Wanting to take some decent time off the car without redoing everything. I have been running a eagle crank and rods with weisco pistons for a while which I know isn't the best rotating assembly in the world and I am wanting to drop about a second off of my times without making more power. So I...
getting ready to do an auto swap in my talon. What do I need to do to the transmission to make it take 600 whp for a long period of time. I am running drag radials, and I have a custom converter, looking to stall out around 4k rpm, I am running a gt3582r turbo.
I have a 3 bolt manual rear end from a 90 or 91 talon. I would like to know If I can take 2g auto rear end ring and pinion and carrier and swap the guts. The 2g auto is an lsd 4 bolt.I have hear of guys swapping 4 bolt guts into a 3 bolt. But wasn't sure about auto to manual, and 2g to...
Anyone sell a tubular rear sub frame for a 1g? Would like the front as well but I have found some of those. Also looking for tubular control arms.The application will be on a galant vr4, one for driving around town with 400ish wheel horse power with 4 wheel steering(I will modify the sub...
I searched with no luck.I am wanting a 245/50/16 nitto drag radial on my 2g. The suspension is stock.I am currently looking at a set of rota grids, they are a 16X7 with a +40 offset, and a rota grid offroad 16X8 +20 offset.I am thinking the offroads would give me a better contact...
I am wanting to get some Rota Grid wheels in a 16X7 +40 offset for my 2g talon. In gloss black.Having a heck of a time finding someone to take my money!any tips on finding someone selling this wheel is appriciated.:cry::cry::cry:
I am currently using a 300m coil on plug setup. In short it sucks, it cannot deliver enough voltage to create spark when my car sees large amounts of cylinder pressure.I will start with saying I do engine diagnostics work from 8-5 mon-fri so I am pretty familiar with most ignition systems...
I have a 96 2g awd with stock brakes, and suspensionI am wanting a lightweight 5 or 6 spoke 16" wheel(black or gunmetal) that I can mount up to a 255/50/16 tire on, I really wanted rota slipstreams but I cannot find any with 5 lugs for sale.I need the offset needed to fit this tire...
My car has a terrible radio whine that seems to fallow engine rpm. Where is the best place to get a rfi noise filter? Do you wire them in parallel to whatever noise your trying to omit(ign system)? And how do you select size of the rfi filter?I would also like one for my fuel pump as well
Anyone have access to free car trailer blue prints? I want to make a trailer and would like some ideas. I have a few professionally built ones that I can look at and mimic.
I would like some information on wire selections for shielded mig welding wire.I am looking for wire for mild steel and stainless personally, but if we could get a whole list compiled that would be awesome.Also I was looking for information on shielding gases. I know co2 is popular...
I have mostly looked at miller and hobart welders, and I am noticing the hobarts are alot cheaper for comparable units. Does hobart have the same quality as miller?I am learning to weld on miller machines, but I sure can afford alot more welder if I go with a hobart.
Does anyone know much about welding aluminum with a mig welder and how well it would work with intercooler piping?I know you would need a ac current and an argon shielding most likely. I also know they make spool guns and wire specifically for welding aluminum with a mig. But what I want...
Vibrant Performance::. sells a muffler with a 4" inlet, are there any other places selling a 4" inlet mufler for cheaper though?I must have a blow through muffler though with as little restriction as possible.I may just make a dummy muffler with a 6 inch pipe welded to a 4" pipe :cool:
I would like to post a thread with some sources for materials for fabrication.Thanks Chris for opening this section for me :DVibrant Performance::. is a great place to go for fabrication components, they are good with customer service and have high quality parts.I would love more...
What kind of oil are you guys running in your cars that are on e85? I have been told that you need to be using differant oil when using alchohol fuels. I intend on going to e85 after my 3000 mile break in.
Could someone make me an avatar of a large polished turbo that is sucking a small rodent or bird towards it. I would like this because when I first met Shep I was young/dumb enough to ask if hes ever ingested anything with his turbo and I was picturing a squirrel... lol.
I got a core from a friend, he picked up the head from a junk yard. He installed a timing belt improperly and immediatly bent the valves. I had the head rebuilt so I could do a quick switcharoo on my daily driver that had a head gasket starting to leak. I used the cams from my cylinder head...
I am running a 600 awhp setup, I do not want to get a larger turbo than my gt35r. But if I want more power I was wondering about using nitrous to get me to my goals.My main concern is longevity, The car will live on leaded race fuel regardless of nitrous. I only plan to drive it on the...
I am building my boss a nice street car out of his 350z. The car has a turbonetics single turbo kit (dual bb 60-1), and a kenitix sheet metal intake manifold. He is running it on race fuel all the time at 10.5 psi and making around 450 whp.I like my ACT 2600 and 2900 but he is looking for...
I am picking up a 1990 Laser turbo fwd for a few dollars. It ran out of oil and locked up.I would rather fix and sell the thing but if I will just break even I dont want to do that. I want to make money, and I don't see Lasers selling very high. I know the parts will sell though.
I am working on a 3000gt non turbo and the transmission in it looks kinda like a 1g fwd transmission. On TRE's site I was looking at the transmission parts and it took me to dsm fwd.Do the transmission have anything in common, are they the same?
I work as an automotive technician, I have a couple of highly modded dsm's. I just got done turbocharging my bosses 350z. Now I have several customers wanting engine swaps and turbochargin, which is just fine. Here is my problem, the 350z is a great car to get information from because alot of...
i did a search but after reading the first ten and getting no where i decided to ask.i am making a kit i have water injection already i need a good flowing core the cooling isn't a big big deal of course i want one that cools decent but flow is more important which style has better flow and...
Im getting ready to assemble my engine here in the next few days and Im not sure about bearing clearances. Crank and rods are brand new and the mains were align bored. Question is if im shooting for .0020" to .0025" would i get standard size bearing or undersized bearing? Im planning to make...
I had a cam bolt rust to sleeve on rear upper control arm and need a replacement bolt. Ive been everywhere locally and no luck. I was told by Napa id have to order entire camber kit.Thanks for viewing
I am doing a 6 bolt swap and I was gonna get my engine balanced with the 7 bolt balancer due to it being in WAY better condition, if it is interchangable.Anyone got a good reason I can't use the 7 bolt balancer?
I am lookin for good information on choosing what size of wastegate to get. I read somewhere that a 38mm wastegate is only goot for about 450hp.I dont see the problem with me running a 38mm wastegate though on my new setup where I intend on running lots of boost so it wont have to work very...
Hey I building a 2.0 right now, and I researched and figured out what gap I want for my compression rings, but now my machinist asks me what I want to do on the oil rings for gap. I just assumed you leave them alone, please tell me whether or not they need to be filed.I am going .020 for my...
Howdie, I am building an engine with ferrea guides and valves, and on the package for the guides it says use ferrea seals. The problem is is that I ordered forced performance dual valve springs and their smaller seals that are supposed to clear the inner spring better, is this going to be a...
I have noticed I don't see many people considering engine balancing as a modification, and I was just curious if this is because it is something people feel is not important or what the deal is.
My goal is 600 horse power and turning 9000 rpms at the track about 10 times a year, and 400+ hp 8500 rpms on the street as often as I can drive the car.Here is what I had in mind
Eagle stroker kit: eagle crank, h beams, and weisco pistons.
ARP everything, with linebore on the mains...
I am new to dsmlink(loving it). I was interested in a perrin boost controller http://www.slowboyracing.com/more.php?id=3659& and it says it is controlled with ecu(dsmlink) so was wondering if anyone has used this combo and how it worked for them. Thanks
I just got the bugs worked out of getting it connected to the laptop. I was doing the tuning on my 95 gst, the car has a 6 bolt, 16g, 3 turbo back, and boost controller. I ran 15 psi and did my first pull, and had about 15* peak timing, no knock. I kept advancing the timing a little at a time...
i read a post where a guy was saying that people were putting the exhaust cam one tooth clockwise of being lined up when you do a timing belt can increase power and alot of people did it but he did no want to do that much because he wanted to be more emission friendly and he didn't the one full...
I am repairing this guys headgasket on his 95 GS-T, I had the head resurfaced however the block is .003 out. It gets lower in the center of the block. I told him we need to mill the deck now and he doesn't have the money to fix it the right way and tells me to just put it back together and hope...