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What sort of manual transmission setup would you hook to the back of an LS in one of these? GM trans? R154 with adapter?

That's what I did, but I have all sort of junk missing from that front corner so I had plenty of room. I still get water on it from around the edges of the hood though, but I don't think much makes it into the filter.

I still want to stick an S14 VVT SR20DET into a MKIII just to piss a few people off. I would do it too... if the price of VVT SR20's wasn't so damn high. When an SR20 costs more than a 2JZGTE something is wrong in the world. I am warming up to the LS motors though... especially since I saw an...

I use one of these from under the car, with a short socket and a swivel on the end. The ratchet side is 1/2" drive and the socket side is 3/8" drive. It's much stronger than a 3/8" extension so it doesn't flex and pop and bust your knuckles when the bolt/nut breaks loose...

Do you think the vtec solenoid would clear the firewall?

Hood struts are fine till it hits zero degrees, then all bets are off. I used the hole from the right side strut to mount my breather can. The dead left strut is still there, and I hold my hood up with this when I want it open. I got it for $12 from the snap-on guy back when I got tired of...

If you have an R154 you'd have to be nuts to swap to a W58. It's not light enough to warrant that. The W58 is about a 40 pound weight savings. If you have low power goals and need a cheap transmission for a swap you can certainly get by with it at long as you stay under 400whp and don't launch...

Yes, a digital volt meter is a good way to do it if you don't want to permanently monitor the vF. If you do, you can get this (http://prosportgauges.com/digital-air-fuel-ratio-and-volt-gauge.aspx) and run it in 0-5V voltage display mode. A normal 12V automotive voltage gauge won't work because...

I don't think you're fully understanding what vF is. vF isn't your air fuel ratio, and it can't tell you what your a/f ratio is. All the vF numbers can tell you is where you are on the ECU fuel correction map. The ECU uses the oxygen sensor to read the air fuel ratio during idle and normal...

I don't think it would do too well if it got oil or gas on it though, it would probably turn into a sticky mess.

I agree with you there, except for the last part. I don't see anything wrong with lightening a car that only sees street use as long as you aren't stripping it to the point that it looks gutted or like a piece of junk. I dropped a significant amount of weight on my car, and you wouldn't know it...

It's much bigger than a stock CT26, even bigger than a 57mm CT-26. I don't see why it would be slower, unless you aren't used to the lag.

I'm about an hour and a half north of you both, in Tamaqua.

Sure, power is easy, but everything else isn't. Think about this... A 2900 pound car with 290hp will be just as fast as a 3700 pound car with 370hp. Yeah, losing 800 pounds is harder and more expensive than gaining 80hp. The thing people don't think of is that dropping 27% of the car's weight...

Welcome to the forum. Nice to see another PA resident.

You would really be surprised how much weight you can remove on this car. There's a guy on SF that has his down to ~2700 pounds and it's still got a turbo 6 cylinder (can't recall if it's 7M/1J/2J). You don't have to get rid of stuff completely, you can replace parts with lighter parts. I'm not...

The HKS "EVC" is the newest HKS boost controller.... it looks much newer than the one posted earlier. They also have the EVC-S which costs less. EVC: EVC-S: Not sure if you looked at the Blitz EBCs either... they are nice too.

Usually with discs that have no marcel you only need a few mm of travel to disengage. It's odd that even with that it's still not enough.

The blue looks just as bad as those when it fades to what I call "sunburned purple". I'm refinishing my whole interior in black. Even going to dig out the sewing machine and hog ring pliers and redo the seats.

I'd go with a 2JZGTE VVTi if it's a street car and you plan to stay under 600hp it's the best engine, in my opinion.