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Thanks, I will givee him some mail. What has happened to madmanadams web sit. It seems to have been replaced with s-10 help. I know that some of you have gone the topless route. It looks to me that you use a lot of the metal from the hatch and reat of the cat to put it together. What kind of stuctural mods. need to be done to maintain chassis strength? I am not to woried about the top as its a fair weather car at the best of times. All help would be appreciated. Douglas

Thanks martin, I have e-mailed john. He has a video he will send me. If you use the stock hinges on the hatch for the trunk, will it open far enough to be usefull? The stock hinge is designed to move around 30 degrees I think. I have seen others with a hinge arangement designed to move around 85-90 degrees. Cheers, Douglas

I had a look at some of those last week. They are just skyline coupe lights. They are all the same. They want about $100 nzd each side here. I may yet go down that road myself. Douglas

Howdy all, I had a bit of a play with the old monster yesterday and found truck loads of bog in the roof and some rat shit repairs. I am thinking about going the convertable route. I see that z therapy has a vid. but to see it in nz i would have to have it convereted.........Exchange rate.....Expensive! Can any of you point me in the right direction to find out more inf. on how to go about it. Links and photos would be great. My z is a 2+2, but i belive that could work in my favour. Thanks for yor help. Y'alls Great. goodness i am getting a accent. Douglas

Things i did to my 280zx that was chhep but made a difference. 1. Loose factory air cleaner. Had a cone filter atached to the fuel injection hose that ran trough the radiator support. 2. 2.5 inch exhuast on the factory manifold. 3. Slightly larger trotle body. Cant rememeber where this came from. Oh ex race Item i got cheep. 4. Plug erg hose with a ball bearing. I love my car and it was a heavy 2+2. Something I was going to do before i t/bone some stupid cow in it was wack on a turbo from the 2 lt l20 turbo 6. Seeing that you are in Aussie you might be able to find one of these at a jap import yard.They came of the early eighty lurals and skylines. I was'nt going to play with the boost. Just run standard compresion ratio an intercooler and around the factory 6-8 psi. i was trying to do this with no money as usual and hadnt thought about the fueling to much. You cam tweek the fuel pressure or mabye run an aditional injector that is controled buy a pressure switch. Cheers Douglas

My god man, you do create work for yourself. Might be a little over kill for me. Cheers, Douglas

Yo 260det, Where are you getting your outlaws from? Locally, or are you going to import a complete set up? I could use some on mine. Cheers Douglas

The z32 are five stud. I have seen it done but it cost a lot in machining. There are better people then i to coment on this, however. Douglas

My wife seems to want one of these for some reason. She saw a new ford with the suiside rear door and thought that would be just the thing for carting the children. When I wanted to learn how to weld a few years ago, i spent my days off at a shop that converted trucks from left to right hand drive. The were mostly G.M. and diesel. He was on of the few people who had the equipment to download fualts and a lot of these trucks came back. He has a great love of us cars and trucks but wont buy G.M. diesel. The fords are the only ones that come her already converted. There lies the easy answer. Douglas

From what i understand the centrafugal ones also have a two stage drive. In the housing is gears to speed up the turbine. Mabye you could coopy this with a two belt multi pully design. I have always wondered if you could do this hydrolicly with a variable dispacement pump that would be designed to give peak boost at low rpms to cut back lag and then decrease its displacement as the revs climbed to maintain the boost at the chossen pressure. I have mentioned this to a few people and they usually think im nuts but a lot of air plane controls are hydrolic so i still think it can be done. The td05 is of a mitsi. isnt it? If you really want to have a go at it i would try to swap it for a much larger turbo. Mabye someting of a big truck so you dont have to spin it so high. Good luck, Douglas

Performance 4 stroke tuning A Graham Bell Awsume book Douglas

howdy, I would say vizard is on track. I have seen this temperature used in other books as well that are compleatly independant. Dont forget that on pure race engines they are also looking for aerodynamic advantages as well. So with a higher temp. they can run a smaller radiator or inlet and get higher top speed. Formula 1 engine run higher temps again but, everything is designed to work at that temp. Your chevy isnt. Cheers, Douglas

Look at this, http://home.sol.no/~rbreilan/ns/rolftengesdal.html Awsume kit. I am trying to get in touch with the guy who made it to see what it would cost to get here. Douglas

Awsume, It looks like the old corolla will have skyline independant rear with lsd and big disks. This rear was compleate on the sub frame and it looks easy as to mount. Most pleasing news, Thanks guys. Douglas

Is this the same as mazda and fords? Douglas

Howdy, What stud pattern does nissan use on it 5 lug hubs. I am hoping its the same as the ford/mazda pattern so i can bolt the skyline rear subframe i just found into my race car. It has Mazda rx7 struts in the front so it would really be good to have matching front and rear wheels. Cheers, Douglas

I thought it was something you wacked on your todger before you scored a home run. Mabye I should have thought of that 9 months ago. Douglas

Go and have a look here: http://www.conversioncomp.co.nz/jagv12su.htm It may look a bit expensive at first but remember is NZ Dollars. $1.00 nz = .40 cents us. Good for you, really bad for me. Really looking forward to see how things come a long, keep updating. Cheers, Douglas

Elementary my dear Wat..um, i mean, Terry. I dont think I will go as far as fender vents, But i am looking at doing some bonnet ones. Some thing a little more subtle then yours. Ie. Easier to make. Mabye just cut a whole and but a mesh in it painted body color. Still planing. It depends on what radiator i find to fit. Not many Camoros down here. Cheers Douglas

If i were my decision to make it would be the 2jz. This may be a little harder to get in aussie or japan for that matter but, you would get an extra 500cc and mabye a 6 speed box behind it. The nissan and older toyota pail in comparison unless you can get them supper cheap. Oh yeah, IMHO. Douglas

Hey guys, I know this is old but, did you get anymore inf. It seems to my misguided mind that if there was a vacume on the front on the bonnet then thats where you would want to run vents. It would suck the air out. Cheers Douglas

Scott, I think the guys here have already covered most of it and for that matter are far better qualified than I to answer the question. The main thing with a single plane is lack of low rpm torque. This seems to be from lack of high speed airflow to properly mix the fuel and air together. Fuel injection doesnt need high manifold airflow to do this becuase its done with fuel pressure so it tends to pick up the low rpm torque. In saying all this a lot of the guys are runing big carbs and single plan manifolds and not having problems due to the low weight of the z. I hope this was some help and not misleading in any way, I am new to V8's and have always played with revy little fours in light cars in the past. Cheers Douglas

z-tard, it the current shape supras that have the 6 speed. I dont know if the bell housing it the same as the five speed one. The five speed was what there are kit out there for. If they are the same let me know. I would like a six speed for the z.

Omar, I have seen decompression plates on turbo engines and these have head gaskets on both sides. I wouldnt be stacking gaskets myself. Douglas

Good on ya Robzilla, How good a bend can you get? Can they be made as good as mandrel bends? This could make getting equal length header much easier. Cheers Douglas