Chris240zTurbo

I have been over every inch of this car, I built an exhaust and transmission for this car when it was still L-powered. This is probably the nicest/cleanest shell I have seen in years and years, frame rails look as new, totally straight and rust free, in fact the entire car is super straight and as rust free as you will find anywhere, last time I saw the car (well over a year ago, and I think it's pretty much been in storage since) it was a show winner, really amazing paint on it too. Whoever buys it will be very happy with it, although I don't think anybody should and Dave should just get off his butt and swap the LS into it! I guess the market will set a price on it, but if you're looking for a ready to go car sans drivetrain (really it's much more than just a shell IMO) ready to drop in your choice of powertrain and go, you can't go wrong with this one.

Uh oh, time to get to the 1/4 mile track! I've run the 1/8 in 7.6 @ 98mph with a 1.76 60' and a bum transmission, but haven't made it out to the 1/4 mile track in forever. Times a wastin! thread or at least times would make a good sticky, I'd suggest a photo of the timeslip or some kind of proof, like a video, to be included on an official list - and 60' times and 1/8 mile ET would be good info too. Do I have to make a "Big-Phil call out thread" or just take him to the track and whoop him? :burnout:

I'll tell you why, his car is way faster like that, because.... wait for it.... It's always going down hill!!!

I will take my cut in FCABs please! That's Frosty Cold Adult Beverages to the uninitiated

I had a 1995 Buell S-2 Thunderbolt that I bought new, actually my wife bought it for me. sold it years ago to a member here who ended up nearly being killed by a blue hair in a Toyota Land cruiser Not very fast as far as sport bikes go, but it was a wheelie machine and super fun to ride, the 1125R in Cygnusx1's pictures is the real deal, very very fast, if a little weird looking. I heard one with an aftermarket exhaust the other day and WOW... sounds great and super loud! Nice bike.

$80k GT-R at an apartment complex? Nothing against apartment living, lived in one myself many years ago, but there is NO WAY I would leave a car I give a crap about outside overnight, let alone at an apartment complex, no matter how nice. Don't get me wrong, nobody deserves to have any piece of personal property stolen, but if the owner can afford the car, surely he or she can also afford a secure parking garage? Just a thought. That being said, thieves are the lowest form of life on the planet, hopefully the boneheads that pulled that little stunt will get what's coming to them. Besides who exactly are they going to sell them to? Do GT-R wheels fit anything but a GT-R?

Just yesterday I took a "sporterized" Mosin Nagant left to me by my Grandfather when he passed away and let my 14 year old son shoot it, old 200gr. military surpus junk ammo, 4 out of 5 in the 10 ring at 100 yards off of a bench with iron sites, not too shabby, he likes it better than the 30-06 700 BDL that I had bought for him to use this whitetail season, the crazy kid prefers open sites and I could have bought several Nagants for what that one Remington cost, ahhh kids.... The thing shoots pretty straight, has some kind of aftermarket walnut stock and a plain barrel with a blade front site pinned on it. less push than a 30-06 or 7mm Magnum and way less than a .300 win mag I have. I also got a Mauser K-98 from the same Grandfather marked 8mm Mauser, complete with bayonet, but haven't fired it yet, it's in decent shape so it might go up on the wall. Old military firearms are great, I have a WW2 vintage .455 Webley revolver I haven't shot in forever too. In related HybridZ fire arm news, I bought a RRA AR-15 with a 20" bull barrel and topped with a Leupold 20x Gold Ring scope, it's just about the most accurate auto loader I've ever fired, knocked the center out of every 8" target I shot at this weekend at 100, 150, 200 and 250 yards, shooting 55gr remington "hydro-shok" rounds. Amazing little rifle, but WAY nose heavy with that long bull barrel on it. Should do great on the feral hogs in West Texas. Aaaaand... back to Z cars!

Hey Yasin! I moved from Denver to Houston in '99, I was sure I was going to hate the weather, but I actually enjoyed it, if it's not raining, it's nice out, yeah it's brutally humid, but I aclimated to it pretty quickly, we moved up to Ft. Worth in '05 and I still miss H-town. Never noticed any undue wear on any of my vehicles, Z's included, but you sure won't want to drive them in the rain, it rains BIG TIME in Houston. Housing will be a major shock for you in the Houston Area, it's probably less than half of what you'll pay for a comparable home in Colorado, taxes are quite a bit higher though. Harris County is one of the highest tax rates in Texas, if not the highest. Buy a house with a pool! You can use one nearly year round. I lived on the north side of town, Spring/1960/Kuykendahl area, and liked it a lot, big town issues aside (My very next door neighbor murdered his wife, yikes!) I liked Houston, and would move back if I had a lucrative opportunity to do so. Plus you'll be close enough to come up to FTW for some of our Z stuff, we have a couple track days a year and go to the drag strip occasionally, check out cowtownzclub.com my Wife is the treasurer. Chris

I'm 36 now, and I was brought home from the hospital in 1972 in a new 240Z, the first new car my parents ever bought, it was sold a couple months later and they bought a truly hideous 4 door Chevy Impala to haul the family around in. Flash forward to 1987 and there's only one car I want for my first, and I bought a '78 280Z, S-30's were just used cars then, and were plentiful. Since that first '78, I have owned 11 S-30 Z's, and one lonely '82 ZXT, and a '90 ZXTT, and I currently own my '73 turbo car, a triple weber'd ZG flared '72, and a '78 Black Pearl. I have owned at least one S-30 Z continuously since the summer of 1987. I'll always have at least one I even married a girl whose first car was a 77 280Z, she claims the '72 as hers now, and she's treasurer of the Cowtown Z Car Club. The Black Pearl is a project we're just starting for my son, who turns 15 in a few months, ya gotta start 'em off right!

Please do not let that damn thing derail. Thank You Chris Upward Supervisor Maintenance Scheduling BNSF Railway Ft. Worth TX :mrgreen:

I have not run N2O on my Z, but I did run a 100 horse kit on a big block '69 Camaro I had, I once had a small backfire, more like a "sneeze" really, that made taco shapes out of the secondary throttle blades, shot a wicked fireball out of the cowl induction hood, right at the windshield and started the air cleaner on fire, well, flaming chunks of the air cleaner anyway... this was a plate kit and near as I could figure at the time, the fuel solenoid stuck for a split second and the engine got a big whiff of nitrous with no additional fuel. BOOOM! I would think that having the compressor section of the turbo, all the plumbing, intercooler and intake manifold full of nitrous would make for a truely spectacular explosion if something similar happened. James Thagard posted some photos of his awesome twin turbo stroker 240Z after a nitrous mishap several years ago, I wonder if they're still around? ***EDIT*** couldn't find 'em, but it was a good excuse to revist some of James' pics again, he sure does amazing work!

You know, I thought I could hear his stomach ringing... discouragingly, my cell is not the most valuable thing this particular dog has consumed. Can't wait to see it "in the flesh" BP!

yeah, that and "When are we going to build my hot rod engine?"

it's about itme, now I won't have to endure the daily "I miss my Z" text messages! LOL snot rocket lives!!!!

You fellas have NO idea....

You just missed the FTW Z club dyno day about a month ago, $35 for club members for 3 pulls, I didn't go, was out of town. Check the website www.cowtownzclub.com we've got some good stuff coming up, including a car show at Grubbs Nissan up in your area.

Try PMing Tommy, (Chemicalblue) he was running an E-11 and now has a Platinum, he can maybe help you out.

Tony, your Celica story reminds me of a good friend who was in the USAF and stationed in Italy, he had purchased some little Fiat sedan from another airman and it had some kind of a much hotter engine swapped in it, he had loads and loads of hilarious stories about the car, he sold it to another airman when he left Italy, who looked him up stateside years later to swap stories about the car, just hit me as funny... so far Brian wins, (or maybe loses?) $15k and a felony??? dang.

I haven't been in trouble with the law for acting stupid on the street in several years, but I always figured that whenever I did get caught, I've had it coming for all the stupid crap I've pulled. Got a 118 in a 65 speeding ticket in Wyoming once, had to bond out of jail. ('82 ZXT) Got a 96 in a 60, then less than an hour later got a 94 in a 60, both in Wyoming, mailed the ticket fines in and somehow one was not dealt with properly, had a warrant out, not a fun time. Wyoming will put a "hold" on your Colorado DL for an unpaid ticket/warrant ('72 240Z) Was pulled over and handcuffed for racing a guy I knew, no ticket and no jail, but the patrolman sure scared the everloving crap out of me ('78 SBC 280Z vs. '67 Chevelle) friend was let go also. And probably the biggest bone head maneuver, in a Z car anyway - left a friends house late, about 2 A.M.on a Tuesday night, hit the highway, HWY 86 from South Denver to Colorado Springs, I was going maybe 75 in a 55, and noticed a car coming up behind me, so I figured I'd just open it up. Left the pursuing car far behind, and came up over a small rise in the road several miles later to find two state trooper crown vics with lights going, blocking the road, turns out the car I had seen coming up behind me was a county coroner. Went to Jail (speeding 100+, wreckless driving, and a ticket for a non op taillight) car was towed and impounded, mucho dollars and a lawyer later, I get the car back and got to pay two years of SR-22 high risk insurance, not fun. ('72 240Z) Now bear in mind, all of this was more than a decade ago, I've grown up a lot since then, Although it seems when I get together with Big-Phil, I lose that decade of maturity, I hope neither of us ever gets caught driving stupid, but if we do, we'll have earned it...

Bo, I bet I've got 30 to 40 L28ET rod/piston assmeblies, I'm sure I could gather a decent set together, you would have to source a set of rings. I also have 5 or 6 F-54 blocks with good crankshafts too, but I bet they'd cost a TON to ship from TX to CA We pieced Phils engine together from my pile o' stuff, and it's been boosting 20+ psi for two years now, if you need anything I've got, you're welcome to it. Contact Big-Phil if you need to reach me, I'm rarely online... Too bad about the broken stuff, but man, I'm WAY ahead of you in the "I break stuff" category!!! oh, and I agree with everyone here that you'll miss the boost if you go for an N/A L engine, that why I bought another 240Z, with triples...

Makes my little .300 win mag look like a midget! I'm going tomorrow to look at a DPMS panther in .308 that a friend of a friend has for sale, I already have an RRA AR-15 in 5.56, and it's a good little gun, although I'd think the .308 would be a little better on 200+ pound wild hogs that I run across occasionally. Rifles are a lot of fun, but don't get me started on Shotguns, that's where my real firearms passion is...

Know the guy? shoot, I can't get rid of him!!! Maybe it'll gain in value if you sign it?

I can see maybe a military FMJ type ammo just slamming right through leaving a .50 hole, but I'd imagine the hydrostatic shock would be huge, with lots of wasted meat, heck, that round was developed to shoot down airplanes! seems like a little bit of "too much gun" but whatever floats your boat! It's your tag and I really didn't expect to be invited over to dinner anyway... However, I'd much rather see someone drop a big bull cleanly with a .50 BMG or .375 H&H than to see one limp off into the trees after a hit with a .243 or something similar, as that seems to happen way too much, Heck I've personally had to help track a bull with TWO 7mm mag slugs in him, in the dark, for 3 or 4 hours until we caught up with him, what a fun hunt that was.

now how is my collectors edition of the Big-Phil show supposed to increase in value, now that everyone can see it for free???

Brian, you plan on taking a bull elk with a .50 BMG??? now that would prolly be a waste of meat! Shooting through concrete walls? OK, ventilating engine blocks? sure! but taking a game animal that you plan on eating??? A hunting buddy shoots a .375 H&H, and it's too much gun IMO., I have taken a couple of big bulls and several smaller, and a single cow, all with a .300 win mag, out to about 400 yards. I kind of wonder what kind of grief you'd get from a DOW officer for toting around a .50 BMG... I don't know as it's illegal, all the Colorado (where I grew up and still hunt Elk) DOW says is you must use a centerfire rifle in a .243 or larger bore, I'd guess that would certainly qualify for "larger" I'd bet that after a hit from a round like that, the typical Elk would already be quartered! Maybe save you a step there...