280zfreak

comin' along good!

the good thing about spending a bit of money on the car right off the bat is that you won't keep running into things you need to fix when all you're trying to focus on is getting that V8 in there. Nice clean car you bought.

updates! Been busy with christmas but here's another vid.

thanks seattlejester. I've been exams for the last week so it's been a little slow, but I got a whole evening/night of work in. and just got the BOV all figured welded.

got a chance to put a few hours in tonight

Nice! I can't wait until winter is over! Ugh That video gets me so excited.

Little more progress. Did the 3" downpipe and welded the Vband flange on. Still deciding on dumping the wastegate or not. I would certainly benefit because of my 2.5" exhaust, but at the same time don't really want a stupidly loud car, even though it's only when under throttle. anyways, here's the video:

out of sheer post traumatic stress, I don't know if I can tell you. haha A screwdriver, chisel, hefty hammer and about 6 hours. If you set the chisel right where the 2 halves meet and point into the center of the runner and wack and repeat until you have one side done, you can fold it over on itself and pry it out. The first one will take you the longest and after that you kind of figure out an easy way. if I nicked the runner, I ground it smooth with a porting tool. The head has to be off the block or else I don't know how you would do it. I would NEVER do this again, it was a PIA and I would just rather break the bank for a P90. You can quote me on that.

sorry, BlueDestiny, not sure what you mean by that. You mean performance differences before and after?

take your dipstick out and smell the oil. You may have to change it if it smells like gas, if you were flooding that bad. At least the injectors were only 19 lb/hr

that's about as rough as mine looked when i first got it

this is one of my favorite builds. Took forever to read through though. I bet you spent a little more than 1500 in the end haha. Always happens

Started converting my car to turbo this winter already (salted the roads early). I'll also be doing the 240sx gut swap onto the 4 speed bell housing if anyone is interested in seeing that in this thread. I'll be posting videos periodically on youtube and I'll give the link here. This is mainly for more "intelligent" comments and discussions and to share with fellow Z'ers. A little background... This is an F54 block with a P79 head with the exhaust liners removed (It's way too hard to find a P90 around here) aluminum flywheel ACT 420 ft/lb 6 puck clutch already running on megasquirt (when it was NA) 500cc injectors 3" throttle body aluminum rad Let me know what you guys think...