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Whatever it takes to be different, right? I like the orange one I think, though I'm not especially fond of orange on any car...

I've had the same red top in my datsun for the last 3 years, and for the first year of having the car, i was driving around on straight battery (i never drove the car far enough to find out my alternator was toast...). It's been parked since august at my grandfather's house while I'm in grad school, and i started it for the first time like three weeks ago. Fired up with no trouble at all, guess I'm also one of the lucky ones.

Oh Yasin, that's going to look SWEET! I'm with Mario, I can't wait to see it with the bumper on it...S130s have been growing on me lately it seems.

Ah, I didn't realize you were planning on keeping it NA. I always disregarded the NA option under 3 liters as being impractical on the street. Back in my Honda days, the LS/Vtec was just becoming everybody's dream powerplant, and I always wanted a turbo LS. Actually had a B18B1 on an engine stand next to my bed and a Garrett T04 on my pool table ready to go first into my Hatch, then into the CRX I'd traded it for...then the CRX threw a rod on it's built D16 and left me stranded on the bridge between Tampa and Clearwater, and I bought my first 280z as a replacement. I've been driving Nissan ever since. Maybe things have changed and I'm out of touch, but the solution in the honda crowd back then to small displacement was increasing RPM, and stripping the car out to the point that it looked like a theft recovery. Neither of those options did anything for me. I remember being super impressed with this guy I bumped into a few times that had a 92 hatch (one of the best looking hatchbacks ever in my opinion) that had somehow managed to get an H22 in there, stock everything, even had a stock airbox and exhaust manifold. He was running high 12's in the 1/4, and his car idled quieter than my 98.

It's been awhile since i cared about hondas all that much, back when i had a civic (it was a 98 hatch that my parents bought new-yes, i was THAT honda kid...) the H22 was the weapon of choice. It's what powered the first front wheel drive into the 8's in the 1/4 mile, to the tune of something like 700hp if i remember correctly...I should have guessed based on your screen name you were already stuck on the F20C, I've just been dying to see somebody actually use that RWD tranny on something! It would most likely be expensive, I'm sure that tranny alone costs more than I've got in my car, but as for being a waste of time? I'm not so sure. The H22 has a proven record of being capable of big power. So sorry if i misunderstood, i got the vibe that at least part of the goal was to be different, and was pretty sure that not too many people know about that option. good luck with whatever choice you decide to pursue.

If you really wanted to be the first to do something cool, do an H22 swap and use this gforce reverse-rotation transmission to convert it to rear wheel drive configuration: http://www.gforcetransmissions.com/tran_gf5r-rev.asp Then you could get yourself a nice turbo and be on your way...

I know that SOMEWHERE i've got the picture i took of my engine when i first got the car that looked like it got salvaged off the titanic, but evidently I never posted it to the good ol' internet...If i stumble across it, i suppose i'll post it. Here's what i got handy: before (ish) after:

I'm partial to white personally, either that or flat black... I don't think that'll get you too much from the collector crowd, though

yeah, that incident predates GTA by more than a few years...it happened in the early to mid 90's if I recall, back in the tail end of the Super Nintendo days, well before the PS1 came out. The english version is available on youtube:

Number 2 is a factory race part, is it not?

I'm SO glad i never got caught up in the "let's all spraypaint our interior trim pieces" fad that was seemingly so big a few years back...

Thanks Trumpet, but it was on purpose. I went back to get my Master's Degree in Digital Media so i can change careers. I just finished my first semester, and it's really been going well. I've got another thread going about that in the non-tech section ( http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=117386 ) if you're interested in following it. Phil, that's a really nice offer! I don't think i'll be able to take you up on it any time soon unfortunately, unless i get a secret influx of spending money my wife doesn't find out about...

In addition to living in a different city from the car, my wife and i are down to one income and a sizable student loan debt...I don't anticipate any updates occurring for another year or so. Sad faces all around...

If the tons of Option: Video Magazine drift videos i've seen are any indication, a drift spec body kit is one that's being held on by chewing gum and a single zip tie so that it falls off when they spin off the track into the hay bales without damaging it too much...any other drift spec part is probably a broken one or one that's been really beat up and kicked around a lot. those cars tend to look like theft recoveries after awhile. I'm not knocking the drifting, by the way. My car would fit right in...

Mario, you may be right....

We're both in grad school (but not together). http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=111961&highlight=s30+drawings I suspect the original poster wants something like the Monza Mystery Z: And before someone asks, nobody knows anything about this car beyond that there are three pictures of it floating around on the internet...

making progress...it still needs textures for the robot body...

Our final in the art class was themed "sparkling rust." basically we could do anything we wanted that met that qualification. I came up with a bunch of ideas: but didn't like any of them really...So I decided to use the Octobot pic from earlier in this thread. It's due tonight at midnight, here's what I've got so far:

At the end of semester one, all the people in the Production track have to pitch a game idea, and all the students vote on it. The top two picks are the games that we all make for the rest of our time here, so it's pretty important that they don't suck. My roomate in Orlando is a Programmer, and I'm an Artist, so we didn't HAVE to do it for a grade. It was 90% of the producers' grade, so they take it pretty seriously. Well, he and I decided we could make a game that was AT LEAST as good as what these guys could, and so we started to come up with an idea. We ran it by the programming teacher, and he shot it completely down as undoable one week before the presentations. It was scramble mode hell for the rest of the week, but we finally got our idea to the point where it was pretty solid. We were up till 4am almost every night last week, and thursday night we had to stay up all night to finish. Our PowerPoint got done during the 3rd presentation, we were 9th. I was so tired, my eyes were all bloodshot, and I hadn't even seen the powerpoint presentation all the way through to know what slides were what. I DID know the game idea inside and out, so unfortunately I had to do the looking at the screen to know what I'm supposed to talk about here technique of presenting...Anyway, we easily had the least flashy presentation, but the most fleshed out game idea, and we came in third place in the votes. However, the first place game was so completely out of scope that the faculty scrapped it. Which meant that the second place game and the third place game would be the winners. So our game is totally getting made! My roomate gets to be lead programmer, and I get to be lead artist! I'm really looking forward to it, it's going to be awesome! Now that I've gotten some sleep, it seems a little more real...Here's some of the concept art I did for the presentation:

Whew, that semester flew by! Fun, but super busy! I learned a ton of stuff I didn't know that I didn't know...but I guess that's why we go to school, right? We had some cool assignments, one of which was to do a development plan for an existing game as if we were going to make it from scratch or update it in some way. My team chose the original Mega Man game, but we decided we'd do it in Torque Game Builder. We also re-set it in a Steampunk universe, and gave it a moodier look. That was a really fun assignment, but I'd rather have done Castlevania. Got outvoted... Also, I've been learning Autodesk Maya 8.5 and recently upgraded to 2008. It's been slow going, but I'm getting the hang of it. We had to make a wrestler for a recent assignment, so I decided I'd make Starman from NES Pro-Wrestling. I'm not sure I'm totally happy with it, but I'm still tweaking it:

78280Z, are we talking stripes, two tone, graphics? what are you wanting to do?

Probably not the first time that's been said, but at least it had a smiley face at the end do it. you know you want to. just get out the tape...it'd be so easy. you wouldn't even break a sweat. paint it. do it.

I can vouch for that, prior to using the Falken Ziex512's I'm using now, I had Bridgestone Potenzas. The Falkens are almost straight up and down, but the Potenzas hung way out over the side.

JohnC, my experience (such as it is...) with wheel fitment has been that you can fit closer to 4.5" of backspace before it becomes a problem on a stock strut. My 17X8 +38 offset wheels fit with a 1.5" spacer(38.1mm-making for essentially 0 offset and 4.5" of backspacing) and a 255/40 tire without rubbing. I see you specified a 240z, would the fact I've got a 280z make a difference? Also,I'm sure you know already, but I think it's important to note in the backspace equation that there is a difference between advertised wheel width and actual measured wheel width since they typically measure from the inside of the bead to the inside of the bead for that. topher, you may be able to get away with a 1" spacer in the front, but they are typically sold in sets, so why not just get them all the same? there shouldn't be price difference between those two sizes.

A 7" wide wheel with a +13 (roughly .5") offset should fit the S30 with no spacer, but you may need a spacer for the 8". Unless you do the adjustable coilovers at the same time, those add some clearance for more backspace.