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Also, if anyone could help me out with this, is there any easy way to figure out how much brake-torque a drive train can handle without damaging it? I'm curious to get some resources, but I can't find anything.

This is a rough estimate, but somewhere around the neighborhood of 11's? Why is it uncommon for a L28 to drag race? It seems like a pretty damn good platform for it to me.

Strictly drag, but it needs to be street legal. I'm definitely planning on exhaust first off- the stock exhaust system is awful from what I can tell. Another thing I want to make sure is to keep it's reliability. I don't want to end up pushing any boundaries with reliability that are drastic. Thanks for the writeup, I'll keep it in my notes for this project. The car I'm looking in to has bad brake pads, but I'm replacing the braking system with performance-grade materials regardless. My extremely loose and rough HP estimation would be about, eh, 250-300(max) HP at first. After that I'll deal with the new fuel lines and forged pistons that the extra power will require. Even then, I'm probably going to not hit 340-350 for a very long time considering it could be pretty rough to the stock block. Another thing I want to look in to is the transmission. A 280zx with automatic transmission will make up for power losses through brake-torque launching as well as a shift kit (hell, I may even be able to shift manually considering they're 3 speed), but I need to modify it for it to become viable/reliable. Once I get enough sufficient research down I'll make a thread for the project, post the setup, and see if people will troubleshoot it for me. I'm aiming for initially doing modification to the L28ET that will be taken one step at a time, with a gap of time in between, so I can really get a feel for what each is doing, as well as re cooperate resources.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm just now looking in to the cars and engines, so I'm just trying to find prospective builds at the moment, and see what sort of money it costs to get different times (relatively, of course, this is all really rough estimation). I'll check out the posts, and I'm deep in the middle of my own research at this point. I've found a lot of particular suggestions for certain parts that are like "suggested for greater than x HP" but I haven't really found anything that's specifically for power gain itself. Apologies if this was a crap post, but it's extremely general stuff at this point.

I'm looking for comparable numbers that take the cash spent on modifying a 280zx and 1/4 mile times in to consideration. I was hoping some of you would know any projects that the authors of which have recorded that sort of thing. I'm looking in to buying a 280zx (with the L28ET, of course), and am considering doing some things like http://www.xenonz31.com/s130/l28et.html outlines, and some of the other projects on this board. I want to see what sort of numbers I'm looking at for a drag car. Thanks for the help. Edit: If you can estimate, go for it. What sort of cash do you think it would take to get x second 1/4 mile times?