1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

The alibaba special?

 

The stock 5VZ rods must not be too terrible since they seem to do ok with the TRD supercharger.

 

Yeah $50 Forged 4340 h-beam connecting rods sound like a winner if they're even 75% as good as a name brand forged rod... Truer is they're probably on this site because a real manufacturer orders from a chinese company... otherwise why would they even think to make forged rods for such an otherwise unsupported engine?

 

Forget the belt driven iron lung and it's special brand of hot air... they actually do pretty okay to well past what the SC can spin up. But the fun kinda stops around 13-15psi on pump fuel.

 

I always thought about that, I mean shit there's so much manufacturing done there. We even get raw material like steel from them as they're a major supplier for the US.

 

Yeah, except yours

Yours is stock and about to blow up

 

No wait, you read his report. It won't make enough compression to blow up. It's become a 1970s harley davidson with 6:1 compression ratio

 

Oof, can't even hurt itself

 

The compression was actually 185+- 5 PSI back in February. Maybe a rod bolt came loose or something, who knows.

 

FIFY

^this^
If I wanted to do stuff to my car or have a nicer car - I had to learn to fix it..
I could afford the parts but not the labour

That being said - I know three young men [HS and a few years out] that can drive MT; that have taken it upon themselves to replace shocks/struts/spark plugs/blahblah and installed some nice audio equipment in their automobiles - all based on the same premise and they genuinely enjoy doing it.
One is my neighbor's kid and I like helping him b/c it is clear he likes it.
There are definitely some still out there, comin up.
Little Theo, I'm lookin at you!

 

I need a new flat clicker

 

Man, speaking of technology and all that junk...you got people freaking out over their MPG calculator on their 3rd Gen

I remember my old Trans Am didn't have a working fuel gauge for the longest so I'd have to go off my trip meter as a guide

 

Cars should be like some motorcycles- drive until it dies, then flip the valve to reserve and go look for a gas station.

 

Y'all don't travel with a reserve can? I guess I normally don't either

 

@Tommi_Solomi I see you creepin



https://youtu.be/KWivk3GJW44?t=15

 

Never have. My bike had pretty good range though as is, some people with bikes in the 125-160 mile range definitely needed to keep spare fuel.

 

EFI bikes don't have the selector anymore but they do have good gauges and on the whole decent range these days. I stopped riding carbed stuff, too much damn work.

 

I only have a single, so once I rebuilt it and got it dialed in, I never had a problem with it.

Do not envy people that have to balance carbs or rebuild a bunch of them though. Way too much work

 

My first bike had a V4... trying to balance 4 carbs in the middle of the engine vee was a fucked up job and I'm still not over it.

 

Yep, so much nope.

Valve adjustments are fun too. Mine were pretty easy; there enough space to work. Gave me the confidence to suggest we adjust the valves on my friends vtx, which kept us cussing till 4 am