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I always go with copper plugs on projects, hot rods or any sort of toy car. They're cheap to replace and I like pulling plugs to read what the engine's doing when tinkering.

Yeah might be time.... we'll see. Lots of great info in these threads but not much new activity as you mentioned.

Yeah that would be a scramble.

BTW Win XP? lol dang. I actually have Win XP in some VMs for work that I have to have for legacy apps needed once in a while but yeah that's some seriously old stuff.

I'll see if its possible to download and install it. We jumped from the 3.0.x version series to the new 3.1.x series so I'm not sure if it's there yet or not. If you happen to find it let me know.

Hey Guys, Sorry for the short outage. The old hosting company went belly up and everything was gone for a bit. I've re setup something new and restored from backups. Let me know if you find any issues, bound to be some initially, I will continue working on getting everything back in order over the n...

Was the engine you are showing there using synthetic oil??? Yes I run the mobil 1 gold cap in it. From what I've read online the oily fumes cake on there from the heat of the motor and lack of any gasoline spraying in there to clean it. On the BMW forums there are lots of threads of people trying t...

Undersize fuel pump is a bad thing. Don't treat it like a governor or the lean condition it creates will treat your pistons like solder. Lean conditions run MUCH hotter than rich ones...hence why we run the engines richer with boost. If you sustain more than a second or so at lean boost levels, the...

v8ranger wrote:Went to a 3 1/2 inch pulley. So far so good.. Boost comes in much sooner now.

Yup that's how it goes. Every time you swap to a smaller pulley it's the low end and mid range you really notice and feel seat of the pants. Vehicle gets so much more responsive. Obviously top end has more power too.

WOW!! that's crazy....how many miles did you have on yours when you found that?? That was just 50k miles. From what I've read cleanings should be done every 30 to 50k. As nasty as that looks I did not see any degradation in gas mileage or seat of the pants performance. I'm sure there was a small am...

Chris, sorry for the delayed response. I've been going over this in my head so much I got side tracked with responding. ...Now the boosted Coyotes I've personally seen so I know that's true. I've never understood how they get away with 11.0 CR and boost on pump gas but they do. He claims it's the fl...

Chris, What's your opinion on flat top pistons? I have a guy telling me that's the way to go. He actually built his motor that way (same car as me). He says the very tiny quench area gives an artificial octane increase due to detonation resistance. He says when an engine gets in the .065-.125 quench...

If I do stick with the cast iron block I'd probably have a machine shop hone it. I honed my honda block myself when I built it and honestly it's not nearly as easy to do with a honing tool in a drill as it is with the fancy equipment at the machine shop. It also didn't look nearly as pretty. It work...

Or is there some detail about honing mod motors that makes them more difficult/risky than traditional engines? Of course if you go aluminum, I'm assuming you can order whatever size steel sleeves you want. I don't know anything about them, but I assume you can re-sleeve them similar to big diesels....

That makes perfect sense that it would take that long to reduce the heat soak at cruise. You are still fighting reversion at cruise due to lower RPMs and being at vacuum loads. At WOT though, the heat soak is gone in about 3 seconds and the intake equalizes to what ever the temp of the boosted air ...