I thought this forum would've been shoved into the Armpit of the Internet. Anyone remember who I is?

Pretty straight forward. I cant find the proper torque specifications for the 6-bolt rods. I don't have the sheet, a shop did the work with these rods, but it spun a bearing in 5 miles. Now 5 years later, I'm rebuilding the engine. I had the rods checked out by a local machine shop it's all...

Its been a while. Just checking in after a few years.

Finally got some time to take a break and work on the car.I got my piston rings all laid out and I am plan on running 0.021" on the top and 0.028" in the second ring. But I can find little to NO information on addressing the gap for oil rails and oil support. In fact the only thing I found was...

I had National Speed Inc, in NC do my build when I was deployed. It lasted 120 miles. I recently tore down the motor to try to diagnose the failure. A compression test showed 155, 155, 120, 100 psi. A leak down test showed that the piston rings were leaking.Some context to the situation is...

I haven't been around it a lit bit, looks good.How have everyone been?

A shop that built my engine was supposed to have tuned the car on meth on SD; as I had already installed a GM IAT and a GM 3.5 bar sensor. I also wired them into the wiring harness and registered them in DSMLink along with my AEM WB.However, when they delivered the car to me. It neither had...

BACKGROUND INFO: SKIP TO BOLD TEXT FOR RESULTS! Not too long ago, I had a shop replace the engine in my Laser with the money I got from a deployment (contractor) (by a shop that shall not be named); since my last engine ate it's bearings (this another story that I won't go into.)Everything...

After installing my dual fuel pump setup and re-wiring them to work. My gas tank dummy light stays on and the fuel level stays at E.I removed the assemble and disconnected the power for the fuel pumps then I moved the fuel level up and down and it still stays on E. Here is how I got it...

Well it's official, I have filed for bankruptcy. Just got out of court (via remote dial-in). Some may say it is bad, and I still don't know how this will affect my job. But as it stands. It was the best move I could make. The business my wife and I had would not survive in it's current location...

Post your funny/creepy/amazing 21-DEC-12 (aka Doomsday) pictures/videos/stories here.====================I work the night shift. Nothing big happens, no earthquakes or unusual attacks or nothing like that. But then I go outside at 3AM and see the thickest, creepiest fog I've ever seen in my...

In April, Facebook bought out Instagram. This made loading Instagrams photos in Facebook easier than before.However, in typical fashion, Facebook stepped over the privacy line once again. Facebook will now be selling YOUR photos to other companies without consent and without any type of...

A local car group is throwing a charity event. Last year I was a small sponsor of the event. It was pretty big, lots of cars. No DSMs. I really tried to get my car done in time for this event it never happened. This year I'm hoping to grow the event. The entry fee for the event is a 1 unwrapped...

Just dropping in to see what's going the the DSMTuners world. Finally got internet in my hut. Hows everything?I see we got some new vendors?:D

$15,000 total sunk into this car. $10,000 in parts alone. $2000 in machine work and a few thousand in special tools.The idea was to do EVERY bit of the build myself. That way I could at least own up to failure. However I have been robbed of that. The first machinist bored my engine way...

Well, I'm hoping my problem is that I have lifter tick from Hades caused by a collapsed lifter. The only other cause of this noise would be rod knock and I am praying that's not what it is.I don't know what car this came off of, but the sound my engine is making sounds EXACTLY like this but...

I have purchased a JMF Street Intake Manifold for my 1g DSM. I seem to be having a slight problem with the getting a gasket to seal between the manifold and the Throttle Body. When I removed the throttle body, I noticed that the OEM gasket wasn't even touching the manifold all the way around...

So it's about time for me to start my engine for the first time. Honestly, I'm scared to death. I have rechecked and rechecked things over and over again. I've been told MANY, MANY times to break-in my motor using the motoman method, and believe me I want to, but there's two problems...

So I am looking into selling my turbo and started looking around to see what they sell for new. I remember getting mine for around $400-$500.A new MHI EVO III 16g turbo is going for $1000-$1300!?!? Some examples. Mitsubishi DSM EVO III 16G Turbo - DSM Turbo Upgrades - Turbo - DSM...

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So I'm installing my Full blown Dual Walboro hanger and have ran into two issues. 1) it seems that the hanger is too tall (but I can't tell for sure) cause I had to apply pressure in order get the hanger to go down onto the tank enough where I had could get the nuts on and 2) the AN fitting does...

Any know what the max amperage the walboro fuel pumps draw at 12v?

Well I started my new job, today. So far I have just under going new hire orientation. But I gotta say being fired has probably been the best thing for me. Because I got fired on good terms I got a severance payment of nearly $10,000. With my new ending on 1-FEB and my new one starting today, I...

Well, in about 5 minutes or so I will be escorted out of the building. Despite protesting that no one could prove the failure that resulted in the loss of evidence was any one person particular fault, I am being fired. Despite protesting that this termination is a direct (though long term)...

I am trying to build my own battery relocation kit. Now I know this has been beat to death, but my question is not about battery relocation but how to understand reading the gauge of the device accepting a wire. I know what 2 gauge is and 4 gauges, etc. but what is 0/1 or 0/2 gauge?I want to...

I am a horrible proof reader so I was wondering if anyone can pick up my errors in my Petition to the court to sue to jack-hole.Plus it's always fun to read this type of stuff.

My son, Kai heard me singing on my setup and wanted to sing too. When I heard him sing, my jaw dropped to the floor. I was all like "Hold on, I need to get a camera."<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DF7loes2_PA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>...

thinking about growing my hair out LONG. Like middle of my back long. Does anyone think they put a picture of me and make me have long hair?

Normally I don't turn to forums because people always say what they THINK is the laws and not what the law really SAYS, but I hoping this will be an exception.The actually situation is really hard to explain so it's best to put it into a metaphor.Now here is the question. I offered full...

Vote to see whose going to win. https://www.playfire.com/bf3-vs-mw3/a578dc8bf567e431

A local crew did a meet/cruise and I tagged along in the Gel-automobile I got featured in it a lot and the car made 3 spots. My son was featured at 0:31:D at 0:46 you can see everyone hanging out at my store eating up some Gelato. <iframe width="560" height="315"...

Remember that BMW dealer that wrecked the beautiful M5 and tried to give him like $2500.or that dealership that failed to set a reserve on ebay for a GTR and then refused to honor the final price.Well I think I got of on those stories.I got this in the mail todayI read this thing up and...

See now I can say that for realz. As of Friday I am officially an Entrepreneur. We are the proud owners of Mystic Ice Gelato. Serving the best authentic Italian Gelato this side of the Atlantic, made fresh in-house everyday. We also sell desserts and imported Italian Coffees, Cappaucinnos...

Long story, short. I built and computer and I obviously suck at it. Cause it's not working the way I thought it would.The problem. OS does not see the Graphics card.OS: Windows 7 Professional x64 Motherboard: ASUS M3N-HD/HDMI Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 920 Memory: Kingston HyperX Dual...

So my last thread praised Harbor Freight Tools. But I recently just picked up a tool that has really REALLY screwed me. It got my thinking. Man I wonder how many people figured out this tool was crap on their own. So I figure it would be nice to list the Good vs Bad tools. So all would know what...

So as I slowly put the engine back together I keep finding annoying things like this.I put the sprocket on the oil pump and it's rubbing against the front case. It was so bad I couldn't turn the sprocket at all. So I removed the sprocket and the shaft (connected to the oil pump drive gear)...

FINALLY something going right. After the last machine shop butchered my motor, I went to CNC Engine Dynamics in Winchester, Virginia. The shop manager knows the 4G63 pretty well and hooked me up with the bottom end. Take a look.

The reason I am asking is because my wife and I are opening up a business. We went to a marketing company about building a website. We told them we want there to be 2 versions of the website one for "Nights" and one for "Days" We told them we wanted the webpage to look this one in format =...

At this point, I'm so excited I could pee myself right now. I just got a call from the wife. My ported/polished head fresh from Strictly Import Motorsports is at home right now. This marks the point where I actually start putting it back together.Pictures to come soon.

I didn't think too much about assembly. I was going to Plastigage the bearings on the crank and the rods. The machine shop is doing the piston-to-wall clearance and I even gave them the piston ring gap job. I am going to be re-measuring the ring-gap. But I don't have a dial bore gauge to measure...

I am doing a full build in my own garage. Hoping for 600 AWHP, but would be happy with anything over 500 AWHP. And I was wondering who else has done their own build. I'm not talking about the people who stuff rags at the bottom of their engine and then honed out the engine with a Harbor Frieght...

I never thought about this in the past. But now with my goals being so high (north of 500, hopefully 600 AWHP), I must pay attention to every single little detail.I went to purchase an exhaust manifold gasket and I saw this message...

I have a sandblast cabinet, compressor and someone is selling me a double oven for $40. I just need the gun and I'm going to start powder coating :cool: I can't wait I'm so excited.:D

I have NO ides where to put this. Here looks good.Anywho, the entire engine craddle was rusted pretty bad. Since a new center subframe itself costs around $500. I got a sand blaster instead. I sandblasted all the pieces (ironically except the subframe which is the worst part) and then painted...

So when I was looking at battery relocation kits, I found a picture of a power divider/splitter that took the three battery postive cables and combined them to one 0 gauge wire.But I can't find this Power divider/splitter thingy anywhere and google only shows me Cigarette lighter power...

This is probably the last place I thought I would ask for something like this, but I need help and I know some of you will be able to do it.My wife and I are opening up a business. A young girl from church came up with a few logos. We selected one and gave it to our marketing firm to turn...

I got a Manley Dual Valve Springs Kit with Titanium Retainers, but there were no valve spring seats with them. So I figured I just use the old ones.... but then I started to wonder do I need them. It would seem to makes sense that if I ordered a kit, that I would get everything in the kit that...

So far I got the Engine Lift, Engine stand, 90 degree die grinder (made easy work of removing the old mounts and a blast cabinet. I love the prices they offer and the return policy just don't make much sense. I was told I can return it within the next 2 years for any reason and get my money...

Since oil pressure seems to be the bane of Holset turbos. I kind of wanted to keep an eye on it after the restrictor/filter. So my plan was to run an oil pressure guage off the filter housing and then again after restrictor. This would give me oil pressure of the engine and at the turbo.Is...

I don't normally vent here, but since my facebook is being monitored. I got no were else to do it.I have been doing my best to give the car community in my local area a place to hang out on the weekends. We were successful for the entire year of 2010, even had the police on our side.Then...