yes, for those of you that remember; I attemped to do the KS swap myself and messed up the whole job by not retorqueing (i think that's how you spell it) the lower intake manifold right. I was soooo frustrated with the whole job, so I had my local mechanic do it. In my opinion, he overcharged me. But who cares, after 2 weeks, i have my car back and it runs REALLY REALLY good.

KS sensors that give more power

 

You got screwed man.

But nothing beats driving the max with a new KS.

 

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so I had my local mechanic do it. In my opinion, he overcharged me.
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I hope its not the one on 9th st.

 

Yeah he screwed me but I really needed my beater back on the road so I can park the mustang. I would rather put miles on the Maxima and only drive the mustang on weekends.

 

naah......it's the one on foothill; A1 auto Care. They do excellent work , but charge too much. Oh well, at least now i know.

 

Cool... it might even give you as much power as a $ 0.48 cent 500k ohm resistor bypass!!

 

A higher price is fine as long as the work is good and they warranty it for a year or so.

I once had a tranny rebuilt, but they got oil on the new clutch..so it chatterred right away.. so I took it back once and they are like 'it's fine.. drive it a few months and it should get better'... so a few months later it is even more ****ed and they say 'sorry.. warranty is over..'

 

I would've gone that route, but half of the org. told me not to. And if i'm not mistaken, someone just posted a couple of days ago that they just had total engine failure due to a bad tank of gas and they had done the KS bypass.

 

You did the right thing. I think that was actually 92SE_Dave that posted that but he posted it on april 1 so I assumed it was an april fools joke.

 

i want to know if his motor did die or if it was a joke bacause i find it hard to believe that a NA 10:1 motor could detonated bad enough to LOCK UP but jeff locked the thread before i could post

 

april fools joke

 

Yes that was me and it was an April fools joke. My car has been running better than ever with the resistor bypass. Everyone was telling me that my engine would blow up, so as an April fool's joke I said it did, then they had to lock up the thread because they all fell for it.

 

My friend. That was dirty! Not all fell, only stupidos like me from my boat. Wait until u will be dragged unter die keel, cptain said u will... We've been planning a getrich -trip to the new continent...

 

Um no one fell for it.

I glad someone repaired their car correctly and is running the engine as per oem specifications. Your car won't blow up in week or a month. But

I'm glad you are having fun with Wiking. Expecially since he get 95 octane.

 

I probably should get my KS replaced soon, right now I'm also rockin the resistor. Without it though, I'm afraid of burning something up. My EGT's were climbing up to 1600° almost, and that was only half throttle.

 

you're doing a turbo with the knock bypassed

 

Yeah, it kept pulling back my timing like crazy. I'm running stock timing, and it runs much much better with it disconnected. I haven't heard any knock yet.

 

remember though you don't hear knock until it's normally too late.

 

do automatic 1990 vg's come wit ks's?

 

nope 6 7 8

 

are you sure i thought all 3rd gen have KS's

 

wrong

all 3rd gens have knock sensors

the VG is located in a different spot though and much easier to get to

 

Brad. You are playing with matches after being doused with gasoline man. At the very LEAST buy one and bolt it to the exterior side of the block or something. Anything. I don't want to see another VE turbo parted out.

 

Is there a good place to bolt one to on the block? I really want to try and do it soon, but I think that running with the knock sensor is almost worse than without it. The EGT's are sky-high, and boost is almost instant, since I'm guessing its pratically fire spooling up the turbo. I can even smell my exhaust wrap burning from the heat. Basically, with it connected, I get 6psi of boost at part throttle, 1500° EGT's, and massive amounts of fuel being dumped for probably less than stock power.

 

Normally you hear knock the instant that it occurs.

 

oh ****! where is it? I'd like to replace mine... its basically guaranteed to be dead after say 168,000 miles?

 

by the rear manifold.

 

Brad, the harness is only so long. So you don't have much of a choice. Somewhere on the radiator side of the block is really the only convenient choice. I'm in no way saying this is a good sub for having it in the proper place. I'm only saying, it's better than what you have.

 

Not that easy, the damn motor mount bracket(AT) blocks the side for a deep socket and a regualr socket. I had to cut my deep socket to replace it. Plus it is a little crammed.

At least it's just screw out, screw in and go.

 

TRUST me. It's 10x easier:
You don't get to it until:

 

Yeah i have read about the notorious ve ks, but i just wanted to get my $.02 in. Didn't mean to be an a$$ or anything.