Beemer

Hey, for those of you lurking.. my mailing address is: Dave Beem C/O Beemer's Racing 200 Elm St Box 163 Tabor IA 51653 I may go 2 for 1 on these if you need them..I fried one with my way too large soldering iron that's used for 00 series wire..overkill, but my trigger pull wouldn't stay on..so they can be fried. Next time I use a pencil style soldering iron..duh. Dave

Hey guys, I have a spare 6.2 diesel with a gale banks sidewinder turbo kit on it that is just gathering dust, and I'm thinking about stuffing it in my bargain basement pathfinder (610 bucks off ebay yesterday). I was wondering if the engine bay would be large enough to stuff this thing in there, and if I could make an adapter plate to run the stock automatic trans. The bellhousing bolt pattern is the same as a chevy 350, with the exception that the 6.2 has the top center bolt boss missing (the one behind the distributor on a marine 350) With the outrageous cost of a nissan diesel JDM motor, I thought this might work fairly well, although it will be one heavy front end compared to stock. (the motor weighs something like 600 pounds or so) I want to use the Pathfinder more for a tow rig for my race car. I have an 84 suburban with the 6.2 diesel and a year specific banks turbo system on it, but that only gets around 18mpg, mostly due to it being a barn door pushing thru the air. The trailer is around a ton, and the car is 3k pounds, and I doubt the stock 3 liter v6 could pull that load very well, hence "using what I have". If anyone has done either this, or a dodge cummins conversion (or any other non-nissan diesel conversion) please let me know. I saw the diesel section here, but that's pretty much for nissan diesel (factory everywhere else but the US) diesel motors. This motor is old enough that it has a mechanical injection system (it is out of an 89 C3500 originally) and essentially the only wires that need to be hooked up are the shutoff valve (to kill the motor when you turn the key off) and sensor wiring like oil/temp/voltage/etc and of course the starter circuit. The Pathfinder I bought is in new jersey, and I'm in omaha, so I don't exactly have the engine bay handy to look at myself. Thanks for the help..and if anyone knows if there is a LOWER NUMERICAL gear ratio that was used on these differentials, let me know. I'd love to find a set of 2.73 gears, or even 3.08 or so. That would let me use the diesel's torque to maximum effect, and keep the revs down at highway speeds. Dave

I just ordered 30 new voltage regulators for our instrument clusters. These should hit me within a week. The are the 3 prong 8 volt regulators, but are "heavy Duty", hence the H prefix instead of the KA. However, I'm not sure if these have the bolt hole. In all honesty, with something like this, I'd use Arctic Silver computer heatsink adhesive, as that stuff is what I've used for building servers and hot rod computer systems for the past 10 years now. That way you KNOW you have a nice connection to whatever will be used as a heatsink. If you guys want one, send me a SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) with a buck in it and a stamp on it and I'll shoot them out to whoever wants one. (that's a buck apiece..the stamp costs more than the regulator does!) The shipping cost me more than the regulators did. The buck covers my cost for purchase and shipment, and my gas to the post office (I live in a small town, no in town mail delivery or pickup..missed rural delivery by ONE stinking house too, so we all have to go to the post office to drop off mail we want delivered) You can find arctic silver heatsink adhesive on Ebay and at Newegg.com (HUGE computer hardware store) This stuff is ALSO more expensive than the voltage regulator, but you'll NEVER have a heat transfer problem when you use this stuff! I might also do these on the side for a minimal amount of money for those of you who are "soldering challenged". I would request that you ensure your gauges and sending units are functioning properly before you send me an instrument cluster though.. I don't want to get flamed for installing a new regulator on someone's cluster and having it NOT fix the problem! Just email me at beemer1@att.net and let me know what you guys think about it. I'll also be out in New Jersey sometime in the next 2-3 weeks picking up my 87 pathfinder I bought on ebay, so if you're anywhere off I-80, I could swing by for the price of fuel for going out of my way to see you and I'd solder yours on personally. (the pathfinder I just bought was advertised with an "unreliable fuel gauge", so you can guess who'll be the first customer, right?) Below are the specs and the actual cut and pasted order form, so you can see what I paid for them all. I ordered 30 of these, so I imagine this should cover the demand here..if not, I can always order more of them. I'm new here, and new to Pathfinders in general, although I did have a new 1986.5 hardbody 4x4 longbed brand new (and was mud dragging it with 300 miles on it from new) and I've been racing DSM's (Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX AWD Turbo and Mitsubishi Galant VR4 AWD Turbo cars for 18 years, and I've even done a few KA24E motors for friends with 240sx's. Been racing 30 years, motorcycles and cars and even riding lawn mowers (ever seen a honda 750 powered lawn tractor?) Nice meeting you all and I hope this helps you all out. Dave Beem Beemer's Racing (a one man enterprise for nearly 27 years) Tabor IA LM7808CT 3-Terminal 1A Positive Voltage Regulator Fairchild Product Reliability Report Test Standards: Moisture Sensitivity: NA Thermal Impedance: 2/73 Physical Dimensions: TO-220 ESD HBM: 3000 ESD CDM: 500 ESD MM: 300 Attribute Value UOM General Information Device Marking(TOP MARK) $Y&Z&E&3 LM7808C Family Code 0SH Package Type TO-220 Package Description 3LD PLASTIC W/EXPOSED HEATSINK (SINGLE GAUGE) Pin Count 3 FIT 5 MSL Rating | Restriction of Hazardous Substance Standard Plating Finish Matte Sn Die Fabrication Fabrication Process Identifier AR7800F Package Assembly* Plating Finish Layer Thickness 8.0um - 13um Thermal Impedance (Theta JA) 73 °C/Watt Thermal Impedance (Theta JC) 2 °C/Watt Moisture Sensitivity NA Electrical Test ESD Human Body Model (HBM) 3000 V ESD Charged Device Model (CDM) 500 V ESD Machine Model (MM) 300 V Package Assembly* DAP Size SINGLE STRAND Frame Material PDD Wire Material Cu Wire Diameter 1.5 MIL *If an attribute is listed twice, either can be used on the part. Buy Items Part Number Description Unit Price Quantity Ext. Price LM7808CT 3-TERMINAL 1A POSITIVE VOLTAGE REGULATOR $0.250 30 $7.50 Subtotal: $7.50 Shipping Charge: To be determined Fairchild Direct does not charge handling fees for shipments by UPS or FedEx. You pay only actual shipping charges. Click here for shipping information. Total: To be determined Products | Design Center | Support | Company News | Investors | My Fairchild | Contact Us | Site Index | Privacy Policy | Site Terms & Conditions | Standard Terms & Conditions of Sale © 2006 Fairchild Semiconductor