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The tire temp data is great! That's high level race team stuff.

Looks like around 2010 he was drag racing a Z. If I had to guess just based on how forums (especially this one) used to go, he probably shared some of his videos here and got flagged for that.

Hey Pete- Good to hear from you. I still enjoy your website after many years. I don't know how much significance is attached to those member ranks and titles anymore, now that the forum has matured and is well past it's heavy-growth period. You're not crazy...there used to be a user here "nivlaC". He joined Nov 2011 and last visited Sep 2012. At some point, he was flagged as a spammer; which is why his profile and posts are no longer visible to forum users. I don't know why that happened; but maybe some of the other OG members will have more insight. We've been playing with different ideas on how to re-stimulate HBZ, so please feel free to chime in if you've got suggestions. Cheers!

O.k., so I'm freaking ancient and don't spend any time here. I know that I'm listed as a "Newbie" but I joined on Feb 9, 2000 and have 5088 posts. I still have my 240Z, and I still pay to keep my website active AlteredZ.com I don't drive it - it's been off the road for some rewiring and to put a Holley HP ECU and Terminator TBI on it. But I watch a lot of youtube. (I haven't watched TV in 25 years). There's a channel I watch by a guy named Calvin, and he goes by "NIVLAC57" Really sharp guy that does a lot of tech. He just recently started doing YT full time. Anyway, I could have sworn he was a member long ago. I don't see "Nivlac" anywhere and no member with that name. Am I just ancient and confused? ~Pete Paraska

No, they look really good, have a little metal in it, and have some rtv type material around all jets, not paper.

If they have the standard paper intake gaskets, throw them on the garbage and get the FelPro S3 gaskets.

Good tip. I’ve got trickflow heads, so I got their gasket kit.

What intake gaskets do you intend to use? I like the FelPro 1262S3 or 1250S3 depending on the intake part size. The S3 version of the gaskets are much more durable than the standard Felpro gaskets. I also apply a really thin smear of Right Stuff RTV around the water jackets when I install the gaskets and lower intake.

finished stripping and cleaning the underside and inner wheel wells and sprayed with some raptor liner. The raptor liner is popular around the youtube builds and I can see why. sprayed nice, covered nice, cured up nice and looks great. Taping up the fresh paint was a pain but came out great.

Thanks. Interior is gonna be, black carpet in the front half. (unsure on door panels based off what will fit) Rear half will be a combination of the semi gloss charcoal grey that the cage is and some black with the raw aluminum bead rolled panels around the cell. May carpet the wheel tubs for a more "finished" look. The color goes real well with gray/black.

Came out great, love the color. Whats the interior color or colors going to be?

Long week number like 200 but happy with the my progress. Made a tweak to a color based off a cadillac cts5 v blackwing. Its a bit more "copper" tone of orange than I was picturing with the modifications but I am very happy with it. As soon as I started pulling the masked off areas and was seeing the contrast with the grey I loved it. Did get some fisheye on one door so I'll have to fix and respray that at some point and a couple sags/runs in the clear to sand out, but I can make some serious progress on the build now. did get the engine stripped down as well. Bearings, rings, valve springs and a gasket kit have been ordered to freshen it up. but otherwise everything measured out good and seems like a good starting point.

Thanks for the reminder, I had not. That’s a couple things you’ve caught, I really appreciate it as I’m doing a lot of these things for the first time. I owe you a few beers if we ever meet up. Took the lower bolts out one at a time, cleaned and torqued back with plenty of thread sealant. Got the second head on today too.

Got around to weighing the door and the heads. Old heads were 50.8lbs new ones are 29lbs. The carbon fiber (shell) is 10.4lbs, looks like big weight savings.

I just got a bunch of timeout errors today. Interestingly, the site also no longer remembers where I left off on threads I've read before.

Gorgeous work! Amazing to see the transformation this car has gone through in the last 17 years that this thread has been alive. We desperately need some in-car and trackside videos!

Hi everybody, long time for updates. Been quite busy with kids and a very nasty divorce going on. The good news is my garage and cars are still intact and I am still making progress, although very slowly. Car is very close to track testing. I decided to have a new pair of steering arms machined to match the front geometry. I will post more when they are finished. In the interim, I took the time to catch up on some side projects I wanted to do. With the advancement of AI, some of the projects I considered impossible a couple years ago have turned out to be quite easy now and very inexpensive. Based on Arduino technology, I have integrated a motion sensor into my data acquisition system. I use a Race Technology DL1 Club box which is limited to 8 analog sensor inputs, but can decode an almost unlimited amount of CAN signals. So I built a circuit that decodes the motion sensor and outputs a CAN signal. I now have 3-axis roll, pitch, and yaw angles along with speeds and acceleration live data. It will all be packaged in a small box that mounts in the car. Next is a infrared tire temperature monitor. A 16x4 temperature array sensor once again combined with Arduino and CAN output board. I am trying to package this as small as possible so it can be mounted on brackets roughly 4" above the tire. Again real time data of inner, middle, and outer tire temps while driving. Hopefully saves a lot of time when dialing in the camber and pressures. More to come...........

8 years later. The fundamentals have not changed. IMG_4754.HEIC

Don't forget to use sealant on the short head bolts / studs. They go into the water jackets of the stock block.

It's doing it today. It's never been this bad for me before, but I see what you mean now.

Good work! (And nice garage/shop -- I'm jealous!!)

spend tons of time last week doing body work. I am TIRED of sanding. Saturday got the whole car in epoxy. Spent 13hr sunday, and 5 hours monday, block sanding and some final little body work touches. Weather got cold for some reason so taking the next couple days to dial in the last of the little details and hopefully later in the week get some color on this thing. I thought i had a good size garage until I need to hang 16 things from the ceiling for painting. A friend let me park my truck at his house. My 240 i just keep moving in and out of the garage. and have the dailies living outside in the driveway during this process.

very cool. new tool are always fun. Love seeing how people process a challenge and overcome it.

Back out in the garage this past weekend. I made some progress sectioning in one of the repair panels: I used the new drill press and a hole saw to cut the drain hole in the replacement section. It is a tiny bit undersize, so I will use a die grinder to open it up the last bit to get to the correct diameter. I also used the "shrinker" die that I got from Mittler Bros back before the holidays They were running a Black Friday special. I also used the sheet metal brake I got from them at the same time. I am pleased to be getting some use out of these new tools. I should be able to finish welding this repair section into the right side floor soon. After welding and grinding down the welds, I will be doing some shrinking with an oxy acetylene torch to get the floor panel flat and eliminate any "oil canning".