the theory that the only real 'break in' that a fresh engine needs is to seat the rings. (well, and seat the cam, but that's just 'don't let it idle') So in the first 1/2 hour of the engine's life y
So I did a little more digging, and it's all about ring seating. here's the link: http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm The gist is that you want to keep high cylinder pressures, NOT necess
I misplaced my Uni- syn once, and bought a Synchrometer. I found the Uni- Syn later, and gave it to a friend. The Synchrometer is a much easier tool to use! I got it locally from Seattle Autosport, b
Sadly, the surface area of a Datsun Roadster ( datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net is a roadster list, remember?) is not large enough to carry enough solar cells to power it. Well, at anything above 1.2
But in road racing, you're running against everyone in your group in autocross (and rally and hillclimb, etc.) you're running against the clock. It's just... different. There's nothing like seeing th
I know it's too little, too late, but I'm rewiring a similar vintage car (not Datsun) with 'reused' parts- the best block I found in the yard was a Nissan Stanza from the mid- 80's. Very straightforw
It doesn't take much rotation to pump oil. If you've spun the oil pump by hand, it should have primed. And then gotten pretty hard to turn as it pressurized the bearings. If it didn't get pretty darn
I remember making a bit of a mess, then calling it quits. But oil didn't try making a break for it immediately. The oil that comes up the shaft should just be a trickle- the leakage around the shaft
But, but but but but (just like my 3- year old nephew says it) Fuel flow at anything but extended WOT at high rpms is almost static. The pump has enough excess capacity to keep constant pressure in t
Yeah, my badafter a while, all of those rules start to get a little fuzzy. My only excuse is that I started with an ITB car! Toby -- Forwarded Message: WhoopsI'm wrong. Per the GCR... "...may be REMO
the S2000 would be more fun for real driving, but for an around- town beater, the MR2 is going to have more torque. Neither has any sort of a trunk! Me, I think a hatchback is the best for daily dri
I've done this on a different car if you weld ears onto the bar at your seatback height, you can bolt on a horizontal bar to use for the harnesses. And remove it for daily driving, since having a bar
How on earth can you spend 8 hours 'tuning?' Now, you could spend days on the dyno and at the track getting data on HOW to adjust them, but the actual changes themselves are fantastically simple. Tha
Air in the clutch circuit can be a bad (or failing) seal at either end... but more likely the master. When you take your foot off the pedal, the seal's allowing a little air to draw into the circuit.
Hey, I know the answer to this about 8 years ago, there was a Briddish company that developed an adaptor kit for MK1 E types to put the later (mk3) 4- pots on 'without modifications to the car' I wro
It's actually no harderbut it's a lot more work to get it apart. And while there's still a decent chance it would work, it's more likely that the master's worn, since it sees some pretty significant