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Well to make a long story long, I solved the issue. I couldn't get any good results with the pump on the car so I took the pump off and bench tested it by looping the lines from the reservoir to the pump and back so I could eliminate variables. Then I spun the pump up with my hand drill until the fl...

So i decided to eliminate the dip in the feed line from the reservoir today. Welded a male AN fitting on the stock pump inlet pipe and made a new line straight to the pump that is a perfect decline feed to the pump inlet and..... same exact result. Idle the car for 15 min and the fluid turns bright ...

Ok, so I took another good look at the car last night and there's only one thing sticking out as a possibility to me right now. I can't figure as how any air could be getting in on the input side to the pump, as all of the fittings are very tight and clamps are very secure, but while looking at the ...

Ok guys, you all are my first line of defense, i hope you can help me solve my issue. I amd the guy who bought Brian's (orion s14?) Car a while back, and ive been doing quite a few things to it, and ive run into a bit of a persisting issue that's keeping me from driving it so i want to get it solved...

Thank you for the response. Yes the fuel pump is priming, and if I ground the injectors a few times each, upon the next engine turn over, the engine will fire for a few few seconds, indicating fuel is at the injector and they are working properly. And also, yes the coil is firing, we have a separate...

Ok so I've searched around quite a bit and have been unable to find what I need, so I figured I'd come to the gurus of the Ka. Here's the deal, a friend of mine has swapped a kade into his s12. He has done all kinds of things that I don't know about, I'm just stepping into this mid stream to try to ...

That is good info for sure. I think tonight I'm going to pull the pan again and remove the guts of the relief valve (if I can get the plunger out) and put a cup under the pickup, turning the motor over then should eject oil out the relief like crazy. And then I think I will put a tube into the filte...

was running 10w30 since the car was built. The oil I just put in the car last night was 5w30.

Was thinking about this last night, with new oil and filter (not pre-filled), would I need to turn the car over for more than a second or two to build pressure? I did watch a youtube video of a guy that spun one up with a drill and it took a few seconds before it even came out the top of the pump, a...

So here's the story, built motor ka going on 5 years use. Low miles, probably 3k a year or so. Stock oil pressure sender works fine, and I have an autometer gauge that has worked consistently for years. Oil pressure is typically 60psi on cold start, and warm idle is about 15psi and ramps up to 50-60...

yes indeed once I've drained and refilled the oil with the fsm 4.0 quarts with oil filter, the smoke has cleared and the car is fine, no smoke whatsoever. My only real issue is that the level reads on the "L" on the dipstick which puts it about a half inch low on the stick to what it shoul...

So, I've searched and haven't found anything on the forum about this, but I have found others with very similar symptoms as mine, and I'm hoping to solve this problem once and for all. So I have completely built my engine (twice), with forged bits, new timing and oil pump, etc, top to bottom. I put ...

Fixed! sort of a series of unfortunate events that made me think something was really wrong... in fact, the diz was off by one tooth, however, it was rotated all the way to one side which put it at the -5 degree mark. When the dizzy slipped while it was running it would have been at something like -...

So I've just finished my rebuild, and the car is up and running fine. I forgot to tighten the dizzy bolts all the way, maybe a bit loose, anyway, the car was idling bleeding the coolant system, and then it just turns off. I notice the dizzy has rotated all the way to one side of the slot. I reset it...

Ok guys, so i got my motor fully back together and running great. I used to have a stock block turbo setup, and recently fully built the block using forged internals, of which the slugs are cp 9:1 and I am using the base tune from Ehthalpy that i was using on the stock block setup. My question is th...

Well thanks for shedding light on the subject guys, i figured i wasnt the only one. Due to time constraints, im probably going to saw the flange off and have a co-worker re-weld it, but it is disheartening to hear about the warranty, that is one of the reasons i bought it, it was guaranteed for life...

Well i figured that maybe one of the GZ reps have frequented this forum, and i could start the ball rolling that way. I dont currently have their website or contact number, and have found multiple tuners named ground zero across the country and can't seem to pin point them Like this one, has no refe...

Ok, i know i havent posted much on here in a while, a long while, because ive been fully rebuilding my engine. Props to all the write ups ive been reading on guys that have done it before, doing it the way you want to is a lot of time and work, not to mention money. Well to cut to the chase, a while...

The only problem is that it only happens like 1 out of 15 times driving it, so manually shifting it would be frivilous because it only ever miss shifts one time, then its fine. I guess what im trying to say is that you couldnt catch the problem and then manually shift it, because it only ever does i...

My girlfriend has a 1992 vert, and occasionally it will pull revs from 1st-2nd gear, and not shift until you go to about 6k rpms. Ive had a similar problem with my z31, and it turned out to be a vaccum line cracked. Ive searched under the hood for any loose lines or dry rot and everything seems to b...

damn, dyno day cancelled, somehting about a rainday race make-up, they are having another one nxt month i believe... oh well

ill update it then.

im sorry i wanted an ballpark figure, it was only for me to use as a reference when i put the car on teh rollers. I simply didnt want to get data and be totally confused when i though i should be getting different numbers. Somebody has to have dyno'd a .48a/r and i figured it would be a quick respon...

man for a second there, i thought you guys were different from everyone on automotive forums....


oh well

Ok, so its been a long time coming. Ive turbo'd my car nearly 2 years ago, since then, ive been "street" tuning it with my afc and tweaking as well as fixing little things about it to get it as right as i can. And now im going to the dyno, and im trying to figure out what to expect. The so...

so after turboing, car was great for ever, no problems at all except an infrequent misfire at wot/ high boost. I have bkr7es11's gapped at .028" with a new cap and rotor, NGK plug wires and a blaster II coil. When i have the misfire, if i check the plug wires and they are touching anything, the...

oh, alright, cool, just trying to get an idea, thx for the info

10:1 is not lean ... 10:1 is hella rich ... pours our BLACK smoke at idle... i didnt say it was lean... lol, must have written it wrongly, anyway, doesnt a vaccum leak cause it to run lean because un-metered air is coming in, with no fuel for that air -> lean. when on boost, it should flip flop to ...

ah, ok, thanx, ill keep that in mind i knew the enthalpy tune would be pretty good, but they are all rich for safety and margin of error in different peoples setups, just trying to square things away oh, and im not just going to blindly do it, but when you say pull alot of fuel, are you talking the ...

alright cool, so mainly just tinker with the fuel?

well, im probably going to be making it to a relativley local dyno soon, finally, and im going to try to tune the car as best i can, so i was looking for some advice, and had a few questions. btw, the dyno has a wideband. im running: denso 550cc t3/t04e .50/.48 a/r 57 trim stock s14 engine with 50k ...