B Smith

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May 04

Ca18det gets exhaust…

This was all 1 piece I had to cut from another car. I wanted this to be as module as possible.

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Feb 25

It starts! a new begining.

Nothing like hearing the motor starting up after sleeping for so many years. But, transmission I have selected the wrong one as the shaft is sieged and is unable to turn and stops the motor when I let good of the clutch, but she is now becoming to what she was once before and in …

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Nov 23

Project: Fairlady Silvia – is now gone full CA18DET

The project vg30de conversion was a bust, as I grown tired of hacking the ignition just to get it to work with Megasquirt 3.0.  Seems that finding related parts and harnesses is alot harder than it used to be.  j30 is not wired the same way as the z32 is there for I couldn’t use …

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Feb 15

200sx SEv6 – Heart Transplant update

Welcome, I am going to try to add more to this entry. Megasquirt 3 / 3x installed and tested so far. Now I finally went megasquirt to eliminate any future problems with this car and it’s wiring. Troubleshooting other various problems internally including the tail lights stuck on potentially a broken headlight switch. (known problem …

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Mar 20

The return!

Finally pull the motor out of this car and prepping to drop this motor in.

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Sep 13

Down but not out…

One dream is to get good enough to rock the top 16 of the pro-am series with that will be a ton of breaking and stumbling along the way. This is engine #2 as I broke the cam shaft + bent all the valves. I also thrown a rod. I don’t have a spare engine …

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Jul 14

Vegas Drift – 07-12-2019 – Much Needed Therapy

Vegas Drift 07/12 The time was here, the storm was closing in from the south side of town but it only lasted an hour as it had no effect on me driving to the track. Loaded 4 old tires after filling them with 80PSI of pressure. loaded some tools just incase something breaks at the …

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Jul 09

Vegas Drift – 07 / 12

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May 17

S12’s on the no carb diet…

A while back I did the full VG30  efi to carb conversion. The project was fun, it was unique and the first s12 with the carb treatment. But fun part was over, I played with it, nuked a motor with it. toured the las vegas strip with it. Issues I’ve had with it, is always …

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Sep 01

Starting to stream more at the track…

Greetings, I have been  doing alot of twitch streams at the track lately and using stream labs for andoid things has been a bit successful. Here was the latest video on demand I have done while I was at the last night time vegas drift track. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299126989 I am doing this monthly so be sure …

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