Airjockie

Thanks. The CRX will be lighter than most CRX's, stock engine that I just rebuild, with a TD04 14B or a T25, full suspension on it...ie...Tokico Illumina's, rear coil-overs, 450lb springs. The only heavy thing I'm adding is the turbo, and everything else is stock...or JDM aftermarket on the body and appearance. Phantom grip LSD, lightened flywheel, ACT heavy duty clutch...blah blah blah...but the wheels and tires are the killer. 13x5.5 Mugen CF-48's, 11 lbs each and fully functional in the brake cooling department....Aluminum, aborbs heat, they have the aero covers to vent the heat out, and the fins are just like the temp dispersing fins on the fan clutches...prolly the best wheel ever made. And the tires are Advan A008's, full race slicks, and I have a pair of Hoosiers too go one when two of the advans wear down, and another full set of Advan A048's for back-ups...I just need to pull the trany from the parts civic, swap out the LSD, and pop it on the engine I built and lower it into the car and hook it up...then put all the other parts I collected for the build over the years....but bad back is stopping me. The red 260Z has gone thru many builds already...but as it sit's, it's currenty at the stage of just body and tuning. Nismo 2 way 4.11 R180 LSD, F54/P90 freshly rebuilt, with about 1300 miles on it, 5 speed swap, solid diff mount, all the bushings on the car has been replaced except for the front lower control arms and the steering bushing, Tokico Illumina's, Tokico Springs, 280Z front tubes and knuckels, P&P head, ported out the N47 intake, some unknown headers, 240SX TB adapter, 240SX TB, AFM adjusted a few clicks, some Ebay cheap-o FPR, new injectors, cold air intake, 2.5" strait exhaust to a turbo II muffler, some race seats and harness's, and a full list of other mods thats been done to the car. It does need a drop, and a tighter suspension, some quik steer arms, a little more pep to get on the track, and I need to learn to let off the throttle earlier....plus not having a full constant supply of tires of the same brand and grip throws the car off for me when I do play with it. The white Z...well, if Chris Holmes chimes in, he could give you more details than me, or the other guys who've seen or helped with it. My company went thru a 6 week strike this year, so that sucked up all my playing money, and I've only done one event this year...it was fun, and the car is completely different than the last build I did....and it will only get worse if I continue to buld it without testing each mod. My downfall is, I can't play on streets like the other drifters do, I work during the time the parking lots are empty or the cops are sleeping...but, I also don't have the balls to take the car anywhere and play with it in any illegal manner...I've gone thru a DUI 7 years ago, and I"ve kept my record clean since then...I only play on the track, and most of the times, to just get practice...those tracks are hundreds of miles away. So I have to have money for hotels, fee's, emergancy tows, food, and parts that might break. I live in CT, and the farthest event I've done was in Pits PA, but that was when I built up an AE86....

The new-to-me white Z, already built for a track, but needs a lot of work still. http://www.redpepperracing.com/gallery/v/airjockie/album421/ The original Drift 260Z...still needs some body work and a few other toys... http://www.redpepperracing.com/gallery/v/airjockie/Zrebuild/?g2_page=8 the CRX build.... http://www.redpepperracing.com/gallery/v/airjockie/albun55/ and then the normal house re-build...from building the garage up, tothe yard and then the house..... same galleries, just flip threw a few of the galleries...

I know there is a Z in Okinawa that had that setup, and that car scooted like a bat out of hell...I never got the full specs on the car, but I saw the engine bay and it had that intake, and prolly that turbo adapter with a few other toys...and like I said...it scooted like crazy in the 150meter drags. http://www.zeroyon.com/index/content/view/36/49/ The second vid down on that page, the silver/blueish Z, it has two runs...and if I'm not mistaking...Stony is also in that vid.

the pike this year is getting nasty towards imports and rice...it seems the only people the cops don't harrass is the domestic old school cars and harley riders....everything else seems like kids are getting tickets just chilling in parking lots...hell...I want to just sell my honda stuff because they want to throw the kids in prison if they are caught streetracing....and if my CRX was on the road...it's imposible to not want to race it...CT is getting more like cali every year....

On topic or off topic..take this post as it is. I'm an advid car guy, I've built some cars, and I've got other projects that I'd like to build,...but ran out of money and my back just can't lift anything anymore. I'm tired of watching 240sx's take the limelight in drifting...anyone can drift a 240sx...but only a few people can drift a Z, I've been trying to drift my Z for years, and I'm still spinning out all over the place. I've blown motors, snapped tie-rods, and have had my share of cars needing a tow home from event's. I just picked up another Z, built by Chris Holmes in NY, and it's running the same as when he sold it to my freind, except my freinds fathers truck had a breaking failure, and smashed up the rear of the car. So right now, I have 2 z's nearly drift ready...but both cars needs a lot of work...mostly paint and body, and suspension work. I've wheels and tires out of my bum, and I will always need more. but the problem lies here....I bought a house, and the bills are just being covered to where I can only put about a few hundred into the cars a month. But I also have 5 cars...2 are completely dead, but one is being rebuilt to an autocross monster (87 CRX) and the other one will be scrapped. If I can finish building the crx, and sell it for a decent price, then I'll have the money to finish the Z's...and if they are set up right, and I can get the seat time to play with them, then I'm sure I can get decent on at least one of them, and find someone else that would be willing to drive the other one at the same event's. If I can get both cars up and entered into at least one event this year, make a good showing and be awesome. Then I can get some packets put together to send to sponsors, like wheels, tires, safety equipment, and if this looks good my boss will also hand a packet to his freind in the company I work for and they will sponsor me with time off from work, travel fee's and other equipment to get the cars to the events and shows. I work at Sikorsky Aircraft, I'm in the commercial production hanger where we take apart, put back together the new aircraft, and test them. If I do this build-up based on safety, then they'll buy into it...plus at the event they will prolly want to use the chance to recruit some new employee's that worked on cars and see if they would be interested in learning how to build aircraft... Now the downside... I've posted for positions with the company to work for them in Japan, my wife is Japanese, and the sooner I get her back home, the sooner she will be happy. And that would mean that I would have to sell everything, from the house, the cars, the garage, and jump on a plane and move back to Japan. Isn't love great...plus I yern to live in Japan again...I loved it over there for the 7.5 years that I did live there. And the other downside, my back is just not as strong as it used to be, I'm 34 years old, and my spine feels like it's 60 year old. I can't even lug the 24 foot ladder to the side of the house to finish building some gutters I started. Anyways...I got the cars, I got a lot of parts, I got the tools (most of them), I got the heart to do it, but I just don't have the time, the money, or the strength to do it anymore. I might just sell it all and take up a new hobby, or bust some more a$$ and try to finish what I started...either way, I'm looking for some help, some seat time, another driver, a few sponsors, or a buyer that has the same goals...and they get everything for the right price. And I know it sound dumb, but I kinda came up with a team name.... Team Sake....when rice turns to wine...old Japanese cars dominating the track.

I live over in Meriden, by hubaard park...and there is a Nissan meet there this Saturday...I'll try to have both my Z's there... http://www.ctdrifting.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1873 and I think Pete lives prolly about 2 miles from you...

I did the 280Z swap into the 260Z, got most of the bugs worked out, and it is the 280Z stock FI system, with a fabbed in fuel pump to push the gas to new 280Z fuel injectors via a JSK fuel rail. When the car was running, it had a lot of pep. I have the turbo maifold, but nothing else yet to actually turbo the car, except for plans to go all out over next winter....3.1 stroker, turbo, possibly mikuni blow thru carbs...stuff I find in Japan. I missed one auction for a full set up with the HKS surge tank...but I know I'll find another one later. But for now, I'll do a mild build, try to get reliability for one season...and I'm just looking at the parts I have, what I can fab, and if I can snag a cam that would help the build for under $200 then go for it. I ordered the head gasket kit from Advanced Auto today, so it should be here tuesday at the latest, then I can gasket match the head, and finish cleaning up the other parts and get them ready to install. The first drift event in my area this season is on the 18th, but I doubt I'll have time to finish putting it together, and work out any other bugs that might pop up. if anyone has a suggestion on a different cam, that might work in this setup...please speak up....

Of course it's needed... Haven't posted here for a while, been doing some research and suck...but now to the setup. I have a N42 block and head that took a crap on me, and I seemed to have snagged an F54/P90 engine that has about 800 miles on it, fresh rebuilt, put in a kids car, and somebody sideswipped him. The motor sat a while with the header and intake off, so I might pop the head off to check for moisture on the cylinder walls, it turns by hand smooth and I might just leave the head on if I don't see anything out of place. I'm setting the car up for week-end fun, and it's already gone too far to turn back. The oilpan doesn't have the turbo tube, so the block is the NA block. When I was running the other engine, it had a good pick up in power from 3000rpm up to 6000...and it seemed like it wanted to go more. The car is a 260Z, with a 5 speed, LSD, blah blah blah... Anyways...I'm to the point to where I'm reading up on the cams...and I got to the page where all the specs for each cam is. The car is fuel injected with the 240sx TB, has a scrawny 6-3-2-1 header (which I might find something else to run, and I have 2.5 dia. strait back exhaust, but I might put a 3" pipe and an 11" long, 5" wide Super trap muffler. If I pull the head, then I'll do a mild p&p to it, so that means I might as well just buy a full gasket kit for it, and tear it apart to change the easy stuff now and save the headaches. Back to the cams... I have a J cam, and the 280Z A cam....the numbers letter stamped on the back of the cam near the firewall....and I'm reading a higher duration cam is good, so I thought about it, and the A cam is 248 and the J cam is 240...according to this chart.... http://www.geocities.com/bruskiz/ZCamSpecs.htm would I benifit from just swapping the cams? and/or should I order something more in the 270 dur. area? The car is set up for autocrossing and drift...

I posted a while back of my Z drifting... http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=6029300

Didn't do to good with no power.... Fuel pump cutting out, over heating, maf/tb tube split...only got one run...that was a little sliding...but nobody was expecting it...so no vids or pics... But I have an event on the 13th in NJ, and one at Lime Rock on the 20th... I'm trying to get the car in top shape for both of those event...if possible...I might skip the NJ event due to lack of OT at work... a lot of work into this car, to do the drifting....just to have simple stuff make it not go right... I still need to get bigger sway bars, and the 240sx TB..then I should be golden...hehe

http://www.importvelocity.org/Photopost/showphoto.php?photo=12819&cat=3202&page=22&sortby=f&sorttime=all&way=ascmore more pics around in this gallery.......

Some pics I found of the event...too bad no smoking tires...due to the way the car was running...and yes the hood is popped up try to get more airflow on the runs.. Enjoy.

<---Grew up in the mountains of New Mexico....7 miles on a dirt road to get home everyday...snow, ice, and MUD...lots of mud... but getting the tires to break at the right time, with sticky tires on good pavement in dry conditions...is still very tricky I still need tons of practice:redface:

6-3-2-1 header, 2.5 inch strait back to 2 90* bends and into a Thrush Turbo Muffler. I bought a SuperTrap from someone on Zcar, but he's failed to ship it...so I had to make up a cheap quik fab job exhaust...and the whinning noise from the engine is a Flexi-Fan high RPM fan, mounted directly to the waterpump with some spacers....and no fan clutch....but I took that off today and went back to stock...the car is much quiter on the road now...hehe I've been trying for two years to get the car to do the drifting thing...and I was always trying junk tires and anything I could get my hands on...then when I got two of the D1 drivers to take it out for a spin..they said I have the car nearly perfectly set up...except I should go with full grippy tires all the way around...but out of those two years...very little seat time... My next step is to practice some more, do the clinics, get better...then find ways to tweek up the suspention a little more. There is just not enough steering angle to do a high angle drift and control it. But to my surprize...the way it came out, and watching the second vid to see how fast it came out from that spin-out and got back up to speed and pointed back in the right direction....blew my socks off...hehe

Spent the last 2 weeks working on the Z doing the diff, getting wheels, tires, parts, and polishing up the old paint. Swapped in a Nismo 2 Way LSD, 4.11:1 R&P, fabed up a cooling fan on the rad, but found out the hard way that it lacked the CFM's to pull air thru the rad during a NY traffic jam. Other things on the car... 280Z L28E bored over, cam, FI swap, 5 speed, full Tokico Illumina's, Tokico springs, Watanabe RS 14" with Falken RT615's on the front, RT215 on the back...brand new and very sticky, other odds and ins... 10 hour drive in sweltering heat, with the heater on, no A/C, car overheating twice on the GW bridge in NY, took the civic as well...so I paid double the tolls and gas all the way, a hotel room, food and lots of water, got drunk off my *** at the party of the year, .........and I only got one run in all day that was even close to looking like I was drifting. first run...the car lacked power, then overheated again. Second run...rad cap blew off, and over heated again. (2 trips to Autozone 5 miles away, and about an hour to fab up the fan to the car) third run...no Overheat..but also no power. (found the tube for the MAF and TB was torn, and fuel injectors not working) 4th run...car lost fuel pump power (the fuse holder for the fuel pump popped out of the fuse) no more runs...but then the compitition started...and I prayed for one good run.. Last run....car ran great, all power, no overheat, new fan sounded like a jet engine, and woke me up from thinking I couldn't do anything that day.... Was it worth it.... H3LL YEaaa!!!! Finally something of my Z in action... The run that made my day Gawd I love my car...It may be old...but it pulls now...and slides... And the Z came back from MD to CT in better shape than when it went down in. I built this car to bring some class to the drifting scene, I'm tired of seeing 240sx's everywhere...and they need to go back to their roots...go Old School!!! I got a drifting clinic on the 13th and the 20th..so I hope the tires last a while..but doubt it...I got plenty though...I got to master this damn diff...it's still a virgin.

hehe...I now have a two tire fires.... Now to start planning the turbo....

I didn't have to grind too deep..hehe..just where the bolt humps are for the side bearing bolts, they were just a little bit in the way...but a quik whizwheel and the LSD slid right on in with the ring-gear on it.

Never mind... hehe...I got it in... I just had to do a tad bit of grinding...but it slid in... now on to the axle's...

I got a 4.11 r180 from the 4X4 truck, got a Nismo r180 2 way LSD, and now I got to install it. I swapped the ring gears already, and now I am at a point to where I should just finaggle it into the case.... but...it goes in partway...and hangs up on the case. Due to the larger shell case of the LSD. I have tried to install it with the ring gear off...and it slides right in... I have removed the ring gear, and put it in first, then tried to slide the LSD thru it and into the diff case...but hangs up... Is there a simple trick to getting this diff together?

You need to find the nearest 2-3 Up-Garages and I hope you have a credit card...couse you might just max it out...and they do take cards...hehe

Sorry...I'm not an R200 guru...So I can't answer your question... Dang...I'm not even an R180 guru... I was thinking...there might be a dang good reason for the 280zx stubs that go into the pumpkin...I can only see that the circlip grove might be the only real reason....and I got to thinking some more... I slid the stubs that bolted into the 4:11 diff..and the spline lined up perfect into the Nismo LSD...except there was no groove on them..for the circlip...and they had a hole for the bolt to go thru to bolt up to the spider gear thingy... If I pluged that hole with some oil safe epoxy, and machined a groove for the clip to grab onto...then would that work??....and save the pain of looking for the damn axels for a later date? And possibly just use the stock axles that are still decently useable? The splines line up..and feels the same with the other diff and the thickness sticking out appears to be the same...but I haven't done an exact measurement...

sweet...... update: I happened to get a full 4.11 R180 diff from the mid 80's truck. I already popped out the open diff, and now I got to just swap the ring's so they will be a matched set...then put it back together with the Nissmo 2 way...hehe now my next problem...I got an event for drifting to go to next Friday....down in MD. And I got this get this together asap. Funds are limited...and still no axles to play with. My buddy said he had some...and when I got there they were just the 280Z axles with the old u-joints..so now I got to go find a JY, or if anyone in the NE has anything...I have a little bit of money...

Tire bust... his top speed was 340 KM/h...then the tire went...drivetrain problem was not the issue. he got the speed down to 240 KM/h before he popped of the road.. but it was just the rear left tire that popped...

well...I need to slap together a diff and swap it out...I can plan something for a CTZ meet in Meriden...in the next 2 weeks or so... Car-B-Q on July 1st?