Felix

As previously stated a scattershield should be used, especially with a cast iron flywheel.

Tom it looks like you have already got a short nosed pump.

Neat work. Don't think it would be good for the passenger in an accident though.

Exactly. Had one pull out on me yesterday in a 100 kay zone, he did a big single wheeler then proceeded to catch a couple of cars coming into a country town as we hit the 80 zone. He swerved out to overtake the first, swerved back in , then swerved out to overtake another car, pulling back in just in time to miss an oncoming car. Then as we hit the 60 kay zone he slows down to 50 holding up everyone behind him. :jamie: Had another one pull in front of me later on and then disappear into the distance, musta been doing 150 kays or more. Had to laugh later on down the road when I saw some shiny disco lights with the P plater pulled over. :wink: I've had 2 oncoming P platers over the last few months come hooting around corners on my side of the road. The missus had one just about wipe out a line of cars overtaking, him having to go down the middle of the road... forcing the oncoming car off the road to avoid a head on. Lots of other stupid shit as well.

P platers. I see so many of them driving like tools, putting their lives and those of others around them at risk.

Agree totally. Yes but with 4age pistons and a decked block, it ain't going to be easy to get the CR needed to run decent boost. It is just another dreamers thread.

What is the point? His 286 degs cam will make peak power between 7500-8000 which is fine on a stock 5k bottom end.

A lightened flywheel may spin up faster, but then again it loses revs quicker when you hit a hill. No point in even bothering about it until you have a pretty healthy motor. My motor will happily rev to over 8500, I'd feel uncomfortable taking a couple of kilos out of a cast iron flywheel. I've had a pressure plate self destruct before.

Bug splats: Shits me how I refuelled on the way home the other evening, and gave the windscreen a good scrub. Drive home the 10-15 kays from the servo and the windscreen was grubbier than before I cleaned it. :yes: Nowhere near as bad as one night (many years ago) on the way home from the speedway near Bundaberg and drove through like a swarm of cane beetles. Was like driving through heavy hail the noise it made. Geez they made a mess, took forever to clean all the bug guts off the next day.

:yes:

Looks like an elephant just sat on it.

Bug splats.

Looks much better with the whitewalled stockies. Whitewalls with mags just clashes.

Toowooomba drivers suck. Not sure what is going on up there, but every one is so rude and ignorant these days. That is not just in their driving, but also walking around shopping centres. Used to be a time I'd rather go to Toowoomba than Ipswich, but not any more.

I've spent half the day doing work related stuff. Ahh well the time all goes towards TOIL so I can have an extra weeks holiday over the xmas period.

I wouldn't even bother port matching on the inlets. So long as the manifold port is smaller than the inlet port you are not going to gain a huge amount. In fact the mismatch encourages re-atomisation of any fuel that falls out of suspension, and helps prevent any exhaust reversion pressure waves travelling back and interfering with the carb signal. Fluid dynamics are just part of the equation with motors and engine tuning. I guess the whole point is to make the ports flow in the correct direction, and reduce the effects of any flow reversals. Port matching doesn't reduce the effects of any flow reversals.

:lolcry: a bit like fitting a monster tacho while running a stock 4k.

Get used to it, people are just f@$king stupid. Nobody gives a shit about anyone but themselves these days. Unfortunately there seems to be a trend of our society regressing in regards to common courtesy and common sense. As an example: A few months ago in a shopping center carpark there was a backup of traffic going towards a roundabout... There was like a T-intersection type of affair just before it with some cars coming the other way trying to turn across oncoming traffic. Now I could have been an ignorant f@$k like the average punter, but no I didn't stop in the middle of the intersection but let 2 cars turn across in front and also letting 2 cars (from my left) in front of me. When I went to go forward this stupid woman tried to push in from my left but relented for fear of hitting my E32. My missus saw her mouthing off at us. If it wasn't for me letting in the other cars, the stupid self important bitch would have been further back in the queue.

A well deserved ass reaming and a defect notice from the first cop that pulls you up.

Studs are way better than bolts. If you've changed manifolds from what you've previously run, make sure the flange thickness is the same for the inlet manifold and extractors.

Have a read up about anti-reversion vs port matching. :lolcry: Google link Port matching is a waste of time.

Unfortunately just because someone has money doesn't necessarily mean they have common sense. WGMG: I've been having to go to our main office a fair bit of late for the rollout of new machines on our network. This is a 330 kay round trip on all country roads. What shits me is the number of people who can't overtake. You get countless idiots that sit a car length behind the car/truck they want to get past. When they do actually pass they pull out and then accelerate, being on the wrong side of the road for twice as long as they need to. The other day there was an old camper bus thing up front doing 80-85 kays with a cop car sitting up its' ass not going anywhere (I was behind the cop car). The cop car would have wasted a dozen passing opportunities creating a bottleneck of cars behind us. Fortunately the bus ended up getting jack of the tailgating cop car and pulled off the road letting everyone pass. Then the cop car shot off into the distance doing 130-140 kays or so.

If you are ditching the leaves and running ke20 springs: You will find the ke20 springs are too long and won't lower the car unless trimmed (but still captive). Problem is the spring seats are just to close together on the ke1x struts (even using the ke2x top spring seats). A coilover sleeve kit and shortened strut housings with shorter shocks really would be the best way of doing it.

Port matching the exhaust = intake charge contamination. Get some books by David Vizard and read up. :lolcry:

Can't just us a MAP sensor out of some car? Guess it comes down to if the voltage range is compatible with your ignition kit.