Take back the keys!

Markdawg20 wrote:My brother said he was a 240 on Wick deck today. I'm assuming it was you.

i think i saw your car today.. at ysu

Yeah it's there aobut 8 hours a day lol. Haven't brought the turbo one to school yet, it still needs work.

Markdawg20 wrote:Yeah it's there aobut 8 hours a day lol. Haven't brought the turbo one to school yet, it still needs work.

You work during the week? I'm laid off so if you ever need a hand I'd be happy to help you get your shit moving!

I stared at your car on Wick like a dumb animal for about 10 minutes today. Good job in making me feel like an inferior douch for builing a car with 300whp aspirations, that will probably blow up by the end of the season. Asshat.
It looks really badass chillin there all caged up. I didn't realize how much you had into that car.

Yeah, between school, work, and internshipping I have almost no time to work on my car except on random nice weekends and school breaks.
Mostly I just need to go though the mess of wiring that I've made, amongst other things that I half assed.

I'd like to check out your car in the coming weeks and see how my car compares in the butt dyno. You're the only other person I know with a 240 besides the people I bought my cars off of. I am very curious as to how a KA-T stacks up against the other Nissan engine swaps and setups since there's so many. I may consider a different engine in the future if I can find a cheap motorset.

Thanks man, yeah theres a few small issues astically I need to fix on my car. Align my panels a bit better, and straighten up my gutted trunk area. The car needs a good buff/wax as well. I appreciate it though.

For sure I can stop by sometime. I'm hitting the dyno saturday morning hopefully all will go well as the boost levels and timing rise. I'll know more when the day comes. Currently the car is running really well I'm finally able to adjust boost up and down. (couldnt before, I think my halman MBC was sticking) We can go for a ride after the hopefully final tune. I'll see if my clutch can hold up... ekk.

Dont hate on 300whp, I was running about that back with the stock turbo it was VERY fun. Honestly for a circuit track car 300-350 hp 240 is like perfect. The car was very fun and I wasnt too too scared to press the car hard in corners. This now is a different story, unless the road is dead straight, and non bumpy I dont get on it. Lol I'm sure you will be fine at 300whp, just do it right, and have it tuned well it will take it.

so i figured id go up to the top of M-1 where i use to see your WRX to see if this was there.. and in was not

drewboi wrote:so i figured id go up to the top of M-1 where i use to see your WRX to see if this was there.. and in was not

Lol gotta look harder. I change it up depending on spot availability.

car looks good man, i really like the wheels. did you have that car last spring? i think i saw it at ysu back then... lol

Do you know the driver of a hunter green Zenki S14 that goes to YSU? License Plate says "Quikish" or something to that effect. I'd like to know more about that car. Its got a frontmount so its boosted in some way.

Markdawg20 wrote:Do you know the driver of a hunter green Zenki S14 that goes to YSU? License Plate says "Quikish" or something to that effect. I'd like to know more about that car. Its got a frontmount so its boosted in some way.

does it park on lincoln ave. sometimes? if so, i know the car your talking about but i dont know anything about it.

do you got anyhting for sale? my broskit got a 90 240sx and wants to mod it soon

i see the green one parked on Lincoln all the time. As for parking in the deck, whenever i drive i'll be parking on floor 5 in the nice empty corner. You guys are welcome to join me parking there

tri856 wrote:do you got anyhting for sale? my broskit got a 90 240sx and wants to mod it soon

I have lots of 240 parts for sale and keeps. If he does need anything just ask and I might have... its just too much to list.

The car drove for a few weeks last year.

I didn't know about a green zenki, however I do know about a green Kouki that went to YSU with an SR20 from PA. Not sure if you messed up the years at all. Zenki 95-96 Kouki 97-98?

Mark 300whp in that light as thing would be a BLAST! My stang made that n/a and it's a tank in comparison, and it was still alot of fun esp in the lower gears. We need to have some sort of half ass meet here, I want to roll out with the new hotness and check everyones fresh setups!

Opps yeah. That S14 is nice. So that's an SR20 swap, thats cool.

Yeah lets have a half assed meet in a week or so. Scott said you got your car moving with boost today Tom?
How is she?

so i found your car today in M-1.. i almost passed it .. but i stopped and stared at it for a min.. dave totaly busted me too ... its looking sexy! i wanna see under the hood now

im down for a meet up here soon. maybe do a bw3's night or quaker night like we did last year?

I had it going before, but now I have all the fuel done. With the powerpipe on it, the blower is LOUD. It's awesome!

I need a tune something aweful though now haha...it's way fat even at idle

Well was on the rollers today, was doing some decent things early at low boost. Car made some decent power, then we began to run into a headgasket issue, which it ended up popping by the end. Engine was blowing compression into the coolant passages under boost, which started as just a little bit of overflow, and progressively raised coolant temps while boosting, as well as dragging the power down with it. I'll upload the video of the runs once I receive them from Andrew.

Headgasket issue is most likely something to do with the surface finish on the head/block. Its a 5 layer Cosworth Gasket held down by ARP headstuds.

Plans are to remove the head/inspect, hopefully all is alright. I'll check the head for straightness, and she then will hopefully be getting a stock organic gasket with fresh ARP studs. I'll know more once I take a good peak inside, the plugs all looked pretty good, not really any signs of pre-det. A/F's were 11.2's-11.4's.

I'll see, depressing times for sure. This car has fought me every step of the way after going to an APU setup. I'm trying hard not to just give up.

Hope you get the issues sorted out, let me know if you need the apr studs

cars suck. i hate them.

why was there a 5 layer gasket used?

Christ, problem after problem

Running925 wrote:why was there a 5 layer gasket used?

Cosworth MHG that's what they do.

Rb25Cory wrote:

Running925 wrote:why was there a 5 layer gasket used?

Cosworth MHG that's what they do.

was this thing oversised thickness if so.. that is a good possibility as to why it blew.


or go find your self a competent tuner

Running925 wrote:

Rb25Cory wrote:

Running925 wrote:why was there a 5 layer gasket used?

Cosworth MHG that's what they do.

was this thing oversised thickness if so.. that is a good possibility as to why it blew.


or go find your self a competent tuner

Its .5 mm over stock. He is competent thanks. Hes Motec certified and has tuned a few 8 second DSM's.

Rb25Cory wrote:

Running925 wrote:

Rb25Cory wrote:

Running925 wrote:why was there a 5 layer gasket used?

Cosworth MHG that's what they do.

was this thing oversised thickness if so.. that is a good possibility as to why it blew.


or go find your self a competent tuner

Its .5 mm over stock. He is competent thanks. Hes Motec certified and has tuned a few 8 second DSM's.

you running motec on yours?

any ideas as to why it poped the gasket then?

Most likely surface finish from the machine shop or the possibility of slight head warpage.(temps were never above 210 degrees since it first started) Metal headgaskets need mirror like finish, that is would it should have been, but I didn't not install the headgasket however I simply was given a built long block. The headgasket was slightly leaking before failing (was showing this by blowing water out of the overflow and temps rising about 10 degrees F per pull, there was no sign of oil in the coolant or coolant in the oil, even after popping it was just entering the cylinders). It was most likely a sealing issue, not an instance of pre-det that caused basically an explosion. There was no noise with the headgasket failing just a huge loss in power and smoke. Its on video I'll get it up when I receive it. Its very common for metal headgaskets to leak if the mating surfaces are not properly prepped.

People really don't have issues with stock HG's and studs under 25 psi. As long as my head is okay I will be doing this however my compression will rise from 9.0 to 9.3 due to my head being resurfaced a few times now... I can live with that however.

try copper spray

i use it on all my metal head gaskets. It helps to seal any minor imperfections in the mating surfaces.

Running925 wrote:try copper spray

i use it on all my metal head gaskets. It helps to seal any minor imperfections in the mating surfaces.

My builder was against it. I'm just going back to factory, Id rather not risk the chance of a repeat.