What would you do with 900 dollars?

[applesauce]

jesus fish FTW

[Maxx-Damage]

No 1 of those " Sarcasim is just another service i offer" stickers...

[Nenkitsune]

Originally Posted by The Pumper

Not bad for 900. Hopefully you have $$ left over to fix some of it up to be a beast.

a bit. i bought a new filter, new valve cover gasket, a big ass adjustable wrench, expanded my metric wrench set, bought a feeler gauge, bought some carb cleaner, contact cleaner, shop towels, new plugs, injector cleaner etc.

it needs a new TPS. it's firing on all 6, but i think a couple injectors are plugged. there's nothing wrong with the engine, but i think it was the number 2 cylinder was weak when i pulled the plug wire, had good spark (weak as in, engine power didn't drop as bad as the others) when i took a look at the plug, it was running leaner than the other plugs.

gonna do some work on it, replace the tps and clean it up a bit more.

next paycheck is 400 bucks. I'm gonna insure it and register it to bring me a step closer to having it tested (and it means i can drive it on teh street lol)

[oldironmudder]

use a long screw driver to hear your engine talk to ya!!

Run some lucas injector cleaner or marvals mystry oil through it.

[Nenkitsune]

That's exactly what i did. It's actually the 1 and 3 that are weak. number 1 needed the injector plug to be cleaned, so that fixed it. and number 3, i'll bet it's just not getting fuel. number 6 is running wickedly rich, but all the rest look pretty damn lean (electrode part, with the ceramic, is very very light tan) number 3, it looks like it's not burning much. the metal part on top that makes the spark with the electrode, is very coppery, with almost no signs of fuel burning (all the others have a light tan to darkish tan) so, i'm going to go with, the injector rail is filled with nasty ass **** that's plugging everything up.

at least it's drivable in it's condition. just not perfect.

I'm actually going to run seafoam in it ^^ I've heard that stuff does WONDERS to engines.

[oldironmudder]

seafoam?!?!?!?! do it at night or when most folks are not out & about.
I saw a 93-97 LT1 Camaro smoke out about a football feild size of the street on that stuff.

[Nenkitsune]

actually, it shouldn't make it smoke much. there's some people who run it quite often.
I might do your plan, Lucas in the oil, Seafoam in teh tank. I'm gonna have the tank dropped and relined first though.

It's running MUCH better. slowly, but surely it is improving. it's deffinetly leakin out a valve seal
i think old oil is causing it. I'll be the oil's viscosity is so poor, that it's bleeding through the seals.

[oldironmudder]

Also replace the PCV. If its bad and you have enough blowby, the pressure will push oil through seals also.

[colonel_moo]

pretty nice for $900. my friend has an 82 and is in the process of dropping a 350 in it (yeah, doesnt go well with a Japanese car, but it will be sweet).

[Nenkitsune]

Originally Posted by oldironmudder

Also replace the PCV. If its bad and you have enough blowby, the pressure will push oil through seals also.

i don't think the pcv is bad, when i do the oil change i'll check

no blowby though. I get rich smoke since the plugged injectors are causing 2 clear ones to run rich, but there is a valve guide leaking (old oil probably the culprit)

trust me, with the Z, a 350 goes quite well. a Hybrid Z is a happy z.

Too bad his is a ZX. I never liked those.
it'll still be a sick car though ^^ but it's got 1 number to many (s30 is the 240-280, s130 is the 280zx)