The Woj

Yeah, the hood was still on but I forgot to include the hinges in the measurements. Oh well, can't be much more than 2 inches for both of them I guess.

Well, I was looking for intercoolers on ebay a few days ago and realized I didn’t know what would fit my Z without a tape measure and my car in front of me. So, I decided to create a cheat sheet with the dimensions of my ’73 240z’s engine bay and seats. I figure these might be useful to other people, so I’m posting it here. If any of the measurements are hard to understand just ask and I'll explain what I was measuring. [update] 7 years later, Mark was right. Thankfully, I never delete anything. I re-hosted the pics on my personal website because I am having issues uploading to HybridZ right now. Overhead View of the Engine Bay Firewall Passenger Fender Radiator Support Radiator Support, Driver’s Side Radiator Support, Passenger’s Side Overhead View in Front of Radiator Support Overhead View of Seat Rails Side of Seat Bottom of Seat

I'm sure there was more than one car (especially since they 'wrecked' one), and since late 260's and 280's are basically the same they probably cheated.

A non-crashed Bruce Almighty Z used to be on craigslist. Was a '76 with a 350 SBC. It was advertized as being the one from the movie, but who knows. I think they were asking somewhere's around 3000-3500. Would have been cool except 76's aren't smog exempt.

Oh yeah, there were some Chaparrals too: This is them driving by on their way through the pits to the track. I probably could have gotten next to them, but I am not a pushy person. But on the positive side, I still have my ear drums too.

Was there last year, some real cool Datsuns in the corral. I took some pictures too: By far my favorite thing in the corral was in the DeTomaso section though: I plan on going this year, but I'm sure my 240Z won't be driveable and I don't know about my ZX.

That's a 3.5 Liter quad-turbo V12. Pretty much any v8 will displace at least 50% more. And, the quad turbo's don't really add more power than a single turbo, just allows for better spooling. 611hp is really quite amazing to me for a factory 3.5 liter engine (until accounting for the fact that it's a v12 Bugatti).

I am going to assume you are using a PC, and thus recommend a program I used to use for converting video called virtualdub. I know it could convert almost any movie I imported into it, but that was before cameraphones so I don't know about 3GPP. Best of all, it's free. It will also show you what your output will look like, and allow you to change a myriad of settings with the video. Hope that helps.

Well, I drove the 500zx to La Habra and back (~22.5 miles either way) with the now clean[ish] IAC and it was giving me a little grief right after reinstalling it but a few hours later on the way home was doing great. I think the last bit of electrical cleaner must have dissipated in that time. Once again, a big thanks for all the suggestions.

I'm not too sure how much I want to modify this motor. I need the thing to pass smog every 2 years, and I'm not really in the mood to switch parts around to get it to pass. As for it being HO, he said he put "HO heads and a hot cam," I did notice the upper intake has HO cast into it under the 5.0 plate. I cleaned the IAC housing liberally with electrical contact cleaner earlier - it seems to have a lot of gunk plastered to it still, but there was a lot of dirty crap that blew out of it too. There was maybe a 1 x 20 inch layer of oil floating on top of the puddle of cleaner. I really need to get a multi-meter. One of the guides I was reading said to test the IAC contacts on the harness and sensor side before cleaning. I'll just hope the cleaning works for now, I guess.

Well, I finally got back around to this project. Thanks everyone for their advice, I think Lason hit the nail on the head. I unbolted what I'm pretty sure is the IAC and it seems pretty damn dirty: Unfortunately, I got around to this at 11:00 PM so cleaning is gonna wait til tomorrow (I need to buy some carb cleaner). My new question is, do I unscrew the two parts of the IAC housing for cleaning? Here's a pic of the screw(s) I'm talking about: Also, I performed an accidental benchmark and now know this is probably my problem. When I put my manifold back together yesterday I forgot to reconnect the plug for this sensor, the engine was performing exactly the same (death during unassisted idle and trouble revving). One thing I did note after putting my intake back together was that my idle seems to be lower than it used to (around 650 RPM now, without IAC sensor too). I guess it should still be able to idle at 650, so I'm not going to worry about it.

Yummy. As to the weight issues, even with a 12 cylinder block and quad turbos, its only displacing 3.5 liters. Could it really weigh that much?

Don't know if you have seen the site before, but this site sells a paddle shifter kit for retrofitting older cars. I think it has to be a computer controlled transmission though (such as the 4L60E).

It's an old song that Dr. Demento used to play. This website attributes it to "Ogden Edsel," and plays the song in the background if you haven't heard it. Here is the embedded song extracted from the webpage source: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/turok/MP3/DeadPuppies.mp3

Dead puppies Dead puppies Dead puppies aren't much fun They don't come when you call They don't chase squirrels at all Dead puppies aren't much fun My puppy died late last fall He's still rotting in the hall Dead puppies aren't much fun Mom says puppy's days are through She's gonna throw him in the stew Dead puppies aren't much fun Dead puppies Dead puppies Dead puppies aren't much fun Dead puppies Dead puppies Dead puppies aren't much fun Dead puppies Dead puppies

Have you considered a turbo swap? I'm doing one right now, and the major cost so far has been buying tools, which if you already have makes it fairly inexpensive. I paid $700 for my turbo car which ran but was in crappy condition (dented, rusted, torn up). Past that, you don't need to buy a swap kit or any of that. You will need to convert some of the systems (like the fuel tank) to work with FI. But, for that specifically you only need to find a fuel tank from a 75 or 76 280Z. As per power, boost is the limit. You won't get 350-400whp by just cranking up the boost - but I doubt that it's that simple on a VG30 either. Just throwing it out there.

(if not) Apparently those crazy germans missed one. A teaser:

Not sure about you, but I think a dragon is a much closer association to a Japanese car than either 'Victoria' or 'British.'

Slight bump, but I found this on ebay. Not sure if it's the same as yours, but it sounds that way. Weber Big Throat

Found this in superboosted's store. I haven't been playing with forced induction for very long, but I've never seen anything like that. Is it a new concept? Also, I looked up charge cooler on ebay and found truck intercoolers, is there another name this thing goes by?

I have a feeling they are talking about this shocker, though I didn't notice it myself. I was really waiting for the evidence that it was an elaborate joke to appear, but from all appearances it seems that the corporate world sometimes has a sense of humor.

Well, maybe not quite - but damn close. I apologize if it's been posted before, but check out this [presumably] one-off on ebay: Custom Widebody Here's the rehosted pictures of it for when the auction dies:

Damn, I've been seeing that car for sale for around a year now. It's a wonder that it doesn't sell. I'm pretty sure it has been listed on CA craigslist and has been on ebay a few times. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure it used to be a little under $40,000.