thxone

Well damn....cool I know it has no ticks or knocks and started friggin smooth and sounded smooth goin down the road...hell yes!

hoov100

I would love to sit here and argue about how shitty pontiac engines are and how much better a real chevy is, but I'm too busy racing the race cars/bike and winning.

snwbrderphat540

i like new chevy motors, the LS series motors, no input on the old ones, i do however have a little experience in Mopar, buddy has a 73(i think) 440-6 cuda. was pretty amazing until it started missing and for no apparent reason haha.

DatsunKid

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BlueKitsune

Its winter. 90% of the Z cars go into hibernation this time of year. in a month or 2 there will be a lot more people around lol

GTR

winter? wha that? Yeah, even here what little Z's are on the road go away to hide for the "winter" seasons, even though it like never snows or anything.

hoov100

I'm still alive, body work on the z and finding a new motor. We don't have winters, we just have a few months where the temps drop 20 degree's and we the yearly three days of rain.

skib

My Z has been sitting under a tarp for a few months

Bleach

My Z has been down for 2 months... since the end of November.

BlueKitsune

My Z has just been sitting outside getting snowed sense I blew the engine lol

Bleach

oh, and my Z has been in a warm garage the whole time while not in working condition.
pampered

I got a new leather shift boot! +4 hp

snwbrderphat540

i dont have a Z.... oh wait.... (foreshadow!!!)

thxone

Dammit bleach! your avatar freaked me out!!!

z-hag

.......lol.......

hoov100

Man, I still can't make up my mind if i want to go vg36ett or go vh45 and later down the road TT it.

hoov100

Looks like my budget got cut down a few hundred bucks, so I'm either going to find a 300zxt donor, or nab a vg33 and run it N/A until i can gather all of the N/A-T bits.

BlueKitsune

huh. I cant find the oil pickup tube gasket anywhere. I guess you just have to make your own?

GTR

My z is my daily.

hoov100

Get a small roll of gasket material from autozone and make one, unless its just an o-ring.

snwbrderphat540

or a small amount of hightemp RTV

hoov100

I wouldn't use RTV for the oil pickup unless you want to kill a motor, the RTV will break down into chunks and go into the oil pump. It's not good to be lazy when it comes to stuff like that.

BlueKitsune

RTV worries me a bit for things that have small openings for pretty much what hoov just said.

snwbrderphat540

that is why i said small amounts... if you dont get any to bead out of the seam that doesnt happen. the talon calls for RTV on the oil return from the turbo from factory... pwn!

hoov100

The oil pickup and oil outlet on a turbo do very different thing, for one, the turbo outlet doesnt see any pressure or vacuum, all it sees is gravity fed oil tickling through it. Also if any RTV does get into it, it will get caught in the pickup strainer or just float around the oil pan, where as if any RTV gets inside the pickup tube, its only place is the oil pump. Also RTV in small amounts on something that sees a vacuum and alot of heat/stress breaks down.

snwbrderphat540

the oil pickup tube doesnt see THAT much vac... so pish posh. i did neglect the screen but hey that's also what an oil filter is for to. it will not break down if done right, there'd be no reason or way for it to. if it were possible any other gasket would do the same as well since they are a fabric like material. RTV is commonly used on them. just dont want any access sticking out

read
http://www.alteredatmosphere.com/man...ion_Manual.pdf

doubt a company would suggest it if it were a bad idea, they'd be blowin motors and pay out money like crazy to people for telling them to do so. you can actually find alot of places where RTV is suggested or used. im not saying its the best answer, but it is a solution, just dont glob the **** on there