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im using a harbor freight oooghaa horn on my zx i like it and its loud as hell. you can have my stock 83 zxt horns if you want them.
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i run a optima red top give like 248.99 for it but on the bright side my zxt has never failed to start in over 2 years. the only time this battery has died was because my alt went out and i did not even know it! lights were still bright power windows rolled up as normal and i drove it day and night (using headlights) for a week before i started to notice things dimming... even my ms1 let me run till there was only like 5 volts of power but it got me home that night. got optima or nothing! what you gain in weight you will also in piece of mind.
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sounds good man but like said above wide band is a must and my stock 280zxt clutch crapped out about 12 lbs so get a good one to start you should be fine. aslo why the huge injectors? i make over 300hp on 450cc dsm injectors at like 70% duty cycle. it will be hard to not run rich at idle with out crazy mods on those. good luck tho...
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i got all my stuff through frozen boost for cheap and there same side intercooler is the kill. recommend them strongly.
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http://www.cardomain.com/id/Ernie%20Ramey here is my same side setup with 2.25 aluminum pipe.
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yeah my 83 turbo has the central locking but when i shut the door she unlocks both doors. oh well..
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no need for 3'' with a stock setup you will not out flow 2.5'' pipe. i run 2.5'' at 14lbs of boost making 300+ foot pounds of torque. mine is not super loud with no cat or muffler the turbo does act as one to an extent. good luck with your new car man. ps best money i ever spent on mine was the hpk255 suspension kit and poly bushings.
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its looking good jake if all works out we might throw away my turbo and go super lol... keep up the good work man.
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LMFAO you used my old front struts for a idler mount! way to keep it nissan jake. those mothers are hard as kobalt were they hard to turn down? keep it coming man and you will be as fast as me......
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hell yeah jake it looks good post pics of the intercooler when you get it mounted. keep up the good work and ill come down to help you get it tuned.
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Im running a xtd stage 3 the 4 puck one with a sprung hub. my zxt has not destroyed it yet and im running 15 psi with megasquirt and a big fmic. i use my launch control on a daily basis (3000rpm dumps) because i drive like a ****** lmao. no problems after 6 month abuse. only thing is they get grabby when disc gets hot. make sure you break it in correctly and it will be okay well it has for me anyways. good luck...
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Damn, looks like your're not messing around. Sounds and looks good so far!
Luckily someone had told me about the bump stops when I bought my B&M or I would have done the same thing you did. It's amazing what a new shifter can do for an old T5 right?!
man thats the truth my summit shifter is light years better feeling and having the piece of mind i can bang gears is nice because i shift hard to second and third. the throw reduction didnt hurt my feelings either although the stock throw was not bad. i toped mine off with a hurst ball and black leather boot with double red stitch i think it looks good.
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still learning how to use this site.
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hey guys feel free to post questions or comments for this is not an on going build yet i'm just posting the last year of work. so don't think its impolite to post i encourage it
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If it breaks before february...I swear there will be a red mustang in your future.
Or maybe an RB swap. Ehhhhh, I dunno.
CODE RED MUSTANG lmao but im down for a rb25 swap as much as i got love for the L....
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well as soon as the boost went up to 14 psi and jake fixed my launch control my clutch started slipping so as always im broke so here is my fix. it was cheap from ebay and this puppy works good pedal pressure is up about 20% or so but the grip is nothing short of amazing. when the disc is cold it acts stock but when it gets hot it gets harder to engage softly the disc gets thicker from thermal expansion and you will have less and less pedal to modulate the actuation. but it IS VERY STREET DRIVABLE. when using the t5 trans always buy a shifter with bump stops so you dont destroy your syncros like i did ha ha lesson learned. i got this one from summit racing for a early mustang 40% throw reduction sweet short shifts.
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im also running a maxima ka 65mm throttle body port matched to my intake and all my egr stuff has been cut off and welded shut. my cable throttle was a quick fix that never got removed because it worked so damn well. its a schwinn brake cable jake got at wal mart because when we done the ms1 swap the tb spacer jake made was not quiet thick enough
so we went to cable but it was 4am in the morning nothing was open but wal mart and well it works. the plug wires are accel sb chevy cut to fit. and i ended up getting gas on the valve cover so the black paint is no more. i scrubbed it down in aircraft stripper looks better silver anyways right?
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Just for the record alot of the stuff i will be posting did not happen in the order i post them. the head was actually the last thing we did. we being me and jake or as you know him Xnke. any way i wanted more power so i ordered a bov,intercooler and piping with silicone couplers from frozenboost.com which is fantastic by the way. the intercooler is beautiful and the tanks very heavy cast this thing is made for boost LOTS OF IT. we used 2 1/4'' piping which was very easy to weld with a simple wipe down with acetone. frozen boost are the most professional people i have ever ordered from period. i ordered 2'' piping and it was out of stock but because it did not say so on the site they contacted me and offered me the 2 1/4'' at the same price and give me 15% off my entire order and express shipped it for no shipping charge. just really good people to order from and there products are tops. i told them i was going to post before and after intake temps to see if there 189.99 intercooler was any good or just a big piece of aluminum.
they said let them know if there is anything they could improve. by the way my intake temps via megasquirt with a gm sensor was 225 deg at 10 psi on a 90 deg day. with the intercooler at 14 psi on a 90 deg day my temps are 115-125!!!
thanks again to frozen boost and jake for tig welding the whole thing up...
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well after sorting out suspension and rust AND BRAKES the hunger for more power was getting stronger. the p90a head had 2 lifters not pumping up and making clickity clackity noise that i could hear through the firewall. so off came the lifters in favor of solids and a F cam from a maxima l24. some how in the cam swap while i levered off rockers i bent a valve (shown by compression check) and the car ran on three cylinders when reassembled. but it was running on 1-5-6 not possible you say? i bed to differ! turns out ANTS got into my fuel rail while the intake was sitting in the yard for 1 1/2 hours. after getting very angry knowing it was assembled correctly jake later took my shinny new flow matched and blueprinted 450cc dsm injectors out and back washed them to find 2-3-4 full of ants..... it ran fine after the ant removal. then we get to the bent valve problem. we tried to order a set of si valves and they only had the intakes. being the valve i bent was a exhaust this did not help right. scott at pro machine in bowling green ky was kind enough to cut us a set to fit out of stellite blanks for some sort of nascar engine. anyway after reassembly of the engine and all was good and compression check up on all cylinders jake drove it down the street after lash was set and it threw off the no.6 rocker my exhaust valve stuck open!!! so off came the head one more time this time jake cleaned up the ports lightly and the head went to scott at pro machine for a full valve job.
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but before we get to all the good stuff first was rust repair where t tops were leaking and i had rust holes completely thru my floor pans and seat mounts. when i drove in the rain my ass got wet from the tire slinging water at my seat lmao. all the carpet and sound dead material was remover because it smelled mildewed on hot days. look at jake under the car haha haaaa.
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first off the car had no brakes when i received it prev owner said it needed brakes little did i know they were no longer working. THANKS ALOT! so she got 4 new rotors 4 new calipers, pads, power booster and master cyl. now she will stop very well. anyway i ran 10psi with no intercooler and a bosch bov stock injectors for many months on a fairly good tune average mpg was 27 or so and power was good. it was not long before good was not good enough and project red rocket began. starting with all poly bushings and tokico suspension.
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hey guys thought i would post my progress on my 1983 280zx turbo build. since its coming along well i said to myself why not post it and just maybe it will help someone else just starting out. here are some pics of her when the day i took her home for 3500.
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Is there a certain GM coolant sensor i should get, like one that will thread into the stock spot? Or will i have to tap my own?
ls1 cool sensor threads in to stock location by num 5 cylinder but im running mine from the side of the thermostat housing works good for the last year i run ms1 v3 with stock turbo dizzy. if you have the funds go mega and dont look back! it took me and my brother 2 days to make my harness from scratch and get it to idle. and for god sake change the injector clips when you go ms im glad we did the stock retaining clips are crap. good luck man.
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you will be fine with a 14'' jake i think thats whats going on mine in the near future ie TAX TIME....