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Frankly, I would pay very little attention when any retailer, whether VAC or whomever, says they sell something because it is "better" than a competing brand. To them "better" means better profit...

"Carfantiti"-

The guy's engine blows, we have no idea why, and you use it as an opportunity to show how your choice of hardware is smarter than his. Good work.





Anyway OP, the parts in...

Cool stuff Lee.

Is that a "bolt in" on the E30 or is modification to the stock firewall required?

Depends on the track... He was so far "out of the evelope" for that turn, on a track he still might have walled it.

I don't understand driving anywhere near the limit on a public road,...

I agree with the other sentiments here....

I don't know if you are really paying for the name with the genuine Recaro seat... They seem to be priced roughly the same as an equivalent seat from...

IMHO Aeroquip, Goodridge, Earls, and XRP all make equal quality hose and fittings. In fact, I would not be surprised if they all come from the same factories and then are just given "brand" names.
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I'm in kind of the same boat. My car is pretty much "finished" with everything I wanted to do to it.

I have just been fixing things that go wrong on a 25 year old car....lately it has been...

I have the Arrow ones...so not sure. Supertech makes good stuff though, and I am confident that they would be fine.

I am of the opinion that there is no downside to shim unders. That is how the car should have been made in the first place.

I would argue that clearance adjustments are not even more difficult. ...

Fair enough...

But why dredge up a two year old thread and talk smack in it? I don't think SonnyQ is even on the forum anymore.

Another option...as if you needed one....is the O.S. Giken unit. It is a traditional clutch pack setup. I have been using it for several years now and love it...

I was in sort of a quandary in...

I would echo what mlytle said...

I have been using a full GC setup for about 8 years now. It totally meets my needs, but I wouldn't have the slightest clue what sorts of adjustments might do...

Gorgeous.

Everything that was done there we could easily do ourselves. I'm just too damn lazy.

I graduated from HS at about 190 and was all state at competitive pie and hotdog eating. 30 year later I'm in the 240 range and do consider myself overweight.

Hence, I rock the Profi XL.

I didn't see the question back in Feb when it was asked.

I get a lot of inquires about that orange hose, so I'll do my best.... Yes, it is very flexible. Only 1/8" or so wall thickness. Like...

Beg/borrow/buy/steal a cheap reliable DD while you fix your S14 correctly. That's really about all you can do.

Sorry for the bad turn of events.

With your budget you can afford any seats, except for the exotic CF ones.

So try as many as possible and enjoy!

I'm using the Recaro Profi. Hard to fault..comfortable, supportive, and reasonably easy to get in and out of. If you weigh more than about 160 # I would get the Profi XL...it is just slightly wider...

Generally you can tell if a valve is bent because it is stuck open. Plain as that, really. If the shaft is bent the valve can't close... Valves won't normally bend near the head, because there is...

Boy would I second that sentiment.

Many years ago before I dumped the stock ECU, I briefly played the "chip game" with aftermarket chips. All were supposedly designed for an engine with mods...

I would say that is about typical for a stockish S14 in good health. I base this not on the calculators, just on what I have seen over the years for S14s tested on Dynojets.

Dynojets are usually...

First of all, major props to adding to a 10 year old thread! If everyone did that this would be a much easier resource to navigate.

Secondly, I don't think we have become any smarter in the past...

Hahahaahah...good video.

But I still say there is only so much a shifter can do when paired with a stock tranny and linkage. And since it is mounted to the body, unless you are using very rigid...

Honestly, to me it looks like its intent in simply to look like a sequential shifter. Given that it attaches to a standard transmission, I don't see what it could do beyond that. It is just a long...

No, I mounted it on the driver's side engine bay, near the ABS:

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It might have been nice to have it inside the car, but it would be a vastly larger hassle to do. And for me, it would be...

Agree with this.

I ditched the stock proportioning valve and replaced it with an adjustable one. You can dial in just as much rear brake as you need/want. Actually, I just kept adding rear brake...

They cost an arm and a leg to rebuild. Jim Blanton is the only trustworthy rebuilder in the USA that I know of....there are probably others...but definitely not many. So, they can charge pretty...

This sums it up perfectly, really. Nothing more needs to be said....

But it is nice to finally see an honest assessment of the good and bad points of the dogleg tranny....there has been a...

Silicone hoses are pretty much "life of the car" items. They don't really degrade from temperature and what not like rubber hoses do. I have been running a set of the Samco hoses on my car for 10...

Nobody that I know of uses those...

If you just loosen the cam bearing caps in a sequence, a quarter turn or so at a time, you can safely remove the cams without one of those tools. The whole...

Once you have the tranny off and have the engine adequately stripped to pull the crank....two people could lift the shortblock out of the car. Easily. I'm guessing the shortblock with crank and...

The red/blue bearing system is a clearance system BMW uses. One of the bearings is slightly thicker than the other...

IIRC red bearing are slightly thinner than blue bearings...and thus will give...

Yes, I am comparing the US 265 and the CR 262.

I am no expert on tranny internals either, I was just told by Jim Blanton and others that the 265 is the much, much stronger of the two. As to why? ...

Is the bellhousing conversion plate something you guys had fabbed up, or is it a "stock part" someone sells?

It looks like the only sheet metal mod to the car is elongating the shifter hole...or...

Lot of good points here Jimmy....particularly about having to retain the Getrag "platform".

I personally would like to see a packaged conversion kit for the E30M3 to install one of the US...