ass.
Night!
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I had a tkx in my Camaro. The engine never much ran worth a **** but the trans was fantastic 
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Fast, got any pics of your old travellall?
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I'll scrounge. It was a while ago. Before everyone carried a phone around with them.
It was light blue, white top, Pergo sticker down the side. I built a turbocharged 401 that ran pretty good. Didn't make a ton of HP but TQ was great. Honestly if I did it now it would be much better. 23 year old me didn't know as much as now me does. Also I could use a set of decent heads that weren't really a thing then and lets be honest, 23 year old me was pretty ****ing broke.
is it the angle or is the rear axle all the way to the front of the wheel well?
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Yeah its not centered. But with the shackle in the back it moves rearward as it compresses. Meh.
On friday the opertunity to buy this came up so i took it.
Anyone need a scissor lift in the PNW? works good. could use a bit tlc as they all could but its ready to go to work.
Over the weekend a few things of note. I had a friend show up with an intake manifold he managed to get some hardware stuck in, and a cam gear that got run down in the wrong spot to fix. Took a few tries lol.
He had managed to break off a drill bit in the broken hardware and that required some welding to overcome. We got it though. Saved a thousand dollar intake. So thats good.
After that I had a buddy call me up and offer me a decent Nissan Xterra for cheap so he could appease his HOA. I headed over and drug it home.
Anyone in the PNW need wnat a decent 05 Exterra 4wd manual 6 speed?
While there I checked out a bug his dad is working on.
Man, I wish mine was still around. I'd even let him work on VW's if he was.
Ive known the guy for 25 years. In his courtyard was this coffee table. He recently decided to retire it. MAN............ have I drank some beer off this thing lol.
Back at work today it was time to put the scout on the dyno. I fired it up to wheel it in and its obviously running on not 8. I shot my thermal cam at it and cyl#2 is cool. I installed my spark checker and got proof of spark. That sucks. Next is the bad news ometer.
Cyl #4
And cyl#2.
We are done here. There is no one or zero I can change to double the compression of a cylinder. So ball is back in his court. We will see what he decides.
In good news i got a chance to take it on a longer test drive around town. Runs great! is one of the better running SBC's we have run on the dyno lately.
That was the day and a touch of the weekend. We also worked on Jays car a bit more, I got a bunch done around the house and I really need to start planning for the swap meet agaion.
Have a good one fellas.
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What the **** is this? both are stamped as 9/16 and one is very much a 1/2. Make a dude go crazy!
We had a Miata with a honda V6 J motor swap come into the shop for some cooling system issues.
It had a few little issues but the big one was the wiring for the cooling fan was backward. Kinda hard to pass air with a cooling fan blowing against the wind. Corrected this issue and the cooling system appears to be more than adequate. Before a trip around the block got you 220* aftyer swapping the harness we never saw above 185.
The rest of the kit was cool. Whoever built the exhaust was good at it.
The kits oil pan and other parts were good quality and well made.
I managed to take a ****ty picture of a really nice oil pan.
The engine mounted on a mid plate to the custom Xmember
Nice big mounts that fit great and offer easy access. This is a nice kit.
After fixing the few little things on the list I took it for a pretty aggressive rip around the block, this thing is legit quick. Right before the limiter you catch yourself saying "oh ****!" It pulls super hard on the second half of the rev range.
I have driven alot of swapped miata's and this is probably my favorite V6 swap. The jag engine has nothing on this. And its wrecking yard available out of an accord. Its great fun!
Also I was serious, anyone need a scissor lift or a manual trans Exterra in the PNW? lol
Later guys! have a great night.
We had a Miata with a honda V6 J motor swap come into the shop for some cooling system issues.
It had a few little issues but the big one was the wiring for the cooling fan was backward. Kinda hard to pass air with a cooling fan blowing against the wind. Corrected this issue and the cooling system appears to be more than adequate. Before a trip around the block got you 220* aftyer swapping the harness we never saw above 185.
The rest of the kit was cool. Whoever built the exhaust was good at it.
The kits oil pan and other parts were good quality and well made.
I managed to take a ****ty picture of a really nice oil pan.
The engine mounted on a mid plate to the custom Xmember
Nice big mounts that fit great and offer easy access. This is a nice kit.
After fixing the few little things on the list I took it for a pretty aggressive rip around the block, this thing is legit quick. Right before the limiter you catch yourself saying "oh ****!" It pulls super hard on the second half of the rev range.
I have driven alot of swapped miata's and this is probably my favorite V6 swap. The jag engine has nothing on this. And its wrecking yard available out of an accord. Its great fun!
Also I was serious, anyone need a scissor lift or a manual trans Exterra in the PNW? lol
Later guys! have a great night.
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supposed to be an 8/16!
What the **** is this? both are stamped as 9/16 and one is very much a 1/2. Make a dude go crazy!
We had a Miata with a honda V6 J motor swap come into the shop for some cooling system issues.
It had a few little issues but the big one was the wiring for the cooling fan was backward. Kinda hard to pass air with a cooling fan blowing against the wind. Corrected this issue and the cooling system appears to be more than adequate. Before a trip around the block got you 220* aftyer swapping the harness we never saw above 185.
The rest of the kit was cool. Whoever built the exhaust was good at it.
The kits oil pan and other parts were good quality and well made.
I managed to take a ****ty picture of a really nice oil pan.
this
The engine mounted on a mid plate to the custom Xmember
Nice big mounts that fit great and offer easy access. This is a nice kit.
After fixing the few little things on the list I took it for a pretty aggressive rip around the block, this thing is legit quick. Right before the limiter you catch yourself saying "oh ****!" It pulls super hard on the second half of the rev range.
I have driven alot of swapped miata's and this is probably my favorite V6 swap. The jag engine has nothing on this. And its wrecking yard available out of an accord. Its great fun!
Also I was serious, anyone need a scissor lift or a manual trans Exterra in the PNW? lol
Later guys! have a great night.
I always wondered why that engine wasn't more popular for swaps in buggies. They rip stock and are fairly compact for being a V6. Im a fan of those engines
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Wish I was local, my son would have another suv and I'd have a scissor lift!
spring break is coming, send him west with a buddy or 4 with the truck and trailer
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could be all over a manual rustfree xterra
could be totally uninterested in another project
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Id like to have the Xterra because i used to date a girl who had one and i liked it. But alas its across the country
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Today I finally got the S10 ready to dyno. I needed to build a new alt tensioner bracket. i used some left over parts from another project and landed on this. Works great!
Got a few other little bits done then it was on to the dyno. After strapping it down and trying to actually run it, I figured out the carb sucks. Its dead lean until pull over and even then is not great. Normally this is fixable with some PV changes and some air bleed changes but in this case nothing I changed worked. I moved the jets around 10 numbers and the pvcr's .020 numbers and even the air bleads .010. Nothing really changed much. I could dig into this carb and try to sdort out why, but a new 750 is cheaper and quicker. \
I swapped out the supplied carb with my coveted and fiercely protected HP750. All of the problems went away. You can see the fuel discharge look pretty ugly here. AFR was plenty rich and i still got some lean pops through the intake.
After swapping on my known good HP this is what the boosters should look like. Engine ran way better here.
I love me a HP carb. they really nailed it. They are expensive anymore for sure but depending on your project, totally worth it. This carb I bought aqround 2010 when I was doing a bunch of engine dyno tuning. I set it up on a big block Ford that was a 540 inch deal. Jetted it right and put a 8.5 PV in it. Since then i have never even changed the jets. it runs 12.5-1 AFR if its on a big block Ford or a small block Chrysler. this thing literally doesn't care. Its so good I will never sell it.
I got a gfew other things done but not a ton of note.. Will catch up tomorrow.!
Night my guys.
Got a few other little bits done then it was on to the dyno. After strapping it down and trying to actually run it, I figured out the carb sucks. Its dead lean until pull over and even then is not great. Normally this is fixable with some PV changes and some air bleed changes but in this case nothing I changed worked. I moved the jets around 10 numbers and the pvcr's .020 numbers and even the air bleads .010. Nothing really changed much. I could dig into this carb and try to sdort out why, but a new 750 is cheaper and quicker. \
I swapped out the supplied carb with my coveted and fiercely protected HP750. All of the problems went away. You can see the fuel discharge look pretty ugly here. AFR was plenty rich and i still got some lean pops through the intake.
After swapping on my known good HP this is what the boosters should look like. Engine ran way better here.
I love me a HP carb. they really nailed it. They are expensive anymore for sure but depending on your project, totally worth it. This carb I bought aqround 2010 when I was doing a bunch of engine dyno tuning. I set it up on a big block Ford that was a 540 inch deal. Jetted it right and put a 8.5 PV in it. Since then i have never even changed the jets. it runs 12.5-1 AFR if its on a big block Ford or a small block Chrysler. this thing literally doesn't care. Its so good I will never sell it.
I got a gfew other things done but not a ton of note.. Will catch up tomorrow.!
Night my guys.
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OK! So stuff today!
Weather was amazing today so i took the opportunity to walk to work. I live close by so its an easy 20 minute mosey. Gives me a chance to get some fresh air.
Walking up on the shop and there is this thing.
Showed up over the weekend I guess. Its here for some coil overs. These cars look really tall stock and look way better 2-3 inches down. Also the whells always looked really tucked into the wheel wells and a different set pushes them out with better back spacing.. Also a bit wider.
Its a really nice car. most of the stuff from Japan really struggles with rust but this ones pretty darn clean underneath.
The after shot of the new suspension bits.
I think it looks pretty good.
Then there is this thing that showed up for some tuning work.
It runs a whipple supercharged 03-04 cobra swap with a 6 speed. Pretty great car. I need to figure out what all I'm actually doiong to it.
Spring has sprung! I know this because we now have miata's showing up. Its always the first sign.
We had two today. they are both NB cars with the 1.8 running a 38mm restrictor.
A pair of brothers own them. Super nice guys. The first one is the3 silver car
Where after tuning it made this
Its a new engine that we broke in on the dyno.
The other cvar is the white one
Its a stock short block with a new head. After fussing with it it did this.
Really good TQ!
They stuggled with a few issues. We had water leaks, missfires, TPS issues, fuel injectors stuck open, crank sensor problems, you name it and we fough it today. But ultimately we got both sorted out and got good competitive results out of both cars. My only complaint was both cars are built for dudes that are like 5'5" and 125 pounds and the seats SUCK! After basically 6 hours of climbing in and out, between hours of wedged into the cars I was ready to talk. I would have ratted out the whole platoon to get out of those damn things by about 3 oclock lol.
After finishing up both cars the guys rolled them into thier trailer that is really cool. They built a custom trailer that lets them load two miatas in 24 feet.
In over the weekend news, it was my Birthday and one of my best friends gave me this thing.
The place he manages was getting rid of it and rather than scrap it, he drug it to my house. Gotta love that!
Its a wierd size. Its 32" wide. I'm not sure what the form factor was here. I'm not really aware of any material in that supplies in this width range but thats ok. I'm going to use it to build weird brackets and whatnot out of 99% aluminum, so i really don't care too much, but i did think it was a weird size. Blades are sharp and I'll put it to work. Step one is getting it off the pallet cribbing they built to move it. Being 8" taller makes getting up on the jumper a pain in the ass.
He also has a 10 foot brake that needs a home for the scrap price of steel. I can't use it, so if anyone in the PNW wants a 10' brake for scrap value. let me know. I'd hate to see it get turned into Saporo cans.
We got a new carb for the S10 today as well, but it may be the wrong one. Before I install it i need to make sure we all agree this is the path forward the owner wants to travel.
Anyway, Later fellas!
Weather was amazing today so i took the opportunity to walk to work. I live close by so its an easy 20 minute mosey. Gives me a chance to get some fresh air.
Walking up on the shop and there is this thing.
Showed up over the weekend I guess. Its here for some coil overs. These cars look really tall stock and look way better 2-3 inches down. Also the whells always looked really tucked into the wheel wells and a different set pushes them out with better back spacing.. Also a bit wider.
Its a really nice car. most of the stuff from Japan really struggles with rust but this ones pretty darn clean underneath.
The after shot of the new suspension bits.
I think it looks pretty good.
Then there is this thing that showed up for some tuning work.
It runs a whipple supercharged 03-04 cobra swap with a 6 speed. Pretty great car. I need to figure out what all I'm actually doiong to it.
Spring has sprung! I know this because we now have miata's showing up. Its always the first sign.
We had two today. they are both NB cars with the 1.8 running a 38mm restrictor.
A pair of brothers own them. Super nice guys. The first one is the3 silver car
Where after tuning it made this
Its a new engine that we broke in on the dyno.
The other cvar is the white one
Its a stock short block with a new head. After fussing with it it did this.
Really good TQ!
They stuggled with a few issues. We had water leaks, missfires, TPS issues, fuel injectors stuck open, crank sensor problems, you name it and we fough it today. But ultimately we got both sorted out and got good competitive results out of both cars. My only complaint was both cars are built for dudes that are like 5'5" and 125 pounds and the seats SUCK! After basically 6 hours of climbing in and out, between hours of wedged into the cars I was ready to talk. I would have ratted out the whole platoon to get out of those damn things by about 3 oclock lol.
After finishing up both cars the guys rolled them into thier trailer that is really cool. They built a custom trailer that lets them load two miatas in 24 feet.
In over the weekend news, it was my Birthday and one of my best friends gave me this thing.
The place he manages was getting rid of it and rather than scrap it, he drug it to my house. Gotta love that!
Its a wierd size. Its 32" wide. I'm not sure what the form factor was here. I'm not really aware of any material in that supplies in this width range but thats ok. I'm going to use it to build weird brackets and whatnot out of 99% aluminum, so i really don't care too much, but i did think it was a weird size. Blades are sharp and I'll put it to work. Step one is getting it off the pallet cribbing they built to move it. Being 8" taller makes getting up on the jumper a pain in the ass.
He also has a 10 foot brake that needs a home for the scrap price of steel. I can't use it, so if anyone in the PNW wants a 10' brake for scrap value. let me know. I'd hate to see it get turned into Saporo cans.
We got a new carb for the S10 today as well, but it may be the wrong one. Before I install it i need to make sure we all agree this is the path forward the owner wants to travel.
Anyway, Later fellas!
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Pretty sure we had that same shear at my highschool metal shop.
Could be from an HVAC shop. 26x8 L's that you put 2 together to make main run duct work are somewhat standard for spec homes. We stopped making our own back in the late 90's when it was cheaper to just buy it than pay someone to make it.