mjrstar

The turbos were making the mayonnaise via steam injection due to zero coolant coming out?

Plug that second ecu in, and run the v6 as a pair of 3 cylinder engines to really give your tuning skills a workout.

Probably doesn't answer your exact question but if you run a harness rather than a seat belt then it should be covered by your authority card. Then the anchorage arrangement would just have to meet msnz rules which are pretty straightforward. Motorsporting with just a 3 point belt isn't on my to-do list.

For sure this, small turbine will have higher egt's and be ripe for sagging apex seals.

Not normally a problem on stock cams, it's when you go more than 3/4 race cams.

This is a rather cruel irony, toyota guy has m series engines, then moves over to nissan 6 cylinder, and that's the one displaying BHG symptoms. Hopefully it's a simple enough fix.

It's probably highly unlikely, as the other engine was clearly a bit unwell, but worth making sure.

I remember a mate of mine rebuilt a 350 in a transam years ago for what sounded like bearing knock. Still made the noise afterwards, it turned out to be the power steering pump.

Is that twin cylinders?

It's looking great Phil, you must be stoked with how it's turned out, and I'm sure the trans swap has transformed the driving experience.

I would have thought that 7/8 might already be "small"? Unboosted is for sure going to require significant pedal effort to make stopping happen moreso on garbage pads if you are accustomed to an oem boosted setup.

Are all the brake pistons moving freely? Are you running non-mahogany brake pads. What do you have in the way of front/rear bias control is inbuilt with the master or an inline manual deal? Has it got a bit of pedal travel before getting solid?

I've used straight stainless before and it was pretty meh, The m5 I had in the shed the other day had extensive heat shielding from front all the way to the back and also had the tunnel enclosed. It must be decent stuff and @shrike mentioned. Plus I bet a twin turbo v8 pumps out some heat compared to an NA 4 cylinder. I have hyper extreme hpc manifold exhaust housing and down pipe, it works better than expected. I'd have to check but it was maybe 130 degrees surface temp at the exhaust ports at idle. On reflection is that good, well I don't really know. But I reckon that's lower than a bare stainless manifold. But it's expensive.

If you have a dodgy turbo seal you can still be adding oil to the exhaust which will cause a chunk of smoke, but from cold this will take a minute or two at idle to start showing.

How about small box section. This is the homemade cd009 shifter for the mx5.