Conversion Question 91 - 93 to a 1994

[MONICAZ34]

can anybody recommend a really good brand of plugs, that will give me maximum horsepower? Whats this powertuner I keep hearing people talk about? Where can I get one?

[MONICAZ34]

Like I told somebody else last week, I had a girl demo my car because I broke up with her man beatin ass and I have since raised it from the grave, but I got smoked from some little subaru 1.6 Turbo... Not right I know, that originally led me to believe that there is something seriously wrong with my engine... the girl dumped some red substance into the tank, it looked like dex-cool but I can't be sure... the car lacked to start with. .. what ever it was kept pluggin up my feul filters until I changed the tank. (Talking 1 filter for every tank of gas). A buddy of mine (who has owned four Z34's, just like me, although more mechanically inclined) said that the throttle response should be like that of a motorcycle... INSTANT response, if you were to punch my gas peddle, like quick on hard and quick off the cold air intake makes a farting noise... Yeah tell me about it. :S This car is driving me up the wall.

[MONICAZ34]

How do Z34 Luminas hold up in demo derbys?

[RedZMonte]

How does this sound and will it work? 160 degree thermostat, 8.2MM wires, A/C delete, Oil cooler, Forced air induction, headers, high flow cat and magna flow mufflers?

can anybody recommend a really good brand of plugs, that will give me maximum horsepower? Whats this powertuner I keep hearing people talk about? Where can I get one?

Headers and Forced induction. Are you turboing it or Supercharging it? Trubo replaced the headers and makes more power generally then a S/C.

I would recommend:
- 2.25" Mandrel bent midpipe w/ Magnaflow Mufflers
- 2.5" Carsound/Magnaflow Cat (Same thing)
- Air Intake
- Transmission Cooler (B&M Super cooler) ***HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING THIS***
- 8mm Magnacore wires
- AC Delco Stock Plugs
- 180* at the lowest
- leave the A/C. PITA to do and not worth the time. Just leave it off has same result.
- Custom Turbo kit (~$3500-4500 intercooled)

HP Turner (Power Tuner) is a computer program that allows you to tune for larger injectors, forced induction, ect.. But you must have OBD II Or C100 in your car to use the Tuner.

S

[MONICAZ34]

I feel like driving this car over the cliff.

[RedZMonte]

I feel like driving this car over the cliff.

You can drive it to my house and dump it. I will give it a good home.

Forget performance. If you have problems with it. get it running good 1st. If you havnt allready run some BG 44K Fuel injector cleaner with your next tank. If you had Shyt in the gas tank the plugged the filter your injectors are prob. gummed up. BG 44K is the best stuff on the market. and also clean the T/B and do a tune up if you havnt allready done so. if the plugs havnt been changed. It may have been neglected for a long time.

The LQ1 is not a engine for the faint of heart or a empty wallet.

S

[pwmin]

HP Turner (Power Tuner) is a computer program that allows you to tune for larger injectors, forced induction, ect.. But you must have OBD II Or C100 in your car to use the Tuner.

S

for one, its magnecor and two, HP Tuners is different than the Digital Horsepower Powrtuner



plain old copper ac delco plugs

[MONICAZ34]

You can drive it to my house and dump it. I will give it a good home.

Forget performance. If you have problems with it. get it running good 1st. If you havnt allready run some BG 44K Fuel injector cleaner with your next tank. If you had Shyt in the gas tank the plugged the filter your injectors are prob. gummed up. BG 44K is the best stuff on the market. and also clean the T/B and do a tune up if you havnt allready done so. if the plugs havnt been changed. It may have been neglected for a long time.

The LQ1 is not a engine for the faint of heart or a empty wallet.

S

I have replace the plugs and used moto master fuel injector cleaner and I have also changed the filter, strainer and tank. What a bitch that tank.

[HayesPerformance]

I agree with FIRST...... Get your vehicle running great!!!!

THEN mod it.

Here we ALWAYS first change, fix and do all that needs to be done so your starting off with a good running, hopefully solid car.

I agree also to use the factory AC plugs BUT DON'T USE THE BOSCH PLATINUM.

GM sent us and MANY places a letter about not using them. GM's ignition systems in most of there vehicles have higher milliJoule spark systems that end up over heating the ceramic covering the plantinum tip and burning it up into the ceramic causing bad running, stalling and miss-fires. It won't happen immediately but it doesn't take many miles.

[MONICAZ34]

In the mail:
160 Degree Therm
6 AC Delco COPPER plugs
Thermostat Housing Gasket
2 Xenon Headlight Bulbs
Transmission Filter

At the Part Store waiting for me:
A/C Bypass Pulley

Sitting in my Garage waiting to be painted:
Custom Forced Air Induction System (I made it myself... its sharp)

Going to buy today:
RESTORE Engine Restore
HIGH HEAT PAINT (for air intake thingy)

On Order:
Tranny Cooler
Oil Cooler

Future Buys:
-Magnaflow cat and mufflers
-8.2 MM WIRES
-MSD Ignition Coils or Other High Output Coil
-Paint Job
-UDP and DogBone.

Thats it thats all, not going any further until I buy a new engine. I thank you guys a million times over for sorting me out on this matter... Here I was getting ready to buy useless stuff...

[RedZMonte]

Don't waste your money on the MSD ignition and coils. Stock ignition on the GM's are strong. just a good set of plugs and wires work fine. Im running Plane jane delco plugs and 8mm Magnacor (Whatever) wires with my turbo setup.

"Custom Forced Air Induction" im guessing your refering to a air intake? Forced air generaly implys turbo or S/C.....

S

[MONICAZ34]

Pretty much custom, I made it all myself, its in the area where the air dam forces all the air in.

When I get that tranny filter I'm going to need to know how much fluid to buy and how do I flush the tranny??? Just run fluid through it? Is the gasket reuseable??

[MONICAZ34]

OK, air intake is painted, and I have the a/c delete. Also have the fel pro intake gaskets, upper and lower, and a new oil distribution cover gasket and the oil pump drive gasket Swift buy the gaskets were only 44.50