OlderThanMe

I vote Holset HY35W. good spool, flows better, more durable turbo than T3 series turbos. Spend some time searching in the turbo/supercharger section. Also get the corky bell book "Maximum boost". Will help introduce you to turbos...

In that case TAKE YOUR TIME... When you are past your education you won't regret waiting.

You have to remember these rims are STEEL and made to take the abuse of circle track racing. Unless you are going to be seriously road racing a fat 280z I would not worry about the rims having too much stress. They are heavy duty rims...I mean they install beadlocks on them!!! With my skinny 260Z they do pretty good! And yes they clear the smaller 4x4 calipers. Don't know about the Z32 rotor/4x4 calipers...

Tony, I would like to see that thread! I searched, looked through all of JohnC's threads, his website, and general searches on here. Do you have a link? Thanks! Dan

Hmm... there is a fairly complete Z31t drivetrain at the local yard... for like $200... The thought of a VG has crossed my mind before. Maybe I could build a front mount or top mount turbo setup...hmm...

Boring an engine over should be the same cost no matter what bore you want. You may have to do it anyway on a rebuild. Stroker crank USUALLY goes in with no preoblems. Some L28 blocks have to be clearanced though. You can check the oil clearance on your own with some plastiguage before going to the machine shop so you won't get any suprises. You can do most of the balancing yourself. Just need a balance or an accurate digital scale. For the rods you just need to make a jig to hold the rods for measuring the weight on each end. The flywheel and crank you can't really do. You can polish the crank though. Buy an entire LD28 and sell off the parts to the diesel guys...they pay for the stuff. That leaves you on top for the crank rather than $400 in the hole for an ebay crank. The 9mm bolt 240Z rods you can find in a junkyard usually for a good price. The pistons will probably cost the most as being forged slugs and probably custom to get a nice dish to match your combustion chamber. I could probably get all the parts for a stroker L28 shortblock for around $600 after you sell off an entire LD28.

I would have to disagree with the first part. just look at Big-Phil... He built his own motor(s) on a tight budget and made 20 PSI of boost on stock pistons. DIY is definitely the way to go. Just find a competent machinest to do the work for you that you can't do. I'd rather know how my motor was assembled then have a mystery box in the car that you don't know about.

Hey dude... If you have the right girl then you will learn to deal with it and apreciate it when you are older. Trust me here. Before explaining my reasons and getting your thread sent to the tool shed... I believe that that is the best way for a relationship between young-uns (not unlike myself)... Just be courtious and talk with the parents often so they get to know you. You don't tell them to trust you, you use subliminal messages over a LONG period of time to make them like you. Just so happens that My girl's mom used to drive a 77 280Z... Boy was I lucky there!! OTM

I go diving in furniture as well!!! what have you found?

surely having your engine at 800 RPMs under braking is using than less fuel than downshifting at 3k+ RPMs. When I am driving on curvy roads I'm always using a mix of heel-toe downshifting. That means using both brakes and the engine to decelerate the car. The way my brake bias is setup (stock) the fronts will lock and there isn't enough rear bias. it gets a little squirrily under hard braking coming into sharp turns. If you are driving normally then just use your brakes. Pads/rotors are cheaper for stopping than the price that gas is...

One time I got a BMX bicycle missing the front wheel out of the dumpster and some scrap steel, and some handles from an exercise bike. We took the bicycle and chopped it out big time. Extended the fork about 5 feet with a huge rake, front wheel was from a lawn edger, HUGE ape hangars... The thing was impossible to ride (I made it 150 ft) but it was fun! The pedals came within 1/2" of the ground so you had to lean to pedal...lol

Well I used to be big into it at the local technical school school when I was at welding class. When everyone else was shortening their life spans on smoke break I went down to the dumpster. One time I got about 20 pounds of clean copper. another time I got some 2" angle iron that was 6' long (used for a control arm jig that is still being made). Just yesterday at work I got some aluminized heat shielding out of a dumpster at my work... I may make a header blanket for it or something for my car. Maybe some on the exhaust tube that runs .5" from my right foot... I got a couple video cards and audio cards as well. What have other people gotten from dumpster diving? On a related note... I am thinking of building a melting furnace to melt down aluminum into usable nuggets or for pouring intake manifolds. Maybe cola cans for intake manifolds? Or for when I mess up my first head that I try to modify I could just melt it and come up with a design for a better head to pour. hmm... I have some crazy ideas there too...

If you buy the whole LD28 engine for the crank you can probably sell off all fo the other parts to actually make a little money from it.

I'm not completely abandoning my monster L6...but I am looking at options... Just if I lived on the other corner of the country. (I'm only 4 years away from living wherever I want) Still going to be on time for the Veritech-Z vs. OTM showdown... At least I'll have something to run at the time...

Hey guys... I guess I have gone full circle... I completely designed a monster L series engine on paper. (i.e. race turbo motor making big power) Then I started adding up the prices...lol The short block is going to cost me about $3,500. Mostly because I will be doing EVERYTHING my self except the machining. Right now a V8 is making a lot of sense. The car is going to be a for track days at places like Road Atlanta, Sebring, etc... The car is no longer a DD so I can go crazy with the drivetrain. 4 summers while I am in college. No loans for college or the car so I will be taking my time building it right. Going into debt for this would just be plain stupid on my part. A couple options... 1986 Buick GN N/A (now at the JY) and convert it to turbo. Pluses: lots of power, rare negative: parts aren't too cheap, auto tranny. A friend has an old Ford 427FE but isn't budging...arg. Still working on him though. It also needs a full rebuild. (supposedly going in his Ranger?!?!?!) Plusses: VALUABLE, proven in road racing. negative: may be hard to mount and make exhaust around Z body... what tranny? Standard small block.. SBC/SBF high compression N/A or turbo? Plusses: definitely proven, big support, cheap parts negative: everybody and their sister has had a "240zx" with a small block V8 sometime in their life. Nissan 4.5 VH45DE staying nissan? hmm Plus: 4.5 liter DOHC V8 Minus: small aftermarket? JBK240Z: you mentioned a 5.3 LSx... What cars did those come in? Small LS series engine is looking VERY promising. Turboing an LS is also a very attractive option. The "I could have had a v8" thing is really starting to bug me now... $10k+ later, am I going to be happy with a 3.3 liter, 600hp+ L6 that I won't want take out on the road? I could have a very streetable, high power V6/V8 for the same amount. I read back through this and a V8 or Buick v6 is the way to go. Just looking for ideas...

Search for Wangan Midnight. It has been discussed recently even.

I used to have a bike rack that would go on my Z. It had 6 hooks and straps. 2 hooks that fit perfectly at the front of the hatch, 2 went to hook in the wheel wells, and 2 went under the car. It was a generic rack made for a minivan. It sat on the stock rear bumper and on the window. (I was using louvers at the time so it actually sat on them) Worked great for carrying 2 mountain bikes to the local park. My stock suspension and dead struts didn't like it though at the time. I am now looking at building a removable roof rack for long trips.

Wow!!! I always wanted to know how they did the windshield in that car!! Thanks for the articles!!!

Wow Tony!! I knew you spun yours high bit I didn't know it was that high!! I officially insert foot into mouth.

Woohoo!!! Today I'm going up to a buddies house over by the mall of GA and we are going to watch the fireworks from his house. Happy 4th!!!! Don't go too wild and be safe out there! Dan

Ah yes... the quest for a better design for the head. I'm working on that... and I'm going to need all the reinforcement I can get. So you would need to make a casting. What if you made the castings from a melted down L series block? maybe?

oops I meant over-square... not under... Thanks for pointing that out...(you know who you are.)

So what alloy should this L6 brace be made from? I may be interested in designing one. Even though the L6 is an incredibly strong block you have to know there is some flexing going on with the length of an L6 block. You would have to have a LOT of HP before you would need to think of needing one of these. Supposedly L series have been up to 9000 RPMs in Japan (L20a crank?) but I couldn't imagine they would last long. Is it too far fetched that an RB26 cradle could fit?

There is a member here building a seriously undersquare L6 right now... I don't know if he wants it revealed so I'll keep quiet about the name... should sound sick at 7k+ rpms...

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