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Steve, cool ride man. I was scratching my head for a moment thinking you'd plugged your turbo in the wrong side of the carby DERP. Haha. What a beast, makes me want to turbo mine now! forget the old MSD BTM, just run the new MSD 6AL-2 Programmable. Finally they've updated all their analogue circuitry and bettered the Crane gear. Digital baby. Curve control and boost retard using a MAP sensor to program. I'm going to the US in January, I'm going to pick up two of these, one for the wagon and one for the 911. Depending on luggage I might be bringing back a couple of them to sell as well. 360 bucks US, but they're about 50 to ship them to Aus (that's what Summit quoted some months back). But that's much cheaper than the 700 the local retailers are asking for them (surprise, 100% markup, stick it Gerry Harvey) http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MSD-6530/

I agree with evan; just do the work to the 4K head. I see no advantage to playing with the 3K bigport head. For 150-250 bucks, you could have any head cleaned up and the ports opened to bigger than the 3KBP sizes. The 3k bigport is 40 years old, they're at the end of their life and there're a number of cases of people blowing the welsh plug out the back of the head and killing a motor. Plus they don't have decent the valve stem seals. There is no simple 'put X head on Y motor' formula. Unless you know all your engine specs (piston size, ring height, crown to deck height, piston volume, gasket thickness, head volume etc) you wont know what compression you have until you open the engine. If you can get away with having the car off for a couple of weeks, I'd pull the head that you have off, measure up, calculate and then send it to get skimmed, ports opened up etc.

Patrick, how much money are you willing to spend? For 1000-2000 you could have a rock solid LSD fitted, but we need budget idea's first.

Just watching the news reader about stock market crashes, and the presenter mentioned Tom Wolfes Bonfire of the Vanities, another very good read.

I don't recall enjoying Magician that much, read it years ago, I think I might have a revisit. But seriously, check out the Lyonesse series, I've never met anyone else who's read it. Read Hard Times by dickens, that was quite good. Should read more. I havent read Call of Cthluhu but I intend to. At the Mountains of Madness was amazing, as was The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath was too tripped out for me, as well as the Silver Key. I intend on reading much more of his work. I also agree about Heinlein. My mates favorite read is Stranger in a Strange Land, one of his Hugo award books, but I found it a total bore getting to the end. the Star Beast is great though. Also I enjoyed Herberts Dune, and the second one was good too. Roger Zelazny I've read a fair chunk of the Amber stories, pretty cool. lords of light, also very good. A bit of an 80s throwback, Martin Cruz Smith 'Gorky Park' was great. He wrote 4 books about the protagonist, Arkady Renko, the first two (polar star was second) were fantastic. Cold war Russian detective story. The 3rd was also quite good (red square?) but pass on the 4th book. Three other books that I highly recommend: Two Years before the Mast by RH Dana. Autobiographical about early pioneering days of a crewman on a sailing boat shipping goods from frontier California around to Boston. An amazing read made even more interesting because it's true. Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood, a great piece of Australiana, not in the Kidman/jack man sense of the word. Basically a story about a bloke who gets caught up with a notorious bushranger. Top book, if you like the film The Proposition, you'll like this book. For the Term of his Natural Life, another classic about an escaped convict. And one more Author that springs to mind, one of my favourites is John Steinbeck.... Yeh mice and men is a classic, sure, but his really good stuff, Cannery Row, East of Eden and of course The Grapes of Wrath. For a guy who died 40 years ago, his writing style doesn't feel at all outdated. Just googled it haha. I've always wondered about it.

You don't need to machine the manifold, simply take to it with a file and a set of verniers; file off the nut side, not the head side. Mine took 30 minutes to finish, much better than packing and low risk.

You won't have much choice I don't think, youll need to just shop around various part stores until you find one. Chances are they'll be much the same.

Yeh I want to see it all....

ahh right, different one.

I had to miss it this year because of a wedding.... Any more pics guys?

You mind me asking where you picked up this 4age unit from? Not a bloke down christies way?

Mine are Mahle's, 40 thou over, I think ACL are the aussie supplier. I had them supplied through my engine builder and they were $160. 8cc round dish.

That's about what you need to do. Honestly nobody's ever going to produce patch panels in any great number for a ke55. It's a cheap shitty corolla made in Huge numbers. A 32 ford, that's altogether different. Make your own patch, beat into shape. You don't need an English wheel to do bottoms of doors and quarters.

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I've read for a long time, unfortunately these days, books are to sleep like bells are to pavlov's dog's hunger. Two pages, bang, asleep. Bought the latest Terry Pratchett before a flight to darwin , ive read most of his stuff in the last 15 years. Pretty good read, good combo of fantasy and satire. Just went through a phase of HP Lovecraft. Some amazing stuff, the Mountains of Madness was fantastic, but one of his stories broke a good run for me, just far too trippy. Also I have read most of Edgar allan Poe, similarly freaky old school horror. Elijah wood and liv Tyler destroyed what was once my favorite book, even read the silmarillion and a range of other Tolkien books. I won't be watching the Hobbit film. I don't think I'll ever read LOTR again... If you enjoy LOTR, I highly recommend the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance, very cool. The Dying Earth series is agreat collection of short stories as well. But my favourite, by far: Pillars of the earth, by Ken Follett. Amazing. Long book, thought my 10 day start to finish was a feat, but Dad did it in 3! Read a lot of other stuff, fromn Tom Sharpe to dickens to L. sprague De Camp to Heinlein and Herbert... All good. I also g through phases of non fiction, I love good yarns about Maths and Physics (I know, its weird), but inevitably hit one that is a total grind and revert back to fiction for a year or two.

Better off just putting in a worked L series. 300hp potential AND still period correct....

Derp lolz pwned

I Second that motion

Forgive my prying question, but have you had it tuned, by someone qualified? On a dyno?

Yep. But if so, why not just put a manual in......

Welcome to the world of turbos. It's not a common turbo so you'll pay high for parts. I reckon you could get better prices by shopping around but your probably better looking for a common garret.

You need it for certain or you wont get up a single hill. You'll need to adapt the linkage to suit whatever carby you put together, I looked at mine when I pulled the engine out, I suspect it's a fiddly job but not too hard for a home-operator.

You should have seen Chobis' car before it got the treatment; straight as, all there, minimal rust, factory yellow paint in pretty reasonable condition, would have come up well with a cut and polish 1200 bucks. Amazing how a coat of white, a red interior and a set of hubbies does to the price.

More likely that people just refeR to them as ke10s even if they're not. As Jono said the differences are minor. Actual 10s are much less common than 10b/11s.

Easy, not too easy though, they are an uncpmmon thread pitch for 12mm bolts.