OlderThanMe

so does anyone have an extra P90?? Airjockie: you have plenty of wheels...I only have 5 extras... one is a busted FORD Explorer aluminum rim.

I saw it this morning...looks familiar...don't know who's Z that is though..

frank...interesting idea but how well will it work? You will have two sources of power drain...off the crank and in backpressure. I'd rather go with more of one than having both. A good SC or a really good turbo setup... I've seen the setup with a SC and 4 turbos on a V8 bonneville truck...but you won't be running flat out for a long time will you? just some thoughts...You can get over 500hp with a single turbo on a L6 but be a bit laggy...I have also seen Kjones's SC Z making around 250hp?

I posted this pic of Zr8ed's car... I like the cross bracing in the front. If that kind of X bracing were used on the rear half of the engine bay I think that would be the strongest reinforcement. Obviously it is hard to do because most engines sit high in the engine bay.

well it also depends on gearing and getting your power at the right RPM to be at that speed. Also I am thinking that that would take every bit of power to get to the indicated speed so it may take a while to get up to the top limit aero speed. It seems that weight does not have that much effect on the top speed with that calculator. the frontal area and CD do which makes sense. I will be doing some type of elongated nose on my Z but not a Gnose. ere is sort of what I am thinking of for a good front end design. I am going to change it so that there is a piece in front of the hood like on the Gnose but a little different. Maybe like the front of the ... I am thinking that keeping the sides of the car flat(unlike the subtleZ, scarab, and others) is important to keep airflow smooth along the body. This sketch has the sides of the car pushed out about 2" along with a widened BRE-type spoiler. Before HybridZ goes to the wind tunnel someone should do some road testing to see what obvious things are hurting aero and what things are good. That way we know what to look for in the precious tunnel time. Obviously flow seperation at the hatch and what happens at the windshield are things to look for but also things like what happens in the wheel wells and along the side of the Z's body would be interesting to see. I would be out there today with my yarn and a chase car videotaping if I had my engine back together(may be happening this week)... HOTROD magazine did some aero testing on a hotrod in a wind tunnel a while back so that may be something to look at. Just tossing around some ideas here so that is my 2cents...

260pos: great link!!!

the flywheel should sell...the other stuff might be a bit to expensive to ship to the states...especially the header.

Sweet guys!! I just called a buddy from my old welding class that has a MIG and he says he'll help me out pull my old bolts out on Saturday. I love all the different ways put up that definitely would help me and others searching for how to remove head bolts! great stuff!

wowsers!!! how about a clickable link? bbs.chinavfx.net/view.php?part=6&page=&sort=&age=1&id=1461730

hmm... well I did something to my carbies at the same time I pulled my spoiler or something...I know that I gained MPG...lol

Paul, The owner of the Pinks motor is in college(1500 miles from his Z) and will be installing the motor in the spring. That is what he told me...

Git-r-done Boy!!!

That is basically what I am doing with my design onephatz...

This is what the car looks like. It was completed in 2003. pretty...

GENIOUS!!! Now I just need a MIG...lol Thanks for that idea Z-ya!! that would work great!

I think they used the "C" cam for the racing...maybe? The "C" cam was supposedly Nissan's racing cam. (largest of the stock cams) I have one...they came in the L26 engines... try looking on zhome....lots of info there on the BRE cars...and pictures.

http://pairon.fc2web.com/ and translanted by google and the chassis pictures page attached some pics...looks a bit like Mikelly's windshield frame reinforcements...lol and someone here just did the under fender reinforcement just like this one...lol!!!

the car in the pic is a car from Japan...on a Japanese web site...not in english... I'll try and find the linky...

I know that my BRE gives a TON of downforce. I should not have made such a blanet statement...forgive me please... I could feel a difference at 65-70mph. When I removed the spoiler the car was not as planted at speed and got 1-2 better MPG... that was my experience. the WRX tall spoiler does not have much drag and it is diretly in the flow of the air seperating from the rear windshield...and it helps with downforce without all the drag. For an AutoX car or track day car the BRE rear spoiler will for sure give you downforce but also with a bunch of drag. I imagine the whale tail would have lower drag and just as good or better downforce compared to a BRE spoiler...

ooh... pretty. You COULD get a linkage to work...but it would be a LOT of work...and a bunch of U-joints...

Thanks Doc! I'll try that this week!!! I just don't have a propane torch...I'll try the other stuff that I have the tools to do though.

Here is where I put my cheapo($75?) stock replacement MSD box... along with completely redoing ALL of the wiring in the car. It all runs under the fenders hidden from view.

you will LOSE MPG with a rear wing or spoiler...I had a change of about 1-2mpg when I took my BRE spoiler off...less air resistance.

Here you can see one of the broken bolts at the top of this picture. It literally twisted apart...

I have three head bolts that are broken off right above the block's deck surface. I have an easy-out but it is a little small for a big bolt like the head bolt. What methods are there for removing broken head bolts? Even I have to take the block to a machine shop I want to know how they will remove them and how much they should charge. I have heard of upto $10 per head bolt removed... I thought about using a vice-grip on the bolts but I don't want to scratch the deck surface. I am going to replace the bolts with studs once I can get these old bolts out. Thanks guys.