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Do you NEED the money, or not have a place to store the car over the summer? Have you considered not selling it? But you're saying that your 280z currently is not running correct? If that is true, then you'll make more money parting it out then selling it as a non-running whole.

Hmmm, good point. Thank god I'm not an engineer or anything.

When you go to sell your car at Barett Jackson, and they take a magnet to your cars body, it'll adhere to it, instead of getting weak like it does over Bondo, so you can act like you didn't use any body filler. ...that's about it. Everyone will say lead is better than Bondo, but I feel that's mainly because it's a lot harder to do and it costs more. If it weren't better, how else could you justify wasting a buncha time and money on it, am I right?

Not to question your motives, but what benefit do you get out of using a single throttle body? Most people swap from a single to ITB's.

I've yanked a diff out of a Q45, and I remember it being a heavy son of a *****. Also, I dunno if anyone answered his original question yet, but the angle of the driveshaft is very important.

The Q45 difff is a viscous setup aswell. I don't know how much power you can really grab out of both wheels. Meanwhile, in the junkyard, there is probably several Thunderbirds and Lincoln Mk VIII's who have a damn near bulletproof diff and a decent enough entire irs. The Factory 5 guys use them all the time, so I imagine it would be fine for a Z.

Is there any way you could sit in the seat (to press it down) and then measure what the distance is from the seat to the roof of the car is? Some people, despite being similar height, may not have as much head room as you if they have a longer torso. Seats look great btw!

Hahaha! Did you shoot that video in the middle of the night? You can't really see anything. However, you said you fliped the cv cages on the outside bearing...but you didn't do that on the inside bearings? Is this correct? Because I was almost positive it had to be done to both ends.

Would you mind taking a picture of this panel to point out exactly what you're talking about? Or find a picture of it online and circle it or something?

Did you apply POR-15's top coating that lets you apply other kinds of paint, or did you just apply the other undercoating when the POR was still tacky?

Yes.

Why don't you unbolt the cross member, use a hoist to hold the engine, and then raise the car up.

Love the Beast is a fantastic movie. It explains what cars mean to car people better than anything I've ever seen before.

So what kind of power do these engines make stock? Are there any cheap changes that can be made to boost power, or will you have to change out damn near everything like the guy on that build...thus making the engine pointless because you might as well just put your time and money into something that's already good.

It's possible to get your money back on a Z car? WTF!?! When did this happen?

It bolts on like that.

Yeah but what transmission would you hook up to it? I guess you could probably adapt a T-5 or something to it...damn near every engine can use that transmission in some way or another.

What color is your car? That plays such a huge factor into what wheels you get that there's no way I'd be able to say one or the other without at least knowing that. That being said, RB-R's look kinda funky with 0 offset. Just my opinion.

Mr. Moleman is definitly correct on this. A big part of the cost is getting all of the proper safety gear. If you don't have any, it can be expensive considering that you and your buddies can't just buy ONE race suit and share it, I believe you need a minimum of 3 for refueling purposes. Helmets are also not cheap. Expect 150 dollars for even the cheap ones. Then you need a race seat and harness, new tires, new brake pads, a roll cage (if you can build it yourself you save a lot of money, but you still have to build it correctly) Then you have all the fuel you're gonna burn during the race, which if you're good, is a lot. I've gone through all the costs for a brand new team with no equipment, but ability to create their own cage, and you're looking at around 5-6000 dollars to field a car. This number goes way up if you can't make a cage on your own, have to rent a trailer to get your car there, buy replacement parts, get high quality...anything. It's not cheap, but it still is one of the cheapest forms of car racing out there for sure.

Buy it, tear into it, if it sucks, sell it for $550. Win!

Is it worth it? No. Unless you already know all of the reasons as to why it would be better and how the steering ackerman, bump steer, camber progression, and all the other suspensiony crap that I can't explain is going to change, and how to make it beneficial, I wouldn't touch it. You can install an RB motor into a Z with it's normal front cross member.

White. I could really stop there, but I think I'll throw in a few other things too. 1) Build a paint booth. It may seem like a paint, but it's 100% worth it. It's not hard either. Go to Home Depot or some other store and buy large rolls of clear plastic sheets and PVC pipe or something similar. While you're there, pick up a furnace vent. While you're making your plastic box, make sure it's big enough that you can easily walk around your car with no issue of touching the walls. Also, make two holes in the walls for a box fan to blow fresh air in, and another to blow painty air out. Put the furance vent in front of the air IN section (although putting one on the air out section probably couldn't hurt either). Also make sure you have plenty of light in there. If you've got over spray, the light can become a little lacking and not being able to see what you're doing is no fun. 2) Make sure you've done all body work that you're gonna do BEFORE you paint. 3) HVLP gun is the only way to go.

They wanted their bike to sound American while not sounding aweful like a Harley. It makes perfect sense to me.

Actually I believe the Coyote is lighter than the old 4.6 because it's aluminum. Either way, it's stilla very wide engine, and there's a reason why almost everyone swaps in LS# motors over Ford engines. It's not because people love pushrods either. I love Ford engines, I think they sound way better then Chevy's (IMO), but unless I'm transplanting one into an already big car, then there's no way I'd consider it.

Because it's simple and it works. Please feel free to explain though what it can't do that other engines do much better that are more complex.