Norton Tuning

Some pictures and some of the cars at norton tuning

Recent projects

well norton tunings been on a clean up stage so we havent done really much and we have been working on little things like recently we have work on one of our buddies cars which is an 96 acura integra and we had to install a power steering system back in to the car. well when i was about to start the project come the car was at norton tuning i looked at some of the parts that he had to get. one thing he had to get was the power steering pump got it, mounting bracket 1 of 2 but i found an extra one he needed so that worked out, and he got hella random bolts that i dont even know that it goes to i tried to search the part number up and i came up with just the bolt no idea where it goes. so i had some parts but not all so i just looked for some bolt that might work with it and i got the power steering line on the pump bolted but no belt that fits and no and no ruber hose for the canister so had and he had like 40 bucks worth of bolts and none of them fit so it was all useless. so we have to put it off till next time but the car is hella clean tho here is some pics

the red wonder

lol well brandon blew his motor again in his rx7. i dont exactly know what happend tho but he had a new motor put in after the rebuild and come to find out his turbo was a little bad it was burining hella oil. i had a turbo sitting in my back yard and wasnt going to use it and he put it on and ran it for a little while well suposedly he went out racing and blew it up. so he limped it all the way back to my house and now its parked there for like 4 months + now but its kool as long as i know he is going to work on it if not give it to me lol.

but the reason for it to blow what he told me was cause the turbo that he had that leaked had a ported wastegate (A wastegate is a valve that diverts exhaust gases away from the turbine wheel in a turbocharged engine system. Diversion of exhaust gases regulates the turbine speed, which in turn regulates the rotating speed of the compresser. The primary function of the wastegate is to regulate the maximum boost pressure in turbocharger systems, to protect the engine and the turbocharger.) to prevent it from boost spiking ( when you dont want to boost more but it dose it on its own) well my turbo was never ported and suposedly he boost spiked so thats why it blew again thats what he said i have no idea i just thought it might be funny to put up

norton tuning is finally getting cleaned up

well if you read the previous post how there was like hella cars at my house well there still is but most of them are finally leaving or something is going to happen to it. what i still have left is 2 integras 4 rx7s and 1 vw bug and thats it i mean i still have my new rx7 that i am slowly working on which i will be starting a blog about it one day. by the way the bug is up for sale lol if anyone wants it but when i got my car it had full red interior and daves old one had full back so i bout it from him and tore out all the red and slowly working on the black interior in to it. and now that car is ready to get junked. then i sold my white rx7 in my back yard my first rx7 ever but its cool tho cause its just a shell i just have to make it a rolling chase and it will be gone then there was daves other black rx7 thats gone and then theres just haks integra whenever he decides to finish that and daves integra thats in front of my house. other then that we have brandons red rx7 that needs to be rebuilt again cause it blew up and brandons bug. other then that i have my turbo rx7 daves turbo rx7 and my civic and my parents cars and my neibors car. then norton tuning will be back to almost the way it was.

Norton Tuning Slowly dieing

Norton tuning has slowly dissipated no one has time to work on there car anymore and no body really comes around anymore. every weekend i come back from school there's nothing to do and its awkward now usually there's always some one there but lately nothing. all I've been doing is sitting at home and sometimes tinkering with my car. one person usually comes by and that's Justin but there's still nothing to do on the weekends all i do is just sit at Norton tuning and wait to hear from some one or find something to do the only other thing that i do is maybe go up to the mountains and go touge well other then that Norton tuning is pretty much dead so that's that. it might be up and running one of these days but as of now Norton tuning is closed until further notice

The Plan For What Might Get Done This Week

Let see one of the plans is to get rid of most of the cars that are here at Norton Tuning. the next plan for this week is to fix a nissan altima that has a problem and the car wont start. another project is to start working on dave's old rx7 and get that thing up and moving again and out of here. but the main 2 is we have to motor swaps to do. one is on daves integra cause his piston rings are going out and smokes alot and the other project is to get the green machines motor out of it to tear apart. other then that its just whatever shows up and or just little things like put a front lip back on oil changes or cleaning up the place but other then that thats the plan for the week or at least what i can think of right now its to late or should i say early

The Green Machine V.S. The Black Doom ....

My friend Hak has a green DA GS-R (1990-1993 Acura Integra GS-R), and we were going to go out to Oakland to check out a couple of spots to see who's out. on the freeway, Hak raced Dave's black rx7. while they were racing, something happened to the green machine and started to make a lot of noises. well, he decides to drive it back home and the noise just got worse and worse. He made it almost to Norton Tuning. the car just dies like 6 blocks away, so he made a phone call and we all show up and start to push the car to Norton Tuning and park it and called it a night. a few days later we start working. tearing about the car just to see what happens and get it ready to pull the motor. he starts to take out the spark plugs and they all looked fine till he got to the last plug. when the last plug got pulled out and when you look it looks like some one smashed the spark plug a couple of times. at this point we are just waiting to take the motor out and disassemble it and find out what is really broken and see how much damage it has done and see if we can repair it. well thats all for the green machine for now it will be back for vengeance again. thats all for now ill keep you posted on how it goes and hopefully i can get some pictures up soon.

Apologize For The Delay

Sorry about my non posting if anyone really reads this. i am on vacation from school and i have been running around and haven't really had time to do anything online related but now its time to do a little catch up on what happened at Norton Tuning.

R.I.P. Honda Civic R.I.P Mazda Rx7

Well this weekend was kinda a bad weekend that just past earlier that day we where at Norton tuning and we installed a different exhaust on the red beast to test out. That night we went out and meet up at our usual spot. we all chilled for a while and chat. then we all went out to a spot to test our cars out and race. we were all having fun and testing out who's car is faster and just messing around. we where out there for about an hour and the cops showed up so we all scattered. everyone went one way or the other it was like the fast and the furious. well some people ended up going the wrong way to avoid the cops and one person was flying away from the cop and did not relize that there was a dead end ahead with people down there. when he relized that was the end of the road other cars at the end he slamed on his brakes. when he slamed on his brakes he started to slide and could not control it and ended up sliding in to our buddies honda civic at like 40+ mph and sent the civic in to a spin. after the accident our friend that drove the mazda jumped out and checked on the civic and see if he was alright and he was freaking out. the cops where already there and seen our friend that drives the mazda and put him in cuffs and threw him on the ground on his stomach. i guess cause the cop thought he was about to run or something. our buddie that was driving the honda and the mazda ended up getting taken to the hospital. honda got hit so hard that stuff flew out of his trunk and landed like 20ft away from where he was and the mazda ended up in the fence. when they got taken to the hospital they were of the one that was driving the honda had a bump on the back of his head and a messed up back but he's ok. the one that drives the mazda is ok to he just has a couple of scratches on his face from glass and sore but other then that they are both ok. well its hella hella late and im hella tired so ill post more later

The 4th Of July

The night before the 4th was kinda interesting. What i had plan didn't work out cause my dumb ass wanted to fall asleep. So when i finally decided to wake up i drove back to the bay area and meet up with the rest of the gang at Norton tuning. so time went by and later on that night we went out to go race some people and just hang out. when we raced a couple of people we where talking about going to go get food for the bbq for the 4th. so we all drove to food max (take it to the max lol.) after we went and got stuff for the bbq.

Later on that day on the 4th, i started to set up for the bbq at norton tuning and just chilled till more people started to show up and we just chilled. when more people started to show up. we started the grill. we all just chilled hung out ate and everything. later on that day Brandon and I went to the bank to go get some money for fireworks. Brandon let me drive his car so we where headed back and i floored it thru 1st & 2nd gears not even realizing that there were cops behind me till after. so i ended up getting pulled over right in front of Norton tuning where the bbq was and were everyone was and everybody started laughing and i was like shit o well. i ended up getting a ticket going 55 in a 30 so we will see how much it will be when i get it in the mail.

after that little incident we ate some more food and more people showed up and it was starting to get dark so you can hear fireworks going off so we decided to get ours going. my buddies started to light off some that they had made and more and more went off. everybody was just haveing a good time lighting fireworks off and eating. sooner or later there was a cop that drove down our street and stoped in front of norton tuning then drove off. we all just stood there thinking like what the hell. after that 2 of my buddies went to go light off some fireworks and when they light them and started to walk away two undercover cops popped out the bushes across the street from my house and everyone was like what the hell. when that happened a couple of my buddies that took off earlier ended up throwing a smoke bomb at the cops and they ended up getting a ticket. within that night i think there was a total of 4 tickets from just Norton tuning alone then my neighbor across the street ended up getting one to cause they got caught lighting off fireworks to. later on that night we ended up wanting to go out and light the rest of the fireworks where no cops where around and we went to a spot that we usualy go race at and light off fireworks with all of our friend. it was great everyone was full having fun got to see fireworks and everything it was hella fun. that is what norton did for the 4th of july.