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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Ford has literally been doing that for decades. My buddy's '91 Town Car had it. I beat on a FiST and a FoST at one of those Ecoboost Challenge events a while back, but I don't remember if they had the buttons. That's pretty awesome. I've never seen or heard of it before, not even heard of that technology existing for cars (we use it on cherry pickers in the UK). Nobody I've spoken to about it has heard of it either, Must be a US thing.
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Can confirm, 98 and 95 explorers had them. At least, mine did.
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Pads were awesome. PIN followed by the 3/4 button would unlock the other doors; PIN + 5/6 button would open the trunk on all the Fords I tried it on.
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Jan 28, 2016 02:39
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Ford brought those out way back in 1980, if wikipedia is to be believed.
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Jan 28, 2016 07:12
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The first car I remember with those was a Taurus or a Lincoln.
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Those pin pads are pretty tits. Especially if you have a spouse that has a tendency to lock their keys in the car often (don't ask - she now has a car she can't lock the keys in)
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Hello rotorhead, this is rotorhead - remember me from several forums back and crap? Got bored enough at work to be convinced to sign up after IRC bardgering; I'll probably start my own thread for crap I've been messing with too. Just wanted to say that I'm kinda jealous of your workshop, but definitely not jealous of you working around all that stock FD wiring. Race FBs are so much simpler.
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After a late night at work, I came home and started digging around the barn. As it turns out I had a complete 5 lug swap and a black spoiler. Wahoo!   Before heading in for the night, I decided to drain the oil. What I was not expecting was water to come out... There was at least two inches of water in the pan, along with ~5 quarts of oil. Ugh. This things going to be a boat anchor.  Tomorrow I'm taking the day off and pulling the motor.
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That's always the best part of focusing on one vehicle family. A new, unexpected purchase shows up, or a friend buys one, and you're like "huh, I happen to have all the parts you need, from abandoned build plans, leftovers from repairs, and partouts I did over the last decade" and everyone thinks you're a loving magician.
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Yeah, but admittedly, you guys ARE magicians. Watching you is magical. 
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kastein posted:That's always the best part of focusing on one vehicle family. A new, unexpected purchase shows up, or a friend buys one, and you're like "huh, I happen to have all the parts you need, from abandoned build plans, leftovers from repairs, and partouts I did over the last decade" and everyone thinks you're a loving magician. Tonight on Hoarders: a loving magician
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Tonight on Hoarders: a loving magician It's not hoarding if all that stuff is useful and in good shape 
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I had a good thing like that going for a while with three family members owning Maximas. I'd get a call describing a missing cylinder and off I went with my magic box of 15 junkyard coilpacks.
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TL:DR Blown turbo, spark plugs in the wrong holes, blown gaskets, blown orings, and carbon, lots and lots of tasty carbon. Tomorrow we tear it down.                 
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the spyder posted:spark plugs in the wrong holes Could you expand on this a little? I'm almost there...
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A lot of rotaries require different plugs depending on where the plug is installed. They run a leading and trailing plug, so each rotor has 2 plugs. AFAIK the only difference between the two plugs is the heat range, but that's enough to cause a plug to foul, and also enough to burn poo poo. Which would definitely explain much of the carbon. I want to know what the gently caress they did to that poor turbo though. 
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Holy poo poo, what a mess.
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some texas redneck posted:A lot of rotaries require different plugs depending on where the plug is installed. They run a leading and trailing plug, so each rotor has 2 plugs. Nice visual guide of different FB/FC plug options: http://mazdatrix.com/ign-2.htm The S4 turbos had a number of weaknesses including the wastegate design. S5 was technically better, but still an early 80s turbo design. I'm not surprised its blown, particularly considering the condition of everything else.
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I really do have to wonder how the R6725s work vs the BUR9EQs; I know the R6725s work great for what I'm doing, as long as they don't foul, but if I had to buy more I'd be annoyed. And some day I still want to play with surface gap plugs again (funny story; basically when you cut a housing's spark plug holes to bring a plug in closer as an experiment, make it obvious on the outside it's cut; whoops) ... sigh, someone buy me an engine dyno. 
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some texas redneck posted:A lot of rotaries require different plugs depending on where the plug is installed. They run a leading and trailing plug, so each rotor has 2 plugs. Awesome, thanks! Brigdh posted:Nice visual guide of different FB/FC plug options: http://mazdatrix.com/ign-2.htm Interesting to read up on that. I haven't spent a lot of time tuning or racing so that side of it is all new.
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Spent the afternoon with Rob tearing down this POS.  Well, that explains where most the coolant was going.    We decided to replace all the freeze plugs.   So much junk in the cooling system. They must have been running straight water.  Here's what a blown coolant seal looks like. Front iron. The casting failed and broke away. It probably just drank a bit of coolant and was otherwise not noticed.  Sometimes when the parts washer just won't cut the gunk/oil, you break out the torch and cook it off   All cleaned and ready to be reassembled.  Now the bad news is we found nothing that would cause straight water to be in the oil. No cracks/internal plugs/ect. Why there was almost a QT of water in the oil I will never know. The good news is everything was in reusable condition. A few springs/o-rings/coolant seals and it will be back on the road. Well, once I find a turbo. I also finished the 5 lug re-swap when I got home, but I forgot to take pictures. Tomorrow, the Red FD looses it's motor.
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Suddenly I want to go to Wendy's and get a Frosty.
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You are a magician. Never stop posting.
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Yeah. Wow. After seeing the first pics I assumed it would be broken down for parts.
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Assume you checked for warping and all... huh. Those don't look that bad, really. What would it take to get some junk parts after tax refunds come in? I'm looking at starting an engine program and don't have any T2 or FD end irons to flowbench (I'm going to just assume the 12A center irons can be ported more and not bother on those)
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What do you do about the iron with the bad casting on the water jacket? Can that be welded and ground, or is it scrap?
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Being cast iron, I would braze it back out past original size and remachine. Brazing is generally a better process for cast iron than welding. Cast steel is far more forgiving.
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We usually weld/braze them back up and machine/diamond hone them back to shape like mentioned.
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Those are strange looking frost plugs. Is the water filthy, like it got past the air filter while the car sat?
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Yesterday I dropped off one of the engine parts for my 20B engine at our machinist. I'm using solid dowel pins and the thick center iron has to be machined to accept them. He got it finished last night and I picked it up this morning. Next step is to mock the engine up and set it in the car to get measurements for the oil pan. So I headed to Rob's and picked up the 20B .      I met up with the White 94 owner and picked up his freshly powder coated subframe and replacement diff.  He also had a spare strut bar I bought powder coated. For $30, it's awesome!  Since I need to work on the White 94, I needed to get the Black FC out of the shop. I found some rear calipers and started to bleed the brakes with our pressure bleeder... and BOOM. drat it. A bleeder shot out the front wheel and dumped the entire quart of fluid in the bleeder. Ugh.  Also, I got this AWESOME Sun rack to replace my Compaq rack that I use for storing Stanley organizers. It's huge!  
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Nice, Xcessive LIM on that sucker too. I'm going to have to do a 3 rotor at some point, but may just cheap out and do "short crank" style one. Don't need the thick iron if you're doing peripheral ports, heh heh.
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Does anyone else see  on that intake plenum?
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So are the intake and runners Mazda parts or does the aftermarket provide such pretty professional-looking castings?
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They look like the standard intake parts to me. :O
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The lower intake manifold is aftermarket; they reworked the runners for better flow balance and an extra injector spot per rotor (for a total of 3 per rotor). There's also a version with shorter runners for better high RPM power, but this doesn't look like that one.
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Nice Weber, I've got two with one converted to a pizza oven  Oh yeah nice 20b too 
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mekilljoydammit posted:The lower intake manifold is aftermarket; they reworked the runners for better flow balance and an extra injector spot per rotor (for a total of 3 per rotor). There's also a version with shorter runners for better high RPM power, but this doesn't look like that one. It is the shorter version. Xcessive is local to me and a good friend works there.
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leica posted:Nice Weber, I've got two with one converted to a pizza oven Haha, I actually have it out there to pre-heat a casting I need to weld. Too many projects!
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Today was going to be a lazy Sunday until I remembered there was a 20B in the garage. First up was to get this drat White 94 off my lift. Since changing the fuel filter is otherwise a complete PITA, I went ahead and changed it while it was freely accessible. It was the original OEM... And this is why you change your fuel filter.    A friend came over and helped me roll my old 93 R1 into the shop... Man this car brings back memories. It's been two years since I yanked the motor out. Another two years since it was left on blocks behind my shop. Ugh. I've owned it for 9? years. I can't remember. It has a theft-recovery title now. At some point in the near future I have to decide if this should be a straight track car and gut it. I just love the stock body lines and interior. Either way, it's getting the 20B.      One 20B DIY kit.     I went ahead and mocked up a temp oil pan.    So now comes the fun part. I have to get the oil pan mocked up ASAP. My machinist friend has a opening and I'm calling in a few favors. I'm going to make two versions. One wet sump, one dry sump. Tomorrow I'll start gathering the stock measurements of the 94 R2. If I can get some of these projects outta here, I can get the car running this summer. the spyder fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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And I thought I was badass for finally getting the stuck exhaust mani stud out of my m20 head this weekend. You sir are a goddamn magician.
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