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Farmer Joe

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Farmer Joe last won the day on June 15 2013

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  • Birthday 07/13/1987

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    1977 KLH620 KA24e FS5W71c HF37
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    RVIA Certified RV Technician

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  1. frontier ka is gonna have smaller camshaft profile than the older s13 ka. car engines got 240/248, 232/232 cam options. frontiers only got 216/216 profile. the frontier engine can be "converted" to run on s13 parts. the front upper timing cover and the jack pulley with the distributor gear are needed. if you use the s13 upper timing cover that has the distributor provision, you can use an s13 distributor. youll need to remove the frontier distributor and figure out a way to support the oil pump drive in the timing cover. the s13 intake should bolt right up to the d22 engine.
  2. z engine intakes dont fit KAs. the s13 single cam intake will bolt onto either single cam KA head. there are two single cam head castings. the early and late. early has the top feed injectors and the late had the side feeds. nissan changed the intake port on the later head to accept the larger spray pattern from the side feed injector. the late head flows a good bit more also with the intake changes. instead of just the nipple at the top of the port, that high point is drawn out to the one side of each port. the 72p head was only available with the d21 intake tho, so youll need to do some porting on the s13 intake.
  3. and from that point i moved to utah. welded the frame up enough to not fall apart on the trip to utah on the trailer. this is kinda the current look of the truck, just tucked away in the shop. my lease is up next march, so this year is the year of revival. plan is to get it back to runnin, drivin condition. there was a plan at one point to put a 5.3 and a z32 five speed in it, but i traded that stuff off for a redblock volvo engine and some money.. sooo, its getting an 84 b23 from a 240 with a 96+ borgwarner t5 trans behind it... and a turbo the frame needs final welded. i need to get my coilovers for the rear suspension mounted and then i can clean the frame up and paint it. once the frame and all the control arms are done, its time to put it back together. ive got another bed for the truck waitin outside the shop. gonna do a american auto wire harness in it and run a microsquirt for the engine. should be pretty simple setup. gonna put 4x4 hardbody brakes back on the front and keep the stock rearend for the time being. should be pretty cool once its goin again.. ill try and keep this guy updated a little bit more..
  4. at that point i scrapped the rest of the truck and the cab is the only thing left from the original farmer joe build.. buuuuut, i built the new chassis. did this one up with a four link, did some triangulated lower control arms. its got load jackers on the from suspension for the coil spring setup. im still plannin on building a set of tubular uppers for it here this year./
  5. drove the boosted setup for a bit, took it to a drift event and didnt drive it home. it was a bummer. folded it up pretty good.. bent the frame at the rear behind the notches, and smoked the bed. did put a dinger in the one corner of the cab, but its fixable. i did end up with another frame for the truck tho. got an 83 720 frame from another part out a buddy was doin.
  6. oh man, its been a while since ive updated this.. dang, where do i start.. theres a been a lot thats changed since 2018 both with the truck and personally. got divorced, moved out of the house i bought, rented rooms for a few years. moved to salt lake city in 2020. also wrecked the truck in 2020 at a drift event. ill get into that. took a few rv tech jobs, did some mobility installs at a place for a year. ive been doin fab work at kindigit design for the last year. its weird, but im on tv sometimes hahaha. i think the last engine the truck had in it in this post was the carbed twin cam KA. that engine went on to blow a head gasket after i put the holley carb from the last page on it. ran pretty good with the holley, but once the head gasket let go, i pulled that twin cam and put the fuel injected single cam KA from the 411 project in it. nando and i did that swap in a weekend with a homemade can am box. found out that engine has a rod knock and some other shit wrong with it. that single cam got some rod bearings and went on to do great things hahaha. ive only got pictures up till like 2020, but ill piece it together hopefully. still had the injected single cam at this point. this was before moving to utah on a utah visit for a little private event. jumped the truck a bunch of times that day.. super fun move forward a year or two, im doin rv tech as work and makin money, so i boosted the truck.. went thru a few iterations of the engine internals till we got a good forged setup in it. ran pretty good, but the fun was short lived.
  7. hi

     

    1. datzenmike

      datzenmike

      Da fuque you been for 6? years? Paying off debt to society? Good to 'see' you.

  8. got my time off approved today... can only afford to take saturday and sunday off, so ill probably be doin a solo run up on that friday after work.. lookin forward to seein everyone this year..
  9. well i got it figured out.. took the multi meter to it and found out the trailing coil was only getting 2 volts on the power side. tested and did a jump from the battery to the coil and it started working. decided to just share the 12v from the leading coil for the trailing coil and it works great now.
  10. okie dokie, so im still workin on this issue. replaced the module today, but the trailing set still dont fire.. made a new tool.. got the junkyard one freed up from the advance plate... had to modify it a little bit.. to get this bastard off without breaking it.. all that and still isnt working and no new ways to isolate it further that i can think of... help!?
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