EastTnZ
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I daily mine all the time but it doesn't drink the gas when I'm in traffic, it just idles at ~900 rpm and purrs. I've got about 5400 miles on mine so far since April and it goes up almost every day.
Mine is just a tuned 5.3 running on 93 octane. I get around 30 or better in 6th cruising my 22 miles to work and 22 miles home in the afternoon (all interstate). Helps keep miles off my truck and I love it! Getting lunch, gas, or going anywhere it turns heads and is a picture whore lol. But that's why i built it and I love it! I've made a few friends here recently that have chased me down to chat and we hang out on occasion now.
But I agree everybody and their brother has had one, rode in one, wrecked one or is looking for one lol. After running the dragon in mine this past weekend I want to build another one with coil overs and another v8 swap with it's sole purpose to corner carve. 318 turns in 11 miles was awesome!!!
Anybody else daily their v8 z?
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Well a few small updates... I'd been noticing a little hesitation around a half tank of fuel from my fuel cell after I have stopped at redlights on a downhill slope. Decided that after 4500 miles I'd check my cleanable fuel filter. The picture attached shows the foam particles that have disintegrated and sucked down the fuel line. So I installed a new 8an fuel line and Russell fuel filter and it has seemed to run a little better
I also thought that part of the hesitation was that the fuel filter was so massive that it may aerate the fuel under heavy acceleration, so I got a smaller filter hoping for no air. Also my a/c isn't working. The compressor wouldn't kick on, so I checked the layout and the 180* fitting I used and had crimped looked like it wasn't quite on all the way but the guy said it should do. Needless to say it leaked out all the freon and I'm without air. No big deal but a new hose and some fittings and I'll be back on the road with air again.
Lastly I put on my 240z front bumper last night and I think it looks pretty good. Made some aluminum brackets and bought the 10mm x 1.25 nuts (plus washers and lock washers) that the built in studs require. Worked like a charm.
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He got some new slicks that are massive and that track must hook up very well (lose his shoes if he walked around the starting line it's so tacky)
I remember another cv blowing up after 3 passes on the night of the z attack in Nashville earlier this year on his way home lol
Send me your setup with the moser axles or a link via pm. I want more power and a 6 speed but don't want to put in a solid axle. I've got a stock r200 with mm flanges and 86 model 300zxt cvs. He's putting down like 402/435 to the wheels.
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Running an auto by chance?
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What intake setup did you wind up going with for pulling air in on the cold side of the turbo? And i can't remember, are you running a water cooled turbo? Lastly ball bearing or journal bearing version of this turbo?
Thanks
(I'm just compiling everybodies different turbo layouts and pricing my build lol)
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Pretty sure the heater control valve is bad or the solenoid to it is bad because it's stuck wide open. Other than that we clamped the inlet heater hose and it cooled down to the low low 30's out of the vents!!! I'll take it! Felt great today driving with ac!
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Yeah it's supposed to hold it and I really don't want to get rid of the stick but if I went turbo I'd have to build the rear more than the 300zxt axles/flanges I've got (not looking forward to it). Plus I've already gotta rebuild the Trans due to bad synchros in 2nd, 3rd and part of 5th, also the mainshaft is an early model and needs to be upgraded (thanks tremec for not heat treating it properly). Totaling $1900 to ship it to tick for a fresh rebuild and that's not including needing gears. I could buy a built 4l80e for the price of selling my Trans + the rebuild it needs to hold that power. And it would hold 1000ftlbs.
On the cooling lines, I just looped them over for now and it's working great. If I start to track it I'd run it to my radiator which has a built in Trans cooler in it.
Keith I may like to try that tire setup someday. I've been launching it a little here lately from second and the clutch puts it all down (no slip) so I think I could do a couple passes even with the Trans not in 100% shape. My 1-2 shift is the worst due to synchros.
In the end I'm gonna part/piece together a turbo setup and 4l80e then look for a roller z hopefully to build. Right now the serp belt is in the routing of the drivers manifold if I was to turbo this one. I'd probably just reroute the serp belt with a pulley because I'm still unsure on how much my alternator is currently charging with this routing lol
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Well I was suspiciously followed into a gas station after work by a police officer for a few miles... (I wasn't exactly driving miss daisy) He got out 1 pump over and came straight to my car and started asking all about it haha! One thing led to another and he's gonna charge my ac for free!!!
Win win! He had a couple camaro's/firebirds and had a non numbers matching one he wanted to swap an ls into so we talked cars for a half hour at the gas pumps and I got his info then left lol.
He's charging my ac tomorrow and I can't wait! Made 2 trips to advance auto parts. Measured 71" for the serpentine belt and drove home to be too small. Drove back and bought a 72" for $10 cheaper go figure lol. Should work pretty smooth, I blew the soot out of it today from 3rd-5th gears up in the 5k rpm range so it runs better with no carbon buildup slowing me down! Pics with temp gauge to be posted shortly I hope!
Also tried out this 0-60 time thing on my gps speedo the past few weeks and if I could get traction that'd be great. Pulled off 5.7, 5.8, and today dumping 2nd in the 3500 rpm range I roasted the tires and got a 6.25 second 0-60 time. All averaging 280-320 feet from 0-60. I just need room to test out this 1/4 mile mode... Fun none the less, I'm happy with the gauge setup by speed hut.
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That's awesome! I figured somebody would! I'm currently piecing together a feasible turbo setup for mine to be installed next year hopefully. Not into the 600's to start with but hopefully work my way into it eventually. I'm swapping out transmissions though. Unless I get a good deal on another z then I'll just build it and keep this one the same.
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What about a new stock tensioner? I just replaced mine thinking the pulley was squeaking but it was just a belt.
Oh yeah and I always carry a spare belt (and walbro/1qt oil/antifreeze) lol never can be too careful!
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While everybody is all like "turbo this and turbo that" I'm over here like "I've got AC!!!" Lol
And here are some pics from the install. Pretty straight forward. Should have it charged before the weekend and riding around with the windows up for once in the summertime! And btw there's room under this compressor and over the alternator for a turbo setup...
Note: I purchased the extra long hose kit and thought I'd need the extra 4' of size 6 and 4' of size 10 but after I ran all the hoses I had some left over. I had exactly 5' 4" leftover of 6 and 5' 4" leftover of 10. So the extra $10 is not worth it.
I've got it all hooked up and it runs great so far, I'm getting it charged within the next couple days hopefully then I'll see how cold it blows out the vents! Also installed a 240z steering wheel I refinished a while back while I was at it.
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I wound up buying the jtr book and the tbi one for other info it said it had in it. After all that I've still got both and may use them someday if a weird opportunity arises but I'm so glad I installed an LS engine. And no it didn't use any of the jtr book on my jci swap if I remember correctly.
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That's crazy!!! You're still on u-joints with all that power on tap! What did you replace in the 4l60e to hold 550+rwhp without blowing it? I'm seriously contemplating on building another next year sometime...
Thanks and keep up the great work! Yeah I hear you on the remodel, I'm saving for a house/wedding right now so my budget is low currently
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Holy crap that's awesome!!!...and what rear end setup are you running currently? R200 with u-joints still or 300zxt cv's?
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Currently it's $986 shipped to the house plus a guy around Knoxville said $100 to charge it professionally. But it's the only quote I've had so far. Do not charge a fresh system off the cans because r134 is so pressure critical is what I've been told. I need about 14 crimps done because I don't have the $200+ crimping tool so I'm not sure on pricing for that but $986+100+crimps. Not too bad and I tried to part it out like the build to save money but the guy I bought from is all original vintage air and beats the msrp by 10% plus out of state no tax. Hard to beat for an actual sanden compressor and I was not about to spend $450 on a no name compressor I couldn't source in the future and a set of brackets I'd have to modify for the truck layout. I think I saved about $200 going with the $48 universal mounts. And it's supposed to blow about 43* out of the vents and I can't wait!
"Wheels of Time" is the place I bought my vintage air from.Locally I found a hose shop that would crimp the fittings on for $2 per crimp but if I bought the fittings from the local performance shop then they'd crimp them for free.
Sadly my condenser from Vintage Air couldn't be purchased with an 8 fitting on the drivers side top and a 6 on the pass side lower so I didn't have an aesthetically pleasing finish so I had to order a 180* size 8 fitting for the top to have enough hose. Compressor, drier w/ binary safety switch, and condenser are mounted. Plus I had to buy a smaller diameter air filter to not interfere with the compressor serp pulley.
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Finally decided to fix the low oil pressure issue whenever my Z sits at idle with the rear of the car lower than the front. Oil pressure would stay around 30-40 psi while driving but when I let off the gas it gravitates to 0 psi. Not good. PITA to remove the oil pan after the LS was installed but I finished it tonight finally. You can see the difference from the original 2002 factory o-ring vs the new felpro red O-ring. $3.37 shipped.
Fel-Pro 72401 Engine Oil Pump O-Ring
Now my engine when started up reads 70 psi and falls to the mid 50's. Tested it out on my nearly 45* driveway and stopped at an angle which usually resulted in oil pressure dropping to zero but it stayed at 50 psi. It worked!!!
Next, I'm currently installing Vintage Air in the Z because the fiance doesn't much care for the heat... Two trips averaging 800 miles a piece she was wondering when I would buy the ac kit... Well at 4000 miles I'm installing a mini evap and sanden 508 compressor with the vintage air universal mounting brackets modified. I thought their would be enough room and their is just barely (less than 1/4" in almost all directions for it to fit). Granted I don't think it would've worked as smooth if I didn't leave the truck spacing and changed over to the car depth. TRUCK depth shown in pictures below. More info soon as I'm still finishing it up.
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Luckily my rear drums were maintained well by the previous owner, however I went and bought new pads for all four corners so I too dread the day I have to change mine out. Another PITA by the way was pulling that oil pan to change out the o-ring for the pickup tube in the 5.3!!! Barely enough room (had to use the dead blow...) for anything but it's changed and went from 25psi and dropping to zero into the beast it should've been at 50psi at idle
I'm a happy camper for now. I need a set of wilwoods for mine before I track it. I need to talk to you about the z nationals. I can't take a day off but I may be down on saturday to see the newest ls swap in your garage
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I guess I didn't hold my tongue right haha I just changed the oil and kept driving it lol. I'll try it again this week. Vintage air came in today, I'll see what I can do while I'm in the engine bay. Still shoulda changed it out while the motor was out of the car
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Definently would buy a separate gauge to check it because my oil pickup tube o-ring was bad and with the rear of the car lower than the front the oil pressure will drop to zero. Any gas jumps it up to 30-40 psi. Funny what a $4 red o-ring will fix. I just have to lift the motor to get to the front bolts on the oil pan yippee... Not looking forward to it.
Congrats on the first start!!!
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I'm using a sable/taurus fan and even in dead stopped traffic with 95* outside temps I've never seen over 205*. This is also with a 3 row 280z aluminum radiator and no fan shroud around the taurus fan. Fan (low speed) kicks on at 200* I believe. While driving it stays at 190* or below (186* new factory 5.3 thermostat).
I did however use pipe wrenches to remove the fan off of my 5.3 before installing the V8 in my z. Never thought about using it in the z but there's enough room for it.
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Your neighbors must hate you! Haha any muffler or just straight pipe?
Those videos are awesome!! I'm seriously thinking turbo again...
I think if I ride in one turbo'd it's a done deal!
Congrats on the progress!!!
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maybe overkill, but I went with this.
Have any pics of this installed?? Custom dash?
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Do you have any dyno videos or street testing pulls? That sounds mean and your work is so nicely finished. I envy that so much lol nicely done! Makes me want to auto/turbo mine really bad!
Can't wait for more videos, dyno numbers, and time slips! When are the wider tires coming in??
I also thought that part of the hesitation was that the fuel filter was so massive that it may aerate the fuel under heavy acceleration, so I got a smaller filter hoping for no air. 
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Keep us posted on that auto turbo rear axle setup when you get it straightened out! Oh and keep it cheap so we can afford it lol, btw how's your Trans doing? Did the patch job fix it or is it still needing to be beefed up? I'm planning a 4l80e for my next build but 60's are cheaper.