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Hey guys, so I have decided as I am completely rebuilding my rear subframe, I wouldn't want to leave those poor rear diff bushings out! Here is what i have done: 1. Made tools to press out old bushings 2. Burnt out the metal parts (sleeve and 'bucket' if you will) 3. Sent parts for...

Okay, so I made some delrin bushings for my subframe a while ago (SC400), and while they were and improvement, I don't feel they are exactly what I wanted - a hard poly insert. So I have my entire rear end pulled apart and I thought while I was repainting everything, I would pull those delrin...

Hey guys, its been a super long time since my last post...... years. Anyway, I am drawing up some new parts for the SC and I thought about the engine mounts I made a while ago and figured I would share the design. I'm not good at posting long posts anymore so Ill make it short and sweet. If you...

For those of you that have access to CNC machinery, what CAM software do you prefer to use? Here at school we use Esprit, and its miserable. I'm looking into finding another program to demo or something because Esprit just makes me want to shoot myself every time i use it. On top of that when...

Over the period of owning my car and learning to make my own parts, i've acquired a few solidworks and autocad drawings of a few different parts. I have also taken a great deal of knowledge from the members of this site and i think i found a way to contribute my knowledge back to the site. I...

Ever sense i put the engine back in my car (97 SC400) i have been having a very weird ignition problem. I have ignored it because it hasn't been too frequent until this week it acted up 5 times in one day, and that's getting ridiculous. So here is the problem: Randomly, one side of my engine...

Hey guys, im just wondering how many of you on here are mechanical engineers? Right now im working for my degree in it, and my sophomore year is really proving very, very difficult. I keep hearing that sophomore year is the hardest, but im not sure how true that can be with circuits, heat...

hey guys, does anybody know the bolt pattern for the 1uz flexplate? I have heard that each bolt is 80mm from the center of the plate to center of the bolt, which yeilds a 61.229mm x 8 bolt pattern. I would really like to hear from the community if this is right or wrong, if wrong, what do you...

hey guys, i got my car dyno'ed the other day, and i finally got the sheets. The hp and tq curve from 2.5 to 3.5 looks weird, its not a smoth graph there at all. What do you guys thinks? I may have an exhaust leak not 100% sure if this contributes to this. I was pretty happy with 220 max TQ...

I have for sale a never used, but opened, programmable MSD DIS-2 box. This box does so many different things, read up on here if you arent already familiar with it. http://www.msdignition.com/ignition_26_6212.htm Comes will ALL wiring, is mising a few zip ties and stuff like that that...

You guys think this filter is big enough? haha I wear a size 13 shoe too... lol Anyway i thought i would post this up, it was pretty easy to make. Still need to fab up a shield so when it rains, the rain will hit the shield and drip off.

Ok so im going to need your guys' help on this one because this will be my first conversion of any sort. Ok so where am i at right now... well I bought all the parts for my clutch pedal and master cylinder (bought the stock sc300 one) and drilled the holes and installed all the stuff...

So i was pulling out of the bowling aisle parking lot when this very nice looking blue (very nice color) GTO pulls off right infront of me, we both pull out and make a right and hit the first stop light. My two friends in their car were ahead of me and the GTO pulled up next to them (us three...

I installed the above mentioned a day ago. I got this from lextreme and i followed his DIY instructions. I found it took me about 45 mins, but if you were quick you could do it in about 30 mins. His DIY was great but forgot to mention one (but important) thing. When you are disconnecting the...

What would be a nice ignition system that can power two coils and is ment for a distributed ignition system that would aso have high adjustablity for many things.... including a windowswitch. I like all the MSD systems, but they lack one box that is ment for a distributed system that can power...

Hey guys, im planning on running nos soon on my car, but trying to do as much information research as possible so i do it right. I hear that its safe to run half the power you produce. For example if you have 300 crank HP then you should put no more than a 150 shot (hp). What do you think...

If anybody has access to one of these transmissions can you please o please measure how the distance between the bellhousing (side that touches motor) and the shifter area? Thanks in advance, Nick

Hi, recently my tac has been way off on my LS400. It says i idle at 100 rpm and below... and so i redline at like 5,400 rpm... Anyway its really bothering me and im just wondering if anyone here has delt with this before? Is there anyway to like recalibrate it? Is that even possible...

Hey guys, on my quest to convert everything on my car to LED i decided to tackle my 3rd brake light, seemed easy because that light only has on and off. Here are some pictures, it was VERY easy to do this. I bought my 9" LED strip off of ebay. Anything larger than 9" will not fit, i even had to...

I was just wondering what your opinions are on how many amps different guage wires can hold? Like how many amps do you think it would be safe to run through a zero guage wire? How about 1, 2, and 4 guage?