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Very nice but the oil cooler is not big enough and needs long hoses dangling everywhere

You may want to move those sketches over to the Non Tech board where they will get a much wider audience than here.

Z says thanks for the compliments and that the steering is on the JDM side for complete coolness

Power is nothing wonderful but at least the missfire seems to have been sorted. Daggy street wheels, not much choice in 17" when they have to clear big StopTech brakes. So, enjoy the sound of a V6

Me dumb and don't understand what the setup is. Yeh German engineering sometimes involves making things complicated and expensive for no apparent reason, other than to make servicing and parts expensive.

Haha, targa eligibility is a contentious one, eurocentrics run this side of the sport and don't like rice burners. Fairly sure the flares are not allowed, front and rear period spoilers are and, the shitty bit, 7 inch wide wheels. Or is it 6.5"?

To get pics up here Rob you use the Go Advanced reply, go to Attachments which enables you to download pics from your computer. Problem is the Attachments facility is usually turned off and does not appear Glad to see you are still going with this, been a few years

Well like I said its expensive from Japan too

Yeh those late VG turbo boxes are virtually unobtainable here though. Anyway an engine importer reckons the Z32 box will bolt straight up to a 33, the problem is the starter motor which mounts differently. But with a Z32 crank and flywheel the box should bolt straight up together with the Z32 starter. Its something which can be checked, I have a spare Z32 box.

This is the bit I like, its very applicable to our Z cars. "Raising the rear ride height affects handling mainly by raising the rear roll center. This adds load transfer, just like stiffening the rear bar does." While both achieve the same end the practical result is different in that rear ARB's tend to cause lifting of the inside rear wheel, not a good thing. But is there a speed of weight transfer involved here of the sort Cary mentioned? If so, what are the implications?

Bugger about the TT gearbox not bolting up, I have a new one in the car at present. Will have to see if it can be adapted. Yeh I'm thinking about doing a Electromotive style plenum, will contact EPRacing in due course see what he has, thanks.

Into a 280ZX presently fitted with a VG30DET. Seeing a brand new complete VG33 motor is now available to me at an affordable price it may be on. Apparently the blocks can be bored out to 3.8 liters which would be interesting but I'm not sure how that would affect head gasket reliability, seeing part of the gasket underside would be exposed to combustion forces? May be better to do a conservative 3.6 bore job. Present thoughts are to use a VG30DE/TT forged crank, Scat rods and custom forged pistons to suit the rods. Oil pump? Don't know, a port job would not hurt I suppose. Port the heads, Ferrea 1mm oversize valves, VG30ET cams? Aftermarket fuel rails, not sure what style injector they take. GT35R turbo, manifolds could be a problem unless the stock VG30ET ones are as good as any other. Otherwise front mount the turbo? Plenum, yuk. Have just sorted that out on the VG30DET so something similar to that may be the go, see http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=157316 VG30DETT sump with a windage tray of some sort, present motor has that sump which fits in the car perfectly. Have a near new Z32 gearbox plus MoTec ECU, CD ignition system, good fuel system, so that can all transfer. Looking for comment and suggestions on the motor itself, be nice to be able to use the brand new 33 crank but why take a risk with a maximum 500 WHP motor?

Was there software supplied with the camera? There should be, to do editing too but I don't have a Gopro so maybe they don't.

As discussed in previous topics, freight from AU or NZ to/from the US is a killer for something oversize like this, 100's of $. Japan is not cheap either.

Cheer up America

Don't forget to keep us up to date, driving impressions too. My PS is too light so no feel, electric may be a solution?

There was a clutch blowup mentioned with pics on z31.com a while ago. Everything was smashed,the gearbox bell housing, back of the motor, very scary.

Thanks Tony, makes sense, my main interest is the GT35R on my VG30DET with MT. Present rear housing is a 1.06, looks like a .82 would be better than the laggy 1.06. So far the internal gate has not been a problem but ATP have an improved setup which I'm considering.

Needs more vents, dummy exhaust pipes, yellow paint.........................

You don't need more air into the engine bay with a S30, you need less with better air exit from there. Reduces drag and lift, improves cooling. There is a fair bit on the subject around here, typically the radiator opening above the bumper is closed off for a start.

Early bird eh, I'll let Vanessa say it all from 2000 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI01H6D6UDM

Here are a couple more from that time, ended up buying the white one on the right which is now avatar car. .

See that gold one above? I actually bid on that car a few years ago through a Japanese auction, here is the auction house pic, click.

Take the old one to a brake shop and get them to make a new one up.

Educational thread, its good to read stuff by people who are not trying to sell you something too. A couple of amateur comments on the 'stonewalling' thing and the indication that the GT35R here was reaching its maximum air pumping capacity. And I think it was John who mentioned a wastegate fix as the solution to a related problem he had. Wouldn't the problem here be one concerning the inability of the engine to take more air due to induction restrictions? Causing the turbo to reach a point where it could not flow more? If the engine's induction system was improved, wouldn't the turbo then be able to flow more thus eliminating the problem? And could this be related to the wastegate thing? The turbo is working hard to overcome engine flow restrictions resulting in an increase in exhaust manifold pressure as the turbine meets more rotational resistence? Too much pressure and the wastegate is forced open against its spring? A lot of exhaust manifold pressure could also induce power robbing inversion, an observation that unduly complicates things at his stage