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    Chevy LS1 V-8/72 240z Conversion Questions

    in Gen III & IV Chevy V8Z Tech Board

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    You are really getting in over your head here. I am not trying to discourage you, but you are going to end up spending A LOT of money on this, especially if you don't know anything about cars and will be taking it to a shop to have the work done.

     

    What does a "limited budget" mean? This number can be very different to different people.

     

    There is SO much involved with this swap, and will seem very overwhelming to you since you do not have mechanical knowledge.

     

    I suggest searching this forum. I have read on here for hours and hours regarding this swap, and have created a HUGE Excel Spread Sheet with all the details involved, as well as pricing and cost information.

     

    On my car I am doing ALL of the work, including body work and paint, and my budget right now is about 30K. This includes everything being brand new on the car, accept for the shell and interior. You can easily spend double that if you don't do any of the work.

    What sports car to buy?

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    Some great responses guys, thank you. Mostly cars I've considered, but I have MY (personal) reasons for choosing some rather than others. I'll put them out there for debate.

    MKIV Supra - Driven a few, not the "driving" experience I am looking for though. I like them in a lot of ways, I'm more of a corner carver than a straight line guy though, and the Supra seems better tailored towards brutal acceleration.

     

     

    The stock Mark IV Supra chassis has also proven an effective platform for road racing, with several top 20 and top 10 One Lap Of America finishes in the SSGT1 class. Despite its curb weight, in 1994 the Mark IV managed a remarkable skidpad rating of 0.95 lateral g's (200 ft). The Z4 M Coupe manages 0.88 lateral g's. [/url]

     

    The Mark IV Supra also featured a four-sensor four-channel track tuned ABS system with yaw control whereby each caliper is sensored and the brakes are controlled individually according to the speed, angle, and pitch of the approaching corner. This unique Formula One inspired braking system allowed the Supra Turbo to record a 70 mph (110 km/h) -0 braking distance of 149 feet (45 m), the best braking performance of any production car tested in 1997 by . The Z4 M Coupe manages to do it in 215 feet.

    How does Santa cover all these households....

    in Non Tech Board

    Posted

    The numbers are actually pretty funny when you break them down...

     

    1) No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

     

    2) There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

     

    3) Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours. This also means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. Plus he better be able to ignore his digestive system, if each kid left Santa 1 cookie and 1 8 ounce glass of milk, Santa would have eaten 378 million cookies, and would have drank 23,625,000 gallons of milk.

     

    4) The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison--this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.

     

    5) 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.

     

    Happy Holidays!

    Place for Powder Coating?

    in Non Tech Board

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    I've heard real good things about MAAS Brothers here in Livermore, CA. They are a bit pricey, but supposedly do real nice work.

     

    Another thing to note, powder coating is really easy if you are doing items that are small enough to go into your home oven. You can order powder coating kits online and use your oven for the baking process. I've done it before, turns out good.

    How well will a early 260z handle with 345/35r15 and 245/50r15?

    in Brakes, Wheels, Suspension and Chassis

    Posted

    It's all about the tire you choose. A 345 width t snow tire obviously isn't going to handle better than a 225 performance tire just because it's wider. Just like a 225 width drag radial will give you way more traction than the widest performance strret tire on the market...

     

    I wouldn't get so hung up on specific widths, especially if you don't have the rim width to support wide tires. How wide are your rims? Do you have flares to fit 345's?

    How to test torque wrench?

    in Miscellaneous Tech

    Posted

    Take it to a Sears store, they might have a way to test it. You can also nicely ask a Snap On truck driver to check it.

     

    And then they tell you "yep, it's off by 2 foot pounds, get rid of it" "Here is a 100 tooth 3/8th's drive torque wrench with an awesome comfy handle, and you're lucky, it's on sale today for only $400!!!"

     

    ;)

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