Recent content by soturi

this thing = :bs: that little doohickey separates oil and fumes, drops one into the oil pan and the other into... my gddam intake. had my intake all mucked up. i cleaned the intake tube up and put a better filter on there. i'll be cleaning that piece as well so it works properly, but i'm...

consolidating my "for sale" threads. turbo and manifold blanket intended for 2nd gen use, but were destined for my 3rd gen once upon a time. htt 66/71/14: $2,000 4" down pipe w/ v-band: $125 turbo blanket + manifold blanket (center foot): $50 ea ISSPRO ev2 0 - 100lb boost gauges, used...

New project! '84 land rover defender 90... 300tdi engine. 14x,xxx miles. D90 pictures by s0turi - Photobucket anybody familiar w/ the engine? is a VE just a VE, or will it be significantly different than the 1st gen IPs?

NIB spool aid: Spool Aid..... - Competition Diesel.Com - Bringing The BEST Together $300 shipped, i think that's less than i paid for it. never used it. ((no APPS bracket, make sure yours isn't mounted on the side of your engine))

193,xxx miles Thrasher intake Icebox w/ pipe 2x optima red tops hamilton 95# springs hamilton push rods ARP studs new fuel filter system (stock bowl in garage, will include w/ the truck) gauges: RP, fuel press, egt (egt never hooked up, that's the blue wire in the engine photo waiting for a...

rebuilt my transfer case a few months ago and had this left over... been forgetting to ask y'all wtf it is: it hasn't exploded yet, and she still works fine. the shifting into 4wd can be difficult sometimes... sometimes i have to slam it into 4hi before i can get it into 4low. otherwise i...

F/S: htt 66/71 "pro street 66" for 2nd gen (p/n 2466257). rebuilt Aug '10 by HTT, including new compressor, and not installed. still in shipping box, can email rebuild invoice + pics for proof. $2000 shipped.

if i take a truck and put it on a dyno and measure torque and amount of fuel burned per minute (or hour), they would go up proportionately - more air/fuel means more torque. but under normal driving conditions, guys get larger injectors and increase air flow to increase MPGs... so if i change...

just takled to a stealership parts department about power steering pumps. they want over $200 for the pump/reservoir/pulley combo (won't sell it in parts). about as retarded as i thought it'd be from them. but, he said something interesting - apparently there will shortly be a re-designed pump...

october: http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=149 december: http://www.competitiondiesel.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=91&pictureid=150 yea, they had no black ink in october. gh3y. anyway, here's my question: do the numbers from october not indicate the...

water pump = fail. just replaced it in march, too. looks ok, not much play, but the weep-hole was weeping. found this stuff in the fluid i drained. should i be worried?

...but i just bought a new 3rd gen OE 17" wheel (been rolling w/o a spare for a while now). it looks like the chrome is just... attached to the wheel. anybody tried peeling that layer off? possible? stupid-looking afterwards?

i've been staring at a 2nd gen turbo for a couple months now and am sick of waiting to put it in my '03 (moving will delay things, i suppose). need to verify a couple measurements, though, before i start ordering rubber. 1. compressor inlet = 4" 2. compressor outlet = 3" 3. what is CAC inlet...

so i just put a new valair nodular iron dual disk in front of my nv5600 (http://www.valairinc.com/performance/images/nmu70nv45ddn.jpg). i didn't really have a chance to do a good break-in - about 75 miles of unloaded, in-city, then 350 miles @ 5,000 lbs and then 200 miles @ 7,0000 lbs. so now...

found this thread: Help diagnose where the slop is.. - Competition Diesel.Com - Bringing The BEST Together not really sure this ever got solved? i have the *exact* same lash. no carrier bearing, and i just replaced bearings/seals in the nv271. u joints are next on the list, but it seems like...