383 240z

I went for the cage just for The NHRA. I also plan on living a long life even if I get hit!! as for you being a big guy I stand 6 foot and about 255 lbs and I fit nicly I also have swing out door bars so the wife doesnt complain about getting into the car. just my .02 cents Keith

Hey john I was wondering If this will help you. I ran into a similar problem of not enough oil capacity, I also could not find a pan big enough at a price small enough. Then I looked at my other car. It has a front mounted oil cooler that is about 2.5" thick 8 inches tall and about 30" wide made of aluminum and has Banjo fittings on the inlet and outlet sides they can be found on all Mazda RX-7's made between 1986-1992 the JY's should have a few of them I got mine for about $25 I hope this helps. Keith

yes you gan get a very good one from trans-go They are a very good company for tranny parts just be sure you want it before you install it!! let me know I can order it for you (they only sell to rebuilders) Keith

I've got one of those painless kits. Very good quality just looking for the time to install it!!

I love the pix of your brake set up how did you mount those HUGE calipers did they bolt up straight away or did you use an adapter? could you post some pix of that area? Keith

After thinking some more about your issue and it sounds like a converter problem you dont have enough stall. The only way to fix this is get out the checkbook. Keith

did it work ever? It sounds as though you may have a small leak internal that is applying the low clutch pack but no smoke for a full foot acell? what mods were done to the tranny when it was rebuilt is there a shift kit installed? if so what type and stage? I'll be able to give you a better answer tomorrow. Keith

I'll have to give that to my ASSistant at the shop he runs a type-R lime green CRX Keith

What do you mean locked up? is the converter clutch on or is the geartrain locked together? how does it drive do you have any forward gears? reverse? I can help you but need more info. Keith

Well after digging out my old text books I found my notes on five gas theroy and here goes. a very high CO and very low O2,NOx with a mid low CO2,and HC indicates an A/F of about 10:1 you are to LEAN!!! the trick to controlling CO emissions during combustion is to make sure you have the right amount of O2 and fuel in the mix you want enough O2 to form CO2 but not so much that you develop a lean misfire A lean misfire decreases performance and increases HC emissions When the mix is rich the engine produces a lot of CO As the mix passes the stoichiometric (14.7:1) ideal and goes lean When the mix is lean CO levels out and the curve no longer indicates anything CO is only a useful indicator of a rich mix. sorry for the long response but this is a very involved subject Keith

Yea I figured I would give it a shot but I finally found a machine shop that would do the job in a timly manner and at a fair price!! thanks for the advice everybody. Keith

I picked up some moroso studs at a swap meet lask week and the knurl size is .560 what size should I drill my hubs to? I figure .010 is a good interference fit but the closest fractional bit is 35/64" or 0.546 sounds good right? Well try and buy this bit every hardware store in the area tells me I'm on crack it does not exist and the can't order it if it did!! what am I to do?? Keith

Thanks for the responses. I all ready made the carnial mistake RUST I bought a 74.5 260 Found it was worse than I thought chopped it up and sold the parts. Bought a 73 240 saw a small amount of rust. and found out it had 3 sets of floors in it sut them out put in good floors a 6 point cage, new rockers, subframe connecters a fuel cell. it has factory AC I have the short block built (still need rings for final assy) the trans is BUILT (I do this for a living) the parts are here for the rear (DANA 44M) Will install that as soon as the weather breaks. The Wiring parts are here just need some co-op from the weather and now I working on the brakes and suspension details (Hope to score some outlaws this weekend) Thanks for every thing Keith

If there was one thing that you could do over or different what would it be? Yes I'm just bored but the answers I recieve may help me to miss a pitfall that I would have otherwise fallen into. I looking things like " should have put in ac" "I put in this five speed now I want an automatic" Put on wimpy brakes really need the outlaw 4000's!" Thanks much Keith

hey blkmgk have you built one of those units yet? I was waiting to see if anybody had befor I dove in Keith

I have an old issue of Popular hotrodding (may 1978) that has a BBC in a 240z. he was running a 482 with a 'glide 5.14 gears and 15x32 slicks on 15" wheels. the thing weighs in at 2480 lbs Keith

82 - 92 f-body's use a torque arm a good mout from a chevy truck (late model)will fit and be easy to find you do not need the caprice tail housing there will be to bolt holes on the case just before the tailshaft extenion housing that you can use Keith

For the one peice gaskets try summit racing if you want to use the four peice just hammer the bolt holes flat ( rap them with a small hammer on the gasket flange side to remove any distortion caused by over tightening) then install your gasket using the before mentioned sealer and tighen the bolt to 120" lbs making sure to hit each bolt 3 times you will have no leaks!!! Keith

If you need it I have a 1071 console that you can have for cheap let me know Keith

I'm going to a swap meet soon that has a ton of used dirt track stuff. I saw a ton on used calipers there last year. How can I tell what model they are?? Keith

I get them re man for $58 each I sell about 10 sets a year. ( I moonlight at an rx-7 shop)The core charge it crazy at about $90 each keith

Just for anybody you may care Art Carr transmissions no longer exists. The name remains but is no longer in the capable hands of Mr Carr. their quality has dropped and the R&D has been discontinued replaced with a one size fits all trans. Sorry to report this Bad news. Keith

Thanks for answering that one for me grump. I may not be as long in the tooth as you but I had some VERY good teachers as I grew up around some very good hotrodders you were older than dirt but a great bunch of guys you didn't mind some young kid hanging around asking stupid questions all day. Keith

will a 71 and 73 console interchange? I owe one to a member and want to make sure it will fit before I ship it Thanks again Keith

most of the info posted so far here is correct. the 200 I think you are refering to is a 200 metric unit that was placed behind most of the buicks with chevy engines(any body remember that class action)these are very weak and 3 speeds the grand national 200 and all other 200 overdrives is in the valve body they are very strong stock but can be made indesrtuctable. PS I work in a high performance tranny shop please feel free to ask any tech Q's you may have. Keith