team3s
Thursday, May 4
2000
Volume 01 : Number
124
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 01:20:03 -0400
From: "John T. Christian" <
jczoom@geocities.com>
Subject:
Team3S: Re: DSM Shootout
Hi All,
I plan to be there on July 21 to
regain my second place position.
Looking for worthy opponents.
Be
of good cheer,
John
Matt Jannusch wrote:
>
> Considering
there were only three of our cars there last year (Oskar's, Del's and mine), I
HOPE there will be more of us! Unfo
>
>
http://www.buschurracing.com/shootout2000/classes.htm>
>
>
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JCZoooM 93 TT 12.46@109Mph(5/97)
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brakes & Supra rotors &13G's
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Date:
Wed, 17 May 2000 11:53:04 -0400
From: "nketo" <
nketo@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Team3S:
racing gas questions
Hi everyone,
This is a question for all you
racing gurus:
I would like to run on racing gas on the street from time to
time.
My only concern is prolonged damage to components. (Ie. engine, O2
sensors,
etc.)
1)What are the pros and cons to using unleaded race
gas, and
leaded race gas?
Bear in mind that I've hollowed
out my pre-cats, and main cat.
2)What type of boost can you run with each
type of gas? (stock turbos and
fuel system)
Thanks in
advance,
Noble
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 00:45:19 -0500
From: xwing <
xwing@execpc.com>
Subject: Team3S: Re:
racing gas questions
nketo wrote: [snips]
> I'd like to run
race gas on the street sometimes.
> Concern is prolonged damage to
components--engine, O2 sensors,
> 1)What are pros and cons of unleaded
race gas
No cons except price! Is available in 100 and 104 octane
unleaded
from Sunoco and VP, I think Union 76
also.
> leaded race gas?
Con: lead will
eventually poison the O2 sensors. This doesn't
happen suddenly, it
tends to be a slow process where the
responsiveness of the sensor is
lost. It will tend to_ read_
leaner and leaner, so your computer will
tend to richen up
the mix to compensate for what it THINKS is lean but
is
actually OK. Then they stop responsiveness, the
swing from
low-to-high-to-low etc. OBD II tests for
O2 sensor
responsiveness.
Con#2: Price.
Pro: Can run higher boost
than 93 unleaded, and even more
than with 100/104 octane, such as if using
boost AND nitrous.
> I've hollowed out pre-cats/main
cat.
> 2)What boost can you run with each type gas? (stock
turbos/
> fuel system)
- --93 octane with stock computer
(knocksensor working) can
use 16 psi safely for longterm; 18 psi seems ok for
short term; 20 psi
for drags if you're brave, but after 16 psi you start
courting a cracked stock
piston due to detonation...
- --100/104 octane I
think you can run 25 psi at drags no problems, which is
about all
any
stock or common aftermarket turbo is going to produce anyway. I
would
tend to limit things to 20 psi on roadcourse...but if you can
MAINTAIN
20 psi to 7000rpm on roadcourse you better have the biggest braking
system
you can find to hotlap it continuously...I sure can't, yet, with
the
Stillen/Brembo
setup in front on my 93, nor with nasty pads and the
94+ bigger stock brakes.
- --112-118 leaded do whatever you want, pretty
much.
- --Water injection proponents have documented less knock=safer, with
WI system.
Jack Tertadian
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 00:28:26 -0700
From: "Chris Maxwell" <
shmacker@home.com>
Subject: Team3S:
Can 13G's hold 20psi up to redline?
About ready to get new turbos, but
the question between getting 13G's or
15G's still is haunting me. I'm
leaning toward 13G's but I'd like them to
be able to hold boost up to 20psi
till redline. Can they do that or does
the boost fall off? Also,
what size injectors are needed for 20psi boost?
550s good
enough?
Thanks again,
Chris Maxwell
92 R/T
TT
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 06:25:54 -0500
From: "Basol, John" <
jbasol@Carlson.com>
Subject: RE:
Team3S: Transmission removal
Yep, that'd be the passenger side drive axle
alright! :-)
There is a slight 'notch' on the inner CV joint (that
green thing), where
you can kind of get a small pry bar or big
screwdriver. Apply as much
pressure as you can without slipping of the
notch and scraping your knuckles
with one hand, and give some mighty tugs on
the axle with the other hand.
It will take a fair amount of force to get it
off. There is some sort of
locking ring on the end of the drive
axle. When you put it back together
you will have to insert this side
with some measure of force as well. Good
Luck!
John Basol
'95
RT/TT
-----Original Message-----
From: John Monnin [
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Sent:
Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:22 PM
To:
team3s-digest@mail.stealth-3000gt.stSubject:
Team3S: Transmission removal
After a computer upgrade I am back on the
list with question.
I am pulling the engine on my 91 VR4 because of a
bad rod knock.
Everthing has gone good so far but I can not seem to get the
passenger side
driveshaft out of the transmission. The owners
manual shows the driveshaft
being removed as a unit from the trasmission
including the big green tube
right next to trans. I have the ball
joints apart and I have tired prying
the green tube (I am not sure what to
call it) but I am afraid to pry too
hard.
Any suggestions?
The
drivers side driveshaft came out with only minor work but the
green cylinder
was not right agains the transmission. It is taking me a
long
time to do the work because I am videotaping often so that I have some
clue
as to how to put everything back together.
P.S. I have a rebuilt
engine on order from Japan, The rebuild
company said that since it
would take so long (I have already been waiting
two months) that when the
engine arrived I would have the option of
accepting it or not.
Since I have since commited to rebuilding the current
engine I will let the
list know when the engine arrives so that someone can
grad it if they need
it.
John Monnin
91 Maroon 3000GT VR4
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 13:52:33 +0200
From: "R.G." <
robby@freesurf.ch>
Subject: Re:
Team3S: Can 13G's hold 20psi up to redline?
> About ready to get new
turbos, but the question between getting 13G's or
> 15G's still is
haunting me. I'm leaning toward 13G's but I'd like them to
> be able
to hold boost up to 20psi till redline. Can they do that or does
>
the boost fall off?
No, they are running out of steam pretty quick too.
At 20psi the engine
flows about 790cfm of air.
> Also, what
size injectors are needed for 20psi boost?
> 550s good
enough?
Depends on how do you control detonation
!!!!
Roger
93'3000GT TT
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 09:12:08 EDT
From:
Aso8@aol.comSubject: Re: Team3S: Can 13G's
hold 20psi up to redline?
Chris, go directly to the 15G's. There is no
downside to using 15G Vs 13G.
Folks spoke about "Lag" but if
you're using 550cc inj, increasing the boost,
hollowing out your cats THERE
IS NO MORE LAG! If you don't do it now you will
be sorry later.
Turbos
are a job you never want to do twice.
Just my .02
Arty 91
VR-4
<< Subj: Team3S: Can 13G's hold 20psi
up to redline?
From:
shmacker@home.com (Chris
Maxwell)
Sender:
owner-team3s@stealth-3000gt.stAbout
ready to get new turbos, but the question between getting 13G's or
15G's
still is haunting me.
Thanks again,
Chris
Maxwel
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 08:24:34 CDT
From: "Curt Gendron" <
curt_gendron@hotmail.com>
Subject:
Re: Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
Thanks Jack... You took the
words right out of my mouth. Water Injection
is like running with
racing gas on the street. Water Injection itself
doesn't really give
you horsepower, but it lets you run 17-18psi of boost
every
day.
Three of us MN 3/Sers have the Spearco unit. John Basol has
had it
installed for almost a year now. And whoever comes to the Upper
Midwest
Gathering in Wisconsin Dells can see all three systems at work. (how
was
that for a plug?)
Curt
15 days til the UMG
UMG:
http://www.mn3s.org/upper-midwest.html>From:
xwing <
xwing@execpc.com>
>--Water
injection proponents have documented less knock=safer, with WI
>system.
>
>Jack
Tertadian
>
>
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 10:12:36 EDT
From:
Aso8@aol.comSubject: Re: Team3S: Re: racing
gas questions
Curt, I'm curious as to how long your water supply lasts
driving around at
18lb boost & what size water tank do you have? On a
road trip would you need
a water gauge for the supply tank :)
Arty 91
VR-4
In a message dated 5/4/00 6:25:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
curt_gendron@hotmail.com
writes:
<< Subj: Re: Team3S: Re: racing gas
questions
Date: 5/4/00 6:25:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From:
curt_gendron@hotmail.com (Curt
Gendron)
Sender:
owner-team3s@stealth-3000gt.stTo:
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.stThanks
Jack... You took the words right out of my mouth. Water Injection
is like running with racing gas on the street. Water Injection itself
doesn't really give you horsepower, but it lets you run 17-18psi of boost
every day.
Three of us MN 3/Sers have the Spearco unit. John
Basol has had it
installed >>
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 09:44:59 CDT
From: "Curt Gendron" <
curt_gendron@hotmail.com>
Subject:
Team3S: Water Injection (was: racing gas)
Hey Arty,
It depends a
lot on your driving habits and the system you run. I have the
Spearco
unit, and it has a half gallon tank. I check the water tank every
time
I fill up or once a week or so. I go through about a half a tank of
water every 200 miles of normal driving. The system sprays whenever
boost
is about 8psi. So if you were track driving, you'd go through
water a lot
quicker.
John Basol has the Spearco unit, but has a
bigger pump. His pump is an
actual fuel pump. He goes through
water a lot quicker. With real agressive
driving, he can go through a
tank of water in 50 miles.
If you were on a road trip, with normal
driving, you could probably go 500
miles on a tank, since you wouldn't be
boosting much.
John and I both use sticks to measure the water
supply. Actually, I use a 6
inch long piece of rubber vaccum
tubing.
later,
Curt
Upper Midwest Gathering info:
http://www.mn3s.org/upper-midwest.html>From:
Aso8@aol.com>To:
curt_gendron@hotmail.com,
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.st>CC:
Aso8@aol.com>Subject: Re: Team3S: Re:
racing gas questions
>Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:12:36
EDT
>
>Curt, I'm curious as to how long your water supply lasts
driving around at
>18lb boost & what size water tank do you have? On a
road trip would you
>need
>a water gauge for the supply tank
:)
>Arty 91
VR-4
>
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 10:08:02 -0500
From: Matt Jannusch <
MAJ@BigCharts.com>
Subject: RE:
Team3S: Water Injection (was: racing gas)
> John Basol has the
Spearco unit, but has a bigger pump. His pump is an
> actual fuel
pump. He goes through water a lot quicker. With real agressive
> driving, he can go through a tank of water in 50 miles.
Yeah,
but I think John's pumping way too much water into the cylinders. You
really don't need that much to prevent detonation. The water displaces
air/fuel mixture, so you don't want to over-do it and lose power, or short out
the spark.
> John and I both use sticks to measure the water
supply. Actually, I use a 6
> inch long piece of rubber vaccum
tubing.
I go through about half to 3/4 of a tank per tank of gas, so I
just fill mine after I get home from getting gas. My tank is mounted
vertically (not the "best" way - with the small end up, but with the
narrow-long end facing up/down) with the water feed to the pump in the bottom
rear of the tank, so it isn't very susceptible to sloshing.
-
-Matt
'95 3000GT Spyder VR4
(Doin' the 15G's this weekend...
Ugh.)
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 11:32:27 EDT
From:
Aso8@aol.comSubject: Re: Team3S: Water
Injection (was: racing gas)
I'm a believer in the Water Inj too. I went
with the Aquamist system instead
of the Sparco. When you pull in a gas
station just say where is your garden
hose I need to filler up. Between the
WI system, Nitrous, boost, ignition
system, VPC, GCC, AIC, extra injectors,
plug gap etc can you imagine trying
to tune this car with no Dyno.
Forget
a Tuner, I'll need to call a psychic - grin
Arty 91
VR-4
<< Subj: Team3S: Water Injection
(was: racing gas)
Date: 5/4/00 7:45:59 AM Pacific Daylight
Time
From:
curt_gendron@hotmail.com (Curt
Gendron)
Sender:
owner-team3s@stealth-3000gt.stTo:
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.stHey
Arty,
It depends a lot on your driving habits and the system you run. I
have the
Spearco unit, and it has a half gallon tank. I check the
water tank every
time I fill up or once a week or so. I go through
about a half a tank of
water every 200 miles of normal driving. The
system sprays whenever boost
is about 8psi. So if you were track
driving, you'd go through water a lot
quicker.
John Basol has the Spearco
unit, but has a bigger pump. His pump is an
actual fuel pump. He
goes through water a lot quicker. With real agressive
driving, he can
go through a tank of water in 50 miles.
If you were on a road trip, with
normal driving, you could probably go 500
miles on a tank, since you
wouldn't be boosting much.
John and I both use sticks to measure the water
supply. Actually, I use a 6
inch long piece of rubber vaccum
tubing.
Curt
>Curt, I'm curious as to how long your water supply lasts
driving around at
>18lb boost & what size water tank do you have? On a
road trip would you
>need
>a water gauge for the supply tank
:)
>Arty 91 VR-4
> >>
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 10:38:18 -0500
From: Matt Jannusch <
MAJ@BigCharts.com>
Subject: RE:
Team3S: Water Injection (was: racing gas)
> When you pull in a gas
station just say where is your garden
> hose I need to filler up. Between
the WI system, Nitrous,
> boost, ignition system, VPC, GCC, AIC, extra
injectors, plug
> gap etc can you imagine trying to tune this car with no
Dyno.
> Forget a Tuner, I'll need to call a psychic -
grin
Ooooh! Don't run anything less than distilled water through
there... If you run "tap water" through there, the combustion
process will flash-bake the impurities in the water onto your
pistons/cylinders/valves. (Or maybe you were joking... :-)
I
hear you on the tuning aspects... :-)
- -Matt
'95 3000GT Spyder
VR4
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 11:59:58 CDT
From: "Curt Gendron" <
curt_gendron@hotmail.com>
Subject:
RE: Team3S: Water Injection (was: racing gas)
Matt is right. You
don't want to use tap water in your WI system. Only
distilled
water. Not only will you bake the cylinders, all those impurities
will
eventually clog your WI system. The nozzle that sprays is the size of
a pin hole.
I actually use a distilled water and rubbing alcohol mix.
About 60/40 split.
So..... If you make it to the Upper Midwest
Gathering, Matt's, John's and
my water injection systems will be on display.
;) (another shameless plug)
later,
Curt
UMG info:
http://www.mn3s.org/upper-midwest.html>From:
Matt Jannusch <
MAJ@BigCharts.com>
>
>Ooooh!
Don't run anything less than distilled water through there... If
>you run "tap water" through there, the combustion process will
flash-bake
>the impurities in the water onto your
pistons/cylinders/valves. (Or maybe
>you were joking...
:-)
>
>I hear you on the tuning aspects...
:-)
>
>-Matt
>'95 3000GT Spyder
VR4
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 11:31:06 -0700
From: "Bob Forrest" <
bf@bobforrest.com>
Subject: Team3S:
Admin NOTICE: Virus Alert!
Hey, Team...
I've checked this out and
it IS genuine - verified on the MaAfee and
Microsoft websites.
Thanks to Team3S member Joe Scholtz for bringing
it to our
attention!
DO NOT open email entitled I LOVE YOU (or variant). It
has a VB
script virus that will run automatically in Microsoft Email
Programs
like Outlook and Outlook Express when you open it to read it.
The
email will have a file attached called >>>
LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs
<<<, which is the Visual Basic Script
Virus. It appears to be a
variant of a Melissa type virus, with a
twist. DO NOT OPEN the e-mail
or the attachment. Delete
immediately!!!
People who do not use Microsoft email programs should not
open the
attachment and everyone should delete this email. Please visit
the
McAfee site www.McAfee.com or email me *privately* for
further
details. No discussion on the list, please. It's a
virus. Stay away
from it. Over and out...
Best,
Bob
Forrest
for the Admin
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 12:07:03 -0700
From: "Bob Forrest"
<bf@bobforrest.com>
Subject: Team3S: Admin NOTICE2: Virus Alert!
AP release...
Thanks to Yasuna Murakami for sending this to me for the
Team3S list:
Forrest
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By Bruce
Meyerson,
Associated Press, 05/04/2000
A new computer virus spread quickly
around the world today, swamping
U.S. corporate networks with e-mails
entitled "ILOVEYOU" after
crippling government and business
computers in Asia and Europe.
Experts said they were stunned by the speed and
wide reach of the
virus - which struck members of U.S. Congress and British
parliament -
and warned computer users not to open the "LOVELETTER"
attachment that
comes with the contaminated e-mail.
"It appears to be
the same sort of class of virus as Melissa," the
e-mail virus that
crippled computer systems around the world about a
year ago, said Bill
Pollack, spokesman for the CERT Coordination
Center in Pittsburgh, a
government-chartered computer security team.
But, Pollack cautioned,
"there are other ways that it spreads in
addition to e-mail and that's
what we're looking into now."
Computer administrators at
Ottawa-based Cognos Inc. (Nasdaq: COGN)
shut down the company's entire e-mail
network as a precaution after
the virus was detected in a company office in
the Netherlands early
this morning. The company, which makes front-end
software to access
databases, employs 2,200 people in 60 countries around the
world,
including Burlington, Mass., where its U.S. sales headquarters
is
based. None of its employees were able
to send e-mail today.
"Everyone I have talked to has it," said Cognos
public relations
director Roberta Carlton. "Someone at our agency got
it and they said it
crashed their hard drive. That's about as bad as
it gets." Cognos, on
the Web at www.cognos.com, received a fix for the
virus from Trend Micro and
is testing it on their internal mail
network. Carlton said Cognos
administrators are also blocking a URL
from their servers. The virus
apparently downloads a file from the Web
address after the mail attachment is
opened.
Carlton warned that the virus can damage the address book in
Outlook E
xpress. Carlton said few company workstations were damaged,
and that
their customer support relationships with partners such as
Microsoft
and SAP were being handled over the phone. The virus also
infected
New Hampshire's state government computer system.
Jim Van Dongen,
spokesman at the state Office of Emergency Management,
said the message shut
down the e-mail system in his agency. He said it
also spread throughout the
state system. Van Dongen said he had not
heard about the virus and when
he got to work this morning he opened a
message that quickly spread the virus
to everyone in his computer
address book, including reporters and emergency
officials around the
state. He said the Emergency Management e-mail
system was overwhelmed
and shut down within 20 minutes.
According to a
virus tracking system at the Web site of Japanese
computer security firm
Trend Micro, more than 120,000 computers were
said to be infected in the
United States by midmorning, up from less
than 20,000 just
an hour before.
Trend Micro's Web site, www.trendmicro.com, was
inaccessible today,
apparently swamped by users seeking information
about the virus.
In
Britain, about 30 percent of company e-mail systems were brought
down by the
virus, according to Network Associates, another computer
security firm.
In Sweden, the tally was 80 percent. Much like
Melissa, the "love
bug" spreads by infiltrating a computer user's
address book and sending
copies of itself to that person's contacts.
However, the new virus also
seemed to be using instant messaging or
"Internet chat" systems
such as ICQ to spread, Computer Associates
reported. The virus appeared
in Hong Kong late in the afternoon,
spreading throughout e-mail systems once
a user opened one of the
contaminated messages. It later moved into European
parliamentary
houses and through the high-tech systems of big companies
and
financial traders. "I have to tell you that, sadly, this
affectionate
greeting contains a virus which has immobilized the House's
internal
communication system," said Margaret Beckett, leader of
Britain's
House of Commons. "This means that no member can receive
e-mails from
outside, nor indeed can we communicate with each other by
e-mail." In
the United States, the "love bug" shut down
the Florida Lottery Web
site and e-mail system, said lottery spokesman Leo
DiBenigno. In Asia,
Dow Jones Newswires and the Asian Wall Street Journal
were among the
victims. The bug affected only e-mail and did not prevent Dow
Jones
Newswires from distributing financial information to traders.
The
Asian Wall Street Journal would have no problems publishing,
officials
there said. But the e-mail systems went wild. "It
crashed all the
computers," said Daphne Ghesquiere, a Dow Jones
spokeswoman in Hong
Kong. "You get the message and the topic says
ILOVEYOU, and I was
among the stupid ones to open it. I got about five at one
time and I
was suspicious, but one was from Dow Jones Newswires, so I opened
it."
Once the message was opened, Ghesquiere said, it began sending
the
virus to other e-mail addresses within the Dow Jones
computers,
blocking people's ability to send and receive e-mail.
Victims
sometimes received dozens of e-mails, all contaminated. "I
have no
idea how it got through the firewall," Ghesquiere said.
"It's supposed
to be protected."
The virus downloads files
from a Web site registered to a company in
the Phillipines. The Web site is
hosted by Sky Internet, Inc., located
in Qezon. The company could not be
reached by phone or on the
Internet. The virus posed its biggest threat to
corporate users,
because it apparently had the ability to spread to the first
300
e-mail addresses in affected accounts, virus expert Ross Wilson
said.
"It's not pretty," said Wilson, the Singapore-based Southeast
Asia
director of Symantec, a U.S.-based company that makes
anti-virus
software. "It's got the capability of spreading very, very
quickly."
In Denmark, the parliament, telecom company Tele Danmark,
channel TV2
and the Environment and Energy Ministry were all affected
starting
this morning. "We have no clue how it got in," said
Hugo Praestegaard
of the Environment and Energy Ministry. The virus hit
the Swiss
federal government computer network late in the
morning, said
Claudio Frigerio of the Federal Office for Information
Technology in Bern.
The system was switched off immediately to stop
the virus from
spreading. Bank, hospital and national television
e-mail networks in
Switzerland were also affected, Frigerio said.
- -Eddie Medina,
Boston.com Staff, contributed to this report.
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Date:
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From: "Gross, Erik" <
erik.gross@intel.com>
Subject:
Team3S: General Engine Question
Quick general engine
question:
What would one need to examine after accidentally dropping a
disconnected
spark plug wire (plug end) with the engine on, having it touch
metal, ground
out, and stop the engine? It grounded out through the
insulator, so I'm
guessing that wire is shot and will replace it.
This happens not to be on my 3000GT (whew), but may be useful general
info -
if not, please reply to me privately if you have any
suggestions. This
engine is a FI I4 with a distributor/rotor('94
Corolla).
I'm replacing the plugs anyway, I have new wires,
distributor cap, rotor,
battery (it blew up...literally). I
cleaned the car up and neutralized all
the acid I could find. The car
runs now (nothing replaced but the battery,
but it's rough and frequently
misses. My plan is to try the following
order: plug wires
and plugs, distributor cap/rotor, and if neither of those
work, replace the
distributor.
Thanks for your help, and I hope this isn't too far off
topic:)
- --Erik
-
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----------
Erik
Gross
DuPont, WA
'95 Pearl White 3000GT (NA, DOHC,
5-speed) 70,000
mi
Firestone Firehawk 245/50/ZR16 tires, stock wheels
Magnacor KV85 spark
plug wires, NGK plugs @ 0.040"
K&N FIPK (57-1500), resonator
bye-bye
Mobil 1 10W30 Synthetic w/ OEM oil filter
***No more ticking lash
adjusters(07/99)! Treated with GM
EOS, BG 44K FI
cleaner. Change oil/filter every 3000mi ***
'94 Algae Blue Corolla, blew up
the battery last night...
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 17:42:33 -0400
From: Mark <
pagan@siscom.net>
Subject: Re: Team3S:
Re: racing gas questions
FWIW I have converted my windshield washer tank
to be the tank for my WI.
I also have the spearco unit, but I have fashioned
a top that makes the
windshield washer tank air tight and use it as the water
tank. It is
bigger than the tank that comes with the spearco unit and
it has a sensor
built right in :). The stock pump is on the outside of
the bottle and is a
flow through type, so I just use that part of the bottle
to feed my pump
and I tapped pressure at the top of the neck. Works
great and my dash
tells me when I'm out.
:)
Mark
'93 R/T
TT
(peaking 1.27kg/cm^2 in 3rd gear with no knock on pump gas)
At
10:12 AM 5/4/00 -0400,
Aso8@aol.com
wrote:
>Curt, I'm curious as to how long your water supply lasts driving
around at
>18lb boost & what size water tank do you have? On a road
trip would you need
>a water gauge for the supply tank :)
>Arty 91
VR-4
>
>In a message dated 5/4/00 6:25:43 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>
curt_gendron@hotmail.com
writes:
>
><< Subj: Re: Team3S: Re:
racing gas questions
> Date: 5/4/00 6:25:43 AM Pacific Daylight
Time
> From:
curt_gendron@hotmail.com (Curt
Gendron)
> Sender:
owner-team3s@stealth-3000gt.st>
To:
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.st>
> Thanks Jack... You took the words right out of my mouth.
Water Injection
> is like running with racing gas on the street.
Water Injection itself
> doesn't really give you horsepower, but it lets
you run 17-18psi of boost
> every day.
>
> Three of us MN
3/Sers have the Spearco unit. John Basol has had it
>
installed >>
>
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 14:24:06 -0700
From: "Mohler, Jeff" <
jeff.mohler@netapp.com>
Subject:
RE: Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
Where are you guys plumbin in the
injector for WI?
I have a kit, will install on VR4 instead of
Supra.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Curt Gendron [
mailto:curt_gendron@hotmail.com]
Sent:
Thursday, May 04, 2000 6:25 AM
To:
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.stSubject:
Re: Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
Thanks Jack... You took
the words right out of my mouth. Water Injection
is like running with
racing gas on the street. Water Injection itself
doesn't really give
you horsepower, but it lets you run 17-18psi of boost
every
day.
Three of us MN 3/Sers have the Spearco unit. John Basol has
had it
installed for almost a year now. And whoever comes to the Upper
Midwest
Gathering in Wisconsin Dells can see all three systems at work. (how
was
that for a plug?)
Curt
15 days til the UMG
UMG:
http://www.mn3s.org/upper-midwest.html>From:
xwing <
xwing@execpc.com>
>--Water
injection proponents have documented less knock=safer, with WI
>system.
>
>Jack
Tertadian
>
>
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 14:43:55 -0700
From: "Mohler, Jeff" <
jeff.mohler@netapp.com>
Subject:
RE: Team3S: General Engine Question
Did it restart? You didnt
say.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Gross, Erik [
mailto:erik.gross@intel.com]
Sent:
Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:52 PM
To: 'Team3S List'
Subject: Team3S: General
Engine Question
Quick general engine question:
What would one
need to examine after accidentally dropping a disconnected
spark plug wire
(plug end) with the engine on, having it touch metal, ground
out, and stop
the engine? It grounded out through the insulator, so I'm
guessing that
wire is shot and will replace it.
This happens not to be on my 3000GT
(whew), but may be useful general info -
if not, please reply to me privately
if you have any suggestions. This
engine is a FI I4 with a
distributor/rotor('94 Corolla).
I'm replacing the plugs anyway, I
have new wires, distributor cap, rotor,
battery (it blew
up...literally). I cleaned the car up and neutralized all
the
acid I could find. The car runs now (nothing replaced but the
battery,
but it's rough and frequently misses. My plan is to try
the following
order: plug wires and plugs, distributor cap/rotor, and
if neither of those
work, replace the distributor.
Thanks for your
help, and I hope this isn't too far off topic:)
- --Erik
-
------
----------
Erik
Gross
DuPont, WA
'95 Pearl White 3000GT (NA, DOHC,
5-speed) 70,000
mi
Firestone Firehawk 245/50/ZR16 tires, stock wheels
Magnacor KV85 spark
plug wires, NGK plugs @ 0.040"
K&N FIPK (57-1500), resonator
bye-bye
Mobil 1 10W30 Synthetic w/ OEM oil filter
***No more ticking lash
adjusters(07/99)! Treated with GM
EOS, BG 44K FI
cleaner. Change oil/filter every 3000mi ***
'94 Algae Blue Corolla, blew up
the battery last night...
-
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 17:31:50 -0500
From: Matt Jannusch <
MAJ@BigCharts.com>
Subject: RE:
Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
> Where are you guys plumbin in the
injector for WI?
I plumbed the pressure feed and injector about one inch
past the blowoff valve output on the Y-pipe between the BOV and the throttle
body so that water couldn't get injected into the BOV. I put the injector
about straight-on with the side of the Y-pipe (line running horizontal to the
ground) and the pressure feed line about 1" down on the Y-pipe underneath
the water injector. Works great. For the pressure switch line you
can tap off of the BOV line from the throttle body (I have a separate tap on the
driver's side end of the intake manifold that I used for my boost controller for
the pressure switch line).
- -Matt
'95 3000GT Spyder
VR4
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 16:45:40 -0700
From: "Gross, Erik" <
erik.gross@intel.com>
Subject: RE:
Team3S: General Engine Question
> -----Original Message-----
>
From: Mohler, Jeff [
mailto:jeff.mohler@netapp.com]
>
> Did it restart? You didnt say.
>
Yeah the car
starts, and runs ok some of the time. About 50% of the time,
it idles
rough, misses/stumbles under high load (high gear, low RPM), and
seems to be
lacking some power in the high-RPM range (doesn't pull very hard
at the top
end and it gives a good kick upon upshifting when floored). It's
an
automatic, BTW.
- --Erik
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: Gross, Erik [
mailto:erik.gross@intel.com]
>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:52 PM
> To: 'Team3S List'
> Subject:
Team3S: General Engine Question
>
>
> Quick general engine
question:
>
> What would one need to examine after accidentally
dropping a
> disconnected
> spark plug wire (plug end) with the
engine on, having it
> touch metal, ground
> out, and stop the
engine? It grounded out through the
> insulator, so I'm
>
guessing that wire is shot and will replace it.
>
> This happens
not to be on my 3000GT (whew), but may be useful
> general info -
>
if not, please reply to me privately if you have any
> suggestions.
This
> engine is a FI I4 with a distributor/rotor('94 Corolla).
>
> I'm replacing the plugs anyway, I have new wires, distributor
> cap, rotor,
> battery (it blew up...literally). I
cleaned the car up and
> neutralized all
> the acid I could
find. The car runs now (nothing replaced
> but the battery,
>
but it's rough and frequently misses. My plan is to try the
>
following
> order: plug wires and plugs, distributor cap/rotor, and
if
> neither of those
> work, replace the
distributor.
>
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Date:
Thu, 04 May 2000 19:21:10 -0500
From: Trevor James <
trevor@kscable.com>
Subject: Re:
Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
Where do you guys get distilled water
from?
Trevor
96 R/T TT
92 GMC Typhoon
Matt Jannusch
wrote:
> > Where are you guys plumbin in the injector for
WI?
>
> I plumbed the pressure feed and injector about one inch past
the blowoff valve output on the Y-pipe between the BOV and the throttle body so
that water couldn't get injected into the BOV. I put the injector about
straight-on with the side of the Y-pipe (line running horizontal to the ground)
and the pressure feed line about 1" down on the Y-pipe underneath the water
injector. Works great. For the pressure switch line you can tap off
of the BOV line from the throttle body (I have a separate tap on the driver's
side end of the intake manifold that I used for my boost controller for the
pressure switch line).
>
> -Matt
> '95 3000GT Spyder
VR4
>
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Date:
Thu, 4 May 2000 17:37:01 -0700
From: "Mohler, Jeff" <
jeff.mohler@netapp.com>
Subject:
RE: Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
But..isnt all of that plastic?
Just wondering on the stability of that.
- -----Original
Message-----
From: Matt Jannusch [
mailto:MAJ@BigCharts.com]
Sent: Thursday,
May 04, 2000 3:32 PM
To:
Team3S@stealth-3000gt.stSubject:
RE: Team3S: Re: racing gas questions
> Where are you guys plumbin
in the injector for WI?
I plumbed the pressure feed and injector about
one inch past the blowoff valve
output on the Y-pipe between the BOV and the
throttle body so that water
couldn't get injected into the BOV. I put
the injector about straight-on with
the side of the Y-pipe (line running
horizontal to the ground) and the pressure
feed line about 1" down on
the Y-pipe underneath the water injector. Works
great. For the
pressure switch line you can tap off of the BOV line from the
throttle body
(I have a separate tap on the driver's side end of the intake
manifold that I
used for my boost controller for the pressure switch line).
-
-Matt
'95 3000GT Spyder VR4
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