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There is a bit of a issue with rather large kangaroos in rural aussie. Hence the roo bar.
Douglas
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If they are rubing on your shock and not the spring pearch then you need a spacer. If its hitting the spring purch you need coil overs.
Douglas
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I wouldnt bother witha 2.5 inch. go straight to the 3 inch.
Douglas
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Coming from a country boy in New Zealand..... I thought southern cal. was pretty cool. All those place you see in the movies and read about in mags. The traffic was an eye opener. I coudnt put up with it. Would have to get a gun and start shooting people.
When you got out of the city a bit, the canyons and mountains were way cool. Good driving and not any interference from the law that I could see. Had to laugh a bit though. I rented a auto neon POS, and was blowning away big bikes in the twisties with my daughter in the back asleep. A few of these fellas need to learn a thing or two about corner speed. English did seem like a secound language at time but coming from Florida, I guess you might be used to that Mike.Cheers
Douglas
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I have been through this a couple of times myself. The most consitstant answer was that the early isolater will lower a late model car 3/4 of and inch. Motor sport auto has a kit that will replace the late ones with early ones and give you haevy duty bushings as well. Could be worth looking into.
Douglas
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If you get stuck on the rb30 block let me know and I will call a few of the local yards for you. They should be pretty cheep. Shiping wont be though.
Douglas
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Thanks guys,
That should get the rear at the level I want it. Now i just need to find some 240 ones. Not many around this part of the world.
Douglas
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Cyrus,
I read somewhere ages ago that if you have your intercooler tubing larger on the exit then you wil get less of a pressure drop due to the intercooler. Maybe this is why toyota has a larger throttle body.
Douglas
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Howdy all,
Can any one out there help me with the thickness of the strut isolaters from diferent year s30's. I want to drop the rear of my 77 2+2 about a inch. If i drop in some front isolaters from a 240 will that do the trick? I know they are shoter but I just dont know buy how much. A actual measurement would be good for comparison. My Z has been pulled apart and put together so many times that i dont really know what year the parts are from.
Cheers
Douglas
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If you really want to figure out how to match revs dont use the clutch at all. I had a old corolla at college that had a crappy master cylinder that i couldnt afford to get fixed for about 6 months. You had to start the engine in 1st gear and change without the clutch up and down the gears. Never had a problem since. I still do it sometimes just to stop bordom in traffic
Douglas
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Guys, do any of you know what the thickness of the rear strut isolaters is. My car is a 260z 2+2 thats been imported from Japan so i dont know of i have early or late isolaters. The ones i have are almost 2 inchs thick. If the early ones are 3/4 inch shorter that will put the rear ride height just where i want it.
Cheers
Douglas
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I have just come back from a trip state side. One of my cousins in Florida has a brand new factoty five cobra that was put togeter for him. Runs a 351w with 420 hp at the crank. Fastest thing I have ever been in and the engine wasnt run in so we didnt take it past 4500 rpm. Really impressive. I dont like the chassis much however. You would think that after making replicas for so many years that some one would come up with a proper space frame for the things. That would probably fix most of the handeling problems and make it lighter.
Douglas
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In some cases its easier to sell the car and buy the car you want. On this side of the world the tt's are not much more expensive. Only $1000 - $2000 more. Thats NZ dollars as well. These things are cheep here now. I have seen good tt's for $6000. Very tempting.
Douglas
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This is the same engine they use in the 4.0 lt jag right?
Anyway, I have just come back from San diego visiting family and they have a brand new t-bird. Had to have a look and a drive. The engine is bigger then the sbc in my z and really fills up the engine bay in the t-bird. I really was disapointed with it, the car must weigh a lot. Didnt feel much faster then the suv i had rented.
Douglas
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260det,
I have been making a buck for the fron and rear. The front works a bit like a g-nose but loks a lot better IMHO. Its a nose cone basiclly, you dont run a bumper any more and hopeflly it will improve the aero aspect a bit. The rear is really just a bumper replace ment. It has a small venturi like a ss c/dore which might improve flow under the car but i doubt buy much. I will try to send you some photos later today. BTW, where do you get your supercsr info. I can never find much usfull info on them on the net.
Douglas
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Having some molds made at the moment. I had some photos in my personel photo file but I havent figured out how to add them in the new format. I will give it another go. I was going to try to bring an example of new front and rear over with me in a couple of weeks but every one is stuffing me about so it doesnt look like i will be able to. Topless Z was looking at doing a run of them states side.
Douglas
Just tryed to put the photos in. No luck, they must be to large or something. I dont know. Computers are a pain in the arse! I am going to have some better ones soon any way, when i do i will e-mail them to topless Z!
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Another thing to remember is that there is a lot of side loading on the shock absorber on the mac strut. This will give you friction and more heat in the strut. The double wishbones treat the shock independently and you dont have those problems. There still are a lot of good race cars with struts though. Ask any Porsche guy. Another example is the aussie v8 touring cars, the falcons used wishbones, the c/dore's struts (until last year). The c/dore's still won the championship heaps more than the falcons. Go figure?
Douglas
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I kind of lnow where you are coming from Scottie. I Always have to be playing with something. Twice now I have built cars for the road that end up being weekend only check for police first canyon carvers that eventually become undrivable on the road. I am trying not to do that with the 260z but you never know. There should be some interesting engines around soon if you are still into large displacement v6's. Nissan's 4.0 truck engine, Misubishi and isuzu 3.5 v6 gms new 3.8 quad cam about to be released. I bet these engines with a gn style turbo wold be a lot of fun and mabye a new engineering road to go down. Probably cost a lot more than the gn however. Keep us up to date!
Cheers
Douglas
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Jared,
I will have a go at putting them back up tonight. There hasnt been any progress on the molds
. The guy promised me he would get started this week end. I will make a few calls tonight and see if I can speed him up a bit.Douglas
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Grant,
Go here http://www.zparts.com/showcase/sleekz/szconcepts/2_2project/2_2intro.html
and print out a copy of the 2+2 two there. Then just draw what you like. You will see that different window treatment can make a big difference.
Douglas
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We were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I think that the reason the 2+2 looks funny is that the roof line gets thicker in profile as you go towards the rear. The hockey stick angle at the hatch doesnt help either. I really believe that covering the rear widow will make this worse. Try mocking up some card board and painting it a similar color to your car and see what you think. I am going to try some paint tricks on mine to make the windows look larger. It worked nicely on some drawings I did.
Douglas
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Aux,
Have you got a part # ? Are they actually a bolt in item for the Z?
Douglas
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John,
I had a 79zx 2+2. Ran 225/50/15's on 7 inch rims on the front and 245/50/15's on 7.5 inch rims on the back. The car was lowered about a inch all round and I never had any problems with rubbing. If I were to do it again I would keep the size the same front and rear or run some sort of balance bar to better tune the brakes for the difference in traction front to rear. You need to remember that the more you change something from stock the more tuneing you will need to do to make it work. I think that the zx could be a bit twitchy if you mess with the ride height difference between the front and rear to much. If you could get a 235/50/15 on all four corners thats what i would go for.
Douglas
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Sorry mate, Beat you to the baby seats in the back thing. I have a 77 2+2 v8 z. Its in the final stages of body work right now. I have thought a lot about the rear shape of the 2+2 and of why it looks funny. I dont think that the window shape is the problem. It more a case of the metel above the window getting thicker as you move backward. This make the car look visually heavy in the rear. My car had a lot of rust above the hatch so I altered the roof line at the corners so the transition from roof to hatch is smoother and more like the coupe. I have also removed the drip rails. I think it looks much better. I have toyed with the idea of blacking out all the chrome around the windows and even using the same paint above the windows a little to make the roof look like its part of the window and will visually narrow the thickness of the roof at the rear. The other thing I have done is make a new rear spoiler that hangs of the back a bit more then most. This lenghthens thecar and makes the roof blend in a bit more. There are some old photo in my personal album.
Cheers
Douglas
When you got out of the city a bit, the canyons and mountains were way cool. Good driving and not any interference from the law that I could see. Had to laugh a bit though. I rented a auto neon POS, and was blowning away big bikes in the twisties with my daughter in the back asleep. A few of these fellas need to learn a thing or two about corner speed. English did seem like a secound language at time but coming from Florida, I guess you might be used to that Mike.
. The guy promised me he would get started this week end. I will make a few calls tonight and see if I can speed him up a bit.
Giant hairy manly.... well, you get the idea
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Actually Guys its a HOLDEN Torana. They are a little larger then a vega or pinto. Made in aussie only but were originally based on the european vauxhall viva. Came with frome the factory with any thing from a 1.9 four to a 3.3 six. Even made a racing version that had three webers from the factory. Sounds cool.
Douglas