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Heads up boys! Many of you have obviously not been reading the rules of this forum or ignoring them. Either way, that is no excuse! Most of you know we are sticklers for the rules, as such if we find your signature picture in gross violation, you WILL be losing posting privileges and/or posts deleted! It is your responsibility to know the rules and abide by them, not ours to play babysitter and remind you repeatedly! The rules are easy to find, upper right corner of the page.

Heads up boys! Many of you have obviously not been reading the rules of this forum or ignoring them. Either way, that is no excuse! Most of you know we are sticklers for the rules, as such if we find your signature picture in gross violation, you WILL be losing posting privileges and/or posts deleted! It is your responsibility to know the rules and abide by them, not ours to play babysitter and remind you repeatedly! The rules are easy to find, upper right corner of the page.

Heads up boys! Many of you have obviously not been reading the rules of this forum or ignoring them. Either way, that is no excuse! Most of you know we are sticklers for the rules, as such if we find your signature picture in gross violation, you WILL be losing posting privileges and/or posts deleted! It is your responsibility to know the rules and abide by them, not ours to play babysitter and remind you repeatedly! The rules are easy to find, upper right corner of the page.

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Soooo, when Clive says; He means for his next car?

Could just buy a 240-SX? Would be a whole lot easier than installing an SX dash in a 240-Z. Then the interior will match the exterior in form/function/era, etc.

I had nothing to do with the short block, I only built the P90 cylinder head, the pinks boys used a short block they had. Cam is an Isky grind based on the Z-gad grind, (plug Zgad grind or Zgad cam into the search engine for more info). Here are some pics of the head, cam and the formal quote that went out with the head. Note the exhaust stud hole forward of exhaust port #1. That is an external identifier. Here is the quote for it would have cost to build the Pinks head. We sponsored the labor and machine work for the cylinder head, valve train was supplied by the Pinks crew.

My bad, I just noticed I typed "Auction" instead of "raffle". It was raffle. This thread is about an auction. My bad... John covered the rest.

Yes, that is correct! The guy that won the raffle, did get the engine!

zxjiuced, Your pictures are too large, bogging down the down load and scrolling of the page. Would you please shrink ALL of your pictures to no larger than 1024x768 before you post them. Thank you, Paul

There are a few identifying items of the head that I recall and have pics of from when I originally built the head. Oh, and it has a 4 angle valve job, not 3. Not that anyone is counting.

There is a LOT of info in the book if you read between the lines. Helps to have some mechanical engine building/design background from which to "see" that info...

I am not comfortable with the concept of bearing spacers as used in a plain bearing application either. Engine plain bearings are in a "crushed" state once the caps are torqued on, the concept of a spacer might be ok from an engineering stand point, but doesn’t seem “quite right” so to speak. I have heard of guys getting away with using them in the 400 blocks with medium journal cranks, but it doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling. I found those Clevite bearings some time back, under the impression they are supposed to be thick walled “bearings”, not spacers. MS1110H A little further investigation this morning I found that they are thick wall bearings, except for the thrust bearing which indeed utilizes a spacer. My apologies for assuming that the entire set was thick wall and not investigating further when I gave you that info. Nice looking set of heads. As for the rods. I am not sure I fully understand the question. In regards to RPM limits due to structural failure, if the rods are tough enough to handle it, the pistons are the weak link and when fail, usually due so at TDC, exhaust stroke, as the piston is being slowed down from traveling up the bore and now being yanked back down. If the forces are great enough, the piston crown will separate from the pin boss region. Piston design, material of the piston and overall piston mass that is above the piston pin are determining factors at point the piston will fail, (Piston manufactures crunch these numbers and should be able to give you the safe working limits of the piston) Another factor is rod to stroke ratio. For a given stroke, longer rods make the piston to arrive and leave TDC more gently. Shorter rod for the same stroke exerts those same forces on the piston more aggressively as it arrives and leaves TDC. Yet another factor one thats affect on this is smaller but still part of the equation, is the material of the rod and its “elasticity” An elastic rod will be gentler on the piston as it tries to yank it away from TDC. The rod can be designed the only so much elasticity so its affect can be only so much, i.e. not much, where as a rib engineered/designed into the piston crown could more than offset what rod elasticity brings to the equation. Rods themselves can be the weak link if the "reciprocating" mass is more than the rod can handle at the RPM's to be ran, (small end of the rod is part of the reciprocating mass). Piston, rings, and piston pin mass need to be considered. Keep in mind the con rod is the component where the reciprocating motion of the pistons is being transferred to the rotary motion the crankshaft. Both ends of the rod are doing different things. Big end is swinging in a circle, rotating. Small end is reciprocating up and down the bore, all points in between are performing some combination of these. Not sure if that is what you were looking for.

I'll get it for you, but its gonna cost ya... a set of those velcro mittens.

I'm familiar with the N/A VG30DE engine having a veracious appetite for its fuel injectors, experienced that first hand with my '93 300-ZX, was on its 3rd set of injectors prior to selling it. I don't recall the TT version having such an appetite, wouldn't surprise me though.

Hmmm... Not sure. I'll pass this on to the rest of staff, hopefully one of them will know. Not sure we'll have an answer right away as our head I.T. guy is out on personal business. Hopefully one of the forum savvy members will some input.

Dave, What vintage, model, chassis of BMW did these come from? The style compliments the S-30 interior quite nicely!

In the garage, I'm not sure you use pics hosted on off site picture host such as Photo-bucket. It asks for a picture that is stored on your computer. Just be sure the picture itself is on your computer and it will ask to up load the file/pic from your computer. Signature picture should work just like posting pics in threads/posts. Rick click on the IMG tag and select "Copy" and then in the body of hte post for your garage, right clicking and selecting "Paste". Be certain your signature picture is not any larger than 500 pixels across AND 100 pixels tall. It will still show up if larger, but if staff catches it, you may get not so pleasant reminder of the rules and sig picture limits. (That was really more of a hint others to that haven't read the forum rules!) Hope that helps, Paul

Oldest daughter talked me into going on a nice hike up around the back side of Multnomah falls in the Columbia River Gorge this AM. Made the 30 minute drive from the house up to Multnomah falls, left the parking lot on foot at 9am, returned back to the rig at 1:30. Wonderful gorgeous day, hiked several miles climbing over 1600 feet in elevation, many gorgeous water falls, a few natural springs, etc. Here are a few shots I took on todays hike;

Hmmm... 1) The eBay sellers location and wthornes location are the same town, same state. 2) Turbo ECU in the eBay ad is suspiciously similar to the ECU trying to be sold via a WTB ad which is a violation of forum policy; http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php?/topic/89560-300zx-ecu/page__p__850258__fromsearch__1entry850258

Seems you are still not familiar with this forum and what is expected of the membership since you became a member here almost year ago? Lets see if we can't get you up to speed. This forum was established back in early 2000 around V-8 powered early Datsun Z cars. It has since evolved into an all encompassing extreme performance Z car forum. Everything from Viper V-10 powered Z cars to Turbo Diesels, electric Z cars to nicely modified N/A original engine Z cars. A few members here are running 8 seconds in the ¼ with their Z cars with the stock rear suspension and differential! Bonneville Salt Flat Z cars that run over 200 MPH! As such, this forum is NOT a basic how to repair or maintain your Z car type forum nor is this forum a replacement for any sort of service manual. We encourage new members participate and ask questions, so long as they are fully aware of this forums place in the online Z car community. This forum has rules that the membership are expected to abide by. This forum is not a public forum, it is privately owned, volunteer staffed and non profit funded. Like any private establishment, the owner has his rules that he expects the guest/membership to abide by. Please read those rules in this link; http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules In particular this forum has specific rules not common to many other forums such sentence structure. Members perspective on sentence structure matters not to us. We expect basic grade school senetence structure! We don’t expect college level grammar, but we do expect people to capitalize, punctuate and at least make an effort to proofread to a 3rd grade level. Asking for grade school level sentence structure shouldn’t be too much to ask. This thread linked below covers our view on lazy posting habits pretty well; http://forums.hybridz.org/index.php?/topic/64626-lazybroken-shift-keys-rant-does-this-apply-to-you-lets-clean-it-up-please/ Rule #3 covers thread titles. This thread is a prime example of how NOT to title your thread! Rule #2 covers our policy on spoon feeding. We don't do that here, due diligence required. It is pretty much expected that that members have a service manual of some sort even if it is a Haynes manual. How could they be able to install/perform such extreme performance parts/mods if they don't have a clue as to how their car works, is wired, how to get to its various components etc. When someone has a technical maintenance question, it is generally asked “after” the service manual and search function have been exhausted. Haynes manual cost less than $30 new, $10-$15 used. Lack of money is NOT an excuse for not having a service manual for a car that is not basic transportation. These are sport cars. If you have the money to buy, build and maintain a toy/sportscar, then you can surely scrounge up the money for a service manual. As for the language, this is a family friendly forum, please make an effort to keep posts and pics rated PG. Hope that helps, Paul HBZ staff

Is that BigPhil?

Nice work Flatty! Here was my first L28, picture taken back in the mid '90's. Stock EFI system minus cold start injector and air flow regulator, harness re-routed along the firewall and under the fuel rail. Recent customer car had me install a cleaned up N-42 intake and clean up the rest of the EFI system. Stock EFI, cold start injector delete, fuel rail install, wire harness re-route retune. Runs as good as it looks; Another customer turned family friend, in this photo still has the stock EFI minus cold start. RTZ is responsible for the EFI on this one, engine and very custom internally and externally polished N-42 by your truly; (Car currently has scratch built intake manifold, WOLF EFI system and 6 ignition coils, is OMG stunning!)