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Go w/the G-force's...235 too wide for rims - 225 is too but not as bad.

Armada has R230...

The ZX has a 19.8 gal. tank. The use of a rear subframe adds weight, and helps isolate road vibrations. Yes they had softer springs - remember that word 'gentrification'. My '83 has a curb weight of 2872 - no gas or driver.

The ZX got 'improved by gentrification' - a subframe in the rear to isolate noise, more sound deadening, power windows and steering. Body-wise they are better aerodynamically. They weigh more.

The Armada has either a 3.36 or 2.98...

I could use the hood - I'm in Marietta...Come to think of it, I could use the fender that WigenOut - S30 doesn't want/need.... When would be good for You?

I personally would not go the TO4B route - go w/ the TO4E w/ a 1/2 spacer to keep the compressor away from the manifold. MUCH more efficient. The prices for the xtra seem kewl. See what the TO4E would run.... I woould also have the wastegate opening ported and have the larges 'flapper' put in it.

Part of the problem w/the T5 may be the lack of overtravel syop in the shifter. Whatever you do with a T5-get a good shifter (the one for the Mustang works). When I finally get around to my ground-up on my ZXT (after I build the '75 V8), I'll definitely be looking at all the strong parts...

Please pay attention to everyone who has told you not get a cheap welder! Even pro's have a hard time welding with them. Don't even TRY to weld body panels with flux core - too hot and you'll burn through. I myself have a Millermatic 175 that I love. Used it to build a rotisserie, now am waiting to get the misses in a good mood to get the car up on it to replace floor pans and put in subchassis connectors. I made such a mess cutting and drilling when I built the rotisserie - even though I cleaned up daily she didn't like my tracking the dust sround with me - that I am having a hard time convincing her that this is a much cleaner proposition. Oh well, XMAS is here and bribing and grovelling will be in order....

What Dnaught14 said...

IO can't remember where or what it was I was warned about concerning .303 Enfields, but it did stick in my mind...Had a friend that had one and my dad's surplus '06 was more accurate... I'd go w/the SKS.

'97 - '01 or '02 will have R230 - beware that not all R230's have 3 bolts across the top - the ones frpm TT's do, but the ones from Q's don't - saw one from a Q @Mikelly's... Armada has an R230 w/3.36 or 2.98 ratios...

From what I remember from my youth, Chevelles and GTOs and Gran Sports and Cutlasses all had the same chassis, just sheetmetal/interior/exterior and suspension/drivetrain changes. All you had to do to put another GM motor in was to use the appropriate motor mounts. Everyone was putting small and big block Chevy's in their cars because they were cheaper to build. Same thing between Cmaros and Firebirds

To be fair, Tho,as DID have a stroker crank in his...but he was turning 6800 rpm...

Don't forget that good axles are available for the R230 swap now...and you can have a 3.36 or 2.9x ratio in the ones from an Armada.

Roger @ ZBarn got me a set of molded carpets that work great. You WERE kidsding about the shag - right?

Thomas @ Z Service Unlimited in Smyrna, GA had a documented and Dyno'd 622 HP in his 280 ZXT @ 29 lbs. boost - no NOS. I have ridden in the car and it was awesome.

Try Martin Logan Quests w/250 watts/ch and a Velodyne ULD-18 crossed over at 45HZ...

What Drax said....

Bar and Plate is best - the end tanks look okay too. I'd say if it fits and you get a good price, go for it, if you don't mind getting RAPED on the shipping.

Exactly waht 280Zen said PLUS: I am 50 years old and was as idealistic - maybe even more so than most my age when I was a teen. I was at Woodstock - I was a Hippie. I was on my own from age 16. I narrowly missed Vietnam, but would have gone if called. I lived through all the protests, watching people raise a great cry and hue vie rhetoric that didn't hold water, and today is still being done by anyone hoping to gain support from people either unwilling to think for themselves, too ignorant to, or just plain lazy. Bush is not wishy washy and not poll driven like the Democrats are... Bush inherited the economy (which Clinton and the Democrats ruined). I STILL like what Arnold said - basically - 'If you think you can spend your money better than the government can, you're a Republcan'. The last three Republican presidents have taken decisive and effective action against our enemies, while the Democrats have given away our self respect through either inaction or - dare I say it (in the case of Carter) - misfeasance. Carter is STILL a bleeding joke (I'm from Georgia and knew it BEFORE he was president - he was bad enough then and only lasted one term before the rest of the US wised up - too bad they have short memories). This man took the idea for Habitats for Humanity from someone else and claimed it as his idea. Reganomics is undoubtedly the cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nobody wanted to screw with us when Regan was in office. Sadam learned not to screw with us when the first Bush was in office. He learned Clinton was just a fat womanizer with no decent foreign policy and no backbone - indeed, the only bone he has been proven to have was serviced many times by people other than whom he wed. G.W. Bush has once again shown our enemies (and let me state that radical Muslims will ALWAYS be our enemies - because they rely on ignorance, dogma and hate to sustain their beliefs) that we are not to be messed with. That said, I firmly believe that the only people fit to lead our government are the people intelligent enough NOT TO WANT TO. The freedom to do business is what elevated this country above all others in the last 150 years. There is no doubt that big business is what won WWII for the side of - dare I say it - GOOD, as opposed to an ideaology that embraced bigotry, hate and genocide. It was our ability to outproduce our enemies that enabled our us and our allies in WWII to defeat the Axis Powers, and our ability to outspend the Soviet Union brought its' collapse - all because of big business. To anyone who was adult in the late 70's and early 80's, the fact that we were able to do that after what Carter and his fellow Democrats did to our economy is a testament to Regan and his economic advisors. To put it another way - when Regan took over, home loans were in the 10 to 13 percent range. By the end of his 2 terms, they were around 7 percent. You young people do not have the benefit of having lived long enough to see through rhetoric and posing - and possibly too lazy, and ignore the history that is eay enough to research, if one simpy took the time. I am totally disgusted by everything that Kerry represents a a politician - wishy-wasy, no backbone- a coward and traitor. Ther is NOTHING in his past in either the military or as a representative of the people that leads me to believe he is any kind of a leader. Indeed, the entire Democratic campaign boils down to - "Whatever Bush is for, we're against". This is absolutely ludicrous. If that's the best they can do, then they don't deserve to win. The sad thing is that they just might, because the Democrats can always rely on people that pay no attention to history, don't read much, are basically ignorant, and let's not forget a vast number of their supporters - the people who rely on an 'entitlement form of government' - let's ay it as it rally is - too lazy to get out of the house and work because it is so easy to collect their welfare check. Our country is allready at the point where less than 50% of the people directly generate the $ that the rest of the people rely on to live. All of the people that fall in the later category are government workers, the military and those on welfare. We all know that the military has been pared down over the years. Republicans and Democrats are both interested in making government bigger - the Republicans less so than Democrats. The rest of that larger percentage is the great number of people that the Democrats rely on to support them - the people to whom the 'entitlement form of government' is their livelhood - and this percentage keeps increasing. Wake up and smell the roses people - the vast majority of the people are just too lazy or ignorant to do the math, the research, learn the history, to govern themselves, which is why our founding fathers founded NOT a democracy but a REPUBLICAN form of government, and why the electoral college was and still is a good idea. Even though one of the 2 basic reasons that were support for the electoral college in the beginning has disappeared - lack of communication - the other - the almost certainty that popular (and uniformed/ignorant) vote could cause a real travesty in an election is still with us. Remember - the electoral college DOES NOT have to cast its' votes the way the people do - this was yet another example of the foresight our forefathers had, along with our constitution and Bill of Rights to insure that we would carry on. I find it very rare when the easiest way to do something is also the best/most permenant way to do it. Everything I have gotten, I got on my own, through the grace of putting myself through school and working. I've never had anything handed to me, and I absolutely despise the Democrats efforts to make more and more people dependent on government largesse for a living. I'm sure this will be no part of your essay, but perhaps it should be... OK, I'm done.

http://www.westechperformance.com/pages/Tech_Library/Popular_Engine_Specs/dimensions.html I'm thinking Buick Stage II 455 w/aluminum heads - a little wider than Olds but narrower than Caddy, all other dimensions same or smaller than Olds or Caddy. Stage I's were AWSOME - the Stage II heads were INCREDIBLE!

I don't like using short rods...

Actually, for ultimate handling, 8" is better than 7" fot a 225/50 tire. The wider the rim the more stable the tread in cornering - but make sure you stay within the tire manufacturer's guidelines. Michelin recs 7-8.5" rims, so 8.5 would be best for handling, at the expense of ride....