TAZMNDVL - Build - 350 QB - 6sp - chop ... and more (Page 5/44) lou_dias JUN 23, 07:15 PM This is a first for me...I own page 2... I was doing 70 at 2000rpm in my 2.8. Weird thing about mine is that occassionally at a dead stop, my speedometer rises to various speeds then drops down to 3-4 mph, where it has been sitting with the motor running at a dead stop (and even off completely). Once I get around to replacing the center console, I'll check for some bad connections on the VSS unit. Have you had any occurrences of this? - Lou Jncomutt JUN 23, 08:04 PM 70mph at 2000rpms is quite nice. With the isuzu/3800sc I'm doing 70mph at 2500 rpms. lou_dias JUN 26, 07:13 AM I'm using 255/60/16 Falken tires on '99 Camaro rims. Archie calibrates the speedo to your setup with a GPS. cooguyfish JUN 26, 07:24 AM quote Originally posted by lou_dias: I was doing 70 at 2000rpm in my 2.8. - Lou Man that's a tall gear, I do 2000 RPM in the saturn at 50 MPH. I Think at 70 I'm doing 3K. Lot's of short gear DrCPU JUN 26, 07:53 AM quote Originally posted by lou_dias: This is a first for me...I own page 2... I was doing 70 at 2000rpm in my 2.8. Weird thing about mine is that occassionally at a dead stop, my speedometer rises to various speeds then drops down to 3-4 mph, where it has been sitting with the motor running at a dead stop (and even off completely). Once I get around to replacing the center console, I'll check for some bad connections on the VSS unit. Have you had any occurrences of this? - Lou This is one of the very few niggly little problems with my build from Archie. The speedo will be fine while driving - but when idling at a light etc - it might start jumping around between 0-40kpm. If the turn signal is on then it jumps much less. Archie knew this problem was there when I picked it up and they spent a few hours trying to isolate it - without any success. It's well grounded and everything - but must be some other interference. Funny how at a dead stop I can rack up a kilometer or two while waiting for the light to change. Makes my MPG even better. =87) DrCPU JUN 26, 07:57 AM Forgot to add that Archie adds a Dakota Digital converter on his swaps - eslpecially for the newr 6 speeds and it output 64k pulses versus the 4k the older tranny's output. Don't quote me on the numbers - but I think my memory is correct... mysticfire6602 JUN 26, 09:04 AM quote Originally posted by Jncomutt: 70mph at 2000rpms is quite nice. With the isuzu/3800sc I'm doing 70mph at 2500 rpms. :| in my metro in 5th gear at 65mph im at 3500rpm DrCPU JUN 26, 09:19 AM Fuel efficiency so far is a combined 20.37 MPG. I calculated this from my 294.6km for 34.03 litres of gas. rotten JUN 26, 02:12 PM First of all congratulations on that very sweet car!! For the exhaust, it looks like you just have to small cats, is that right? Have fun with that mean machine! DrCPU JUN 27, 02:17 PM quote Originally posted by rotten: First of all congratulations on that very sweet car!! For the exhaust, it looks like you just have to small cats, is that right? Have fun with that mean machine! Yes and No. I have two small cats - one for each bank - and the tips of the exhaust are actually the mufflers. Two each side - about 5" long. Look at the pictures where the TAZ is on a lift and the shot is of the rear of the car. The mufflers have a yellow band (1/8"wide) about four inches in from the tip end. I don't know what brand they are - (Archie can tell you) but they work OK at low throttle and low torqure. They are fabulous in high RPM and open throttle -- like BRAAAAWWWWWWWWWW! Radio isn't as good as it was - or at least I can't hear it as well as I used to - wonder why?!! =8^) When my buddy followed me in his Solstice on the trek to London he said HE couldn't hear HIS radio!! From the driver's seat it isn't that bad - but I now look for underpasses or tunnels where I love to open it up - and coast when passing a blueberry!