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Gixxus Christ!

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  1. I'd get on the clutch side and try rotating the motor backwards a tad. If something did let go its likely off center and bound up against the case. Rolling it back may free it up.
  2. Just filled up. 330 miles in 12.7 gallons. That's a hair in Dr 26mpg. So my gauge is like 4% off. This was also driving like a maniac quite a bit. Bet I can get 30 city out of the next tank.
  3. I can hook you up with a 70's Harley 2 stroke 250 dirt bike that's actually a re-badged aeramicci. Harley, Italian, temperamental as fuck. Everyone wins.
  4. Missing all the pics. Sad face....
  5. You don't push the exhaust into the carbs jethro. The exhaust gasses spin a turbine that shares a shaft with an impeller. The two have their own casings. As the exhaust gas enters the turbine it spins it and then exits through a pipe and hopefully a muffler. The turbine shaft in turn spins an impeller that draws in air, compresses it and forces it through a pipe into a manifold that is connected to the carbs. Stock carbs will be an issue. At the very least you'll need bigger carbs and an in line fuel pump to deliver enough fuel to keep your mixture stoich. Unless they make a turbo cam for your motor you're going to have issues, typical cam grinds take advantage of overlap between intake and exhaust to make power at high rpm. With a boosted motor you don't need that overlap because at such high intake pressure you're more likely to blow lots of your intake charge right out of the exaust valves during those few degrees of overlap. Then there's the issue of bottom end strength. The lateral loads on your rotating assembly will increase dramatically. Rods will stretch and bend. Crank journal bearings will deform. Engine temps will also soar as compressing air heats it up very quickly and burning more air and fuel causes more heat. Once you have all those problems taken care of you have to get the power to the wheel without smoking your clutch, breaking your transmission or your final drive. I'm not saying it's impossible, or that you shouldn't do it. I am saying that this is not something a moderately skilled amateur is going to pull off, and if it's going to work AND last it will cost you 5 times as much as you estimate it will.
  6. Get a harbor freight trailer light controller and use it as an integrated tail/stop light and signals.
  7. I've seen inaccuracies with the on board mpg gauges. I'll divide the miles by the gallons next time I fill it up.
  8. Pretty much every Japanese manufacturer makes a cruiser at or around 1600 cc.
  9. There are mechanical limits to the head gasket and studs. You don't want to find out what they are the dumb way. Over-boosting an engine that was engineered to be naturally aspirated will cause catastrophic failure no matter how much octane you use. Its not just about detonation.
  10. Pretty simple affair. The devil is in the details tho. Figure out where you can fit the turbo, make the exhaust go there, then dump the down pipe and waste gate to a muffler, figure out if you're gonna go blow thru or suck thru on the cold side first, then either put one huge carb on the cold side inlet and run the output to an intake manifold or put a filter on the inlet and fab up a box manifold that will feed 4 carbs. Don't forget to include the little dohickey on the cold side that opens the waste gate on the hot side or you'll overboost the motor and leave an ebay auction on the street behind you. There is also the complex formulas of afr's on and off boost, lowering the compression ratio of your motor so you can boost without detonation. Turbo-specific cams to capitalize on lift vs duration and lots and lots of test and tune to avoid turning your motor into a very loud an inefficient foundry. But I totally want in on this.
  11. Or put your feet on the stack of magazines you used to read before smart phones.
  12. Mileage resets with the trip odometers. Po resets it every tank and I got the car with 3/4 of a tank. It was at 27.6 then. Now at a bit below a half.
  13. Idk if hypnotism qualifies as a 'medical service'....
  14. Should be officially renamed 'ORDN drug story thread'
  15. My car told me to to tell you to tell fuely to suck it.
  16. 27.3 city so far, and that's with me driving like a maniac about 20% of the time.
  17. My sister threw a party like 10 years ago and had a bunch of booze and clearly labled brownies made with triple-reduced ganja butter. Nearly everyone puked. I was wheelchaired for 3 hours and had to have my room mate come get me.
  18. Fantastic use of the non word 'edibled'
  19. Lol... I've been lying on the bathroom floor overdosing on coke with 911 entered in my phone and my thumb on 'send' a few times.....
  20. The na 2.5i is pretty un-tunable. Even with full intake and exhaust and cams and a tune you only net like 20-25 hp for your $2k investment. I just want it to sound a little meaner.
  21. I would say pauly but I don't think 'too high' is a thing for him.
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