Sensor Pins for camshaft triggered ignition

[John Cody Forbes]

thejimrose wrote:
> right on. 034 doesn't sell anything for this?

HAHAHA, yeah they would send 5 different sized pins that are really just 
bolts with no heads and the threads would be all eff'ed up where they cut 
the heads off and didn't bother to fix the threads before they shipped the 
stuff. BTDT with them.

My boss just recently bought a turbo with hose kit from them. We ended up 
throwing out half thier bullshit stuff and spending hours fixing thier 
mistakes. Then he bought an ignition coil kit, they supplied the WRONG 
brackets, then we find that they don't even offer the correct brackets so 
they sent the wrongs ones anyways and yet again I had to spend the better 
part of a day fixing thier BS half-assed parts.

Javad promised us that the factory airbox would fit fine... WRONG. The turbo 
coolant return hose that 034 supplied ran directly into the airbox, so I 
made a new hose with better fittings. Then the silicon MAF>Turbo hose from 
034 completely and totally prevents use of the factory air intake, which we 
very specifically said we wanted to keep. The whole thing was total crap.

In the following picture you can see where the SI hose puts the recirc valve 
where the intake used to be, and you can see the turbo that is clocked off 
of vertical because the coolant supply line runs into the header. We are in 
the process of making an aluminium MAF>Turbo pipe that will allow use of the 
factory air intake.
http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/tmwricksurs4/P1010062

In this one you can see how the different shape of the exhaust housing has 
moved the downpipe over and is causing waaaay too much stress to be exerted 
on the flex pipe. It will fail eventually, we are going to replace it with 
one that is angled properly soon.
http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/tmwricksurs4/P1010052

The turbo's oil drain line kinks the SI turbo>cross pipe hose due to bad 
routing, unavoidable with the hose they supplied.
http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/tmwricksurs4/P1010054

Then on the inlet of the turbocharger the machine work done to "convert" the 
quad-oval Garret style inlet to the circular KKK header flange was as half 
assed as it gets. This is illustrated with my equally half assed MS Pant 
drawing. Basically they just used an end-mill bit to carve out a 1/8th" deep 
circle, but then after that 1/8" of depth there was a flat wall. I spent a 
good hour machining that flat wall into a nice smooth transition. Very close 
to $2,000 and I have to take that kind of time to finish off thier dirty 
work? Then I discover that once the turbo is in place the EFFING NUTS WONT 
CLEAR THE HOUSING! Once again I have to machine the housing, this time the 
outside, because 2 of the mounting nuts simply do not clear the outside of 
the exhaust hausing. I do not mean that they rubbed a bit, I mean they would 
not come anywhere near the stud because the stud itself was nearly touching 
the housing. I wish I had taken pictures of this, but I'm paid on commission 
so if I'm running behind I can't stop for that.
http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/album05/turboflanges

Here you can see the stupidly made plug wires and the new bracketry I had to 
coe up with to mount the coils. The 034 bracket consists of two bits of 
threaded rod with aluminium tube spacers between the coils plus the end 
caps. First thing was that they didn't thread a nut on the rod before 
cutting, so the threads were all munged up when I opened the package. Then I 
find that the ali bits were cut about 4mm too short so the coils were 
hitting each other. I temporarily spaced them with washers, I'm going to cut 
new ali bits at a later date. Then once it's all assembled I find that when 
attempting to mount the coil brackets to the strut brace like 034 intended 
the coils hit either the fuel lines and firewall or the hood depending on 
orientation. I made the new braketry off of the strut brace to move the 
coils forward and down. Then all 5 plug wires are the exact same length. Ok 
DUH.. the distance between cyl# 1 and cyl# 5 can be deleted out of the #5 
wire. I cut them to length today, I forgot my camera so I'll get pics 
tomorrw. While shortening the plug wires I found that they used el-cheapo 
copper strand core wire - basically 14awg electrical wire with a thick 
jacket. When spending $755 plus tax wouldn't you expect better?
http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/tmwricksurs4/P1010057
http://jcforbes.com/jcfpics/tmwricksurs4/P1010060

And did anybody read thier story about Bonneville? They blew a tire on the 
dyno near the flats and had to mail order a replacement. What moron goes 
racing and doesn't bring at least one spare tire? Then after they blew that 
tire they didn't spend the day finding a place that could mount it, they 
waited until the tire arrived at 3pm the next day - losing an entire day of 
practice. Then the trials got rained out, so as it turned out they didn't 
break 15mph on the flats in thier 1000hp car. At least had they made 
practice they could have gotten some photos for PR and some 0-180mph video 
clips.

Rant over, sorry for hijacking the thread but I just had to get that off my 
chest.


-Cody Forbes
http://www.5000tq.com
'86 5k noT noQ
'86 5k noT noQ - Parting Out
'87 5ktq
'87 5ktq - Faster then Javads 10v engine ever was.