School me in the ways of intaking fuel and air...
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Klim Verba Godlike Moderator Location: San Francisco, CA Join Date: 07/24/2013 Age: Settling Down Posts: 40 Rally Car: Audi 90Q 20V n/a |
I know it is completely irrational, but I have a weird thing with oils, a motor oil fetish if you will, where before every oil change I spend days researching all the info about which ones are Grp3 and which ones Grp4, and if Motul Ester oils are really worth the money, and if all the oils are shit now with the new regulation with lower zinc, and if I should just get the Delvac, and if I should just do single weight oil, and if the is too thick and will foam in the crankcase too much, and if it is too thin and the film will be broken at 7000rpm between the crank and the bearing.....gives me nightmares
Klim
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Tavarich, i work on lots of engines over the years older than you which means they spent a lot of the lives being lubed up with ancient old oils which were maybe filtered with an old sock. I'm talking engines built 1967-1974. Then lots of engines from 85-90. I am pretty careful engine builder, and I measure 3-4 timers everything ---and only ocassionally make big mistake (99% is an A+.....even if that 1% you never hear the end of) Most of the engines were Fords V4--(nemenski V4) and 2300 (Brazil) and Saab 99/900 and later lots of Volvo. most owned be average flaky enthusiasts who didn't always stay on maintenance schedule and the engines leaked so low oil often---and many very high miles on carbie or crude controlled leaks like K-jet If you look at engine bearings that grey color you see is a very thin very soft lead and tin alloy which is as soft as cold butter bonded to a steel backing that has been copper plated. The motors with cast iron cranks always made it to over 175,000 miles with good bearings.. And that was running decades with icky ancient oil that was like API SA or SB. Current API grade is SN. Miles better at everything.. remember a lot of this is before the oil companies started up their franchised "Qwik-lube" operations and started telling people they must change the oil every 3000 miles regardless of the OEM manuals saying 6-7000 miles The pivotal question is: how did those old motors make it to 300,000km if the oil was so much inferior to todays oil.. Bearings are mostly the same (though many OEM bearings are now aluminum alloys because lead is evil). It doesn't make a huge difference. plenty of fresh clean oil at right pressure and right temp. I am big fan of Shell Rotella T because I have a n idea what the engines in big cross country semi-tractors cost and how they run them hard back and forth across the whole continent weekly. If it works for them with $100,000 turbo diesels, it works good for me.. So relax. Get a temp gauge and a pressure gauge and just be nice--and get a good cooler if needed. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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Oh man, that was too far from Moscow, you were closer when you were in Sweden. My wife was born and raised behind the curtain and even though she had a privileged life (uncle was local KGB in Lithuania) it was still a clusterfuck. Now you fixed a Fiat across the border in the CCCP??? How did they imported it since it was considered contraband to have anything made in the West? There was a Russo-Balt that had some based on Fiat designs though. And as far as Tavárich, that's no longer used, it was a more of a party movement thang... Now a good Russian will only say things like "suka blat". I do like the idea of winters in Austria... maybe we should move there 
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No no the boys were in Northern Slovenia, Yugoslavija... You know after the Soviets had fucked with their cousins in Czecho and Tito split with the Stalinistas in 1949, Yugoslavija did a balancing act all the way until dissolution of whole "East Block".. Some things they got from Russia, some from the West... One of those was cooperation with FIAT which ran a plant building "Zaztavas" (which came to USA for a short while as "Yugos" .
Much like the deal that the Italian Communists leaders and MPs worked out to sell off the entire old Fiat plant to the Rooskies to build Fiat 124-based VAZ-2101, the Yugoslavijans built older Fiat designs (that Fiat was done making) So it was in France that I helped them work on the poor little 850 van (poor thing it was CRAMMED FULL. They couldn't do 90 km/hr and me in my mighty 404D would have to almost idle to go that slow... (there was one position for the gas in that 404D: full thottle.. I learned about smooth full throttle downshifts in summer passing long lines of Frenchies pulling camping trailers or the poor Saviems and Fiat trucks up hills.. Me looking like Ted Nugent: Screaming "Fawkin Froggie Bastids with you slow shit get outta the way!! NEVER LIFT!!!!!!"
It was a long running joke among my friends from East Bloc that I would make a "good" Communist ---as one friend--a Finn---not really east block but HE WAS!---said:"you would be very good man on the first day of the Revolution...But on the second day we'd have to shoot you. 8( " (And my 2 different inquiries by members of the Chinese Communist Party have been both turned down..(sniffle!) I asked why and the answer was "The CCP is for Chinese." I asked both (friends) what the last line in the Manifesto was...neither knew (in chinese or English) so I said "Its WORKERS of the WORLD UNITE...and I'm nothing if I'm not a worker of the world and I HAVE been uniting with workers all over the world for decades---and now I am united with a beautiful Chinese worker---my wife--and that uniting has resulted in this, my beautiful little daughter!, So HA! I should be accepted!') John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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IT's (was) ALIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!!  John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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