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  1. ISPKI

    Water Methanol?

    I bet you could get some noticeable performance gains if you picked up a higher flow pump, say a 90cc turbo pump and a cam. I dont recall who makes the cam for these engines, RussRepair maybe? It could be a good intermediate upgrade before taking the plunge into a turbo and intercooler setup...
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    Water Methanol?

    There are some redundant safety factors you have to work into the system to ensure you dont accidentally blow your engine. For example, if you are using a simple on/off switch, and you happen to forget to turn the switch off when you park it, you could flood your motor with water and hydrolock...
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    Blue Smoke at cold idle, White smoke after descent/climb (air intrusion)

    Ive had my fair share of engines that, for one reason or another, started burning oil, oddly enough I have seen it most frequently in toyota 4 cylinder engines (years of low quality piston rings). You are right in that engines will burn some oil all the time, its unavoidable but its usually so...
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    Blue Smoke at cold idle, White smoke after descent/climb (air intrusion)

    DTI TechTime This is a good meter that is fairly cheap (although it has gone up in price since a few years ago) and available for your future reference. This will give you an accurate timing value in real time relative to your engine RPM.
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    Blue Smoke at cold idle, White smoke after descent/climb (air intrusion)

    Blue smoke in the exhaust is almost always oil burning in combustion and white smoke (not grey, white) is normally an indicator of coolant burning off in combustion. Usually, that will smell similar to pancakes or waffles but its a toss up based on the type of coolant you use. May have a...
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    parallel turbos

    Mouse, do you have a 4 1/2" angle grinder? If so, take a look at a pack of flap discs from Benchmark. They take metal down much faster while providing a better surface finish than a pneumatic die grinder. Only time I pickup my die grinder now is if I have to get into a really hard to reach...
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    94 F-Superduty Tail lights

    I ended up connecting it to a common ground point on the rear most crossmember in addition to keeping it in the harness. I dont know exactly where it goes in the harness, just that it runs back up front into the cab somewhere inside the dash. It has been some years though and I have some stuff...
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    parallel turbos

    Nice. This is where mine is at with the Godzilla system. Muffler is hard fixed to the bed with a 2' length of flex in front of it. This muffler is chunky, about 40" long, 18" tall (oval), and 12" wide with offset in and out with the in on the bottom, out on the top as pictured. This puts it...
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    Well this is normal.

    We are getting pretty far off topic now but one of my company's oldest customers is a pressing company with several hundred pressing machines in their facility. They have a large format press area with presses like this Bruderer machine below scaled all the way up to 400 ton (the one in the...
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    parallel turbos

    I dont think the suspension would be the issue since you seem to have your exhaust pipe securely mounted to the frame. Greater concern would be unloaded vs max load in the bed and how the bed warps separate form the frame. Might get some rattling and bouncing around in the fitup. Could be solved...
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    parallel turbos

    You know looking at your picture makes me wonder how clean it would be to tuck the exhaust tip up into the side of the bed and have it exit through a cutout in the bedside. Considering how many pickup beds are rotted out in that area, it might be a slick look to restore one with a port for the...
  12. ISPKI

    Well this is normal.

    I looked into it more and it seems that the ring gear is actually square bar rolled around a form and welded at the end. It is then ground top and bottom and then teeth are cut into it, probably with a large broaching machine to accelerate the manufacturing process.
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    Well this is normal.

    Here are the scans. Scan 1 and Scan 2 are the Flex plate and Ring gear respectively, Scan 3 is the weld pool. Lots of contaminant elements as expected. Silicon (Si) was showing up in scan 1 but kept kicking down off the screen for some reason. Anything below .03 is likely a contaminant imbedded...
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    Well this is normal.

    I took a cut out of the flex plate that I had left over from my previous truck's E4OD to ZF5 conversion and ran it thru my XRF gun to test metal alloys. Keep in mind that I dont know how well controlled flexplates are between manufacturers and I do not know if this was an OEM or replacement...
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    Well this is normal.

    Lotta thoughts at play here. Heating up the ring gear could certainly be done by hand but youd have to be pretty darn savvy at it to get it right without ruining the heat treat, thats assuming the parts are even heat treated. They may not be, depending on the alloys. The temperature to hit to...
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    parallel turbos

    Interesting having your exhaust outside the frame. I have always routed it inside the frame and then wrap it either over or under the frame to exit. How are you planning on making the transition from engine to outside the frame up front? I have a complete exhaust system off a newer F350 with...
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    Fluid change or rebuild?

    Yeah I dont know if anyone has ever gauged the volume of contaminants removed from the system using a machine vs dropping everything. The one I saw had a sort of catch can that trapped stuff as it flowed thru the system. I believe they disconnected the lines from trans to radiator, pumped fluid...
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    Fluid change or rebuild?

    Yeah I am pretty sure they replace the filter as standard practice during a flushing operation. The flush is primarily intended to push as much old fluid along with any debris and particles out of the system, radiator, torque converter, everything. Since those are normally fairly difficult to...
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    Fluid change or rebuild?

    Transmission fluid is supposed to be changed every ~30,000 miles on these depending on how its being worked. I would drain everything, including the torque converter and replace the filter before even considering rebuilding the transmission. If it has been that many miles since it was last...
  20. ISPKI

    parallel turbos

    Good idea, are those filters for oil or fuel? I have been sitting on a complete banks sidewinder install for a while and have been trying to figure out where to plumb the intake piping. I had been thinking about a cowl induction since there isnt a whole lot of space to draw cold air from under...
  21. ISPKI

    parallel turbos

    This tray is for the batteries? I may have missed it but is that to make more room under the hood for turbo piping?
  22. ISPKI

    parallel turbos

    I second flare fittings. Compression will probably do fine considering its extremely low pressure oil. However, I have used compression fittings to repair broken transmission cooling lines and it works fine, right up until you have to take it off. The compression fitting ring has a high...
  23. ISPKI

    parallel turbos

    Could put a small coil in the line to help absorb vibration, similar to how the brake lines at the master cylinder are done.
  24. ISPKI

    parallel turbos

    Sir, put down the welder before someone gets hurt.
  25. ISPKI

    parallel turbos

    What are those out of? 90s SHO? or newer ones?

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