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R32 GTS-t is an R200, but I think the final drive is 4.36:1... Infiniti J30 is an R200 with a 3.92:1 final drive and VLSD. It's late so I'm kinda hazy on the question, were you looking for a taller (~3:1) or shorter final drive (~4:1) that is still a Nissan diff?

nice Z Be sure to post any stats or whatnot when you get them

well, I've got a while to go too... after it's back together (less than a month, hopefully) I'm going to force myself to take it to at least one HPDE (preferably two), one autocross, and one drift event before putting it up for sale I got the car originally to do HPDEs and such, and after over two years I still haven't been to one because I've spent it all trying to get the car the way I wanted it first

wow! I don't usually like top-chops, but that alteration adds a whole new element of sleekness to the car.

yeah, it's getting annoying how the S13/S14 community is getting overrun with bandwagoners On one hand, suspension and other parts are coming down in price, but on the other, cost of getting a car/engine is going up, and all the highschoolers/ricers that get them end up crashing them send me pics

nicely done!

I think Mazworx is also the place that did the cages for the Enjuku Racing drift cars... so yeah, they're friggin' nuts (if that wasn't already obvious from the Z pics )

turbos like BIG exhausts. Heck, a naturally aspirated KA24DE made gains across the whole powerband (compared to stock) with a 3" mandrel setup, and at a local dyno, an SR with cams and a stock T25 with a full exhaust made like 30wHP more than an SR with small exhaust, cat, and a T28. Part of that was cams, but at least half was exhaust. Just going from 3" press-bent with a high-flow cat to 3" mandrel with no cat on my little 2-liter turbo engine was noticeable, not so much for peak power gains but from how much quicker the turbo spooled. But I noticed someone said you were having A/F issues with the ECU... in which case I would most certainly advocate waiting on the exhaust and getting the tuning sorted out. All that extra exhaust flow won't do you any good if you get pinging and hole a piston out

still haven't read the first two pages of this thread yet (d'oh, silly dialup), but here is some stuff that I hope is useful and not a repeat

http://www.zeroyon.com/index/content/category/6/71/47/ that ought to do it BTW that site was done by "Hugh" who is also here on this forum

any time with all the info I've found here about the old-school Zs, it's the least I can do to give some info back. oh, and sorry for the lack of patience I'm too used to the Honda kids flooding the 240SX forums that it's almost instinct to fire off a sarcastic salvo

well apparently there are a good number of small differences between the CA18E and CA18DE blocks... I'll just copy/paste from a PM if you guys don't mind well... now that's taken care of, I just have to find that differential thread that I was supposed to get info for

congrats on the times, can't see the video though since I'm on dialup (maybe I can watch it at the library, hehe). Pretty cool to see what kind of times an NA car can pull off... and it puts a decent perspective on the difference a lighter car makes (my perspective is 2600-2700-lb 240SXs...)

most RB26s I've seen into RWD chassis have used the RB25 transmission... which is almost the same as the Z32 trans, but I'm not sure if it's just a bellhousing swap (like KA/SR transmissions) or if there's more to it than that...

lol, maybe we can pool our resources and get some group buys going or something two-for-ones when it comes to getting a weld-in cage or paint work or something, hehe.

congrats!

understood, but the S13 with OEM springs is known for having quite a bit of bodyroll...

are those spring rate specs the same for the older S30s as well? Kind of funny that OEM S30 springs are the same rate or slightly stiffer than the 300-lb heavier S13... P.S. thanks for the Koni link! very nice to have a set procedure for dialing-in shock damping settings.

speaking of S12s... I was supposed to ask a friend about the S12 R180, so I'll add this to the "want to know" list :grin

dang, didn't realize there was a page one and two! hehe, I need to read that to make sure I didn't accidentally just repeat stuff

Well remember that the S13 rear track is about 2" less than the S14 rear... Nismo 4-pin clutch LSD is $750-$800, S15 helical LSD with output flanges can be found for about $700.

from MULTIPLE PERSONAL experiences with Venus Auto, and with a NC shop that dealt direct with Venus Auto, they get a thumbs down. The shop in NC (JK Motorsports) gets three thumbs down I have seen numerous Venus-sourced lousy-condition engines and numerous "sets" that were quite incomplete. If you're not local to Venus, I wouldn't buy from them. Hell, a friend of mine was set up to sell Venus engines when he started his track car, and from my experiences and the condition of the engine he got from Venus for his track car, he decided not to have that as part of his business any more...

nice, I'll have to look for that next time I go see it They also used "the corridor" in the Frigate that you see in the beginning of Ep4.

nice drawings... although on the first one, please make those roll hoops tall enough to be functional

haven't read the Scooby thread yet (blasted dialup broadband makes research so much easier...), but another source for Nissan R180s were in CA18-powered JDM S13s, either open or viscous LSD, with a 4.36:1 final drive. Forgot if they're 5-bolt or 6-bolt output flanges though, d'oh. I'll try to remember to check on the S12 source, a guy I know on CarolinaNissans is big into the S12 and should have some good info...