I have spent the past week between A&A auto (Keystone), NAPA, Advanced Auto, Autozone, Lowes, Home Depot, a local Ace hardware, and two other very local hardware stores, and a local dealership. I am unable to locate the crush washers to replace mine on the oil jets. I haven't had any luck with...
If you just popped a composite gasket in place of the MLS with no altering. It means there wasn't a smooth enough finish on the 'sanding' you did. This is why that gasket didn't seat.
That sounds like the big fish that got away. Haha. I can side with you on wanting a DSM so badly. Evaluate the maintenance required to get it to good operating condition. The amount of time and money this will require. After all that figure out how much the car is worth, minus these...
You had already stated your method, and you stated the test you did to ensure flatness. It isn't just flatness, or your determination of what smooth is. We are discussing thousandths of an inch. This is not something an average tuner, or engine builder can determine. I would honestly take it...
You can't just blame it on the head gasket based on that being the place which showed you where the leak was. Without knowing the exact finish you accomplished, it's very possible you hadn't achieved the required finish for said head gasket. With out this it would be impossible for the gasket...
I would say honestly ebay gets a bad rap way to quickly. I have had great success with a items. The best part about the I/C's on ebay is they have so many different sizes, you could find exactly the size you want. Regarding the modification of bumper supports. A light bump would only damage...
My friend, you should have checked the link out for yourself. Get familiar with RRE they are god sent.Road Race Engineering's 2G 16-G Turbo Install Kits and PartsThe first package includes a nice ss oil feed line.
The second package also includes the nice ss oil feed line.
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Guzman- First of all, why are you upgrading a turbo on a car you don't even own yet? I know it's an exciting world to jump into, but take a few breathes of the dsm air first.To answer your question with out spitting common knowledge at you that can be found at VFAQ Site - Visual...
I wouldn't put twin turbo on something if it we're free, especially not a 4cyl. If I we're building a v8 maybe, but I still would prefer one massive turbo. I say in this case 2 is not better. More headaches, more things to fail.
The gasket isn't impervious to the pressure up against it. It will blow out in a short time frame.For future reference, do not put brick walls in the way of your air flow.This is a dead end issue.
It would also be really sick to build a firewall behind the front seats of a geo metro. Put the engine in the rear of the car, mounted in the same manor it would be in the front, but in the rear. This would create a rear engine rear wheel drive turbo 4g geo metro that could pull wheelies...
Wow, I didn't see the wifi one yet. That is interesting. I just got my obd2---db9 with a palm IIIc car charger/house charger for 25.00 shipped! that wifi unit is probably pretty pricey.
I'm willing to bet if you measured the length of the piping it's not that much longer than going between the turbo/radiator. As I stated previously I also don't like routing the piping in between there to begin with. I really rather the inlet on the PS side, and the outlet coming out on the DR...
There is a reason for this.One turbo=one headache two turbos= MANY headaches.:banghead:
There is a reason why owners of vehicles that came stock TT (supra, rx-7, 300z) all remove the TT setup in lieu of a large single turbo.When you have two turbos you have to consider many things...
I don't know how your going to interface the obd to the i pod or i phone. However, regarding the apps on those things they even have one like that 'gforce unit'. You calibrate the thing by moving the phone then you rip in your car. It'll tell you your 1/4 mile, 0-60, all kinds of information.
Adding timing and boost create more compression. Why would you NEED less compression pistons? You aren't going to be running 40 psi of boost. If you ran 8.5:1 or 8.8:1 like stock 2g pistons you could let the engine make some more power on it's own, and still boost the hell out of it...
From the research I have done I planned on going with a gm maf and the maft gen2. With the gm maf your able to get rid of that egg shaped pain in the ass and run a normal 3 in cone, or a 3 in cone in a colder air location. Also you can run the gm maf after the I/C as a blow-by which makes it...
I ran a big t28 before I got my small 16g. I would honestly give the advice that "stock rocks." Our stock heads can handle upward of 400hp. Our stock 450cc injectors with higher pressure like around 46-50 psi can flow much like 550cc injectors. With 100+ octane fuel will give you enough to...
I ran a big t28 before I got my small 16g. I would honestly give the advice that "stock rocks." Our stock heads can handle upward of 400hp. Our stock 450cc injectors with higher pressure like around 46-50 psi can flow much like 550cc injectors. With 100+ octane fuel will give you enough to...
Has anyone actually ever compression tested a car they we're looking at before they bought it? It certainly would be good to see this before hand, but I never asked anyone to do any testing, or anything like that until I owned the car and did it myself. I hear it a lot on dsm forums though. I...
I ran a big t28 before I got my small 16g. I would honestly give the advice that "stock rocks." Our stock heads can handle upward of 400hp. Our stock 450cc injectors with higher pressure like around 46-50 psi can flow much like 550cc injectors. With 100+ octane fuel will give you enough to...
Be ready to replace many fuses/relays. Check for wiring which is now exposed from the extreme heat they could have felt during the connection. Most importantly, don't ever let someone who can't jump start a car touch your car again.
Not to follow the lead of flaming this kid.The 1g IM WILL NOT seal with either gasket. Line that setup up and take a look around the massive openings left. It may work for about a thousand miles. After that your going to have WAY worse issues than you ever imagined, your 'placebo' repair...
I need a taller tire myself. I have a set of 205/40/17s on there now and they are like rubber bands which create this awful gap between the fenders/tires. I always go on tirerack and configure things there when it comes to trying to fit tires/wheels on cars. It isn't the best way I'm sure...
I can't offer any input on the Koni's but I have AGX struts on my miata and I paid way to much money for them. However, I am very satisfied with their performance, and when you soften them up even with coil-overs they ride very comfortably.My vote is for the AGX struts.
Not that this will help with how far you have to pick up your leg you lazy ass. haha. However, there are things for BMW's called 'hammerstands' and They basicly are a block which attaches to the floor and stops the clutch before it goes to the floor. They are adjustable and do make clutch...
4g63 Crx How tosThis thing is crazy, but they painted it like flat colors with some real ### looking dsm diamonds all over it.Regarding the Datsun, that would be a pain in the ass as it's a rear wheel drive car. If I were going to swap the 4g into any rwd platform it would be a miata.
If drag racing is going to be your fix for going fast. An auto trans is the trans for you. All the above mentioned pros will certainly make it worth it's weight in gold..no pun intended. If you plan on making serious awd horse power you'll be much much better off with the AT. For as long as...
I would consider routing your piping to flow the way it was intended to be routed. It is a common design and people route them the way I described all the time. Imagine the piping going straight across from that point up to your I/C. The other side is actually your outlet side which is easily...
I don't like running the piping in between the turbo and the radiator. In addition the way his I/C is setup he'd have to run a 180* bend to enter the inlet. That piping in front of the I/C would look goofy as hell. The I/C you used had in/out on the side tanks facing out, his both face the PS...
Just take your local carpenters circular saw to the bumper. It'll come out real nice. hahaYea, draw the lines you need to cut, after you measured it at least twice. Take your time and cut small sections, and it should come out great.
This technique is called brake boosting. Also awd cars with automatic transmissions take much less abuse to the drive train while doing this or while boosting. Automatics also won't shock the drive train the nearly as bad as manual transmissions do.
Ahhh. "DSM's turning regular guys into mechanics since...."Take into consideration he's in Canada. How many DSM's could be sitting around up there and not be enjoying some road salt rott. I would offer 1,500 cash.
When you open the butterfly is there a black ring where it sits when it's closed? It would stick when you would be between gears, or when you would first start it. I had to buff that shit out.
I would do a full 6 bolt swap. As just mentioned you WILL have to drill the head for the larger studs. The 6 bolt head has larger ports, and you can use the large IM and TB. This is what I'm doing right now myself. I'm assembling the bottom end right now. Good luck with everything.
That is a pretty common looking inlet/outlet for the I/C. Your going to run a long ass straight 2.5 in pipe across the front. Throw out the bumper insert or you'll end up hacking the shit out of it. Depending how you run it after the straight shot you can 45* it earlier or 90* later. Then a...
You thought it was a lot of labor? I didn't think it was all that bad. Taking a rear out of a 1g is a lot of work..haha Either way it's good to see a girl getting her hands under the hood.The 14b is a great turbo, you'll forget about the tiny lag your experiencing from the change from t-25...