OlderThanMe

A L28ET turbo manifold will fit on a LD28 head but.... You do have to slot some of the holes. Read around on that nissandiesel.dydns site. There have been a few turbodiesels done on there. Don't ask for a LD crank on that site though. They call us Z car guys Rapists for stealing "their" cranks...LOL Mind you that a LD28 head weghs as much as or more than an L6 block. I just happen to have a very good LD head and a decent turbo manifold...

Took this today near Helen, Ga. In the national forest off service road 79..

I have a N42 and a V07 block sitting side by side. I can get info on the two if someone wants it...

Yeah your car is coming together nicely!

That happened last year didn't it? LOL Love the car though.

APC isn't no-name so that isn't saying much... LOL There are MUCH better materials that will do MUCH better at transmitting heat for the effort..LOL Even better shaped aluminum would work. It's all about contact area and surface area.

Crap... And after I racked up so many posts... Can I bring my Frontier in place? It is sorta fast in 2nd gear. I can tape the RLS30 Vin number to the windshield.

I assume that you are trying to create a vacuum to draw in air through the intake...and maybe increase your VE to above 100%. NASCAR engines do a VERY good job at cramming as much air as possible into the chamber and even use the helmholtz effect to naturally supercharge. I can not see any easy or cost effective way to increase exhaust scavanging other than any static exhust/header design. I would rather work on where the engine really hurts(in the intake, pulling air) and get the most for the money/effort and try to get more power. Sometimes calculating until your brain pukes in your skull is a good idea. I've been doing plenty of that lately.

Def. not a foxbody... Here is Mikelly's sweet car... http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=122360&highlight=mikelly+wing

It's like an inverse turbo. You would have to pull on the exhaust with greater volume than the cyinder has. That means with a 2.8 liter a pump would would need to pump 2.8 liters(hot and probably still under soome pressure...) every two rotations of the engine to break even. At 2500RPMs you would have to "pull" more than 3500 liters of air every minute to come out at neutral if the air exits at ambient pressure and temperature. That is a lot of air.

I am working on an ITB manifold for the VH45 (with 1990-1993 heads) for these ITBs. It is going to be a good bit of work to build and have the intake be very efficient because of the angle of the intake runners. I don't want to just bolt the TBs onto the top of the runners....

If you build your frame rails over the motor then you can drop the engine and tranny right onto the ground and drag them out from under tha car. Much better IMO than the other way... Steering is easy. Look at the modification MarcG did to have his steering clear his VH45 with stock headers in his 240Z.

Lots of cool pics HERE:

And if Nissan builds a somewhat decent inline 6 again... Maybe an aluminum evolution of the RB series.

Come on Paul, Show some NISSAN love here! (somewhere in there...) VH45 in a Z32 with ITB's(unfinished in this photo and owned by a member here) R390 GT1 engine bay(VRH35L engine)

Wow! That is nasty! You aren't going to have any traction with that 3.9:1 rear end gear...LOL

There are about 100 yen per dollar... I think maybe 107 yen/dollar now...

Lets not do 1.00001 + 1.00001 = 2 engineering please...That doesn't work. The vibration is not directly related to the displacement, but rather the amount of stroke. So the less stroke you have, the less vibration there will be. There are other ways to lessen the vibrations with crankshaft design but it is always a trade-off with something else like performance. For all practical purposes balance shafts are out of the question unless you have your own machine shop and can live with the extra weight. Also the two banks of cylinders in a 90 degree V8 cancel out the vibration somewhat (I believe to the square root of 2) to about 140-150% of a standard 4 cylinder's vibration with half of the displacement. 40%-50% more vibration isn't bad to live with. With some nice fluid engine mounts that can be significantly reduced. Personally I'd want to solid mount the motor or use minimalistic thin rubber isolators if I were going to the trouble of making the engine actually perform rather than just sound cool. OTM

Or hit the "go advanced" button...

Took this one today in my yard... It's no SLR... but it doesn't do too badly for an old credit card sized camera when 5mp was the hottest thing on the street.

What engine is this crankshaft from?

Datsun roadster... Sort-of a study on different little things and also unfinished. I will probably never finish it though. BTW I'm picking up a pair of RAF goggles and leather cap for driving around town. I'll also most likely end up with a little more windshield. Sort-of going for a minimalistic look there.

I like the new look of the car but... Since the front of the car is so outlandish and bold the huge rear spoiler completes the look. I do like the new look, don't get me wrong. The rear end may need something else to make the look more "balanced".

Hey, If you want to bail out of that head... Instead of throwing it away I'll take it for the shipping/boxing price.

Dang Jeff! That is a hunk of metal! Albiet soon to be inredible looking!