you can get a serious single disc clutch now, dont have to pay $$$$ for the twin disc if you making big power. Once my starts to slip i'll go pick up a d21 flywheel and throw the stock z33 clutch set i have on there. It should hold some good power.

Here are some pics of my buddies builds i've been working on a little bit here and there. I'll keep raising the boost till i can pull them





My buddy finished his rb so we took it for a drive with no heat or wipers and it was 25 degrees out........that thing sounds so good with the 4" exhaust

pics and sound clip of said 4" exhaust or it didnt happen :P

lol his tire setup looks like mine, 225 45 17 front 225 55 17 out back(I wanna go down to a 50 in back)

Tell hiom to get it out of the salty snow before it rusts to death hehe.

The day started good....warm out, sun shinning. I fire up the bike then fire up the car for the first time. She starts up and after a few seconds of running she smooths out and idles good. No problems. I go and set timing and start to tinker with the emanage. It doesn't do much for idle afr but, once you get off idle it works. So i go to roll around the block and half way around i see my temp gauge and its climbing. So i go back home (15 seconds) and by the time i get there its pegged hot. So i let it set there and give it a wash since its been in the garage for 16 months. I start her back up and pull into the garage, with the radiator cap off thinking maybe its an air pocket. So i top off the radiator and let her run for 10 minutes. Temp is fine then i go give here a little throttle and air bubbles start coming out of the radiator......Thats where the FML comes in .... Went for a ride on the bike the came home and ripped her apart with a vengeance. I'm going to switch to a t3/t4 .57 in stead of the t04b. Picked up a ebay one for cheap. Going to drop the head off later this week to get resurfaced and then hopefully have her back together by the end of the month for round 2. She pulls this s*** on me again and she'll be meeting both of the SKS rifles......think i'm playing




^I thought she was happy to be out again....guess not


Proof that it did run, this was the first start before i knew the bad news
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk70D8eAT3c

^ picked up today


^ then proceeded to do work

Switching to a t3/t4 57 trim so i need to mod the downpipe then throw it all back together and go for round 2. Probably start it up again next weekend.

got her all put back together and tried to start her yesterday. For some reason i just kept fouling out the plugs. I pulled them to let the cylinders dry out and i'll try again friday. I checked for spark, and correct dizzy timing, they are good. Not sure why she didn't start yesterday. I think this car is god testing me.......i might fail the test if she keeps acting this way.

My car wouldn't start after my headgasket job either.

I just pumped the gas and kept cranking and it started right up.
No idea why it did that though.

i think my cam timing might be off. I'm going to pick up another ka today so it'll be easy to check against the one i'm picking up. I know the guy i'm getting this one from. Its high mileage but, i know it was running when he pulled it.

Dizzy is off a tooth.

i checked the dizzy and she seemed to be on point. With the engine at TDC she was on the #1 plug wire. I picked up that second ka (160K miles) and i'm going to look at another one tonight. Some kid is putting a 350 in his s14 and told me to come check out the engine while its still in the car running. This one has 130K on her, might have two back up ka's. If so assuming the i can get the one in the car to running right, i'm going to run a decent amount of boost on her. No reason to hold back it i have two back up engines. Wish i would have known about these before i tore this one down and had the head surfaced.

EDIT:

went and looked at the other engine. It definitely needs a timing chain, i can hear it slapping the front cover. What do you think its worth? Runs, but will need work.

WDRacing wrote:Dizzy is off a tooth.

+1 sir...you were correct

got her to start and run.....then the same thing happened. I'm going to pick up a s14 ka and throw it in. If I don't drive her by the end of this weekend she'll be leaving. Already got an offer on her

they say once a car turns 20 years old it gets a soul/personality....well mine decided to be a bi*ch ever since i removed her original heart and transplanted a new on in.....its funny because i pull the old ka24e-t 3 months after she turned 20.....makes you wonder

Swapped in the s14 engine.....I still have to hook everything up. Tomorrow is Motocross but, i hope to turn the key Sunday.

drove the car down the street and back today but, i ran into a new problem. When i was bleeding the cooling system i put a funnel that clips onto the radiator and you fill that with coolant so the system can work the bubbles out. Well with the car on a hill so the radiator is the highest point in the cooling system i started the car. After running for a few minutes the coolant in the funnel worked its way down. Then a few minutes later it started to raise back up.....So i shut the car off and after it sits for 30 seconds or so all the coolant in the funnel will quickly go back into the radiator. So i start the car again and it does the same thing (coolant come out of the radiator and fills the funnel) so i squeeze and release the lower radiator hose 8-12 times and bubbles will come out and the coolant will go back into the radiator. A minute or so after that the coolant came back into the funnel. Its like the water pump wont pull coolant through the lower radiator hose???? I removed the radiator and hoses to check and see if i might have left a rad in one of the hoses or something. Everything is clear, so i put it back together and it keeps doing the same thing. I go ahead and remove the thermostat and the problem is gone.....so i took the thermostat and boiled it in a pot of water to see if it works, and it seems to open fine. What the hell is going on???????

Anyone run into this kind of problem before?

dammmmmm! man s**t just seems to b bending u over when i put mine in i didnt have any problems like this but, bet u can pull an insert that motor in like a hour an a half lol. that sucks to here try taken the air bleed bolt out that is on the motor where top radiator hose gose to, thats how i did mine takes bout 15 mins to get it to fill all the way up but works i had a over heating problem like this till i did that, let us know if u get it nice bulid clean

I use the bleed bolt every time i fill the system.....not sure what the problem is but, no t-stat is how she'll stay for now

I drove her around the neighborhood today. Hell, i almost put her into boost. My laptop battery is fail and dies probably 20minutes after you unplug it from the charger. I'm going to go get the car plated so i can drive her around a bit. It's been so long since i drove her i dont know how much of a difference the energy suspension bushing kit made but, she seems to be much stiffer than i remember.

Today was a good day

yea try flushing the system, or have u?

240man91 wrote:yea try flushing the system, or have u?

Flushed the system multiple times....she seems to run fine just around the neighborhood with no t-stat so i'll be rolling like this for a while. Or at least until i find a reason to put one in.

well how dose it do on the hwy? an maby the heater core is cloged up idk it a thought cause it was left open for a wile when u were lookn for a new motor.

Its not the heater core. It just has some weird problem with pulling coolant up the lower radiator hose when a t-stat is installed. I've tried two different t-stats and two different pumps. No t-stat for me until i find a reason to put one in.

heat still work

240man91 wrote:heat still work

yup

Took the car to a buddies today just to drive it. Well we were bored so we decided to take a drive and we ended up running each other. Did probably a 30 roll and by the top of forth, i had three cars on him or so i'm told. Both of us on 6-7psi on the same emusa t3/t4 china turbo's. His car is running quite rich so i bet we would almost be even if his was running a little better. We are putting nistune on his car so we'll find out who wins once we up the boost. His car is the rb25det s14 thats in this thread.

2.4 vs 2.5 ....same turbo, same amount of boost....ka-t is the victor




^daily beater and the weekend beater

sweet man thats that ka power it unstopable lol if u look at the hp an tq charts for a stock sr a stock ka with a sr turbo an a stock rb 20,24,25, the ka is better than all but the rb 25 they are real close but the rb should by all rights blow the ka away cause it is a stright 6 an turbo an for the skyline, lol funny right the rb26 of corse is better it is twin turbo but if the ka were twin turbo i bet it would keep up. the ka is just one bad a** truck motor an the only one i think with a castiron block.

240man91 wrote: the ka is just one bad a** truck motor an the only one i think with a castiron block.

rb and ca have a cast iron block. Each engine has its pros and cons....hard to say one is better than another.

If i slam gears the clutch slips as you'll see. Granny shifting here i come

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_IdhAr4m5E

yea mine slips to but mmine is worse lol an i have a new oem clutch lol but i got a stage 3 f1 racing one that is a puck 6 what clutch u have in if it stock then thats whats wrong. or fly wheels needs redone

Its a F1 racing 6 puck.....and it is on a resurfaced flywheel. They dont hold much power...around that 250ftlb mark they start to slip. I have an exedy 350z clutch ready

yea what stage is yours? i havent put mine in i am sure it will hold what i have i just running a t25 setup. u have a t3/t4 setup dont u?

stage 3....yeah, t3/t4

i'm only running it because i got it for free and didn't have my z clutch at the time i assembled it

Yea whats the z clutch how u make that work sounds good