Real Fiero Tech

Well it's not for my Fiero, but I'm trying to determine some methods used to determine weak points in a chassis. We can keep this pretty general, but the car in question is my AE86. I've cleaned up the engine bay a lot to get it ready for paint, so I want to add any reinforcements there first before...

Its a ricer wing if its on a civic, but an adjustable cf wing on a Skyline is functional. Plus I like the way they look on Skylines. Damn ricers ruined it for the real tuners... Fart cans that mimic mufflers on turbo cars and tripple decker wings mimicing functional wings on fast rwd cars. :cussing...

Hyundai must have been involved with Mitsubishi for awhile -- I know they used the 4G63 in some of their cars, just without the turbocharger. When my friend was rebuilding his Talon's engine, he used the head from a Hyundai and you couldn't tell the difference.

The Dark Side of Will wrote:Or I could pick it up for $500 and slam an LS1 into it.

winner :afrocool:

I will never buy my children a Lite-Brite, for fear that a bomb squad may rush my house and tear apart a crude rendition of a sail-boat. It JUST MIGHT be a bomb. Pretty suspicious if you ask me.

It wouldn't just be about clutch changes -- isn't the idea for a 6 spd sequential?

Break or brake, regardles. P-i-e-c-e is the correct spelling. :scratch:

Not quite sure why the filter is on. I remember reading something about it in one thread awhile back though. Anyway, nice tip about the pass-through. I spent a long time working on mine with razors and screwdrivers.

haha 50 pages

I love how it seems like anyone with a DOHC engine expects pushrod motors to suck because it's "dinosaur technology" and most of the pushrod V8 guys expect to be the fastest simply because they have more displacement...

Haha yeah -- my roommate rented a DVD with like 6 episodes from Blockbuster expecting it to be pretty lame. We planned on enjoying it in the same way that Fast and the Furious is fun, but it ended up being pretty sweet -- he went out and bought like 6 DVD's from ebay the next week :thumbleft:

I would be really interested in that, especially if it had enough material to go out to 086 sized ports. There are places in the 086 head that could benefit from adding a little material, I'm sure. Also, what do you mean about the valve seats being aluminum? I've never heard of that, but then again ...

Also -- imagine the space savings. It's got the size advantage of a pushrod engine (probably an even smaller head) with the airflow advantages of the rotary valve. The very reason that the LS7 isn't DOHC (and the N* isn't 7L) is no longer an issue. Imagine a 7L engine the size of the LS7 but with ai...

http://www.v-eight.com/multimedia/pdf/AutoTechBRV.pdf Very interesting. It kills me though how these restrictions are made for F1 -- they are supposed to be pushing the envelope and developing new ideas to get around certain restrictions. It advances the forefront for automotive technology, why ban ...

The block is aluminum, I forgot. Why is it so heavy if its all aluminum? I just did some reading on it and it has less bore and more stroke than a regular 350. That would be the first thing I would change about the engine. DOHC engines should be designed to be oversquare, the more rpm the better. I...

I'm asking 4k obo. Haha I know what you mean, Will -- I used to compare the 1993 Grand Am (looking around for Quad4 donors) with my friend's '93 RX7 and I couldn't believe it. I guess the RX7 was a little ahead of its time, though. I love that Audi stuck with the CQ body style until '95 or something...

The time has come for me to sell my Audi. It's a yellow 1990 Coupe Quattro. It's a 5spd with the 20v 5cyl engine. It runs very strong and is a blast to drive. It's got ice cold A/C, new tires, new brake pads, new differential mount, door panels reupholstered, new P/S and A/C compressor belt, and fre...

That's an interesting idea, but the problem I see is that if you're in a higher speed corner (significant, but not maximum, power required) at the upper end of your RPM range for whatever gear you're in, you may want more airflow at partial boost than the single turbo can supply. That's a good poin...

I may be missing crucial facts of sequential turbocharging :scratch: I really haven't dealt with it before other than taking apart the system on a FD RX7, which may be vastly different than many other systems out there. I was designing the system based on the assumption that the single turbo wouldn'...

http://www.billzilla.org/20vhead.jpg I am pretty sure I'm going to do some port work on the 20v engine included with the Corolla project I just bought. I found a cross section of the 20v head online, and I'm trying to decide how to approach this. Since I don't have a lot of experience porting heads...

I agree -- I was weighing my options between two 14b turbochargers and a single 16g. I could make about 350 crank hp with either, but it would probably take close to 18psi. Based on stock output of a DSM, I'm guessing that it would take less than 10psi with two 14b turbos, and spool would probably b...

What's the difference between sequential and staged? Is staging similar to compounding? I know that what I was describing is different from compound turbocharging, but I don't know what staged (or the real differential of sequential) means. The car in the picture is a focus, but I think that type of...