Recent content by jdchmiel

it has a small hole. like just under an iunch diameter if i recall off the top of my head. I am looking into following your method, and was looking for aluminum plate to use, but then am second guessing if aluminum is strong enough. Any suggestions? I like the idea of aluminum because I can...

Well I will be doing thius with a transaxle from a camry solara. I guess I can tilt my motor on its nose and then lay the tranny on it with the flywheel / clutch installed and then there is no force on the input shaft. the only thing is, there is no pilot bearing for many fwd transaxles.. so...

I am debating attempting to make an adapter plate basically the same way you have described. My concern is if it is not PERFECT then the tranny input shaft and possibly the engine main bearings will be getting some abnormal forces. How much imperfection in this method can the clutch disc and...

people do not do it in gasoline motors due to reaching the limits of the fuel octane. If you can reach the limits of pump gas with a single turbo now adays, why bother running more than one turbo? since diesel does not detonate, they have no such limitaiton in place, merely the challenge of...

yes, all 2nd gen mr2 turbos come with a "twin entry turbo" as toyota calls it. It says twin entry turbo on the motor, which confuses idiots who market the car as twin turbo on ebay and used car lots..

The exhaust part of a true, well done sequential is the easy part. You use a small turbo as the primary, with a massive wastegate. Set the massive wastegate to something like 10 psi so that it opens up and provides plenty of exhaust gas to spool up a massive 2ndary turbo ( 4.0 liters at 10 psi...