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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    The PCV tubing will suck flat with heat and vacuum... that will burn oil also.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    My valve seals always dry out if I park it for more than a month then it smokes like a biatch until I beat on it and get some hot oil up there.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Waiting sucks...

    Last time I had machine work done though, went with a local, dropped it off at 10AM picked it up at 5pm...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    I figure that would work better if you could dial in on loaner adjustables then machine your gear to the right angle.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    ^^^^ It was him.... peed off RPW and made them change policy.. :D
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    I keep looking at G54B pistons... there's one that's 3mm too tall with about that in dish... considering mowing one down flat to see.... hmmm wait.... that was maybe 3mm too tall on a setup I was...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Jeremy Clarkson says they suck... :p
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Lulz, I had an almost identical lashup on my Escort around this time last year I think it was, for a couple of weeks, the muffler rotted out completely, so it got a cherrybomb and a tailpipe...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Paraphrasing, hammer make metal sad.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Come to think of it, on anything other than a stock replacement, I see disclaimers like "intended to be fitted by professional" or something like that... probably meaning it needs jimmying and...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Well if you've got a nice smooth curve, it might cut the corner there a bit. (If I'm remembering right)

    Though for a pinhole like that, I dunno if I'd change the tank for it... probably smear it...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Yah, hopefully you have the large mani, I think I'm remembering it as '92 up, but it's been a while since I looked into it... not needing to find one and all.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    There was a "general consensus" that they were more likely on vans, but sometimes things seem a bit mix and match, I am thinking the last discussion I remember about it was in the 3.0 section on TD....
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Rear manifolds, there's a 2.5" outlet one and a smaller one... make sure you have the big one, or your 3" pipes aren't gonna do much good. 3" seems a bit like overkill unless you're turboing it, but...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Ohhhhh, I DHAFC either.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Heh, yah, inch too short otherwise, doh.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Would have thunk it would be fine with the spacers in, or are they really anal like CA there?
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    I dunno, it stops your other mods pushing your power band out of range, pull it back on the cam. But I want mine all fat middle for an auto, not high top for a stick.

    I thunk Rob had the rev...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    The other way is to get 2 sets of gears and hack the hub out of one, the gear ring off the other, and make some slots in one, tapped holes in the other, and screw them together... might need to weld...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Maybe going from batch to sequential?
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    only '87 had 27psi and then they did a half year change I think.
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Why not, it's a classic 3.0 thing :D

    We'll have retirement parties, at 85 or so, when we're finally allowed to retire, and we'll sit around talking "Remember that month when I changed the oil and...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    OIC, vans were never quite that bad, but mine got a 2.25 muffler on it back in the day, due to a tarded shop, that sucked. I gots 2.5 all the way back with "stock replacement" parts so figured it...
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Hmmm what are you meaning by stock the 2.25"? or 2.5"?
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    Re: 3.0 Build Project: "Green Machine"

    Hmmmm that's an idea, right a coin mech to the ignition.... at least then you can empty it when you get stuck for parts money :D
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